Thread: Hume Hwy

I only operate a Green Oval, but it is on the old Hume Hwy. between Wallan and Kilmore.

Cheers,
Mick.

Originally Posted by Killer

I only operate a Green Oval, but it is on the old Hume Hwy. between Wallan and Kilmore.

Cheers,
Mick.

Spot on. It's still there, on the old road. It was a challenge for the old, "canvas covered load" semis fifty years ago. The trucks mentioned in the OP wouldn't even notice it, if the road still went that way.

Hi,
In the 60s it was a country lane by today's version.
Cheers

Is it / was it a bit of a tussle both ways ?

Originally Posted by Hogarthde

Is it / was it a bit of a tussle both ways ?

I first it used in the 70s. Travelled the Hume most weeks in 73/4 in The Army. FC Holden and then MGB. Was a bugger getting stuck behind the semis as an impatient youngster, but it wasn't that bad. I think its reputation came from the 50s and 60s. It was probably dirt in the 50s. These days cyclists use it.

Pretty Sally was named after a woman who operated a sly grog establishment, in the bullock and horse days. I never got to meet her.
Pretty Sally later was an accident black spot, thanks to the sharp turn at the top.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Pretty Sally was named after a woman who operated a sly grog establishment, in the bullock and horse days. I never got to meet her.

Odd. She mentions you in her memoir...

Originally Posted by DieselLSE

Odd. She mentions you in her memoir...

My reputation must have gone before me.