Re: FODEN

Lang, bit blurry (both my eyesight and your great picture) but I would say your plate was IS318 as you say.

....Well "bust my buffers!!" ...Overnite you must have more smoke com'in out your scanner than one of Swishy's 'screamers' loaded with "Thomas the Tank" engine... Absolute 'gold'...good on your mum & dad for not leaving you at home when they went on holidays... Re the Fuso pic,yes I know the BP servo at Mays Hill.... REPLY 21 REO pic...Love the 'BF GOODRIDGE' roadside billboard...'strappie' with 'lift' axle?? Appears both sides up?? Chained up because of mechcanical issue?? Or for same reasons air lift now days?? What others think?? Typical roadside pad...big puddle L/H/F wheel....REPLY 25 pic...Seems to be a common 'theme' with AEC's & Newcastle, RW Brown sold many there...Copy 'busntruck'?...Pics 'Pacific Hwy' south of Newcastle'...OK, gunna go out on a limb...prob Doyalson,Charmhaven,Fraser Park area.Had 'Dixie diner' L/H/S sth bnd, 'Fraser Park Cafe' L/H/S nth bnd, 'Big T' in the middle later years. Guess'in pic taken Fraser Pk. Which most recently was 'Big Prawn' & bushfire destroyed last season...Great idea hav'in 2 number plates...that would've confused "safety-cam" Overnite, look'in forward to the next instalment...thanks for sharing. Giddy-U-G. P.S.- good pics Lang. Thank you Hayseed for editing. All good.

Lang, almost sure it was ISN 318 (NSW), this pic is not real clear, as not much paint is left on the plate, but I think I may have an old reference book somewhere ( definitely not an old log book), and it may be of that era, ill check. Lang from memory the AEC pics were closer to Newcastle than the Doyalson area.

...these are lovely pics overnite .. thanks for the memories shared...

..the Mandator is interesting for the fact that it has very early interstate NSW rego...with no RH door hand semaphore (but indicators on the bottom of the mudguards)..

...also the front of her has a very rudimentary panel bolted across and behind the proud radiator ??...was that an original fitment back in the day?

DECTECTIVE wrote on 22-5-15...."Semaphore",I must've been away from school that day Tecta,or outta class stand'in by the school fence 'gett'in air horns blaring' ....The Oxford School Dictionary,Third Edition, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1974...SEMAPHORE,n post with movable arms as signalling apparatus;signalling by person holding flag in each hand....now I know what ya talk'in bout. P.S. You got a L/H door one hang'in in ya shed?? .

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Iz th@ wot U wanna call m

Evn our Kenny n Mack had m






Thz iz B 4 it twaz made legal to have flash n indicators on trucks

cya

....Might have to go back to us'in em Swishy....no one us'in indicators properly anymore... . No issues L/H side in your 'ol carts....window down...left arm straight out...with one ya dish wash'in gloves on....

...Im surprised they didn't fit 'em to the LH side of the S model Kennys...or an old B model Mack for that matter, as they would've been a cinch to use in such a narrow cab...

...just think .. if you had an emergency breakdown, you could've sat there with both "semaphores" flappin' !!

Swishy those photo's must be a number of years ago, back when "the Swish" was learning to drive was it

overnite re the Fuso in #16,he wouldn't be there to pay his TWU fees would he ???

Don, it was often parked there, but you have certainly jogged my memory. I was only wondering the other day what the brick building was for, and you are correct TWU sub branch.