Old trucks

179 photos of VR road vehicles, may be closed access.
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Roderick

Yep, you were right again Rodders..... no access.

They are all PROV photos, on open access there: time consuming when done for yourself, with the usual problem: you may not find all 179, and along the way you will pick up lots irrelevant photos. I have never had any luck with PROV's online index, but that becomes your only hope now.
The photos date from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Roderick

Joseph Bishop arrived in Melbourne during the goldrushes, ultimately establishing a coach building business at Beechworth, which was later transferred to Euroa. The family moved to Melbourne in the late 1880s, where one son became the proprietor of the trade journal 'The Australasian Coachbuilder and Saddler'. The collection consists of family photographs and photographs used to illustrate 'The Australasian Coachbuilder and Saddler'. This photograph shows a car attached to an animal trailer, loaded with two horses and taken outside a large brick building. The name on the side of the trailer is "C.C. Perkins. Culoo. Belka."
Inscription: Written in ink on verso: "Semi-trailer body fitted to a Ford V-8 Utility. The tray part of the utility is made removable to allow for turntable on semi-trailer. This outfit can be converted to either unit in 5 minutes."

A pre-war fifth wheeler. :lol:

Looking back, what a brilliant idea, and so simple.. Also stable and none of the swaying dramas that people have when they overload trailers.
Wonder why it never really took off here, at least until we followed the yanks in recent years?

Unless there are some multi legged horses about, there are more than two in that trailer.

wee-allis wrote: Unless there are some multi legged horses about, there are more than two in that trailer.

All horses are multi-legged!

Lat time I worked for a boss, he showed me a picture of his miniature stallion. It looked as though it had five legs but the fifth one barely reached the grass.:whistle:

This is a great collection of old photos on Flickr. I do not know how to pull off individual ones but particularly Melbournians will have a lot of interest just scrolling left and right for old pictures of their city.

Lang

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