Kenworth K-100 Grey Ghosts

chassis #400000 w923,chassis#400001 k123,both sold to shell for new zeland export.ive found 400000,the identification still survives.trying to purchase it so i can stick it up kenworth australia.how can they b/s the public by saying 400008 is the first bayswater serial #?my friend says paccar is an anagram for pack of arseholes!

Were they sold ex Bayswater to NZ ? I thought the Kiwis got their Kenworths direct from Canada. Where is Swishy when we need him ?

these two trucks must have been ordered for export because the line sheets say nz export.its the same with the last bayswater w model,it went to nz as well.as for serial#400003-400007,they remain a mystery.them chassis numbers had to be allocated to something

Ok Guyz
Here'z the goss
I posed the very same Q? recently to a KW man th@ should kno
The 1st few trucks were sent to NuuZelund
reason:
the KW factory @ Bayswater had just started make n them beasts
n they did not want to get a bad name if the new KW'z they made turned out 2 B Lemons
so they thort the futher away, the better
th@ way no roosters to cum home to roost n cause problems
OutaSight.......OutaMind!

LOL

ButEyeDoSt&2BCorrected

Cya

[ch9787]

Interesting story, were not Kenworth still at Preston at that stage ? Were we the first country to get the RHD K series.

AtkiPete
GuddayM8
For Memory
COE KW were fully imported RHD early on
Here B the 1st one arriving in Melbourne
B 4 they made m @ Bayswater
Kenworth were sold @
Doncaster
Preston
Footscray
Laverton North
as well as many places around Australia

Cya
[ch9787]

that pic,is that of the angle back cab?

RHD
GuddayM8

RE: that pic,is that of the angle back cab?
Ina word NO

The pic is the 1st KW COE to arrive in Melb (1964 ?)
Th@ B Ed Cameron on the right in the suit
Me thinks it went to Martins Overland Freighters



A bit earlier on, a angled back KW COE arrived in Sydney TH@ went to Trial Bay Haulage after it
twaz on promotional display @ Sydney Chevron Hotel after much juggling thru window of 1st floor

ButEyeDoSt&2BCorrected

Cya

[ch9787]

WTF is that bloke in the suit doing?? .. helping guide the K-Whoppa down onto the float??? .. it's pretty obvious the Wharfies never spotted him doing it .. or the entire wharf would have been stopped for a week .. as they all went on strike over job interference!! .. :

I've got a mate who was boss of Komatsu Used Equipment here in the West, and he was overseeing the unloading of a big Champion grader from a ship. One of the wharfies dropped a big D shackle, and Doug stepped forward, picked it up and threw it back up to him, as we'd all do.

The whole lot of the pack of useless f*^%$# bastards, downed tools on the spot .. over job interference .. and they wouldn't go back to work, until Doug wrote out a letter of apology, and the company he worked for, paid $5000 into some wharfies slush fund .. :'(

The companies involved lost 3 days waiting for the grader to move again .. and Brambles float was on hourly hire, all that time .. sitting on its arse on the wharf, unable to move .. because the grader was half on and half off .. :'(
True story .. right from the Man himself .. >

The very first one that Trial Bay haulage had is,as far as I know the only one with the sloped back cabin.It`s residing in Newcastle now.