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Developed by global automotive
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electric double-decker bus in the
country that does not require a
weight permit.
Environment
The Star, January
Canterbury
23, 2025
chair
Deon Swiggs said avoiding the
permit process in an urban environment
reduces wear and tear
on roads.
“A number of councils are worried
about heavy vehicles on
inner city or urban streets. It’s a
very The real Star, concern,” January 23, he 2025 said.
“Now we’re getting the technology
to make sure that we don’t
go into heavy vehicles on streets
where people are living, but
we can also now have doubledecker
buses, which increases
the amount of people we can
get The into Star, those January public 23, transport 2025
vehicles and still have them
underweight.”
Swiggs said not having to go
through the permit process
meant they were also able to get
the bus on the road quicker.
The bus was built using
aerospace-grade aluminium
technology, similar to that
used in the Airbus A380, giving
it a stronger, lighter frame
than traditional steel construction.
This reduces road wear,
tyre and brake use, and energy
consumption.
More than 30 engineers
worked on the project.
“It took almost two years to
perfect this bus – this is the
fourth version Geely made. The
intense development and testing
of this vehicle demonstrates
how cutting edge it is,” Swiggs
said.
Earlier prototypes did not
meet New Zealand’s road
weight requirements to operate
without a permit.
The bus can carry up to 95
passengers, including 14 standing
downstairs, and features
Environment Canterbury chair Deon
Swiggs, councillor Joe Davies and
corporate and public transport director
Giles Southwell in front of the new bus.
Right, the view from the top deck.
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a customer loading screen on
the ground level to indicate
how many seats are available
upstairs.
Cameras on the upper deck
allow the driver to see who is
deboarding, so the bus can wait
the appropriate time once it has
stopped.
The bus was intended to
start on the Route 7 Halswell-
Queenspark service and would
be tested on several of Metro’s
busier routes.
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total number of electric vehicles
to 71, with the company
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From pushbike to paddle shift: Debbie’s
After 35 years, motor racing driver Debbie Chapman has hung up her helmet. Daniel Alvey reports
Debbie Chapman, 70, has decided it is time to hang up the racing overalls.
PHOTO: DANIEL ALVEY
Debbie Chapman’s love of speed
began on the Huntsbury hills,
long before she ever climbed
into a race car.
“I liked going fast down the
hill on my pushbike to get to
school in Cashmere,” she said.
Now 70, she has decided to
call time on a 35-year racing
career that spanned classic
racing, endurance events and
rally competition.
An early crash did little to
dull her appetite for speed.
At about 20, Debbie broke
her cheekbone while driving
through Waltham in her
father’s Vanguard while on a
date with her now-husband
Dennis, who managed to avoid
injury.
“I knew it wasn’t anything I’d
done... The other driver came
around the corner sideways,
and I t-boned him.
“Dad was relieved I was still
breathing, but annoyed I’d
written off his car,” she said,
adding she did not get the keys
to his next vehicle.
About 15 years later, Debbie
got behind the wheel of a race
car for the first time.
“Dennis decided he wanted to
do some motor racing just out
of the blue. He was thinking if
he could get me interested, he
could do more.”
Already a stay-at-home mum,
Debbie said she did not want
to be left behind with their
four children by herself, so she
joined in.
Debbie did her last laps in a racecar at the SKOPE Classic with husband Dennis
and son Dale in matching Fiat Abarth X1/9s.
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“We were fortunate to either
get a nanny in or get my parents
to look after the kids while we
were away,” she said.
Outside of racing, Dennis is well
known for his various electrical
engineering business which have
funded their racing adventures.
The Chapmans are also known
for their home, a custom-built,
almost entirely off-grid, castle
perched on the hills above Tai
Tapu – where they have lived for
the past 13 years.
Over the years, Debbie became
a fixture on the classic racing
scene, competing in every SKOPE
Classic at Ruapuna Raceway from
1991 until her final appearance
earlier this month.
She began racing in an Alfa
Romeo 164, before moving to the
opposite end of the speed scale
with a Ferrari Testarossa.
She has also raced a BMW 318i
Supertourer and an Audi RS3 TCR.
Most recently, the Chapmans
became known for their matching
red-and-yellow Fiat X1/9
replicas, raced by Debbie and
Dennis, with son Dale joining
them in a third car.
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final chequered flag after a life of speed
Of all the vehicles she drove,
Debbie said the Audi she raced
in the South Island Endurance
Series was her favourite.
“They are awesome to drive,
they were so easy to drive – paddle
shift.”
While she claimed several class
victories, her standout result was
a second overall at Invercargill’s
Teretonga Park in 2021.
“The best part was beating
Dennis, I finished second, and he
finished fourth. He usually beats
me, but I was so chuffed I got one
up on him,” she said.
Teretonga has also been the
scene of her biggest accidents,
rolling her Fiat twice at turn one
– once onto its roof and once all
the way over.
“I’ve got better on that corner, I
like to think,” she joked.
When not doing circuit races,
Debbie also competed in two
Targa rallies in 1995 and 1997.
She recalled a memorable car
swap with Dennis during the
1995 event.
“He thought swapping cars
would be safer, so he drove the
Testarossa, and I drove his Ferrari
348, and it did not go well,”
she said.
“He hit a power pole with the
Testarossa, and I put the 348
through a barbed wire fence.”
Debbie also competed in one of
the two Bathurst 24-hour races
held in 2002, sharing driving
duties in a BMW with Dennis
plus Lindsay and Scott O’Donnell.
Although she completed her
opening stints without incident,
the team failed to finish after an
“The best part was
beating Dennis, I
finished second, and
he finished fourth...He
usually beats me, but I
was so chuffed I got one
up on him.”
Debbie Chapman
overnight collision with a leading
car.
Despite not being behind the
wheel at the time, Debbie said
the announcers blamed her
because she was a woman.
While she still enjoys racing,
Debbie said the time felt right to
step away.
“I’m still enjoying it when it’s
going well, but I’m tending to
focus more on the things I’m
doing wrong.
“Like at SKOPE (this year) –
in both handicap races I was
meant to start on the second set
of lights, and both times jumped
the start.”
Although Debbie has retired,
Dennis plans to continue racing.
She said she is unsure how it
will feel to attend events without
racing.
Before her final SKOPE race,
she was approached by many
supporters.
“One guy came and said to me,
‘thank you for all your years of
entertainment’. I thought it was a
selfish sport.”
In her 35 years of racing, Debbie has driven a wide range of cars from a Ferrari 348 in Targa (bottom left) to her an Audi RS3
TCR which she took to a podium in 2021 (bottom right).
PHOTOS: DANIEL ALVEY/GEOFF RIDDER/ TERRY MARSHALL

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From the track
to social media
jumping star
BY DAVE DI SOMMA
Cullens Spirit won four times on
the race track.
Now the 18-year-old son of
former champion pacer Christian
Cullen is on a new career path
– jumping.
And he is a tad older than his
owner, Hagley College student
Kaila Murdoch, 17.
Cullens Spirit now goes by the
name, Andre. Kaila has had him
for three years, and he is her first
horse.
It was a try before you buy
scenario.
“I knew what I was getting
myself into,” said Kaila.
Post his racing career he’d done
a lot of hacking and trekking as
well as events like the Cavalcade.
While “a bit bolty” at the start
he has become more settled.
“I’d just come out of group
lessons when I started riding him
so he’s been a good learning horse
for me,” said Kaila.
The fact that he was 16.2 hands
was also a plus.
“Because I'm quite tall he was
best suited for me for what I
wanted to do, which is jumping,”
she said.
Among the competitions
they have entered was the
South Island secondary
schools championship at the
National Equestrian Centre in
Christchurch
“That would have been the
biggest.”
​While Kaila goes trekking and
has tried doing dressage with
Andre, jumping is their clear
priority.
“I want to try and compete
him at a metre, hopefully next
season we will get there. At the
beginning of the season we were
getting to 90.”
And she knows he is capable of
that, and more.
“He’s jumped 110 (1.10 metres)
which is pretty impressive.”
Murdoch documents their life
together via social media.
“On YouTube there’s very
little on standardbreds so it’s
good for people to see that and
I show people what I do with
him and on TikTok it’s mainly
showjumping.”
She has only just started
putting up the videos in the
last year or so and the number
of views so far have been
encouraging.
After retiring from racing, Cullens Spirit, now known as Andre, has taken to jumping with 17-year-old Kaila Murdoch at the reins.
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When you sit in the back of any Rolls-
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It permeates through an aura of
understated refinement, and the older
the Rolls, the more refined one feels.
Even today, when one is spotted on
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interest as they are extremely rare.
One of the best examples still
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The handmade aluminium and
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months later and combined with
modifications including the famous
Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet mascot that
all Rolls-Royce cars are universally
known for. The finished product cost
the original owners the princely sum
of £1987 10 shillings and 11 pence
(NZ$395,000 today, adjusted for
inflation).
It was bought as a chauffeur-driven
town car for Mrs Frances Salmon of
Kensington, London, after her husband
Alfred died in 1928.
She and her late husband were part
of the Salmon and Gluckstein dynasty,
owners of a famous tea and coffee firm,
L. Lyons & Co, and who also ran a chain
of high-class restaurants and tea shops
in London and later around the world,
until it was all wound up in 1994.
Stored during World War 2, the
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to collectors in Illinois in 1982.
It passed through several other
collectors in the US before it was
returned to the United Kingdom in 2014,
where it was reconditioned in Wales.
‘Lady Lyons’ will be at the Avid Classic Brit & Euro
Canterbury Car Show on Saturday, March 7, at the
Air Force Museum of New Zealand in Wigram.
O’Rourke purchased it in 2015 after
spotting it for sale online.
The seller drove it from Wales to
Southampton docks, loaded it into a sea
container, which then travelled via Singapore
until it arrived eight weeks later at
Lyttelton.
There, O’Rourke simply unpacked it,
topped it up, put in a new battery and
drove it home from the port.
The Rolls-Royce 25/30 aptly named
‘Lady Lyons,’ is powered by a 4.257 litre,
six-cylinder inline, putting out 294 horsepower
at just 2000rpm.
“I had always wanted a Rolls-Royce,
and she now takes pride of place within
my small collection of classic cars,” said
O’Rourke, a former lawyer, Christchurch
city councillor and New Zealand First MP.
“It’s wonderful to drive, a pure privilege,
and everywhere you go, people stop
and look at you, wave happily and snap
photos of it on their phones.”
O’Rourke bought the Rolls to use in his
wedding car business, and the car is in
high demand because, “she’s an elegant,
classy lady, offering a very special ride
for any bride,” he said.
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​Courgettes in season are cheap, easy
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reckons Nigel Slater
BAKED COURGETTES WITH LEMONGRASS
AND COCONUT CREAM
This is best when you allow the
dressing to crisp lightly on the
courgettes.
Once they are pale gold, add the pak
choi and coconut milk and bake until
the courgettes are nicely toasted.
Ingredients
Serves 2-3 with rice
35g ginger
4 cloves of garlic
2 fat stalks of lemongrass
2 bird’s eye chillies
1 tsp ground turmeric
½ tsp sea salt flakes
6 Tbsp groundnut oil
500g courgettes
2 plump heads of pak choi
3 spring onions
200 ml coconut cream
To serve: Steamed brown rice
Method
• Peel and roughly chop the ginger
then put it in a food processor. Peel the
garlic and add to the ginger. Remove
the outer leaves of the lemongrass and
tough ends of the stalks, then chop and
add to the bowl.
• Slice the chillies in half lengthways,
remove the stalks and seeds then add to
the ginger with the turmeric and sea salt
flakes. Process to a thick paste, pouring
in the oil as the blades turn. Set the
mixture aside (it will keep for several
days, tightly covered, in the fridge).
• Preheat the oven to 200degC.
• Line a roasting tin with kitchen foil.
Wipe the courgettes and slice them
thickly (1cm coins) then put them in a
bowl. Add the paste and toss to lightly
cover the courgettes then place them in
the foil-lined roasting tin. Bake for 25
minutes.
• Meanwhile, cut each head of pak
choi into four down the length and
finely chop the spring onions. Toss the
pak choi and onions together then, when
the courgettes have been cooking for 25
minutes, add the vegetables and coconut
cream and toss gently together.
• Return the tin to the oven and
continue cooking for a good 15-20
minutes until the pak choi is tender (the
stems should retain some crunch, with
the leaves soft), the courgettes golden.
• Serve in bowls with the steamed rice.
​
MUSHROOMS, COURGETTES
AND TOASTED CRUMBS
I usually prefer to grill or saute
courgettes. In this recipe they get a
couple of minutes in salted boiling
water to provide a refreshing contrast to
the fried mushrooms and crisp, herbed
breadcrumbs.
Ingredients
Serves 2-3
2 large shallots
3 Tbsp vegetable oil
3 large cloves of garlic
200g small brown mushrooms
2 tsp Dijon mustard
2 Tbsp dill, chopped
6 juniper berries, lightly crushed
450g courgettes
To finish:
3 Tbsp olive oil
45g fresh, white breadcrumbs
2 Tbsp pumpkin seeds
A handful of parsley, roughly chopped
Zest of half a lemon, finely grated
Method
• Peel and finely chop the shallots.
Warm the oil in a pan then add the
shallots and cook for 6 or 7 minutes over
a moderate heat, with an occasional stir.
Peel and finely slice the garlic, add to
the shallots and continue cooking for 4
or 5 minutes till all is soft, pale gold and
fragrant.
• Finely slice the mushrooms (to the
thickness of a pound coin) and add them
to the shallots, letting them cook till
soft and light brown (about 7 minutes).
Season with salt, black pepper and the
mustard.
• Stir in the dill and the lightly crushed
juniper berries.
• To finish: warm the olive oil in a
separate pan over a moderate heat, add
the breadcrumbs and let them cook till
pale gold, moving them round the pan
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add the pumpkin seeds, chopped parsley
and lemon zest and set aside.
• While the mushrooms cook, bring a
pan of water to the boil, salt it lightly.
• Thickly slice the courgettes, then add
them to the water. Cook for a minute or
two till translucent then drain and put
them on a shallow serving dish. They
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but cook them to your own liking.
• Spoon the mushrooms over the
courgettes, scatter with the seeds and
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23. Blend together, mix (10)
24. Shove (4)
25. Chain (6)
26. Wage earner (8)
Decoder
Down
1. Duelling sword (6)
2. Sheet of floating ice (4)
3. Slanting (8)
4. Agriculturalist (6)
5. Outcome, final position (6,4)
6. Lacking confidence (8)
8. Soak (6)
13. From now on (10)
15. Presumed (8)
17. Scorn (8)
18. Respect (6)
20. Dismal (6)
22. Smaller in size or value (6)
24. Impoverished (4)
Crossword
Across: 7. Jailbird, 9. Abound, 10. Give, 11. Grey matter, 12. Orphan,
14. Chromium, 15. Single, 16. Scribe, 19. Splendid, 21. Needle, 23.
Homogenise, 24. Push, 25. Fetter, 26. Employee.
Down: 1. Rapier, 2. Floe, 3. Diagonal, 4. Farmer, 5. Bottom line, 6.
Insecure, 8. Drench, 13. Henceforth, 15. Supposed, 17. Contempt, 18.
Admire, 20. Dreary, 22. Lesser, 24. Poor.
WordBuilder
Ben, berk, bone, boner, bonk, bore, born, borne, bro, broke, BROKEN,
ebon, eon, ken, keno, kerb, kern, knob, krone, neb, nob, nor, nork, one,
orb, ore, rob, robe, roe.
Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the
given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out
which letters are represented by the other numbers.
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