PROV pics

I don't remember much of when I lived in Lake Cargelligo as I was too young, but we had a long drop. it scared me, that's about all I remember.
I do remember my Primary School in Sydney had cans but at home we had a chocolate wheel toilet. When you closed the lid a disc rotated and a blade scrapped the crap off and it went into a pit that was emptied about every 4-5 years. We thought we were superior as the Dunny man didn't come to our place..

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I don't remember much of when I lived in Lake Cargelligo as I was too young, but we had a long drop. it scared me, that's about all I remember.
I do remember my Primary School in Sydney had cans but at home we had a chocolate wheel toilet. When you closed the lid a disc rotated and a blade scrapped the crap off and it went into a pit that was emptied about every 4-5 years. We thought we were superior as the Dunny man didn't come to our place..

Grannie had one of those, never seen or heard or seen of another one, seem to have been a good thing and I can assure you grannie only had the best. 

My job on the farm soon as old enough to dig a hole and carry the can. Dad built a septic system when I was about 15, thankfully.
Job for the older lads at Primary School until a septic system built in 1957.

Chocolate wheel = Hygeia dissolvenator..........  (google it).

A mate renovated one for someone only a few years ago.  Was first i had ever heard of them.

 

The heath and safety people would have a fit these days

 

Good shot of a 1946 GMC (horizontal grille bars and GMC logo hubcaps) like the one I am working on at the moment. Interesting that it has the spare on the right side. My body has a reinforcing patch for the bracket on the left but just a blank because it also has the standard Chevrolet spare tyre carrier under the rear.

This is a 1939 Chevrolet van , fitted with gas producer. Blackout covers on the headlights. Wartime pic.

More pics  prov.vic.gov.au/archive/RG12800-P0004/boxes/76

 
 

For the technology minded  www.thesahb.com/technical-talk-6-alterna...part-2-producer-gas/

Newcastle wartime history  www.phototimetunnel.com/on-the-road-in-t...teries-steam-and-gas

History of Victorian gas producer during WW2
www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&...mYVgQwE&opi=89978449

Interesting looking bus . Can someone ID ? 

 

 
 

Fageol were sold to Peterbilt. The name was used into the 50's for special units.

Here is a Fageol converted to a rail motor in South Australia,

 

Kingsford Smith was sponsored by Fageol in an attempt on the world flight endurance record in California before he set off on the first Pacific crossing. The "Fageol Flyer"