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He was eager to see the family’s new truck, but first it had to go to Smiths in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell for its wide coach-built cabin and stake side market garden body. He was duly impressed when it arrived with its shiny, flowing...

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First Class Kenny - A Superb Aussie Restoration

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The Kenworth manufacturing plant in Melbourne at Bayswater, was the birthplace of this ruby red gem during August, 1986 – it now resides on the South Coast of NSW in the tenure of Brett Cleary, a confirmed SAR Kenworth devotee. The SAR when new in...

Bedford and Dorman Ricardo

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W.H. Dorman and Co. of Stafford, UK, began engine manufacturing in 1913, producing a vast array of engines for most purposes: powering cars, trucks, tractors, railway engines and providing a variety of marine applications. As found. One battery and...

Another Good Vintage 1928 Chevrolet LP National 30cwt

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One of the interesting aspects of talking with owners about their vintage trucks is that you can learn as much about the owner as you do about their truck. Whether it is intentional or not, the truck often tells us a lot about the history, interests...

Fit for a King

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Looking at modern luxury caravans, you could easily believe that a large fifth wheeler towed by a powerful truck is a current-day development in caravan design. In fact, the fifth wheel approach was being used on horsedrawn wagons early in the 20th...

My V8 Power Giant

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When restoring a piece of my family’s history, such as a home-built log hauler built by my late father, Reginald Thomas Bradley in the early 1950s, the next obvious question was how to transport it to shows so that the general public could see the...

Days of Wine and Saures

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Orlando Wines was first founded by Johann Gramp who had emigrated to South Australia from Eichrig in Bavaria, Germany in 1837. By 1847, he had established a flourishing vineyard at Jacobs Creek in the now famous Barossa Valley from the Riesling...

A Flamin’ Great Mack

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In VTCM issue 37, there was a review of the various chain drive Mack models that once toiled the roads, construction sites, and mining pits of Australia in the first half of the last century. Of the four locally-seen Mack types that used chains to...

The Red Terror

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The ‘Red Terror’ is a 1955 International AR162 truck. My wife, Helen, and I purchased it in March/April, 2003 from a vehicle collector near Gisborne, Vic, who had purchased it as part of a collection from a deceased estate nearby. He was after...

1930 Dodge 30 CWT Pick-up

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“Was it actually snowing in Idaho when you bought the pick-up?” I asked cheekily. “No! I’ve put phosphoric acid all over it to protect it, as it had been standing out in the weather for quite a long time!” came the indignant reply...

Cooladdi Mail Trucks

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About halfway down New Zealand’s North Island, out in the country back blocks, is a little place called Horopito. The town was built for the railway workers when they put the line down, many years ago. Today, the train still goes through, but the...

Masterpieces in Miniature

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Now an octogenarian, Max has been concentrating his time for the past decade or more, building and converting HO (1/87), and sometimes 1/76, scale pre-made and kit-based diecast and plastic model trucks. It is a pleasure for Vintage Trucks and...

Five Star Ford

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Once the Second World War had ended and the 1950’s decade was starting, motor vehicle manufacturers were beginning to look again at expanding their markets and models to keep abreast of the ever-growing demand for motor vehicles from private...

Twin-Engined Ford Trucks

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Jim Gibson delves into the archives about some early US history regarding a solution to gain more power for heavy-duty trucks during the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1939 a Detroit, Michigan company, Grico, solved the power problem in trucks in an...

15 Jun 2023

By The VTCM Team