Australia then and now

Wickham Freight Lines and Kenworth number 400.

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Bring your own lunch, bring your own pay.

I hope this one works for you.

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Works for me, despite having nothing to do with them myself and only having ridden once, I do love the heavy horses, used to love watching them pulling the drays around Nottingham back in the day for Shippos (Shipstones) brewery.

Valid points but highly exaggerated. Indians are taking over the industry, they are in the main incompetent, but not having fatal accidents daily.
There is no shortage of drivers, just a shortage of competent drivers prepared to work for the rates the sub-cotinentals drive.
That Aaron fellow has only been doing the job for five minutes, barely left the Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne triangle, yet sees himself as a highly experienced industry spokesman. He’s a histrionic YouTuber, another trainee Carryfast.

Can’t picture carryfast looking like that well mebbe from the neck up.

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The second half of that sentence in the Oz advert deserves to be adopted by wry Brits in transport!

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Can think of similar with regard to the incompetent he’s not the full shilling or a rasher short of a decent sandwich.

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I have a fair stack of OZ photos a lot of which were posted on Trucknet part one this may have been one of them not sure where it came from.


1958 at Katherine

Would this be a SAR Kenworth?


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Or the wheel is turning but the hamster’s dead

That could be one of Ted Stiles’ Outback Transport. He was a Foden man through and through and had double skinned roofed sleepers like that if I recognise it right.

They did like their one marque policies those NT men. Baldock ran Leylands and of course Buntine nothing but Macks, apart from an Inter 4 wheeler that was used to run around the yard in. I was sent to bring it from where it had been parked during the ‘wet’ in order to load it with rag tyres for the meatworks. When I opened the door it was crawling with red back spiders. I reached in gingerly, started it up and knocked it into 1st gear then drove it across the yard from the running board. :roll_eyes:

It certainly would, Oily. An early model.

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I can read Mitchell but not the firms name any ideas.

I reckon that is Co-Ord as I have another photo which gave me the clue.