Vic Rail Trucks

Lang wrote:

Third truck down looks like Sl9w Speed Trevs Inter he done up a few years ago and shared with us on the forum

Paul

With the old forklift my first thought was WOW, cushion tyres back then. I used to sell and fit froklift and underground mining tyres year back and never thought how old the idea was of bonding rubber to a steel band which is an interfearance fir onto a hub. Then the grey matter had a moment and realised that some very old traction engines and trucks had them way before that forklift did.

Some very battered looking vehicles in that lot. That little Inter Paul mentioned is up for a re-core?
I wonder if some of those battered ones were taken just before disposal.

Jarrod.

A lot of Victorian Railways delivery vehicles were contractors when I was a young lad
Might explain the condition and varied makes and models

Paul

Cobbadog,
I think cushion tyres was a trade name for one brand but I may be wrong.

They are known in the Veteran Car movement as "Solid Rubber" tyres but many old timers call them "Hard Rubber." They have a reputation for giving a very rough ride but I have driven a 1916 truck with solid rubber tyres and found the ride as smooth as pneumatic tyres. I suspect that is because roads, at Veteran truck speeds anyway, are much better now than they were a hundred years ago.

Solid rubber tyres were the only rubber option, the alternatives were steel or wooden tyres, until a Scottish Dentist (I think I read he was a dentist) by the name of John McDonald (I think, it would be too easy to think his name was Dunlop), invented the inner tube about 1862. As pneumatic tyres became popular, what we now call the tyre, was called the "cover."

Cushion tyres were a transition from solids - they had holes like swiss cheese to make them more squishy but probably not very successful. Solids were taxed or regulated out of existence in both the UK and here in the early 30's.
The one with a baldy tyre could be Associated Daimler (which sort of became part of AEC) and converted to pneumatics. The one with wool bales is a Vulcan.

Mammoth, If it's an Associated Daimler, someone shoved an International radiator on it.