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Vlad, It is a low air pressure warning device that dropped a flag directly in front of your eyes!!! Long before electric warning buzzers and lights..

Paul, Ed Edminision (SP??) of Dubbo QLD has Dick Crispell's 75 or 76 Brockway 761, painted Omaha orange, with an 475HP 8V92 which he imported in the late 90's or early 2000's. Archie Baines in VIC has a 50's RHD model 88 in his boneyard. When I was there in 2015 my camera battery died before I got a picture of it..

Capt'n, Do you have any older style rubber hoses in the system??? If so maybe this new ethenal gas is eating it up inside??? And causing pieces to flake off and shut you down??

Actually Brockway's made it world wide.. Peter Grimm's hearse came from Brazil and there is a late 30's Brockway fire truck in the museum which they drove up from Argentina to trade in on a new Brockway. When I was Down Under in 2015 Archie Baines had a right hand drive post war Model 88 in his Victoria AU bone yard. There is also a WW 2 era Military Brockway 6 X 6 that has been restored in England.

I agree with Vlad! With the Bull Bar and front mud flaps I also thought it was Australian at first.. Until I saw who posted it, but there are some big Elk, Antalope, and Mule Deer in the Rocky Mtns..

Vlad and Aussie Mack: Are you sure the last R in the model number refers to the R model chassis or to the Down Under right hand drive???????

Not bad for having the Canadian boys blocked out and some people still scared of this virus.. I think the record was the 2012 100th anniversary show with 158(?) on the street and 9 more at the museum. Where were the trucks and museum spectators parked with the building of the new fire house part of the museum??? Eric's videos showed a very open field???

Or look for the spring which holds them open.. Possibly broken??? Or rusted shut???

Tom and Eric, Thanks for taking the time to post all these pictures and videos. Several trucks I have not seen before.. What was the display count this year?? This show is on my planning list for next year.

Bob, I think if it went to Australia about the only man down there, with that big a checkbook to also include shipping, would be Tony Champion. He already has several left hand drive vehicles in his collection.

Did the steel (hard) nose trucks have a larger radiator for better cooling in adverse vocational conditions???

Tom Clancy had the right idea at the end of his novel "Debt of Honor"

Yes Paul, That is another Yank term for the hand trailer application valve on the steering column. Again another of the Yank vs Aussie variance in names for stuff that I touched on in another post!!

That would depend on if it had a PTO pump mounted?? The shift lever wear is probably because all were short trips!! Probably not into 5th that often??

Paul, Yes it is one of the MANY variations of the mother English language!!! Up here a Combine is so named because it combined the processes of the reaper which cut and bundled the grain with the stationary grain threshing machine. If you call your grain planting machine a combine, it is maybe because it both plants the seed and fertilizes it at the same time? We call it a drill as it has discs and tubes to place the seed properly in the ground.. Up here we can also plant grass seed at the same time if using the grain crop as a cover crop. Many More: Bonnet=hood, Boot=trunk, guard=fender, Paddock= lot or pasture, shed= barn or garage, Pommy=English!!! Yank=American I could go on and on!! Our trip Down Under in 2015 was very educational!!!

I remember the pull type bagger combines also. In 1957 one of our neighbors was in the Agri-trucking business and bought a Massey Harris self propelled combine with about a 10-12 foot header and corn picker/sheller to go with his 1956-57 Chevy 10500 with a 16 foot grain body and overhead over the cab for hay. In the spring he hauled lime and fertilizer, then grain all over, hay to the horse race tracks, and coal out of the Scranton PA area back to our houses.

If you need it I have the contact info for a place in Winston Salem NC for rebuilt Hydrovac's Dug in file: BEPCO Winston Salem NC 336-760-0740 do not see a website?? Try Google??

Paul, I like your brown and cream paint job.. In the mid 80's Chevy/GMC had a 2 tone scheme similar on their pickup trucks.

Tom, Thank you for all the pictures and excellent explanation of your fantastic work!!

A VERY good job!! Your man who made it for you must have had a lot of patience also!!! It took me a minute to figure out what the vertical sliders were in the back corners.. Did The L model only have exhaust louver type vents?? Does the air inlet come thru the heater system? Do those sliding doors seal well enough to prevent heat loss??? Are you adding AC??

Red Horse, Even though the suction line is normally a vacuum line, if you put 5 PSI of pressure in the tank the suction line "should" leak/seep??

Vlad Thanks!! I will start to do my homework on old topics..

I have reached my picture posting limit.. So I now have to use Postimage to post pictures here.. It is a free website.. Be sure to click on thumbnails for forums and then the blue box on the right hand end. https://postimages.org/

We always enjoy pictures of your countryside!! Whether on a truck retrieval run or just a Bike / car ride.. I have forwarded you earlier topics pictures to my son-in-law who is 2nd generation Ukrainian. That wrecker looks like a cross between what we call a roll back and a ramped low boy trailer, with an under axle lift mounted on the back?? Got some more pictures of it???

Good start on the pictures.. Lets see more of the museum!! Did you get all your equipment home OK??