INTER-esting days

Thanks for these great pics Lang.

Could this be Mitchell body builders at South Melbourne? 

I think more than likely. They built lots of farm equipment as well. You can see a couple of tractors and even a horse-drawn vehicle of some type in the background.

Do you think that bloke has just finished bleeding the front brakes all over the floor?

Richards obviously got the International contract soon after this.

Here is Swishy info from 6 years ago.

www.hcvc.com.au/forum/public-post-area/1...chell-utility-bodies

Located on the corner with Balston Street at 171-205 City Road, South Melbourne, the International Harvester Company of Australia officially opened Harvester House as its new Australian head office on 22 May 1939. From 1926 to 1936, the same building had been the Australian headquarters of General Motors Australia and General Motors-Holden's. Harvester House featured a glass-fronted showroom for the display of International trucks, Farmall tractors and McCormick-Deering agricultural equipment. Upstairs was a large administrative office area. The rear of the building was occupied by a fully-equiped servicing and assembly shop along with a spare parts store. Total floor space for the building was 189,788 square feet or 17,632 square metres. The building was used by the firm until the early 1980s when it ceased operations in Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can understand how the generation born after WW1 were skilled on spider wheel fitting.
Even the smaller Inters were fitted with them.
Got good instruction in 1965 from the boss.

Here's a local one
 
 
 

Biggest truck from the C series Inters. 1934-1937 C60 90HP 6 cylinder OHV petrol engine, 5 speed gearbox, vacuum over hydraulic brakes. 
 

 I do like this one, thanks for posting it Lang. Looks like right hand drive and a coach built cabin so probably a local truck.

 My first Inter, an 1830B ACCO, MK4 turbo Perkins 5X2. I completely restored this truck in 1998 and put it back to work.