P.B. Coleman P/L

This what happens when you don't chain your load.




And the recovery begins.

The crane didn't suffer too much damage. A new frame that supported the winch ropes, a couple pieces of broken glass and minor damage to the cab.


Note. Heggie's Ford Lousieville in the background after delivering steel from Pt Kembla it was stored at Colemans who then took it to the manufactures of longwall mining equipment. Their name changed several times starting as Wolleng, then Dowty, then Meco and Joy Manufacturing. Sub sections often had to be taken to other machine shops and then brought back. After final assembly Colemans delivered the completed mining equipment to the mines.


Boland crane painted in P.B. Coleman's colors. Last seen on a property at the bottom of Macquarie Pass.

2 of 3 Tadano cranes. Nissan motors and axles. 9 speed Roadranger gearboxes that used a complcated set of linkages from the gearstick to the gearbox.


25 Tonne Tadano


Photos of the yard prior to demolition. Now many families call this place home.


The workshop and spare parts store.


Workshop and wash bay


Thats all my photos of P.B. Coleman P/L. I will ask ex drivers who want to loan me their photos I will post them.

Ward and Coleman's GMC being loaded by B and W Cranes. Photo by Phil Coleman

GMC moving a house.

Things doesn't always go to plan.

The photos didn't download , so I will try again. The last 3 are a PDF and it looks like I can't post them

xpman..............
that is a great thread...........
I quite often wish i had taken more pics of days gone by................
Trouble is, it would have cost a fortune.................
OH for a digital camera way back then....................
.............................Billy............................

Photo sent to me by Keith Waine (Skeeker) who drove for Colemans.
F88 Volvo moving a house a short distance over the creek and the house became the office of Bulli Caravan Park





Atkinson at the Eloura Cobar mine site with a winder assembly. Colemans drivers Paddy Stevens and Barry O'Connell are wearing overalls in the photo

Atkinson carrying winder drim and gearbox assembly.

The last picture is taken at Marulan quarry with a dump truck body and hopper that was made at AT Fabrication at Tarrawanna.

On the 3rd photo all of the white in the back groud are headstones from the Bulli Cemetry