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1949 M L Bedford Truck

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

International Intrigue

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

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In the Pipeline

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

Bedford and Beyond

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

RUNAWAY ERF

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

1924 Albion PE24

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

Outback Legends

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

Basil Jarman

In the article about Basil Jarman in issues #40 and #41, he mentions Jack Batty. I worked with Jack and many other drivers in the early 1970s/1980s. Names I can remember include Ian Shipp, Niel White, Owen Turvey, and Norm Johnston, as well as...

07 Oct 2024