NLA pics

I don't mind heights but I would struggle to stand on the step ladder on a platform like that fella
My bum would be working overtime and my toes would be fully curled into my shoes

Paul

Johns & Waygood trucks look like Albions. Quite popular in their day but soon regarded as underpowered.

Horse box built by F. Nomchong, Braidwood, 1926 [picture]

 

 




 

Power steering if he had a fat horse looking out the back gate.

Bombardier HEC P101 deep in muddy water, Hydro-Electric Commission expedition by Bombardier to the Serpentine River, Tasmania, 1961 [picture] / Russ Ashton

( BOMBARDIER was a Canadian Tracked vehicle ? ) 

 


 

 

Ian McRae standing next to a ute, Gosses Bluff, Northern Territory, ca. 1946 [picture]

( rare 1941 military Chevrolet ute . Was one of these sitting in a old car  wreckers in Northern Victoria in the early 1980s, it was $50 ) 

 

 

 

Ute in trouble on the road to Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, ca. 1946 [picture]








 

Motor lorry loaded with 1,760 pairs rabbits, drawn from depot 30 miles from nearest railway station [picture]

 

Movietone news field staff Sydney, 1938 [picture]

 

This belongs to the  Australian Inland Mission collection .
This collection contains  3,316 records .

 









 

Rev. Fred McKay sending a message on his portable pedal wireless receiver at his campsite, ca. 1930s [transparency] : part of lantern slide lecture collection / [John Flynn]

(The pedal wireless sets were designed and built by Alf Traeger in Adelaide. )

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Traeger

 



 

Fighting Rust wrote:

Bombardier HEC P101 deep in muddy water, Hydro-Electric Commission expedition by Bombardier to the Serpentine River, Tasmania, 1961 [picture] / Russ Ashton

( BOMBARDIER was a Canadian Tracked vehicle ? ) 

 

Thank you Fighting Rust for searching and posting these wonderful pictures.
Yes Bombardier was, and as far as I know, Still is a maker of tracked vehicles. Mainly the personal entertainment 2 person tracked sled that we in North America know as a snowmobile. The also make equipment for maintainence and rescue at ski resorts and some remote electrical power line work in snowed in areas.




 

Bombardier is a huge company with a $12 billion annual income. They have a finger in many pies including building Airbus 220 and the fabulous Challenger business jet so beloved of film stars, Saudi princes and oligarch's. They build trains and numerous military vehicles as well. All started with a jet-ski back in the 60's.