Photographs from the Harold Paynting collection, State Library of Victoria - Part 2

Here are some more  truck photographs from the Harold Paynting collection at  State Library of Victoria (SLV). You can look at them on the State Library website www.slv.vic.gov.au. To see more of the Harold Paynting collection,  click here.

State Library of Victoria Image H99.100/92

A Milnes Daimler truck in St Kilda Road with the statue of Robert Burns in the background. Taken sometime between 1903 and 1918, acccording to the SLV.

 State Library of Victoria Image H2011.52/14

Name on door is W.J Jenner of Shepparson Avenue, Carnegie. Photograph taken in the 1930s or 40s.

 State Library of Victoria Image H2006/47/482

Taken around 1953 on Geelong Road. The truck is an International, the name on the door is W.T. Skew. It is a delivery of pipes for Shell's Corio to Newport oil pipe line. 

 State Library of Victoria image H2011.52/55

Golden Fleece Oil truck, taken outside the Exhibition Buildings in Carlton. The name on the door is H.C. Sleigh, Little Collins Street. 

 

 State Library of Victoria Image H2011.52/217

This is a Federal truck, name on door is J.W.French, Croxton garage.

State Library of Victoria Image H2011.52/205

I would love to know where Webb Bros P/L windmills was located - it's  a great photo

 State Library of Victoria Image H2011.52/203

H.J.Fraser company vehicle. They are promoting the new 500 watt A.W. A transmitter of Radio 3BO in Bendigo.

State Library Image  H2009.21/39

 Interior view of Cheney's showroom - apparently they are Bedford trucks and a Vauxhall car. Taken in the 1930s.

 State Library of Victoria image H2011.52/137

Ford truck in garage, taken in the mid 1940s.

 State Library of Victoria Image H2011.52/193

E.G.A. Company truck of King Street, Melbourne, obviously a supplier of baths, basins and stoves. The truck is a Chev.

  State Library of Victoria Image H2011.52/70

Glazebrooks of King William Street, Fitzroy, company truck. Glazebrooks manufactured enamels, lacquers, paints and varnishes. Photo taken in the 1940s.

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Photographs from the Harold Paynting collection, State Library of Victoria - Part 1

Here are some truck photographs from the State Library of Victoria (SLV). They are from the Harold Paynting Collection. Mr. Paynting, was a  motoring enthusiast and charity worker and had acquired the archive of a commercial photographer named Lyle Fowler, consisting of between 14,000 and 15,000 8" x 10” cellulose negatives, most of which were identified, dated and labelled. They were largely for the period 1932–72. You can look at them all on the State Library website www.slv.vic.gov.au  Harold Paynting also edited the James Flood books of motoring photographs which were published in the late 1960s, early 1970s. To see more of the Harold Paynting collection, click here.

State Library of Victoria  photograph H2009.185/2

Victor Smorgon and Company wholesale meat salesmans trucks, Faraday Street in Carlton.
Taken in the 1930s.  The trucks are a Maple Leaf, a Chev and two more Maple Leafs.

State Library of Victoria image H2009.20/67

 A series of photographs of Australian Crystal Gypsum Plaster products trucks, taken in the 1930s. The truck above is a Diamond T and is also shown below with a Ford.

State Library of Victoria image H2009.20/68

State Library of Victoria image H2009.20/69

The Ford, above and the Diamond T, below.

State Library of Victoria image H2009.20/66

State Library of Victoria Image H2011.52/277

Wirth's Circus truck - the name on the door is A. C Russell carriers. I believe it is a KS5 International. I do not know the name of the elephant. The photo was taken 1945 or 1946.

State Library of Victoria image H2009.95/2

State Library of Victoria image H2009.177/20

The Kraft Walker Cheese factory International. Photograph dated between 1923 and 1935.  Truck and trailer shown separately, below.

 State Library of Victoria Image H2009.177/22

State Library of Victoria Image H2009.177/21

State Library of Victoria Image H2011.52/7

Another Kraft Cheese factory truck, dated 1940s.

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