KW #400001, #400002

well then, does anyone know the chassis # of this one..

www.hcvc.com.au/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1241938445

The Guy here (Muzza) alludes to it being 400015????

Here's another possible explanation, quoted from the "Kenworth - Making History" published by PACCAR Australia in 2005.

By the beginning of 1971 Kenworth Australia was ready to take that significant leap from CKD assembly to building trucks from component parts. To help get things rolling 20 trucks, broken down into spare parts, had already been imported from America.

Suddenly they were dealing with up to thousands of individual parts per truck, a scenario that quickly concentrated the minds of materials staff as they began recording all the individual part numbers. Through this painstaking and detailed process they identified the parts that could be fabricated or obtained locally and those that needed to be ordered from overseas.

Just found the old post from crackers (2-1/2 years ago) and he said his is 400027.

looks like we may be back to 400008 being the first one (out of the twenty kits) able to be completed, but NOW ...do these ones count?

so i guess crackers' 400027 may well be the seventh dinki di aussie one.

cheers

ps jimbo 51 that is a very nice bit of detective work and the truth is always in the fine print.

looks like we may be back to 400008 being the first one (out of the twenty kits) able to be completed, but NOW ...do these ones count?

so i guess crackers' 400027 may well be the seventh dinki di aussie one.

cheers

ps jimbo 51 that is a very nice bit of detective work and the truth is always in the fine print.

It's just possible that My detective work might have played a small part in Jimbo 51 finding that post
maybe

It's just possible that My detective work might have played a small part in Jimbo 51 finding that post
maybe

Correct, I was looking at the thread hayseed identified.

And are we correct that the one at the TAFE on this page:
www.hcvc.com.au/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1267525755/330
is the one Muzza was talking about?

And I don't think it's 400015 - that went to Shell NZ with a Cummins in it.

FWIW
1972 KW 1/2 truck


Mentions weights in LBS twaz about when Oz went metric


As seen in July 2012 Kenworth Classic Calendar
Cya
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And are we correct that the one at the TAFE on this page:
www.hcvc.com.au/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1267525755/330
is the one Muzza was talking about?

And I don't think it's 400015 - that went to Shell NZ with a Cummins in it.

It is not one of the 4015** chassis delivered to TNT as all 13 of those chassis numbers are disc wheeled.....the TAFE one os spider wheeled.....could be one of the 7 40215* chassis though but my money is on it being 40105* .........

There were 3 prime movers in that 4015** series.

ahh yup my bad i didnt look far enough. Well that narrows it down ay