International truck (Tas.)

 
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Malcolm Moore was a Melbourne firm, which made these industrial locos.
That railway served a limestone quarry, taking the stone to a wharf for shipping to Hobart, where it was processed to calcium carbide and hence acetylene for purifying zinc during smelting at Risdon.
It finished operating in 1975, but has had two eras as a tourist railway.  Most/all of the MMs have survived.  They were reengined at some stage, but I can't find my photo showing the maker.  I suspect Ford or Fordson.
Roderick Smith

 

That Inter would have been about 30 years old and appears to have been in really good condition.

Jarrod.

They were originally equipped with Ford side valve V8 engines. As these wore out they were replaced with smallish vehicle/tractor diesels of various types - often depending what was common in the industry that owned them or what stuffed equipment was lying around with a good motor that could be adapted

The Inter is like most of us in 1975, in good nick.

Pity we don't age as well as trucks.

Zuffen wrote:

The Inter is like most of us in 1975, in good nick.

Pity we don't age as well as trucks.

I was in good nick; I started school in 1975!

Jarrod.

Zuffen wrote: 
The Inter is like most of us in 1975, in good nick.

Pity we don't age as well as trucks

Or become desirable. 

I still had hair in 1975, and it was on my head, not my back


Paul