Thread: In the days before Toymotor

cool pics bushie

Hi there Bushie....

O-what great memories, OHS whold have a field day with those over loaded vehicles.....

Even the old Bedford tanker.....what a machine, could see the vaporising fuel problems already.

Wayne

Originally Posted by ellard

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Even the old Bedford tanker.....what a machine, could see the vaporising fuel problems already.

Wayne

Our brigade's old Bedford tanker was retired two years ago!

John

Originally Posted by ellard

Hi there Bushie....

O-what great memories, OHS whold have a field day with those over loaded vehicles.....

Even the old Bedford tanker.....what a machine, could see the vaporising fuel problems already.

Wayne

Yes, they did tend to suffer a bit from vapourising but not as bad as these



That one was towed for about 40 miles.


Martyn

This ones hung up a bit.



For those that know the area - the main track from Heathcote road through to Menai (Menai Trail) in the mid 70s


Martyn

awesome pics i dont know whether anyone has posted any of the snowys mountain scheme but when my pop was down there he took a few of all the rovers

Originally Posted by V8Ian

No Grockle, it's an International Acco 1800, nominal 8 ton load. Civilianized version of the military Australian Concieved Cab Over, a very popular truck here from the '60s til the late '90s.

In the truck sales industry they were almost universally regarded as Australian Army Cab Over, and Australian Civilian Cab Over. Both acronyms were pronounced as Akk-owe. Differentiation was high doors and/or split windscreen. The next model was called "new cab Acco" in the sales yards.

Hi there Bushie and John

Keep them comming - what a great few pictures.

Our brigade's old Bedford tanker was retired two years ago!

John

My first trip interstate with the Fire Service (SA Country Fire Service) was back in 1994, and was a fairly yound lad back then. We were stationed at the Richmond collage.

We were doing a huge back burn - and can remember we had brought over 20-30 appliances over from SA (fairly flash fire appliances in there days).......well getting back to the story half way along the back burn we came across an old ex army 6x6 fire truck (it even had the old lay done front windscreen) - and we were shocked as it still was an active fire appliance.

We have a policy in SA - no active front line fire appliance is to exceed 20 years old, there is a a few exception after 20 years some are coverted to bulk water tankers.

Well since 1994 - theres not many years we havent headed interstate, but with the way things are going in SA you might have to help us this year.

Wayne