PROV pics

Hi 

The PROV in Melbourne holds many interesting pics of vintage trucks. 

 
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Can someone please ID these Left Hand Drive trucks, towing in tandem ? 

1944 scenes . The truck has Commonwealth number plates , the door emblem reads: Dept. Of Munitions. It appears that the Pics were taken on the same day. 

prov.vic.gov.au/archive/1B0E820C-F823-11...4B8301635EAA?image=1

 

 

 

Looks like a Brockway to my untrained eye 

 

Paul

Same mirror stalks as well, although on the tow trucks the right hand mirror has been replaced with a mechanical hand.

    The Melbourne Harbour Trust had their own fire fighting vehicles.

These are wartime scenes at Port Melbourne. A nice 1940 Chevrolet 12 cwt ute and a Dodge truck . Victoria dock with many trailered fire pumps. 

prov.vic.gov.au/archive/84913C8D-DDAB-11...012631A26DF8?image=1

 

 

 

During the war, a display of trucks running on town gas or gas producer gas, was put on behind the Exhibition Building in Carlton.

Here we see a C type Morris Commercial and a Leyland bus.  I can recall these old Leyland  Tramways  buses still in service in Melbourne in the late 1960s , with wartime  number plates. Or is my memory failing me ! 


The gas bag trucks had a short range , don't think it was very successful.  It was coal gas, not natural gas. 

prov.vic.gov.au/archive/E516969A-F822-11...1B4E6048EB46?image=1

 

Many more pics of the display 
prov.vic.gov.au/archive/RG12903-P0001/boxes/412

     

 

This bus, looks like it is a AEC , it was used to convey holiday makers up to the Mt Buffalo chalet, Victorian Railways ran the chalet. 

 

 

 

Morris
Paul is right!!!
The tractors (prime movers) in your first pictures are definitely Brockways... Brockway always had a big export market.

The hull has a sign on the side 'Munitions Transport'............some of the machines I scrapped at the yard had brass ' Munitions Property' tags on them ......I think Jason Stanton souvineered all the brass plates and machine badges .

   

Thanks for the Brockway ID. The vessel was probably used for shipping ammunition. I've met a Jason Stanton,  could be the same guy, brother of Danny. 

This odd looking Ford or Fordson Tractor was used to push railway wagons along piers in Port Melbourne . The steel beams have 'BHP' markings. These PROV pics can be downloaded in high resolution format.  

More pics  prov.vic.gov.au/archive/RG12903-P0001/boxes/178

 

 

The PROV holds many pics of Victorian Railways trucks and utilities. VR livery was , I'm guessing: Cream roof, Green body and Black mud guards.

For more pics , do a search in the PROV system under 'photos' then type in 'trucks'

Pic 1. Is a 1937 Chevrolet ute. Years ago I was offered one of these in amazing original condition. I guess we all could have bought vehicles back then. 

Pic 2. Scout fitted with bar tread tyres, not good for driving on Melbourne's slippery tram tracks.

Pic3. Dodge Weapons carrier, converted to RHD, bespoke cab top. Early 1950s reg. plate.

Pic 4. Bedford. Is this a M model ?  The cab doesn't look like the typical GM-H built cab . 


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