Trucking The early Days

Can anyone accurately identify the make of this truck ..

I have over a thousand photos of all kind of trucks from way back when. It's going to take me for ever to scan them.May be not in chronological order but a lot of old History of transport from our company if you people are interested.........

It looks very Thornycroft(ish) to me, mate.

Mammoth will know, i reckon..

Morris commercial FV i think 5 tonner 6 cylinder diesel engine 4.25 litre by Saurer and built under licence , and marketed as the Equiloader range also fitted with "suicide doors" .

husky wrote: Morris commercial FV i think 5 tonner 6 cylinder diesel engine 4.25 litre by Saurer and built under licence , and marketed as the Equiloader range also fitted with "suicide doors" .

Yes Morris Commercial

if you people are interested.........
Xspanrman please post them up
SB

Yes Morris Commercial 1948 FV

xspanrman wrote: Can anyone accurately identify the make of this truck ..

Letter to the editor from...

J. C. CUFF, transport Officer,
L.O.D. Co-operative Haulage and Transport Ltd.
Balmain.

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18039...||q-year2-date=1965#





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Yes, Morris Commercial. The chromed slash on the grille indicates it has the Saurer Diesel engine. I looked for my reference book yesterday by cannot find it. I will take your word that it is called FV. I should know but the old memory fails me more and more. If I find the book before I forget this, I will confirm the years they were built.

They are very rare. I was offered one of these a few years ago, when I was loosing storage and frantically selling trucks. Sold five Morris Commercials for less than they cost me. You wouldn't believe it but two weeks after the FV was sold, a mate offered me free under cover storage!

This model was NOT the Equiload (not Equiloader), that was the Morris Commercial "C" series of trucks with a much more conventional looking cab and front sheetmetal. The name was because the factory said the vehicle shared the load equally between front and rear axles. If that was the case, why would they have dual wheels on the rear?

I think that transport company LOD Tpt is still operating in Port Kembla. ???

Swanny wrote: I think that transport company LOD Tpt is still operating in Port Kembla. ???

Yep, they're still going ....
They used to also have a branch in Griffith(Lodefresh) for the Fruit & veges, but I think the Drought put an end to that...!

www.lodehaul.com.au/about.html