Vintage Trucks and Commercials Magazine #85 Nov/Dec/Jan Vintage Trucks and Commercials Magazine 01 Dec 2024 By The VTCM Team
Vintage Trucks and Commercials Magazine Logging Operations in the Central North West Coast of Tasmania - After World War II Vintage Trucks and Commercials Magazine At the end of the Second World War, Australia went into rebuild mode. Sawn timber was in short supply on the mainland of Australia, as a direct result of Darwin’s bombings by the Japanese in 1942-43. One-third of the city’s homes were badly... 07 Nov 2024 By The VTCM Team
Vintage Trucks and Commercials Magazine 1949 M L Bedford Truck Vintage Trucks and Commercials Magazine I drove past this old girl on a regular basis, sitting in the paddock behind a farmhouse in the village of Dalgety, NSW. She was buried deep in grass and the bonnet was missing. The idea to rescue her eventually got the better of me, and I thought... 06 Nov 2024 By The VTCM Team
Vintage Trucks and Commercials Magazine International Intrigue Vintage Trucks and Commercials Magazine 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... 05 Nov 2024 By Info Information
Articles In the Pipeline Articles In May, 1969, Alan Cant of AEC Logging Company was approached by the transport company who had the contract to deliver steel gas pipes along the six foot deep trench that was being dug from Adelaide to the Moomba gas fields, a distance of over 600... 31 Oct 2024 By The VTCM Team
Articles Bedford and Beyond Articles During the late 1970s, General Motors’ famous Bedford brand was fading into decline in Australia, when their long-running TK series was replaced with Isuzu trucks. This wasn’t the end of the Bedford story though. In the UK, the limitations of... 23 Oct 2024 By The VTCM Team
News and Letters RUNAWAY ERF News and Letters The ERF story in issue No. 48 was most interesting it would seem the marque sadly went the way of most English heavy trucks in the mid 1960’s they had fallen out of favour and could not compete with the Yankee big iron. Back some time in the late... 23 Oct 2024 By The VTCM Team
Articles 1924 Albion PE24 Articles Some time ago, I undertook a mammoth roadtrip of 1,130 kilometres from my hometown of Goulburn to Broken Hill, as I had been invited to visit the 1924 Albion PE24, owned by Brenton Martin, and view where his restoration was up to. Brenton is an... 16 Oct 2024 By The VTCM Team
Articles Outback Legends Articles Buntine’s became an outback legend whose story began with a contract won by The Territory Transport Association which became Coordinated Road and Rail Freight Service (Co-ord), for the purpose of carting rail freight between Alice Springs and... 07 Oct 2024 By The VTCM Team
