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Style Liner - Federal Motor Trucks Gone But Not Forgotten

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Federal motor trucks were born in 1910 in Detroit, Michigan, and very soon they were highly regarded for their inherent strength and reliability. This reputation was further cemented during World War One, and again during World War Two. Federals...

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Logging Operations in the Central North West Coast of Tasmania - After World War II

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At the end of the Second World War, Australia went into rebuild mode. Sawn timber was in short supply on the mainland of Australia, as a direct result of Darwin’s bombings by the Japanese in 1942-43. One-third of the city’s homes were badly...

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1949 M L Bedford Truck

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I drove past this old girl on a regular basis, sitting in the paddock behind a farmhouse in the village of Dalgety, NSW. She was buried deep in grass and the bonnet was missing. The idea to rescue her eventually got the better of me, and I thought...

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International Intrigue

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He was eager to see the family’s new truck, but first it had to go to Smiths in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell for its wide coach-built cabin and stake side market garden body. He was duly impressed when it arrived with its shiny, flowing...

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In the Pipeline

In May, 1969, Alan Cant of AEC Logging Company was approached by the transport company who had the contract to deliver steel gas pipes along the six foot deep trench that was being dug from Adelaide to the Moomba gas fields, a distance of over 600...

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Bedford and Beyond

During the late 1970s, General Motors’ famous Bedford brand was fading into decline in Australia, when their long-running TK series was replaced with Isuzu trucks. This wasn’t the end of the Bedford story though. In the UK, the limitations of...

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1924 Albion PE24

Some time ago, I undertook a mammoth roadtrip of 1,130 kilometres from my hometown of Goulburn to Broken Hill, as I had been invited to visit the 1924 Albion PE24, owned by Brenton Martin, and view where his restoration was up to. Brenton is an...

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Outback Legends

Buntine’s became an outback legend whose story began with a contract won by The Territory Transport Association which became Coordinated Road and Rail Freight Service (Co-ord), for the purpose of carting rail freight between Alice Springs and...

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Morris Commercial LC Series

In the immediate post-World War Two years, the ranks of Australian road transport companies were inundated with new trucks from Great Britain, as the UK struggled to recover from what must have seemed an impossible monetary position - it was a case...

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Models in 1/43 Scale by Rob Bender

In September 1966, the first of the ‘coke bottle hip’ generation of Ford Falcons was introduced locally. The ‘Falcon’ was released in the US in October 1959 as a compact 6-cylinder, 6-seater with variations manufactured in Argentina, Chile...

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King of The Road 1928 Style

In a nondescript shed in Sydney’s outer south-west, sits a remarkable piece of Australia’s road transport history. The vehicle in question is a three-axled 1928 Karrier model WL6/2. Its statistics are very impressive. The motor is a 7 litre...

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1934 C1 International

International Harvester’s mission statement was always to not only meet the customers’ needs, but to exceed them. With this in mind, they entered the automotive market in 1907 with the Auto Buggy, a vehicle they intended to help the farmer get...

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H and R Bell Haulage Contractors Meekatharra WA

The AEC Mogul and 8-wheeler Majestic are rarities, and these once belonged to a well-known haulage outfit, H&R Bell, operating out of Meekatharra, in outback Western Australia, from the 1940s through to the 1970s. H&R Bell were outback mail...

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Rowe Hill Master

Most of us, if asked what Cornwall exported to the world, would answer ‘tin and pasties’, but they also exported lorries (trucks) in the 1950’s. Namely, the Rowe Hillmaster. Cornwall is a county that has a lot of hilly, narrow roads and the...

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