H.C.V.C Display Day 2009 - Part 2

There were several Kenworths displayed at the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club's 2009 Display Day at Sandown Racecourse on November 22, most of which you will see below. If you want to see the Internationals go to my third Display Day post. If you want to see Bedfords and Fords, go to my fourth Display Day post. If you really want to see the Volvo and the rest of the makes displayed, go to my first Display Day post.

Three COE Kenworths, above and two in the photograph below.

Four W models, one above and three below.

Murray Langford, owns this one (above).

SAR model, with some Corstorphan trucks on the back.

A W and two S models. Photograph by Judy Johnston.

Murray Langford's W model again, next to it is Frank Latorre's Foden, then the W model and two S models.

Next to the Inter is another SAR KW.

This, John tells me, is an Anteater.

H.C.V.C Display Day 2009 - Part 1

The 2009 Historic Commercial Vehicle Club (H.C.V.C) Display Day (November 22) was a wet, rainy, inclement, showery, pluvial, precipitational day. No matter what you call it, it was just a wet, soggy day. In spite of this over 260 vehicles turned up, including a good show of buses and some Military vehicles, and even some members of the public, which was good. We took the Volvo and the Freighter trailer down on the Saturday, thank heavens, as they would not have left the shed on the Sunday. Once again, it was the only Volvo displayed. We didn't bring the Benz, as something has to be done to the brakes, but there were three other Benz trucks displayed, so that took the total European truck count to four, sadly out numbered by just about everything else. A lot of the vehicles on display are shown below, the Kenworths are shown in my second Display Day post, the Internationals in my third Display Day post and the Bedfords and Fords in my fourth Display Day post. The photos are pretty average, due to the overcast conditions.

This is our N1025 1976 Volvo, and the newly restored 1976 38' Freighter trailer. It will, hopefully, get a floor in it over summer.

This is the Volvo and Warwick Bryce's Leader, taken on the Saturday, when it was fine and dry. Warwick acquired the Leader from Calleja Transport and John has been a subbie at Calleja's since 1989, with this truck until 2005 and now with the 'working Volvo' or as I like to call it, the truck that makes money as opposed to the two old trucks which just cost money.

Warwick also had two other vehicles on display, this interesting Chev (above) and his 1955 FG Foden (below)

An Albion, above and an Atkinson, below.

Three Benz's. Immediately below, Eric Shingles and his LS 1418 Benz and milk tanker and, below, Russell Ashleys LPS 1418 on the back of a trailer.

I should have written this Model Number down, but didn't. It is a 335? or 336? or 330? or some other number entirely.

Some of the Trafalgar Truck Restorers Clubs vehicles on display. Above - Graham and Heather Cameron's 1978 Dodge, then Stan Hamilton's 1946 Maple Leaf and 1969 Ford.

Other Traf Club trucks - Norm Nettleton's J Model Bedford, Wayne Henry's 1967 CD1840 International, John Denholm's 1962 AB Inter, Geoff East's AB Inter and John Ferguson's KB3.

Suzan, the Steam truck (above) and Terry Burrow's 1954 FG Foden (below)

Frank Latorre's Foden, parked next to Murray Langford's W model Kenworth. Frank's Foden was on the cover of the November 2009, Blockbuster Classic Edition Truckin' Life magazine.

The Dodge, above, is fitted with a Detroit Diesel. Below, is a Burma Dodge.

One of the other Dodges displayed. Shown below are three Fire trucks - an Austin and two Internationals - the middle one belongs to Ken Whitworth, a H.C.V.C founding member and Club stalwart.

A line-up featuring a jail-bar Ford, 1948 Morris Commercial owned by Ian James, a Series 1 Land Rover and Daryl Teale's 1955 AR Inter.

A Bedford, Dodge and two more Bedfords.

Leyland Hippo, next to it is Ian Latham's International which is looking all shiny, having just had a new coat of paint and a bit of other restoration work.

Two Diamond T's - Stephen Corstorphan's spiffy red 1957 model and Bob Lee's, equally as interesting, 1937 model.

Bob Lee's Diamond T, next to John Gramlick's Commer Knocker.

An old Chev. This photograph and the one above were taken by Judy Johnston.

Ian Chatfield's 1939 Chev, above, Graham Dawe's 1932 British Chevorlet, below.

Graham Dawe's Chev, again, and his Thornycroft next to it.

Graeme Johnston's TK Bedford, Peter and Tracy Rochow's C60 Chev, then a Dodge and an Inter.

An Austin next to Bill & Pat O'Halloran's 1975 Dodge.

Mick Black's Mack, plus a glimpse of some of the buses displayed.

A 1954 Mazda, for sale for $15,000 if you are in the market. It's sort of cute in the same weird Japanese way that bonsai is cute.

Western Star.

White 9000.

Mudflap Girl - with a difference

The Mudflap Girl is usually seen as an embellishment on trucks (not the Volvo, of course) and souped-up utes. This take on the Mudflap Girl was created by Wyoming Public Libraries as part of a promotional campaign to reach people who do not normally use Public Libraries. It is a great campaign and some of the other ideas can be seen on their website at http://wyominglibraries.org/

Dave Horne's Convoy visits the Camerons at Neerim Junction

Dave Horne and his convoy stayed the first night of his 2009 Run at Heather and Graham Cameron's place at Neerim Junction. It was a very hot and humid day which, with the hilly terrain, proved very wearying for both people and trucks. However, they all got through in the end and we joined other members of the Trafalgar Truck Restorers Club and the Convoy for a BBQ that night. Dave’s Convoy continued on the next day (November 1) for the rest of his Roof Top Run which was to wander around the hills and the Snowy Mountains and eventually to end up around Albury. It was a great evening with good food and good company and best of all some historic trucks to see.

Dave and his 1934 WS British Bedford. Trying to cool down (below)

Overview of some of the trucks.

There were four trucks on the Run from South Australia - above, a 1949 Morris Commercial owned by David and Cheryl Austin. Below is 1957 Morris Commercial owned by Andrew and Rosanne Cruickshanks.

The two other South Australian trucks were Murray Langford's KB S5 International (above) and a 1953 Morris (below) owned by Colin and Glenys McDonald of Mount Gambier. The Austin, pictured next to the 1953 Morris, is owned by Fred & Val Bignell from Ballarat.

The Ford 600 (above) is owned by Carl Hennessy. The K3 International (below) is owned by Ed Eminson, who came all the way from Dubbo.

The long and the short of it. This is Bill and Pat O'Halloran's International, passing our Volvo and 38' Freighter trailer.

Some of the Trafalgar Truck Restorers Club members came with their vehicles. Above - Tony and Glenys Hackett's 1957 Reo Gold Comet and Bob Lee's 1937 Diamond T. Below - John and Bev Ferguson's KB3 International , Ian and Val Benson's 1970 C1300 International and Graeme Johnston's 1976 TK Bedford.

Finally, two 'Restorer's Delights' a Dodge 1016 and an International AR148.