There are some great photos in this thread. Thank you for posting
4wd Action did a DVD a long time ago and they stated that Toyota helped build the Snowny Mountains scheme.....what a load of rubbish!
There are some great photos in this thread. Thank you for posting
4wd Action did a DVD a long time ago and they stated that Toyota helped build the Snowny Mountains scheme.....what a load of rubbish!
Andrew
1998 Landrover Defender 300Tdi 130 HCPU Expedition
1972 Peugeot 504 Sedan - Daily Driver
Yes, I remember that; it was just poorly-researched Toyota propaganda.
One of the old guys in the Qld Rover Car Club was an engineer on the SMS , when he was alive he was telling me the Land Rover wading across the river in the photo's was his. He gave me a tow pin off the vehicle I have passed it on to a guy who owns one of the SMS S1's.
Here's what Land Rover itself has to say about the role of its vehicles in the Snowy Mountains Hydro scheme:
http://www.landrover.com.au/vehicles...2c8e7284c.html
Saw this ad and thought it might be relevant
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/denm...ver/1159695416
Rare 1966 Forward Control Land Rover (Series IIA) for sale. One of only 400 brought in to Australia for Snowy Mountains Scheme. Needs full restoration but comes with additional Series IIA LWB Landrover with reconditioned motor.
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Hi guys,
I’m new to this thread but am very interested to find out whether the 1957 109” I am currently restoring was used on the snowy scheme and see if there are any further details that can be located.
Chassis number is 123701060 and the original NSW reg number was AZZ 678. The sales records indicate that it was sold to the ‘Elect Commission’ which I’m taking to be the Electricity Commission.
The truck was discovered on a deceased farmers property in Goulburn NSW a couple of years ago and came to the UK in January this year. I’ve had it since June and am in the process of restoring it. A tray back has been fitted at some point in its life and I plan to keep that and I’m also taking it back to its original grey paint.
When I bought it the Land Rover was painted bright yellow, which is a colour I’ve seen painted on a Toyota used on the scheme. When I removed the yellow paint from the drivers door there was evidence of a circular emblem with signs of pale green paint, very similar to that on the SMA logo.
From reading this thread it sounds like there may be a register kept if the vehicles used on the scheme so I wondered if somebody would be able to check if my vehicle is listed on there please. Even better, whether any photos exist of it in its original form.
Hope somebody can help. Many thanks.
To correct my previous post I’ve now found tha5 the circular logo was present on both doors.
Last edited by Dieseldrinker; 29th October 2018 at 05:50 AM. Reason: Correcting duplicate post
I don't have that information, but from memory if you go through the Snowy Mountains thread here there is someone who has access to the records.
Most if not all Snowy Series 1 Landrovers were short wheelbase.
If, as seems to be documented, it was sold to the Electricity Commission, this would seem to preclude its use in the Snowy Scheme, although it could possibly have been used peripherally.
The electricity commission was a customer of the SMHEA, after they started to generate power (I can't readily find when this started, but I suspect it was after Series 1 ended - the project was completed in 1972).
The Electricity Commission of NSW was formed in 1950 and took over power generation and some distribution across the state. I expect the Landrover was bought by them as they started to expand the distribution of power into rural areas.
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
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