Fire Trucks

Front: Holden FE; Austin Freeway (I'd have to check the grille for the Peugot 404); Holden FJ grille
Behind the fire appliance bonnet, receding left: Holden FX (single tail lamp on boot); two white roofs; Holden FB or EK; VW 1200 from any time after 1960 (large rear window); Morris Mini.
Far footpath, receding: Ford Zephyr ute (the Consul didn't have that grille); Holden FE; Austin A40; four obscured vehicles; far distance black Morris Major or Austin Lancer (badge engineered; I'll opt for Morris)

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

The taillights on the car in the foreground suggest it might be a Wolseley variant of the Freeway body.

I keep meaning to throw up some pics from the other weekend - Dardanup show.
Here's one Fire Engine shot from there....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51088867@N08/13124136893/

....or not as something has changed in the photo procedure - doh - I've spent about an hour trying different ways..will try again another day.......

Would/could/should look like thizn



cya

What is that big lorry on the left?

What is that big lorry on the left?

I think it's a Studebaker Transtar, with a diesel going by the badge on the front. May be the one previously owned by the late Maurice Brockwell. IDSTBC on the foregoing.
A prime mover like that would come with a Stude 289 V8, or a small Detroit. (3/53, 4/53?)

ASW

EDIT: another picture here, about halfway down.
studebakercarclubnsw.com/20110422.html

Going back just a few replies, the vehicle has to be an Austin Freeway: that grille. The model was not marketed under Morris badge engineering in Australia, but was in NZ. The Wolseley 24/80 was badge engineered with the tradition vertical centrepart of the grille. See:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Freeway
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

What is that big lorry on the left?

...looks like a B Model whose mother ran away with a Chev!!

Wouldn't it be cold turning out to a fire call at 2 am riding in those open cab's

Hey Roderick thought you would have seen the train

How embarrassing: I hadn't. I was concentrating on the challenge questions re the cars. I would have had no hope identifying the fire appliance, and guessed that it had been mentioned already. In going back, I realised that the location wasn't offered. The truck gives it as NSW, but the loco colour did anyhow. The loco was small and fuzzy, but I settled on one of the early 1950s 40-class diesel electrics, with Alco engines, and a rounded hood style based on USA RS2/RS3 locos (and common in USSR/Russia too). They were most common on the north-coast line. Then I saw that the poster is from Taree: a confidence boost. I'll take this chance to put up the reference to the Wolseley 24/80, which is not the car in the foreground.
< en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolseley_24/80> ;

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor