Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics II.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Do you prefer your Christmas/ birthday presents covered in glad wrap?

Not permitted for Roman Catholics!

Foiled again

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Do you prefer your Christmas/ birthday presents covered in glad wrap?

I prefer not to get presents in the first place...

Originally Posted by Homestar

I prefer not to get presents in the first place...

So soon you will be out of jocks and socks

Originally Posted by scarry

So soon you will be out of jocks and socks

He's not known as Commando Gav for nothing.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

That is what was called a service car or side loader. Common on country runs up until early 50's when bus chassis became readily available following war-time and post war shortages. They were normally a big US luxury car like the Packard shown, Cadillacs, Pierce-Arrow, proper Lincolns, big Chryslers. Stretch the wheelbase, put a truck rear axle under, commonly a two speed, and have a local coachbuilder body it.

That is made on a base of a 1940 Packard which makes it a Straight Eight. The V12 having been discontinued in 1939. The back end looks like it came from a 39-40 Ford. I showed that photo to an old mate who is 86. He started work as the workshop boy for Glanville's?, a service car business in South Brisbane. They ran services up the Brisbane Valley to Murgon, Kingaroy, Wondai and the villages and hamlets in between. He told me they had three side loaders that he can remember made on International KB chassis. There was a Pierce-Arrow V12 tow truck that had been a side loader and got changed to a tow truck. He said the service operated under a Qld. Dept. of Transport permit that allowed carriage of passengers, parcels, and The Royal Mail between nominated centres. He started in 1948 after finishing primary school, did his Junior Certificate at night school, and then did three years at technical college to become a licenced book-keeper (L.B.Q.)He left the company in 1952. By then the passenger business had fallen off as people began to be able to afford motor cars and parcels were the mainstay of the business. He remembers they could not run a service in opposition to the railway so no service on days the train ran nor could they charge less than the railway.

Gordon Chalk canned the permit system early 1960's and deregulated (sort of) road transport in Qld.

Can any Aulros' expand on this?

From memory when the train line from Brisbane to the Gold Coast was closed in the mid sixties there was an operator who put on Rambler station wagons that had 8 seats to replace the service. Not sure how long it lasted.

This was the original line that stopped Beenleigh when a train went through as the line ran across the main street without boom gates and ended at the water in Southport rather than the newer line that runs inland

On the back of the photo is written "Inverell". There is some thought that the woman and child in the front seat are my grandmother and uncle but no one is sure. They were definitely Queenslanders so there is some conjecture as to why the photo was taken. Definitely NSW number plates.

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