John L. Pierce

I took some pics of the SAR in there yard but can't find them so here's a pic of the model I did from them
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L@@kn Good

The john l pierce Cabover has a new owner .
It will be in my shed tomorrow ..

congratulations rob .. all the best with your new acquisition...plenty of history with this old girl, and for a long time she has been nicely kept alive by JT as one of the last original ones still working, after a good innings of about FORTY SIX YEARS

Good things come to those who wait, hey Rob!!! Well done mate, if it ends up half the truck of your needle nose, it'll be a ripper

Do JLP still have the british truck (Thornycroft, Leyland or similar) as a yard truck at their Toowoomba depot? I can remember it when I was a kid in the late 70s, then for a long time after that.

Hoarder, the Toowoomba truck found a new home a little while ago. It was an Atkinson, I've got a picture of it somewhere taken in the yard at Toowoomba.

From what another member here says my SAR is an ex pierce truck.
76 SAR S/N 402259
903
15spd

The Atkinson I am restoring was also bought new by JLP. I think it is a 1972 model, but they claim to have purchased it in 1970 (chassis and engine numbers match) so we are still trying to sort that out. JLP are going through their archives to see what they can find. Unfortunately they don't see to have very many photos of their earlier trucks. Mine was fleet number 109 and they paid $21,800 for it.

Got any photos of the Atkinson ?