Vintage shots from days gone by!

Albion and tanker for Peters Ice Cream:

 

Morris Commercial truck that served as a rural fire truck:

 

Austin rural fire truck:

 

International C Series rural fire truck:

 

Dodge AT4 Ute pilot for Leyland Contractor heavy trucks:

 

Scammell mechanical horse "trucks":

 

Albion half cab rigid tanker for C.O.R.

 

Scammell Mechanical Horse:

 

Scammell:

 

Albion tanker for SHELL:

 

Another SHELL tanker unit:

 

An AEC rail motor at Mornington station:

 

Share them please........

 

that purple 6 wheeled monaro ute still does the rounds in brunswick victoria, i used to live a street away from the owner, a painter i think. and my how far have fuel tankers come a long way from the ones you have posted. i work for marshall lethlean, one of the big 3 tanker companies in australia.

 

Dad's '56 in '65 at his High School Graduation. 283 w/B&M Hydro

 

There are two things that catch my eye when looking at the vintage car haulers.
One is I like the trailers. They just have a little bit more class than the ones you see today. The other is the truck, or the lack of. None of the trucks have sleepers. I bet most of them did not have a good heater. These are the guys the country songs are talking about.

 

Mark Donahue with a 917 Porsche at a test session.....

 

Ameila Earhart.....

 

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Costa Mesa, CA races.....

 

BRITISH MOTOR CORPORATION MOBILE TRAINING UNIT.






Those vehicles were used to train and educate BMC's staff worldwide early sixties.
Build by Marshall Motor Bodies ltd., design by Pininfarina.
Four Units served the US, and two served the Canadians.
Today, one of the US Units are in Ventura CA, and one of the Canadian Units are at Jay Leno's Garage.

More info at my Flickr album.

If you have any information about those Units, please let me know.

Period photos are highly welcome.

Cincerely
Brimen, NORWAY

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brimen/
http://www.britishcarforum.com/bcforum/ubbthreads.php/topics/516647/BMC_Training_Unit_Bus#Post516647

 

Can I ask what Cobo Hall is? It looks HUGE!! great pic.

 

Cobo Center, originally known as Cobo Hall, is a major convention center situated along Jefferson Ave. in downtown Detroit, Michigan, USA. It and the adjacent Cobo Arena are named for Albert E. Cobo, mayor of Detroit from 1950 to 1957. Designed by Gino Rossetti, both Cobo Hall and Cobo Arena opened in 1960.

WIKIPEDIA !!!!!!!!!

 

Many thanks ............ we don't have roof tops that big in the UK !

 

Not here in Norway either,
isn't enough space between the mountains!

 

The toys were more dangerous and a lot more cool

 

Toys didn't become dangerous untill adults decided to not be responsible parents.