Engines have always fascinated me from a kid, at the start of the war we moved to a town with electricity and I would spend hours at the power station amongst the noise and smells of the machinery, nearby there was a prisoner of war cam and an Italyan POW made this model engine completely out of wood, celephane covered cutout's to see all the moving parts when the crank was turned, very clever, took some time, not a bad life!!

Don't be teasing us ady, that's cruel :'( :'( :'(

Looked like a pretty good road to me, didn't think much of the driver :

I used to subby for George's and his 190's had "let George do it" across the cab above the windscreen, they were good people, love to see pictures of their trucks., somebody must have some.

Glad the pics were of interest, never saw any Policemen, very few in the territory and the ones that were there never bothered anyone unless they were real bad, spent most of their time trying to catch some poor bugger buying booze for an abo, set a trap for some newcomer, 6 months in the clink, trying to remember if we had a wheel ballancer

What a great picture, thanks for putting it up, better than any Disney world attraction.

My Inter KB8 I was hauling carbon black from Melbourne to Sydney on the Hume, I had a door but no window, passing a semi on a narrow bridge going into Sydney just wide enough for two semi's, I would automatically lean over the steering wheel 'cos the mirror's would hit and glass would fly into the cabin, only small mirrors about 4 inches, can't imagine when the big mirrors came in.

Favouring the "no door" policy my brother (seated) decided to remove the entrance door of the bus, I don't think that was his intentsion, I was sitting this seat seconds before he took it out, seat and all, closest I have ever been to becoming history.

Waiting for the return mail from Darwin, after delivering to the train the bulk mail I waited 4 days for the return, about 5 bags, they didn't write much in Darwin, Tuit had sold his shares in the TTA and I used this Inter KS6 petrol motor until his new coach and trailer arrived, the prior picture is of Ernie Warner who grove the made up truck from "new" I off-sided with him for a year, great mate, photo is reversed.

Ernie Warner drove this from "new" and for a long time, I off-sided with him for a year, photo is reversed.

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His idea may have been for an emergency exit!

Sorry, messed up.

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Building a road train prime mover we didn't even look for doors.

This was our high speed detuned naturally aspirated Gardner powered inter perishable truck keeping with the no-door principle.

When Len Tuit got the Royal Mail contract after the war he purchased an ex-army Inter Ks5 semi used for carting troops between Alice and Birdum, opening a passenger and mail service, this prime mover was factory built without doors which may have put the idea into his head.