Leyland Brothers - Haflinger

[101RRS]

I have just watched "Call of the Wild" where a Haflinger (with a punt on top) is driven down the west side of Cape York from Bamaga to Weipa in the 80s. I thought it was by the Leyland Brothers but was made by someone else.

The Leyland Brothers did use a Haflinger on one of their trips and I wouldn't mind getting a copy of it and indeed a copy of their early trip across Aust with their series 1 landies.

So does anyone know if any of these videos are available.

Cheers

Garry

[copba]

I have their 'Wheels across a Wilderness' DVD, where they drove from West to East across the Simpson. I got it brand new off a video store on Evil Bay a year or 2 ago, I just had a quick look but there's none on Evil Bay at all at the minute.

A google search may bring up something.

Should still be available, from memory mine also came with the 're-enactment' version they did a few years ago.

Good luck

[Jeff]

Are you sure you aren't getting mixed up with the late Malcolm Douglas in "Follow The Sun"? He used a Haflinger with a boat on top to get to where his Land Rover couldn't. It was about thirty years ago I saw it, but still remember most of it. I just checked Malcolm Douglas' website and they don't have "Follow The Sun" available, pity as I consider it his second best after "Across The Top".

Jeff

[101RRS]

Thanks Copba - I appreciate the information.

Jeff - you could be right as it was at least 30 years since I have seen it - thought it was the Leylands as I can remember the two hosts in the Haflinger with one driving and the other hanging off the side trying to stop it tipping over. I will chase up "Follow the Sun".

Cheers

Garry

[Ferret]

They used some sort of open top vehicle in their descent into Wolf Creek crater They referred specifically to it as a 'mule' in the show. Some people say it was a Haflinger others say it was based on a VW Beetle.

[Jeff]

The Mule was actually a US military vehicle.

U.S. Military M274 Truck, Platform, Utility 1/2 Ton, 4X4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolf Creek was a movie, Wolfe Creek is the meteor crater.

Jeff

[Dopey]

The Mule was actually a US military vehicle.

U.S. Military M274 Truck, Platform, Utility 1/2 Ton, 4X4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolf Creek was a movie, Wolfe Creek is the meteor crater.

Jeff

On eBay at the moment is an M274 military mule for sale.

EX US Army Military Mechanical Mule M274A5 Platform Utility Half TON 4x4 1970 in Berwick, VIC | eBay

Mike.

[101 Ron]

Leyland Bros used a mechical mule which still exists in some else's ownership..............it was the vehicle they were hanging off to stop it tipping over as mules have poor articulation over the rocks at wolf creek.
They used the mule in a few other films too.
Call of the wild haflinger is the one my dad purchased from Casulla auto wreakers with 50 miles on the clock as per ex Aust army.
My dad sold it many years later to another military vehicle collector and it changed hands a few times and done its trip in the movie ,call of the wild.
No one seems to know what happened to it.
I suspect it rusted away after the trip.
If you look in the movie you will see NSW rego......the only exarmy haffy on NSW rego at the time.

[101 Ron]

Garry if you want some good haffie reading, do some research into a bloke with a odd name, something like Atilla Kaylee.
He used a civie haffie to search for Lassiter's reef and lots of other places in remote parts of central Aust.
It carried something like 250 litres of fuel under the rear deck.
It was a Three part story in one of the big off road mags of the time.
The bloke in Melbourne who is now the haffie guroo had a good acticle done on his first haffie when he won armoural show and shine contest in one of the big off road mags of the time.
His haffy had a lot off good mods.
Then there was the bloke who fitted a Mazda rotary into one.
I was learning to drive my dads haflinger at the time and was totally mad on them.........I still have a lot of that stuff stored away somewhere, but would take me a month of Sundays to find it.

[101 Ron]

In the family old super 8 films we do have some good footage of my dads first haflinger.....the call of the wild one doing what a haffie does best including towing 2.5 tons of boat, crossing a flooded river up to the level of the square bar running around the rear deck with the motor losing one jug and just making it out in Keeper gear on the remaining jug.
Have footage of it climbing a vertical log taller than the wheels too.