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Also my feeble mind says that I saw an article somewhere (??) with finished pictures of the tilt nosed B model pick up which was being built for the same man(??) who owned the mostly finished B model in the shop and was painted the same color??? Any of you Aussies please feel free to correct me..

The "Princess" was built by the late Ian Lee, who liked to name his bigger projects. Here are the spec placards displayed with the truck in Alice Springs:

Welcome to BMT!!!!! It is great to see an older truck being put to work!!!! Is the Spencer you are leased to any relation to the late Tom Spencer who restored a lot of Macks up in the Wilkes Barre area?????

I think(?????) I have finally figured out Flicker!!!!! The last batch of pictures are finally almost in the right order!!!! The first three batches are basically in backwards order?? I hope you can figure that out and enjoy.. Brocky

The next day we flew to Melbourne and met the bus (with NO legroom!!!) and did a short sightseeing trip thru town and proceeded southeast to the Phillip Island Nature Park to observe the Penguins come out of the sea for their nightly nesting. Sunday was a busy day, we visited 4 private collections!!!! ATHS Member David Driver, owner of the Gray Line Tour franchise, picked us up at the hotel and we made our first stop at his collection. The Pontiac 6 on the rollback was his father's and uncle's first vehicle they started the bus business with in 1932. The 1947 Bedford by its self in a garage is the first new bus they bought after WW2. The next stop was at the late Ian Lee's shop and collection of EVERYTHING!!!! The first picture is is (l to r) bus owner David Driver, the late Ian lee, and ATHS Past president John Vanatta saying hello. Where we also received "Morning Tea" put on by the ladies with some unique sandwiches. The third stop I named "The boneyard in a sheep pasture" protected by a big a$$ed billy goat. The owner, in a single picture, had a lot of restore able and parts vehicles. The last stop was at, then ATHS chapter president's, Archie Baines facility. A large majority of the ATHS chapter showed up bringing their trucks and put on a BBQ style dinner. They also had their member recruitment panel van there so we could buy souvenir T shirts. His boneyard was also in a cow pasture.

From Alice Springs we flew to Cairns where we took a boat out to a huge raft anchored on the Great Barrier Reef. There we rode in glass bottom boats, and snorkeled, to view the colorful reef and fish. This started our bus trip down the coast, the pictures of which are in the first batch, With a stop in Townsville QLD at the Brown and Hurley Kenworth dealership where they served us Morning Tea. The bus tour ended in Rockhampton QLD at Tony Champion's MACK dealership. There may have been a small sign which said Volvo Commercial Vehicles, BUT there were NO Volvos in sight!!!! Tony in the past had also been a Caterpillar dealer and the big white building was his Cat shop and now is his restoration building. The three roadtrains of trucks parked in front of it were just back from the Alice Springs show and not unloaded yet. The visit was scheduled for from 9 AM to 4 PM, BUT we never got out of there until almost 9 PM that evening!!! Tony had called in several friends and ATHS members to visit with us and then he put on a buffet dinner complete with an Aboriginal Dance group for entertainment. During the afternoon he had both the Holt and Cat tractors running. His display gallery building is humongous complete with Slim Dusty trucking songs playing on the sound system. The picture of two couples at the picnic table are of Tony (standing) and his daughter visiting with ATHS past president John Vanatta and his wife Carolyn. Some of you may have met Tony a few years ago when he was up here for the ATCA Macungie show. Tony has imported several trucks from the States, which you might recognize, to increase his gallery along with many "one off" Australian Macks. The R-800 out on the "to do" line was recently featured in the ATCA Double Clutch magazine as the restoration is now complete.

YES!!! A lot of the Ford 534's and IH 547's had 5X3 tranny set ups.. especially with tandem drives. I drove an IH 220 with the 450 BD inline 6 engine that had a 5X3.

The whole main purpose of the ATHS Down Under Tour was to attend the Truckie's Reunion at the Truckie's Haul of Fame in Alice Springs NT AU. This event happens every 5 years and includes the Kenworth of AU museum and the Ghan Railroad (which runs north and south from Melbourne to Darwin) museum. There were about 1000 trucks on display plus all of them in the building and sheds are there permanently. They also had a big boneyard which was part of the whole display. The picture of Diamond T "Bertha" is one of the first road trains and that pile of drums are on the second trailer. The Saturday parade was on the main road from town to the museum area with traffic going the other way and gaps in the parade to let traffic clear. We were at the parade for 4 hours and did not see it all as the women were getting tired and hungry!!

Thank you, I had posted a lot of them on the old Just Old Trucks website after I got home, BUT that site and its content is long gone..

Good Deal!!!!!! Will the triplex your rebuilding bolt up??? Are you going to move the air starter to this engine????

With your interest in Australia after Mrs Mack Paul's Australia day post I created a Flicker account to share with you my pictures taken in August of 2015 when I went down on the ATHS Down Under Tour. Our travel agent and tour director was Stephanie Vanatta, ATHS past president John Vanatta's daughter, as a result we had many experiences at regular tourist sites as well as their National Truck Show and several private collections. This first batch is of some of our tourist scenes. We flew into Sydney and spent the first day there wwhen I took some pictures from the roof of our hotel. We then flew to Ayers Rock which is a large 5 mile by 15 mile sized rock standing out of the desert floor with an Aboriginal sacred ground background. Later in the week we took a bus tour down the eastern mountains and coast visiting a zoo and a mini sugar mill. I was surprised at the amount of sugar cane farming in this area and our wonderful bus driver knew of this mill in the McKay area that had a mini mill in front open to the public. Then our final bus tour was west from Melbourne on the south coast. I will post about three more albums of trucks: the Alice Springs national show, the Tony Champion Mack collection, and the 4 private collections we visited in the Melbourne area.

Did any of you notice J D was wearing blue jeans and work shoes??? Like he was ready to flog thru debris, reconstruction sites, and actually look at the devastation without worrying about getting dirty!!!! I am glad this man is now acting like a human and ready to do his job...

That Kevin All name rings a bell?? Is he also big into Brockways???

Paul (Cruiseliner): Start Saving Your Penny's!!!!!!! To do Australia right you will need at least a month.. There are many truck shows and museums as well as all the historical and tourist places. MrsMack should be able to help you find a lot of these.

JC: The song Waltzing Matilda is the unofficial Australian national anthem. It was written c1895 by a poet Peterson as a protest song in the sheep shearer's strike. A full translation is on Wikeapedia. Here is the famous Slim Dusty performing it at the closing ceremonies if the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

Tommy, I survived two weeks Down Under and came home to tell about it!!! I enjoyed that programmed tour very much!! I wanted to go back for a self guided, rental car, motels and pubs trip, but could never swing it. ATHS past president's John Vanatta's daughter Stephanie is the travel agent who built the ATHS Down Under Tour. She did an excellent job of combining regular tourist sites with the Aussie National show of antique trucks (over1000), and 2 attached museums in Alice Springs, and her father's connections in the antique truck world so that we not only did their National show but also several private collections including Tony Champion's MACK museum.

Chewy Contact one or more of your local farm tractor collector clubs for someone knowledgeable in working on the points / tune up of your engine. That person can probably also help with your coil problems??

There seems to be several of these Brockway Torpedo's restored.. Do you know the approximate number built????? And why the Torpedo's being restored and not other models???

Obviously the trucks took a boat ride to get there, BUT are you on a boat ride to take the pictures?????

Here is a better picture of the 1974 Brockway tanker that is in the background of my Huskiteer pictures. Taken by Jim Hancock on Main St at the Cortland NY show.

Here are a couple of pictures of a c1970 Brrockway 358 for sale at Buddy Sombart's auction. I was interested, but it was too far gone for my shop and ability's.

White Motor bought Autocar in 1952, then REO and DT in 1957 & 58. In 1960 White closed the DT asssembly plant in Chicago and moved production to the REO plant in Lansing MI. White then was building Diamond T's, REO's and White 2000's, along with some special order heavy duty Whites on the same line at the Lansing plant using the REO cab for vocational trucks and the Autocar cab for OTR trucks. There could be 3 identical trucks come down the assembly line and drive out the door as 3 different brands!! May 1st, 1967 White Motor officially combined DT and REO and created the name Diamond REO... Then in the 70's White went belly up!!!!

I was thinking that the Raider and Royale were built by white in the early 70's before White sold DR to the oil man????? There was another construction company by the name of Kemp(??) that had a lot of the air cooled Deutz DR Giants. About 2018 - 2020 I saw one being used as a sign truck on the PA Pike. Then after Osterlund, who was in Carlisle PA, went out of business a group of his employees continued to build some trucks in Harrisburg PA under the name "T-Line" into the mid 20teens.

Dave, Thank you for this topic. I am not educated enough in fire apparatus to find out the details as most of mine were taken at shows. I always enjoy watching the vehicles work. I remember many years ago on Saturday afternoon at Macungie, in the field that is now transport parking there was a port-a-pond was set up and several trucks were working. I especially enjoyed the front mounted Arens Fox piston pumper jump up and down. Here is a picture of the display trucks working at the Vintage Trucks of Florida show in Leesburg FL about 4 years ago.

How is he able to pardon someone who has not been convicted of a crime?????? Due to "Slow Joe's" Mental incompetence I wonder how many of these were written by the "Deep State" people who surround Biden and shoved under his nose to sign, so they can cover their own a$$es????????