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Buzzer“Cyclops Rover”,a rare find Buzzer,oh yes,a very happy birthday,all the best!
David
Good God, that is horrible. That’s the kind of car you get when you walk into a car showroom desperate to buy something and the salesman finds out how little you have to spend.
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another great company long gone worked for Atlas for 10 years until it closed in 1989 is nice to see the pics of the old place
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mushroomman:
Star down under.:
Mushroomman, did you know Intercentre? IIRC, it was the plaything of one of Arnotts biscuits, founder’s sons. They did all the interstate transfers.
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They were pretty flash in the day and quick, before we’d heard of speed limiters.Sorry S.D.U. Intercentre doesn’t ring a bell with me but I wonder if you can remember a company called Queensland Mushrooms about twenty four years ago, who had a farm at North Maclean on The Mount Lindesey Highway, south of Brisbane.
It was a family run farm, the old Dutchman who started it died and left the business to his, I.I.R.C. three sons and his daughter. One of his sons, Corrie, decided that he would sell his share of the business and buy a brand-new Scania 112 M with all the bells and whistles, blue metallic paint job, air-con, chrome fuel tanks, tinted windows etc.Corrie went ‘roaming’ and after a couple of years, he sold the truck to the farm and went back to working for the family business. It was not long after that when I got my first driving job there.
I believe that they sold out to Del Monte or Golden Circle about ten years ago. I have just looked on Google Earth and it looks like the place is now disused and up for sale.Another reason that I am mentioning this is because when I first joined Trucknet, somebody whose username I can’t remember, mentioned that his mother was working at Queensland Mushrooms at the time. I never got around to saying that I also worked there, hence the name Mushroomman. Well, MushroomScania didn’t sound right.
Now after all these years it’s bugging me who it was but I have a feeling it was one of our Scottish members.
It wasn’t you was it Oily.
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No MRM, I’m not familiar with Queensland Mushrooms, but I must have passed the farm hundreds of times. Mt Lindsay was the back door into Brisbane, avoiding the checking stations at Coomera and Gailes, if one was a little short of hours or a tad heavy.
This is a bit off-topic, but Mt. Lindesay rings a loud bell. A few years ago, me and some mates went on a 10-day ride from ■■■■■■■ to SE Qld and back; one of the legs was Kyogle to somewhere on the Sunshine Coast (signs to Beaudesert?) and for all the rubbish road surfaces I still remember seeing Mt. Lindesay. Beyond that, at the top of the ridge there was a camera and a cattle grid. On the way back, we did the other “dodgy” route back, from Currumbin(?) to Murwillimbah, and yes there was a cattle grid. Godnose how blokes got cattle wagons up over and back on those roads.
Park Royal, as far as I know, those cameras are still there and monitered. They are for the prevention of spread of ticks, across the Queensland/ NSW border.
My first 2 cars were Mk. 1 Vanguards. both cost £5 each. The second one ended its life as a banger racer in Doncaster with the taut wire cable fencing cheesecutting the engine.
I didn’t bother to bring it home.
One of my old BRS truck rental units that was transferred to the general haulage fleet after two years with us. NMP
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