Vintage shots from days gone by!

Man these old COE trucks are cool!

 

1902 Packard.... James Ward Packard the firms founder at the wheel.

 

Picture looks like a diarama.

 

I'd drive the hell out of that.

 

Was this picture taken at the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn Michigan before it was destroyed by fire. Was only maybe three miles from our house when I was a kid.

 

Arnotts is now owned by the US food giant Campbells but they manufacture in Australia and promote the origins of the Company as an Australian Icon. They still produce the Teddy Bear Biscuits.
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Digging the Halloween pix! Gary

 

Albion.

 

Internationals were a very popular truck in the NZ as well.

Transport Nelson had quite a few of the big D70s. This photo dates from about 1950.

 

Post WW2 most of our trucks were imported from England. Here is a 1947 Bedford working in the early 1960s as a mobile library. This one has survived and been restored and is still working.

 

The Austin was another popular truck. This one was working in 1956 delivering supplies to more remote areas.

 

One lesser known US truck maker was Commerce. This one has just received a new body in Wellington, New Zealand, by coachbuilder Crawley Ridley. Date unknown but possibly around 1920.

 

I like your avatar. I had a TE-440 dragster in the mid 60's. Somehow I lived through that! I'm 74 now.

 

Everybody ready ?? On your mark, get set .....