Traf Trucks Christmas Break-up 2011 and Neerim Show 2012

Here's some photographs taken at the Trafalgar Truck Restorers Club Christmas Party at the Darnum Hall on December 4, 2011 and the Neerim Show on January 29, 2012. We took the Benz to Darnum and the Volvo to Neerim.

Graham and Heather Cameron's 7-series Dodge. They also had their 1927 Chev, below, on display.

There were two Whites at Neerim, a White Roadboss, above, and a White 4000, below.


1978 Atkinson

1978 Dodge, owned by Barry Campbell.

Bob Needham's 1953 ML Bedford.

Leigh Shield's 1945 Studebaker US6.

1949 Morris Commercial owned by John Burley.

Kelvin Wyatt's J-model Bedford.

Tony and Glenys Hackett's REO Gold Comet.

Brian Dawes' Dodge, it's so cute. The final nine photographs are all of Internationals.

John Wright's Inter, next to Dave Horne's famous 1934 British Bedford.

Graham & Nancy Young's D1530 Inter.

Fred Black's Acco C1800.

Donny McGregor's Perkins powered C1800.

Daryl Teale's AR110.

Andrew McIntosh's D1510.

Red Inter 1 - Graham and Heather Cameron's D1210.

Red Inter 2 - Dennis and Petra Boulton's AB180.

Red Inter 3- Merv Bennett's AA148.

Red Inter 4 - Jock Crawford's D1610.

Princes Highway - Hallam and Berwick

If you ever drove the Princes Highway from Dandenong to Gippsland then here are a few photographs from the 1950s to bring back memories.

This is Stoopman Motors in Hallam, on the Dandenong side of the Hallam Hotel.

This is High Street in Berwick (as seen from Gloucester Avenue). Apparently that's Series 2 Land Rover. The photograph, below, is also of High Street - looking east. That's the Berwick Inn, the earliest parts of the building date from 1857.
The Princes Highway climbed up through the Berwick hill, eastbound, and John described it as 'bad going up, but terrifying coming down'. This 'exciting' stretch of road was by-passed when the Berwick by-pass opened December 14, 1983.

Tarped loads

These photos all show tarped loads - a good tarp job is a work of art.

John's 1418 Benz, taken mid 1970s, near West Wyalong, when he was working for Vaughans.

Jim Forrest's Atkinson, early 1970s, Cunningham Highway, near Inglewood.

Fleetway's Leylands, taken late 1960s, at Wallace Road House.

The first truck John ever owned a 1964 K100 Kenworth. Photo taken at Beveridge.

This Loadstar was taken at Fleet Express' Depot in Adelaide, early 1970s. John had just finished loading it in 43 degree heat.

This was taken on the Olympic Way, near Wagga Wagga, when the Murrumbidgee River was in flood.

One of Camerons Kenworths, taken in the early 1970s at Tubbs Hill near Avenel.

Last of the Chrome Bumpers 2011

The Last of the Chrome Bumpers Show has moved from Cora Lynn to Lardner Park at Warragul, because it just got too big for the Cora Lynn Recreation Reserve. There were a squillion cars there - every make, model etc you could think of - plus a few trucks. Here are some of the truck photos, mainly different ones that I haven't featured in my blog before.

An Austin, above, and a Bedford below. The Bedford is owned by Robert Johnston.

A Chev pick-up and, below, a Dodge pick-up.

A nicely restored fire engine. Photograph by Eric Shingles.

Joe Beaumont's 1942 Ford and 1946 Chev.

1957 AS-120 Inter and Geoff East's AB100 Inter.

Leyland Octopus belonging to Terry Burrows.

Leyland with an angle door cab.

Overview of some of the cars.

1980 911 that is owned by Mercedes Benz – it was restored at great cost by the Adelaide branch, but now resides in Melbourne. Unfortunately it was not taken off the back of the tilt tray that brought it so it wasn’t shown to its full advantage, but despite this, because it's a Benz, I will give you two looks at it.

Our Benz and Eric Shingles 1974 1418. And just to keep Eric happy, below is a picture of Eric's Massey Ferguson tractor.