Oil & Grease

Pick up this book (dated 1946) Vacuum maintenance manual shows what oil and grease to use in your truck
This is an Australian printed book so I assume all the trucks listed were sold here, some I have never heard of
Ian

The Gilford is new to me. Thanks for posting.

Jarrod.

there are a few Gilfords around, most survivors being fire engines.

Isn't that Garford fire engines?

Well spotted ON. I am obviously muddled which as it happens was the desired effect when the English Gilford company moved from a Garford assembly operation to making their own versions, still using USA engines to beat import duty. Later on Coventry Climax was making Lycoming engines under licence for them. There was a short lived Australian assembly operation, which probably explains the entry in the oils book. Gilford folded in 1935, two years after Garford went down the drain.
Now that is clear I can't recall seeing a Gilford either. To add to any confusion of names there was also a Hallford, Built in Dartford, England.

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Cya

There were several Gilford buses operating in Australia. None are known to have survived. Records show that about 50 chassis altogether were sold here in the early 1930s.

Records show that at least one fire engine chassis is supposed to have come here, but the purchaser(s) have not been identified.