Old trucks

This is a crop from my family album scanning.
Eager kids watching contractors pouring concrete for a mower strip in on Tues.14.12.65. My father was a teacher at the school. I guess that the rear truck is a Bedford J; the owner seems to be Victor, and the base seems to be Kew (Melbourne, Vic.). I have no idea about the concrete truck.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

...Hi Rodders .. i reckon that agitator could be a V190 International...just going by the front guards. They had a shutter grille and headlights atop the rounded mudguards

...otherwise it may be an early White ?

130310Su Clunes (Vic.) HCVC rally. Dodge 233. I can't read the date on the poster. It could be 1962; it could be 1957. I can't find a years made for the type, just a reference to a 1959 one, and photo of a 1957 USA with a quite-different grille.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

130310Su Clunes (Vic.). HCVC rally. Blitz and others. R Smith.
At the time, I didn't put up every photo which I took at Clunes. The oval plate on this one hints at Ford, but I can't see anything on it (script writing, or logo) on the original. Blitz trucks came on chassis from various makers. Others should be able to identify the two trucks in the distance.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

The Blitz looks like a Ford. The Ford ones have a square pattern in the grill mesh, whereas the Chev ones are a diamond pattern.

The truck on the left behind is a 'Morris Commercial'. The other perhaps a Dodge/De Soto?

TDU

Those trucks in the distance are SA HCVC from Mt Gambier.

1958 Dodge and 1949 Morris LC3

Cheers

760130F London Heathrow (UK): Baggage trucks, including Fords one or two Bedfords and purpose-built vans (what chassis?). R Smith.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

I think the British Airways vans started life as Dodge's

What we call Dodge D3F, not sure what they were in the UK.

What do you think Roderick.




Loosley.

That seems likely, but I can't find anything to corroborate, even based on that clue. In UK, Chrysler took over Rootes, so these may have carried a Hillman or related branding. While hunting I found this BA cargo truck:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/British_Airwa...ways_Cargo_Truck.jpg
And delivery of BA's first Golia electric truck:
www.findtheneedle.co.uk/companies/epower...golia-electric-truck

With my series of posts, I have the photos but not the knowledge; others have the knowledge but not the photos; the forum brings everything together.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

International Metro's ?

TDU