Thread: Trucks From The Past.

The company I worked for had several of them as prime movers and several Fuso rigids. The rigids where a piece of crap but I can't remember our company having any problems with the prime movers, from memory we had six. As I said in an earlier post they were an easy truck to drive!!!

p.s. I do remember one problem, the exhaust stacks cracked and had to be redesigned.

Another picture of that Super Hippo.
Don.

A coincidence! looking at some truck magazines that reside in the caravan, and an article on NAPCO Leyland Super Hippos . Getting my dose of old trucks this week, thanks IAN and company
dave

There are quite a few interesting Australian trucks in this album, including both the already posted pics of the 6x6 Super Hippo and some other Super Hippos as well.
Don.

Ausfree, Do you remember seeing that old yellow 6x6 Kenworth (with no sides on the bonnet) that got around the Cardiff, Glendale and Edgeworth area lugging bushrock in the early 90's ?.

Top album Don, there's some great old truck in that. I wonder where they all are now?

Both those links are for the same pics too.

Originally Posted by Ausfree

Commers were common when I started driving heavy vehicles (gutless things) and I offsided in them but never drove one.

Ahh, but the sound of the engine....

But getting caught behind one going up Razorback.....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrAoj5Cuu68[/ame]



Here's a view of one working:

[ame]https://youtu.be/G-OqYFB4ofY[/ame]

In the early fifties, a cousin of mine (who died a couple of years ago) drove a Hippo (not Super Hippo) prime mover, mainly on the Sydney-Walgett route. After a couple years the police (no transport inspectors then) realised that his boss had found that with the normal load of drummed petrol*, the spaces left between the drums were ideal for carrying oxygen cylinders................

The fine put the company out of business, and my cousin had to find other work.

John

*At that time bulk tankers did not deliver outside of cities, and users such as stations and farms generally got their fuel in drums, although this was starting to change.