Overlander's old Photos

Greetings. Most of the stock-crate photos were taken at West Wylong where Nifty and myself holed up for a few days in Dad's Bedford camper van which had a fridge but couldn't keep up with consumption rates so we had to buy an esky and then ice from the servo to chill the barley sodas. Nifty liked the Tooheys 'Kegs'- a stubbie shaped like a beer keg so if any of yous can remember them, that's the year most were taken- late 70's, '77 or '78 I'd reckon. Some truck drivers thought we were nuts but all the same pleased that we asked to take a photo of the truck they were driving. Enough chat, stay tuned.

I think walk on walk off were about the worst freight (perhaps not the worst but definitely not the best). Give me a tipper any day - loaded with a machine and pull a couple of handles to unload it. Hardest job is throwing a tarp over it. Fuel tankers aren't bad either. The Don Watson Atkinson's are definitely different. The 1st one is a Mark III and the 2nd one is Mark II (probably with a GM - twin aircleaners).

Them Tooheys KB Kegs where the best stubbies ever invented ,a man could pore them down just like drinking out of a glass, not like an ordinary stubbie with the narrow neck were a man swallowed he got a gut full of gas.An old mate of mine and me could Finish off a case in no time flat in them days LOL :woohoo: :woohoo:

Hey Swanny, Here's one I have that's still unopened & full of Beer..





PS: it's actually Tooths Not Tooheys..

Thanks must go to Overlander & Werkhorse for the amazing amount of photo's that they have worked there way thru to present. As an older bloke I can relate to many of them but the Alltrans tipper made my day as an ex Alltrans subbie's driver.
Hayseed, I dunno where I've been hiding but I'd never seen (or heard of) the "KEG Stubbies. Thanks for putting it up, at least I know what they looked like. How long were they available ?
Once again many many thanks to those who have contributed to the forum & our education.
Cheers Tim

talk about bringing back memories we had some strange brews sent up when
we had a brewery strike in the late seventies
Ahh KB kegs from what I remember they needed a big neck so you could throw it
down fast preferably get it down before you tasted it Hayseed leave it unopened
not worth taking the top off I can feel a XXXX coming on

Bluey

Greetings. Nifty usually managed to knock back 2 to my 1 of bog standard stubbies and was getting stuck into them one evening when all of a sudden he exited the van and started hurling cats- must have had some dodgy fodder from the servo he reckoned. Didn't slow him down though. We moved on when the double bubble started paying us too much attention a few sessions later and headed to Newcastle to check to coal tippers. Next time

Can definitely relate to that. Would have had to have been the dodgy tucker at the greasy spoon!

Bluey60 wrote: Hayseed leave it unopened

Bluey

I intend to Bluey, I have quite an extensive collection of K B stuff....

Oh my god Hayseed that keg looked just like the one i had on a shelf in my workshop only mine was growing a mushroomy fungus in the beer must have got air in the bottle .Hope your one dosn't suffer the same demise mine did ,Left it as long as i could to see how much it grew in the bottle BUT one night after a few good cold ones decided to throw it out :evil: :whistle: