To me Mackay means bloody hard slog in the cane fields, not in the cutting gangs where they sweated long hours getting themselves black, but in a lab gang, cutting raw cane for testing and being constantly scratching because of the ‘hairy Mary’ fine hairs on the stems that were burnt off before the gangs got to them.
Later, a bit down the road at Sarina, where I had a much easier and more comfortable job on a road roller. 
Spardo:
To me Mackay means bloody hard slog in the cane fields, not in the cutting gangs where they sweated long hours getting themselves black, but in a lab gang, cutting raw cane for testing and being constantly scratching because of the ‘hairy Mary’ fine hairs on the stems that were burnt off before the gangs got to them.Later, a bit down the road at Sarina, where I had a much easier and more comfortable job on a road roller.
Road roller Spardo, thats another driving job to add to the list, the original roller rolling stone Buzzer
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Buzzert the rear wheels are held in place by “POWER” 
DIG:
Buzzer:
BuzzerBuzzert the rear wheels are held in place by “POWER”
I am glad that you cleared that up Dig.
I thought that it might have been fitted with a Rockwell back axle.
Or could it have been Spardo’s first road roller. 
Taxi.
mushroomman:
DIG:
Buzzer:
BuzzerBuzzert the rear wheels are held in place by “POWER”
I am glad that you cleared that up Dig.
I thought that it might have been fitted with a Rockwell back axle.
Or could it have been Spardo’s first road roller.
Taxi.
And I even managed to slide it into a ditch trying to do a good job at the edge of the road. They told me to stay on board (I thought, there’s no other crew, surely the captain is permitted to leave at this point?) but they might look tall and ungainly but all the weight is down below in those big wheels and the engine was tiny and very much lower than the bonnet top, so I bravely stuck to my post while they hitched me to the grader and pulled me out in no time.
It was just north of this posh bridge where the Bruce Highway crossed Plane Creek. You can just see to the right of the bridge where the original road sloped down to the old wooden bridge. That was the Highway which in those days, late 60s, was dirt and had to be constantly graded and compressed. I was the Compression gang, just me. My mate was the Grader gang, just him, and he was fresh out of hospital having rolled his car driving in thongs which got wrapped around the pedals.
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And Buzzer, not an extra, all included in the vast body count made especially for you earlier. 
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MOTORISED PERAMBULATOR MADE BY DUNKLY, LONDON 1923
I love the fact that it says Manx Norton on the photo.
Spardo:
Buzzer:
BuzzerMOTORISED PERAMBULATOR MADE BY DUNKLY, LONDON 1923
I love the fact that it says Manx Norton on the photo.
David here is the real thing, Buzzer
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Spardo:
Buzzer:
BuzzerMOTORISED PERAMBULATOR MADE BY DUNKLY, LONDON 1923
I love the fact that it says Manx Norton on the photo.
David here is the real thing, Buzzer
Lovely, BTW a friend who knows about such things says the photo was a setup as the wheels on the pram were not moving so the Nanny’s skirt was made to look as if she was speeding along by a very thin wire attached to her skirt and pulled backwards by someone out of shot.
Congratulations Oily on over a 1000 pages always a good thread with some excellent photos , here’s to the next 1000
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….I spot the Golly…g inside the pram.
Sheets and uniforms were very well starched in those far flung days,perhaps it’s starch that is causing the rear of her uniform to misshape?
David
5thwheel:
Buzzer:
Buzzer….I spot the Golly…g inside the pram.
Sheets and uniforms were very well starched in those far flung days,perhaps it’s starch that is causing the rear of her uniform to misshape?
David
Was that Bewick’s secret then David? Starch?
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My old man used to have a Hillman Minx 
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