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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Nullarbor station's T-Model Ford truck in which Herbert Basedow travelled to Eucla, Western Australia and later, from Nullarbor station to Fisher, South Australia 1920 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

That is strictly a model TT one ton truck, basically same as the T, but with a heavier and longer chassis, with heavier rear springs - transverse quarter elliptic, where the car had transverse semielliptic, and a worm final drive 7:1 vs 3.5:1 on the car. This body style was very common in the 1920s and into the 1930s. It is very similar to one of the vehicles I learnt to drive on.

Very capable off road, due to light weight, high ground clearance, weight bias onto driving wheels, and low gearing (nominal maximum speed 15mph, 25kph), offset by high pressure tyres, only two forward gears and an engine lubrication system that tended to starve the front cylinders of oil on steep uphill slopes. (splash system - sump is the flywheel housing, with oil distributed through being lifted to a funnel by the magnets on the flywheel magneto, thence gravity feed to the front of the engine, filling the cups under each big end as it ran back under gravity to the flywheel housing.)

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

It is very similar to one of the vehicles I learnt to drive on. John

Hi John

Thanks for that info, the TT is few years ahead of one of the old farm truck's I learnt to drive in, took a bit of a search but I found some pictures of one's that are close.





One photo of a question mark cab, this truck is a dodge however.



The truck was a ford AA built about 1932, flathead V8, three speed box with a paddle type lever on the side of the gear stick, not sure but I think it was a splitter.
The Firewall forward was original but the cab was a wooden Question mark style, no doors, wooden floor and a wooden bench seat with a hole cut through it for the petrol tank filler under the driver.
It had mechanical brakes, a hand operated windscreen wiper and electric starter with the starter button coming up the floor boards.

Dad and I had a clean up around the yard and the truck which was complete but not running as the carby had been stolen, we towed it with the gold Fergy up to bush the weekend before the 1967 bush fires in Tasmania, that fire finished it.
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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Hi John

Thanks for that info, the TT is few years ahead of one of the old farm truck's I learnt to drive in, took a bit of a search but I found some pictures of one's that are close.......
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I had a look round and found a photo of one similar to the one we had - I took it at a vintage truck and tractor show in Dubbo in 2008. It is virtually identical to the one we had, except ours had a nickel plated radiator shell, and eighteen inch high wooden sides on the tray. I don't have any photos of it - we couldn't afford film in the immediate post war period. It was replaced by a 1921 Reo truck, which I do have a couple of photos of.

John

Well the search is finally over. I reckon this interior should do the old landy nicely
Cheers Hall

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Originally Posted by Hall

Well the search is finally over. I reckon this interior should do the old landy nicely
Cheers Hall

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