Trucks owned by William Himbeck, Koo-Wee-Rup North

William and Daisy Himbeck lived at Koo-Wee-Rup North or Five Mile. William's parents Edward and Elizabeth had selected the land in 1893, lived there until 1912 when they moved to Wonthaggi. After William's death in 1919, Elizabeth returned to the farm at Koo-Wee-Rup North with two grown-up children. William took over the farm, married local girl Daisy McKay, and supplemented his farm income by driving trucks, some of which are pictured below. William started a cream pick-up service with the cream going to the Dandenong Butter Factory; he collected the cream from Koo-Wee-Rup, Cardinia, Nar Nar Goon and Pakenham and surrounding areas. Sadly, the family did not recover from the losses sustained during  the 1937 flood and they left the Koo-Wee-Rup North farm and moved to Dandenong, where William continued his cream round. Photographs and information supplied by Barry Himbeck.

This truck, above,  and the one below were owned by William Himbeck after he moved to Dandenong in 1937.

Oak Milk Factory trucks

These are great photos, I just love them. They were in the Hunter Valley Classic Commercial Vehicle Club (HVCCVC) newsletter from April/May 2012, and Andy Blacklock sent them to me.   The HVCCVC are holding their Truck Muster on March 9 and 10, 2013 at the Maitland Showgrounds. We went to the last one and it was so much fun and we will be back for the next one. Click here if you want to see our photos from the last Muster.

I believe these trucks are AECs, and they are outside the very grand Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company factory at Hexham. Below is a great aerial photo of the factory, taken in 1953, showing the factory on the Hunter River. the photo is  from 

http://newcastlephoto.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/hunter-valley-co-operative-dairy.html 

This is a Chevrolet.

An AEC.

This was taken outside the Morpeth factory - there's 2 AECs, a Chev and thanks to Andy Wright for pointing out that the last truck is an A-model Bedford. 

 A mobile milk bar

These five photographs, above and below,  are from the February 1955 Maitland flood, a very tragic event that caused loss of life and over 5,000 homes to be flooded, some submerged in metres of water. 

A Chevrolet and an Albion, above and below.