Thread: snowy mountains video

G'day Jimbo110

Have you thought to make a copy of this available to our Administrator "Incisor" as he is/was compiling a DVD of the 60th and other early Landrover history

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i have a dvd of snowyhydro scheme called "operation adaminaby" if anyone is interested. Let me know

The vid mentions that LRs were soon to be under licence here...did it actually happen and who made them???

or did the Tojos start infiltrating due to parts supply issues?

CKD models were assembled by the Pressed Metal Company in Sydney.

Garry

G'day Folks

Yes, they were built up from CKD kits at Pressed Metal Corp (PMC) in Enfield Sydney, it was a wholly owned subsiduary of BMC and Later Leyland Australia, which went on to become JRA Jaguar Rover Australia, they also built bus and truck bodies on BMC Austin, Morris,and Leyland chassis you have probably travelled in a PMC bodied bus at some time or the other, they also bodied rail motors in the 50's/60's


Annand & Thompson also imported Landrover vehicles direct from UK for many years


cheers

Originally Posted by UncleHo

G'day Folks
Pressed Metal Corp (PMC) in Enfield Sydney, it was a wholly owned subsiduary of BMC

As I understand the situation (in about 1948) PMC was originally part of the Larke Neave and Carter Group as was Grenville Motors and Larke Hoskins. They, together with BMC Australia had many Directors in common until the mid to late 1950's and were essentially owned by two families.

If you go to the snowy visitor centre they seem to harp on about the Toyotas that replaced the series one Land Rover that were there before any roads. The truth has been masked
The Snowy is how the Rovers made it here in the first place. Also why three series 1s were purchased on this farm. Two are still here.


Tony

I have some where a Wheels Magazine of 1956.
A article in it tests the landrover.
They went to a depot and selected one from a Hundred in the holding yard and test drove it on the roads of the time around the snowy mountain irrigation scheme.
No mention of Toyota then !
I also have old photos in a book and other than landrovers , Dodge power wagon were used extensively.
The trucks in the area were mostly Two wheel drive commercial trucks of the time, chained together like a train in convoy in snow conditions.
Surprisingly I find little use of WW11 ex army vehicles......maybe they were still being used by the army at the time.
I understand the snowy project finished in 1974.
Toyota's could only have been used in any sort of numbers after 1970 as the numbers imported before then was low.