OSHKOSH

That Commer, looks like an AEC.

Mmmm...Mandator

G,day dave , the dog here . Dick forest from liverpool owed the one that was used on the northern run and made it into truckin life with the photo's of it bogged down with the others .

Little bit off the topic, but Express Freight (later taken over by Sheppard/United) ran two slim line cabover Oshkosh, 1674 Cats with 13 speed R/Rangers. Plastic cabs that also used to be quite heavily built. Can still remember one called "Fat Cat", bloke by the name of Bill ended up buying it from the company, used to go West with it. Other was bought by a bloke by the name of Dick, remember him showing me a photo of half a dozen trucks bogged in the mud on the way to Darwin, I think. Long time ago, reckon the road had been sealed for a while now. Be interesting to know whatever happened to them.
Cheers, Dave

Hi Scummy,

You are spot on, Dick Forrest, couldn't remember his surname! Other chap with "Fat Cat" was from memory, Billy Neville. Used to mix dozer operating with trucking. Hell of a knowledgeable as well as a nice bloke.

Dave

i dont remember the other one just dickies one .

Does anyone know who owned this new Oshkosh logging truck that I photographed at Ulladulla on the Princes Hwy about 1970.
Looking back at the photo I wish that I had taken a photo of the AEC parked behind the Oshkosh.

THINK, it was owned/bought by a chap from Woolongong, for the life of me can't think of his name. BUT, if it's the one I think it is, came out originally with an air change P8516 Spicer 4X4 transmission which was later swapped out for a bushranger, may have even been running a Spicer auxilliary behind that.
Very H/D at the time, as I said if it's the one I'm thinking of, I ended up with the Spicer box. Bloke told me at the time that he wanted the extra gearing to "dock the Queen Mary".
Big unit in it's heyday.
Dave.

Is that the box that went into the Peterbilt Dave ???

Yes

Tow truck operator Arthur Molloy from Woonona , just north of Wollongong had a cabover E Series Oshkosh in the 80's.

The next photo I have had in my photo album for over 40 years. It was taken by Warren Noakes who worked with my brother in law in the 70's. Warren loaned my brother in law his collection of truck photos on slides so that I could view them . I was lucky to get copies of some of them.