N.S.W. State library pics

Load of furniture on Brockway truck - Deniliquin, NSW


 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

Wartime Sydney: blackout covers . Sun truck, 16 October 1942 / photograph by Charles Wakeford

 

 

Randwick Municipal Council 

 

 

Twenty four pigs being driven along Day Street, Sydney, by a truck

 

Is this the WW1 Leyland army truck the AWM have in their collection ? 

PICTURES | PHOTOGRAPHS Leyland truck with load of fertilisers on Fagan farm "Netherby" - Galston, NSW
Date:c 1922

 

A.B.C. truck recording soldiers off to war, Darling Harbour ( pointy nosed car is a Willys )

 

1939 Ford van.

 

 





 

PICTURES | PHOTOGRAPHS Demonstration of the Winther four-wheel-drive truck by the Sterling Motor Company, Bronte and Bondi

General note . Sailing ship captian, ER, (Ned) Sterling's son Ray was the head of the Sterling Motor Company. It was a revolutionary vehicle for those times; this was the fist four-wheel-drive vehicle ever seen in Australia.
Demonstration of the Winther four-wheel-drive truck by the Sterling Motor Company, Bronte and BondiDigital order no:hood_07657

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Picnic outing, they haven't forgotten the teapot.

 

The Netherby Leyland is a later model with low bonnet.
Sterling not the first 4wd in Aus , Caldwell Vale comes to mind but I think there were others as well.

The Austral Brick Leyland is the last hurrah of the RAF type featuring shaped front guards. Hubs for pneumatic wheels were introduced as option in 1924 for the 2 tonners and later for the bigger trucks. Hard rubber was available right up to 1931 when the RAF type models were finally deleted.
Of the pair of jam Albions the closest is likely an LC24.