Australia then and now

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@spardo @star_down_under

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There is “a thing” whereby we sometimes ignore what is close at hand isn’t there?
Maybe familiarity breeding contempt? Maybe putting off what we can always do next time, but never getting around to it?

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“Oh I’ll go next month” and then another 6 months rolls by and somehow you never get a rountuit.

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I didn’t know they’d moved from Tempe.

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:laughing: :laughing: If I had the misfortune to be driving a chook’s foot when it broke down, I’d be closing the door gently, in case a jolt reset the fault. The bonnet doesn’t have to be lifted, for arsonistic intent. :firecracker: :fire_engine:

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I think they moved to the old railway sheds in Redfern at one point, but I looked them up and they’re now in Leichhardt (inner west Sydney).

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Similar wagon or maybe the same one ramone photographed by John Ward on 1981-01-18 of Urban Transit Authority Leyland Buffalo Tow Truck CT-109 towing Leyland ERT1-1 Royal Tiger Worldmaster 3517 in McClelland Street, Willoughby, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Pretty sure it’s the same wagon, thanks Oily.

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A bit more modern than Brisbane Council’s recovery truck.

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Still based at Light St bus depot in the 80s. Originally a WW ll Scammell Pioneer tank/heavy gun (?) carrier, converted to recover trams and busses.

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via John Ward on flickr:

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How does the bloke in the truck hear the bell ring? :hear_no_evil_monkey:

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The only things you’d hear ring above a Madator engine is your ears, I wouldn’t thought! That’s a prototype bendibus.

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I reckon the John Ward photo was taken no later than 1969. On the far left is an HK Holden (1968 model), on the right an EJ (63 model) and an HT (69model). The bus still has a mechanical arm, I’d have thought blinkers would have been retrofitted to a government bus.
@parkroyal2100 , any idea of model or year of the bus?

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This came up on my FB feed page today, brought to mind DIG and the cook as he referred to his wife when away camping in the outback.
I for one miss DIG’s input is anyone in touch with him.
Oliy.

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I miss his contribution too. I’ll see if I have his phone number.

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Leyland Royal Tiger built between 1950 to 1954, according to my (very) amateur research. By the time the photo was taken it would’ve been ~15 years old. John Ward’s notes state that the photo was taken in late 1973, but now that I’ve read your reply and looked again it does look a bit anachronous.

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That’s an impressively big word for a Wednesday night. :grin:
I don’t recall seeing mechanical arms much past 1970, that was in sleepy, provincial Queensland, not hustling, bustling, modern Sydney.

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Likewise, he had a lot of experience and a knack for telling a story.

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Says the man who knows what it means :rofl:

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Corrugatediron is the biggest word I know!