WheremEye

While Terry's walkabout, I'll bung this up..

Murrumburrah NSW

murray2230 wrote: Murrumburrah NSW

Correct, The Horse's name is "Bill The Barstard" There's an interesting back story to the Bronze Statue..

www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-11/bill-the-...t-war-horse/10485364

This is a genuine mystery, and can fill the gap until the next real quiz photo appears.
It is uncaptioned, and loose in a trunk of photos from my father, so no context by film or other photos.
It has to be late 1920s. The young man must be my uncle, in his young 20s.
The ladies may be my great aunts, either my grandmother's sisters (who lived in Victoria), or my grandfather's sisters or cousins, who lived in Perth, but did visit Melbourne by ship in that era.
The car may be my uncle's, but my memory from family conversations is that his 'Leaping Lena' was a Bulldog Morris Cowley. It was involved in an incident stalling on Berwick hill on one occasion.
Now for the location: I guess day picnic from Melbourne, but where?
If anyone can get the car too at this scale, it will help. I am sending a better view of the car (but not with the setting) to a car contact.

Roderick

With those sand hills and calm water what about the bay side of Portsea?

The car does look a lot like a Morris Cowley.

I'll go for Morris but the "Flat nose" not the "Bull nose".

Wonderful progress. Morris Cowley looks right, and matches my memory of conversations about my uncle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cowley
Interestingly, in his time as a travelling salesman, he toured Victoria by train.
The sand dunes had thrown me, but Portsea makes sense from the clues, and the nature of the group.
The family also had property at Urquart's Bluff (Airey's Inlet), and Great Ocean Rd had been built. I can think of cliffs, but not dunes.
We had one early 1950s holiday there, and took our Fiat 500 down onto a beach. We had to reverse out, and not because of that being a lower gear than 1st (they were the same). The car had a gravity fuel tank, which had to be uphill of the carburettor.
In turn, that hints at a Sunday. A typical working week was Mon.-Fri. plus half of Saturday. Hence, Sunday was the day for a picnic outing.
That was reinforced by hotels not allowed to trade on Sundays, except for bona fide travellers: defined as someone who had come more than (30 miles?, 50 km). There were processions of cars every Sunday to hotels at that radius from Melbourne. Mornington Peninsula had more attractions and more hotels, and the procession extended beyond the minimum. There is a good dvd out 'Bayside memories', which includes a few of such a procession (also bay-excursion paddlesteamers and beach scenes).
Here are two views cropped to just the car. The new one also had my uncle left of frame. It is in an anonymous treed setting. The location doesn't matter, and I would guess somewhere in the Dandenongs on another picnic.
Roderick
[edit 10 min later: not the same car: the headlamp position, and also the bars in the radiator].

Headlights @ different height
WotSezU?
cya

I think the second car is about a 1928 Rugby, possibly a Durant, but i think Rugby.