Thread: A bit of History of Brisbane - 1954 film

that's great - I was born in Brisbane in 1952 & lived there for 23 years & I still remember it like that.

thanks

Steve

i remember walking to the markets in roma street with dear old dad every saturday and catching a tram back to rosalie with a few bags of goodies...

Ooh! Yes, that's the Brisbane that I grew up in,and remember so well,the pre-war and early post war cars and trucks, the "drop centre" trams and the old Victoria Bridge (3rd one) and I remember the sign on both ends for the Trammies,"One Car per Span",the Hales cruise boats "Mirimar", "Mararna" and "Mirabelle" (last seen working cruises on the bay from the Georges River in about 78) the City Hall as the tallest building in town,and St John's Cathedral is magnificent inside,(I was Confirmed there) and I believe that St Stephen's is it's equal, and the mural of Coolangatta,pre high rise, when the steam trains still ran down to there. but Queen Victoria Park is still there intact unlike the Belle View Hotel.


cheers

Did you notice the tropical cabbed trucks at Countess St and the BCC Daimler bus, Uncle?

Brisbane river looked a lot cleaner in those days

Are you sure it was 1954?


I would have thought more like 2004.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Did you notice the tropical cabbed trucks at Countess St and the BCC Daimler bus, Uncle?

Body builders called them "C-cabs". New trucks were quite commonly built in this style into the late 60's. Quite a few early ones (pre WW2) had four across seating with a passenger outboard of the driver. There were still lots of late thirties through forties trucks in use through the sixties, KB & KS Inters, Lend Lease Chevs, jail bar Fords, blitz conversions.

BCC drivers bitch about it being hard work driving modern automatic air conditioned buses. How would they like to do a shift in one of the 1940's Daimlers or AEC's? Armstrong steering, poor brakes, low power, some had crash gearboxes, nice warm engine handily placed alongside the driver for climate control in summer, diesel fumes to breathe all shift.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Body builders called them "C-cabs". New trucks were quite commonly built in this style into the late 60's. Quite a few early ones (pre WW2) had four across seating with a passenger outboard of the driver. There were still lots of late thirties through forties trucks in use through the sixties, KB & KS Inters, Lend Lease Chevs, jail bar Fords, blitz conversions.

BCC drivers bitch about it being hard work driving modern automatic air conditioned buses. How would they like to do a shift in one of the 1940's Daimlers or AEC's? Armstrong steering, poor brakes, low power, some had crash gearboxes, nice warm engine handily placed alongside the driver for climate control in summer, diesel fumes to breathe all shift.

And the crappy ones had Wilson(?) preselect, that broke many drivers' legs.