Old trucks

mikeg wrote: How about the 6th vehicle in the line after the Ford F? Looks very much like a Chev Woodie!!

1941 Chev woodie to be precise

I want to know if the bloke walking in front of the first Vauxhall made it or did he get cleaned up.

wee-allis wrote: I want to know if the bloke walking in front of the first Vauxhall made it or did he get cleaned up.

Considering it was 1950s, and he looks to be over 30, if he didn’t make it there, Father Time got him anyway.

Ararat (Vic.): VR truck. Sat.23.10.76. (Roderick Smith)
That just has to be a 1957-65 Ford Thames Trader.
VR used these to take spare parts and supplies to country depots, and to work sites.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Trader

Roderick

Weren't they called Sputnicks ,I think the conventional cab were used a lot as brick trucks along with Fmodel Fords

Subject MMTB Trolly truck escort

(Circa 1974)

Cart n a new Luxford Forlift bout 38t overall height of 16'6" from Luxford Springvale to Port of Melb for shipping
The transport cost is minor compared to the MMTB over head trolly truck to escort hi load to cross Spencer St bridge Melb
Trolly truck can B viewd 1:56 ... normally 3 man truck (one asleep)



WotSezU?

cya

Did you end up going back to pick up the forklift tynes?

Duz sho
the container top lifter frame on a subbies float when we B unload

Thiz one shows the fork tynes n rino horn to lift coils of steel etc


cya

In the first video, I didn't recognise the large marina: Patterson Lakes?
The truck went over Centenary Bridge at Port Melbourne, now demolished.
Did this predate West Gate Bridge? Since you had to go under tram wires, was there a wiggle available via Siddeley St to avoid going under Flinders St Viaduct?
The tram wires at the intersection of Spencer St and Flinders St can be cranked up, but I can't see that that helps anything, as any vehicle requiring that wouldn't get under the viaduct.
I have just hunted in vain for a newspaper article when the wires were cranked up to clear a truck carrying an animal from Melbourne zoo to Werribee zoo.
In the second video, the mill and pine trees hint that the level crossing was on the Long Island branch, which forks as it gets near the mill.
Roderick

Smitty
gudday m8
to strt off the 1st bit shows the market gardens Heatherton Rd Warrigul Rd End
then Left from Warrigul Rd into South Rd
then the VR escort under the rail wires @ South Rd Beach Rd end
going past the Jewish Navy @ Stkilda Marina
then Waiting for the MMTB crew to arrive to go under the tram wires @ Spencer St Bridge then left into Flinders St Extension
pappy in pilot car wait n on permission and location to unload @ Wharf
Finally unloading down ramps we supplied (Long B 4 Folding rear ramps were invented LOL)
cya