Frankydobo:
Good stretch up off step ring, that’d sort your wedding tackle out In my mind I was thinking they all had long doors n steps, obviously not!! Anyone know the why fores ? NMP off FB
The GUY MkII Warrior and Invincible models introduced 1958 used the same cab, the differences were in the engine choice, chassis, axles and springs, there were bigger engines in the Invincible, chassis rails deeper, axles heavier and springs wider. The cab noted for its waist area shelf was metal below and fibre glass above. The short door version having the wheel step ring and a foot slot to the rear of the bottom section. The MkIII was introduced in 1962 for better driver access with the set forward entry step and full door. Production ended in 1967 a good three years after the BIG J with Motor Panels cab was introduced and it seems the older Invincibles especially were still selling and beefed up with the ■■■■■■■ choice as well as the earlier Gardner, AEC and Leyland engines. Franky.
Thanks for that Franky, always good to get info on these things. It’s beginning to look like I’m too young to have run into the short door model
Thanks to pyewacket947v, Buzzer, vwvanman0 and coomsey for the pics
Guy long door short door credit to Basher Eyre, Dave Merrett and SCP for the photos
Oily
Unfortunately these show two GUY Big J’s and Knowles MkIII 8 wheeler. Here is the correct short and long door Invicible’s, another Knowles MkIII tractor and an earlier MkII short door 6 wheel tipper. Franky.
Frankydobo:
Unfortunately these show two GUY Big J’s and Knowles MkIII 8 wheeler. Here is the correct short and long door Invicible’s, another Knowles MkIII tractor and an earlier MkII short door 6 wheel tipper. Franky.
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Nice one Franky! Comparing the two would I be right in supposing the difference was all in the cab design?
Either way I’m still not fancying the mark 1. ERF straight up n in,Akky n S80/3 never really found the best way in, took to using the top of the tyre not such a good idea. I seem to recall the old fellas rated them ! Cheers coomsey
In the last pic, about seven or eight hundred (empty?) 45gal drums?
20kg each? So that impressive load is about 16 tons.
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Mind you when loading or tipping it would be like the first barrels were 5kgs, and the last ones 50kgs!
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Is that a water bag hanging off the front bumper?
Franglais:
In the last pic, about seven or eight hundred (empty?) 45gal drums?
20kg each? So that impressive load is about 16 tons.
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Mind you when loading or tipping it would be like the first barrels were 5kgs, and the last ones 50kgs!
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Is that a water bag hanging off the front bumper?
That last pic is Kurt Johannsen’s Diamond T with self-built trailers. Some say it was Australia’s first roadtrain. Johannsen had an interesting life including mining, flying (and crashing!) his own Tiger Moth plane and much else. I have his autobiography on my bookshelf, picked up on one of my Oz trips.
Franglais:
In the last pic, about seven or eight hundred (empty?) 45gal drums?
20kg each? So that impressive load is about 16 tons.
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Mind you when loading or tipping it would be like the first barrels were 5kgs, and the last ones 50kgs!
.
Is that a water bag hanging off the front bumper?
That last pic is Kurt Johannsen’s Diamond T with self-built trailers. Some say it was Australia’s first roadtrain. Johannsen had an interesting life including mining, flying (and crashing!) his own Tiger Moth plane and much else. I have his autobiography on my bookshelf, picked up on one of my Oz trips.
Franglais:
In the last pic, about seven or eight hundred (empty?) 45gal drums?
20kg each? So that impressive load is about 16 tons.
.
Mind you when loading or tipping it would be like the first barrels were 5kgs, and the last ones 50kgs!
.
Is that a water bag hanging off the front bumper?
That last pic is Kurt Johannsen’s Diamond T with self-built trailers. Some say it was Australia’s first roadtrain. Johannsen had an interesting life including mining, flying (and crashing!) his own Tiger Moth plane and much else. I have his autobiography on my bookshelf, picked up on one of my Oz trips.
You´ll enjoy it. There are many similar characters in Australia’s history. Men who ran trucks in the early days for the mail and general transport. They ran in to regions with no facilities at all and even fewer inhabitants! Many have written, or had written by others, books on their exploits. I have a few and realise what men they must have been.
Buzzer
Nice photo of the Metal Box Atki, spent many an hour in those parking bays sheeting and roping loads of tinplate in the seventies. Good memories.
Regards, AllanAllan
Thanks to Frankydobo and Buzzer for the pics and info
An early OZ wagon 1910 in Sydney and it may look “mercedes” , it says Brasier but more like a French De Dion Bouton, steering wouldn’t need much effort .
Oily
Coomsey wrote; Here you are Dennis 150G in her, would have been a goer in her day ! What box would she have had ? Gross 20T
Likely the Davey Brown six speed Constant Mesh box, often mated to the 6LX, my Fathers C reg 30:4:6LX Seddon Diesel was the same, top speed 41mph the only negative point he had to make about the Gardner although he did say it done that uphill too! By the way this is the MkI Invincible. Franky.
In my mind I was thinking they all had long doors n steps, obviously not!! Anyone know the why fores ? NMP off FB
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