Vintage shots from days gone by!

looks like frankston station. franger! mr fire your photos have the most interest to me, i grew up listening to my old neighbour and my mums now deceased boyfriends stories of the hijinx they got up to driving interstate in the 70s and 80s. a customer where i did my apprenticeship had (still has actually) a grey ghost kenworth (one of the first aus built kws) that has since had a sleeper and tipper added. the correct torsion bar suspension is gone, most likely done when they slowed it down with new rear axles (now running on hendrickson walking beam) the old 8v71 still pulls hard and most of you rarely hear anything like it these days (unless you count the transtar that passes my workshop every day in laverton) story goes that glen cameron, head of sales had concerns about building rigids specced to run 100mph and his boss said sell them the trucks or we will find someone else that will. these things would run down the old hume in almost 8hrs (600 miles, lots of hills and bends) my old boss has one of the 3 or 4 180hp/quadruplex equipped mack r models in the country (last one left?) in the yard still, we took a drill rig off it years ago.

 

They were quite a grunty OHC 6.

 

I have a few pictures to add to the mix

 

Meter Maids - from approx. the same era:

Nashville;




Memphis;



Gold Coast:

 

Australian driver for US forces with her car (I believe, a Plymouth with Dodge grille and some Canadian bits):

 

HR Holden panel vans and enclosed trailers of the Repco Brabham works team - very upmarket for the time in Australia:

 

Meanwhile Patton was out kicking ass!

 

Look at the length of the COE hood. What did they have it that--a four cylinder? Looks barely enough for a two banger.

 

HUH?




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No thanks, girls - I don't do tennis.

 

COE = Cab OVER Engine. Engine is actual size in the normal spot in the frame, with the cab mounted OVER it. they did not power these rigs with Citreon opposed twins despite the limited engine compartment size suggested by the diminutive hoods.

Following your logic, flat nosed Cab overs would have No engine......

 

Thanks. I stand corrected.

 

These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/

 

ELD, I was just going to post the same link... amazing photos! Everyone on the HAMB needs to grab a cup of Joe and take the time to look at every single image. Gary

 

Grerat link! amazing stuff.thanks for posting it.

 

Didn't MAZOOMA post that yesterday? (But, YES, it's a FABULOUS array of pre-war Kodak colr images!) You just prove that great minds think alike! Way to go!

 

Beer delivery to the Commercial Hotel, Lake Boga, Victoria in 1942:

 

Ex military Federal tank carrier hauling timber in the Northern Territory:

 

Advert for AEC:

 

1959/60 Albion bus with a Comeng body:

 

Bus built on AEC Reliance chassis around 1964:

 

Freighter bodied AEC 505 rear engine - 1968:

 

1970's Holden 1 ton ute with a 6 wheeler conversion and extended tray, transporting a 1948 Anglia:

 

This is slightly unusual:

 

1956 Leyland with 4,000 gallon tanker for AMPOL:

 

A 1952 Seddon-Atkinson tanker for "C.O.R." (C.O.R was a lower octane variant of BP):

 

A Commer with SHELL tanker:

 

Bedford with tanks of Yalumba wine on a flat try trailer:

 

Atkinson 8x4 hauling BP:

 

Foden milk transport: