Photos of old Hume Highway - before freeway built

Hi
I have driven the Hume Fwy quite a few times between Sydney and Melbourne.
There are some massive cuttings for the freeway - for example just north of the Wagga Wagga / Sturt Hwy junction and also Conroy's Gap.
Would there be any photos of the old highway (say 1960s) at these locations?
Did the old highway simply go straight up a very still hill or did it try and climb it diagonally?
How did the old trucks go in the 1960s climbing the big hills? It would have been slow driving.
But then today trucks are going 40km/h on the freeway, it probably hasn't improved a huge amount.
Thanks.

Don't know if its quite what you want but its a cool old photo anyway.

Your looking at the corner of Reid and Murphy Street Wangaratta facing roughly North.

That makes the truck, an Inter Transtar?, heading south carrying a nicely tarped load.

The particular commonwealth bank building and the jewellers shop have been demolished and a new seventies style commonwealth bank has been built on the same site.

The two small shops next to the jewellers, (Hume Drapers) are still there but are now a homewares and a gift shop. The taller building you see above the fa

WAG
the truck has Brucey Panucci on de door
WotSayU?

another wang photo, not of the hume hwy but a business located on the old hume hwy.

Alan Capp Holden, still there but changed to a Toyota dealership and holden has moved down the road a bit.

I reckon the old cars in the background would be worth more in todays values than the three chicky babes out front, what you reckon swishy? Seen a cockatoo?

There some photos on the forum somewhere else that I got of the wall at Beveridge hotel

Salooooon car Browny

RE: Beveridge Pub

Wot else U get @ Beveridge n how much did U spill
LOL
cya

Here's a few of the Hume in NSW, well before the freeway.

From memory somewhere near those was a pie shop

253 Ute-R-Us
Gudday M8

RE: Cockatoo

yep

Well used........n...........used well
LOL
cya

....thanks for the pics Jimbo...a nice glimpse of a bygone era..

...anyone know about the ''mad mile'' just south of Mittagong near cutaway?