Spread Trailers

Down at KW Footscray one day way back, I was talking to the young fella that used to drive Bruce Gilberts KW that had the spread drive. He reckons the only way to get it around a sharp corner was to "clutch in" and free-wheel. I wonder whatever happened to that truck. He used to cart a lot of sandstone blocks back to Melbourne from across Narracoorte way.

Efective
Gudday M8

me thinks they didn't handle to well in the wet as the spread wanted to keep go n straight on cnrs

n B abit harder to back as they aint use 2 m
n not like a sem eye
Cya
[ch9787]

at least one of the spread drives ended up at oilchem in the north/ west suburbs of melbourne, although i believe it was an ex esso rigid tanker that had been ''closed up'' and became an ordinary slim cab, bogie rigid

Swishy, I reckon Camerons had three of them jiggers, all 8V71 powered on a 176 inch wheelbase, same as for Gilberts one.

The other handful of "normal" Cameron units around that time ('71-'72) were 8V71 or V903 powered on 141 inch wheelbase.

Hey Old bugga, the trailer that was hit by the train...?
It's got a little bit of a bend in it eh...surely there must be a story there that we'd all like to hear????

Jimbo
Gudday m80
fir memory they were on fish n rod suspension n 903 cummins power Y/N

---

AtkiPete
M80
there was sum mention bout the Kiwis self steer n trailer sum time back
but none knu zaclee how it did wot it did
LOL



Cya
[ch9787]

It is there www.hcvc.com.au/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1288086035
reply #10
but I dont know why they dont still use them

I drove the spread drive kenworth for gilberts when it was only twelve months old doing Adelaide Sydney Canberra Bathurst carting clay powder and rocks the truck was involved in a fatal crash at lake cullerain and towed to somewhere in Mildura and never seen again

Check these pics out.

That would make possibly three of these freighter T422's still completly original, I will get some photos off mine without the grass when I get home midweek, that one looks fairly straight.

Jeffo, the pics at the beginning of this post, was the Ergo Leyland based in Childers, Queensland, it looks familiar.

I remember some years ago, in Truckin Life, a story about New Zealand, I saw a picture of a spread axle dog trailer, I'm presuming it was about 20 or 30 foot. The spread of the axles being three axle had the first ( the steering axle ) and the last axle at their respective ends and the third axle seemed to be right in the middle of the trailer.

Jeffo, the pics at the beginning of this post, was the Ergo Leyland based in Childers, Queensland, it looks familiar.

Looks like one which was based in Bundaberg, for part of the time, and and carted sugar from either Bingera or Wallaville mills, definitely a sugar trailer. If so his brother ran a blue Ergo AEC and carted out of Isis mill.