A large caravan and truck parked somewhere in a street in Brisbane - 1956. The caravan is thirty feet long and was built by the owner, Mr J. J. Holmes, of Warnambool in Victoria. The caravan has three rooms which include a bed-sitting room, a shower recess and toilet and a kitchen-dining room, which has two extra bunks.
looks like a 1950ish chev or maple leaf truck as a tug
yobarr said
11:17 AM Sep 8, 2022
Hubcaps say Chevrolet and it could be a 1950 Chev 3100, all 67kw of it! Very safe they were, because they were way too slow to get to any accident scene! Cheers
Cupie said
11:20 AM Sep 8, 2022
What about the weights & did it have a WDH? The truck seems a bit down in the ass. LOL
Looks like a great van well before its time & standing in front of a great Queenslander home of the day.
yobarr said
11:58 AM Sep 8, 2022
Cupie wrote:
What about the weights & did it have a WDH? The truck seems a bit down in the ass. LOL
Looks like a great van well before its time & standing in front of a great Queenslander home of the day.
Hi Cupie. Decent sized truck so no WDH needed! Truck must already have quite a load though,as the caravan drawbar is still on the jockey wheel! Lots of wooden blocks under van chassis too, but safety chain connected. Possibly just a picture-shoot but van seems to be very low and wheels are well up into the wheel well? Did you notice the "indicator" attached to the door of the truck? Cheers
PeterInSa said
01:18 PM Sep 8, 2022
Dad had a Chev that vintage the mudguard steel was "as thick as", and from memory lots of room under the bonnet for the donk..
Craig1 said
01:55 PM Sep 8, 2022
"Did you notice the "indicator" attached to the door of the truck? "
That would be a bah humbug to you wavers , me thinks
Whenarewethere said
02:43 PM Sep 8, 2022
Probably didn't have a battery bank of any description, hundreds of litres of filtered water or grey water or black water & associated furniture! Or an endless list of white goods.
Doesn't look as if is is carrying half of Bunnings, Supercheap & Anaconda on the front & rear causing tail wagging the dog issues, in boxes which make a coffin look more like the size of an urn relatively speaking!
Or an entire electrical grid & communications system on the roof.
It would be interesting to see the mass of the caravan.
Cupie said
03:16 PM Sep 8, 2022
Whenarewethere wrote:
Probably didn't have a battery bank of any description, hundreds of litres of filtered water or grey water or black water & associated furniture! Or an endless list of white goods.
Doesn't look as if is is carrying half of Bunnings, Supercheap & Anaconda on the front & rear causing tail wagging the dog issues, in boxes which make a coffin look more like the size of an urn relatively speaking!
Or an entire electrical grid & communications system on the roof.
It would be interesting to see the mass of the caravan.
What are you trying to say here? LOL
I bet that he had a full set if 1/2" imperial sockets, a vice, a bloody big hammer, full size axe, perhaps a long bar chainsaw with fuel & files, a pair of fencing pliers to go with a part roll of fencing wire (no gaffa tape), a length of strong chain and a trolley jack to augment a bottle jack & axle stands. Almost forgot the adjustable spanners. A drum of engine oil & can of grease would be a must as would be a couple of jerry cans of fuel. Of course no one goes anywhere without a tin of a range of bolts nuts nails, slot head screws and an assortment of such like.
Heavy cast iron camp oven, a few saucepans and frypans & a few bricks, along with a jaffle iron, hotplate, wire grill and steel tripod for the billies etc.
Hidden away somewhere would be a few sloppy joe cane rods a cane fishing creel full of all sorts of stuff (particularly bloody big hooks, heavy sinkers and 20lb line, perhaps even a net in an old chaff bag for the outback streams .. not forgetting a few bells for the set lines), a few Alvey reels and a good old ex Army slouch hat.
No wonder the back of the truck is sagging even without the tow ball weight.
edit .. Oops forgot the shovels, crowbar, pick and maddock.
-- Edited by Cupie on Thursday 8th of September 2022 03:17:55 PM
Ivan 01 said
04:17 PM Sep 8, 2022
WAWT,
I bet he didnt have a Peltier Cooler.
Maybe a big old ice box or a kero fridge but definitely not a Peltier Cooler.
He was from VIC and heading north, he would have sold the Peltier at Wadonga.
-- Edited by Ivan 01 on Thursday 8th of September 2022 04:18:53 PM
landy said
06:06 PM Sep 8, 2022
Deleted.
-- Edited by landy on Thursday 8th of September 2022 06:07:35 PM
landy said
06:48 PM Sep 8, 2022
Cupie wrote:
Whenarewethere wrote:
Probably didn't have a battery bank of any description, hundreds of litres of filtered water or grey water or black water & associated furniture! Or an endless list of white goods.
Doesn't look as if is is carrying half of Bunnings, Supercheap & Anaconda on the front & rear causing tail wagging the dog issues, in boxes which make a coffin look more like the size of an urn relatively speaking!
Or an entire electrical grid & communications system on the roof.
It would be interesting to see the mass of the caravan.
What are you trying to say here? LOL
I bet that he had a full set if 1/2" imperial sockets, a vice, a bloody big hammer, full size axe, perhaps a long bar chainsaw with fuel & files, a pair of fencing pliers to go with a part roll of fencing wire (no gaffa tape), a length of strong chain and a trolley jack to augment a bottle jack & axle stands. Almost forgot the adjustable spanners. A drum of engine oil & can of grease would be a must as would be a couple of jerry cans of fuel. Of course no one goes anywhere without a tin of a range of bolts nuts nails, slot head screws and an assortment of such like.
Heavy cast iron camp oven, a few saucepans and frypans & a few bricks, along with a jaffle iron, hotplate, wire grill and steel tripod for the billies etc.
Hidden away somewhere would be a few sloppy joe cane rods a cane fishing creel full of all sorts of stuff (particularly bloody big hooks, heavy sinkers and 20lb line, perhaps even a net in an old chaff bag for the outback streams .. not forgetting a few bells for the set lines), a few Alvey reels and a good old ex Army slouch hat.
No wonder the back of the truck is sagging even without the tow ball weight.
edit .. Oops forgot the shovels, crowbar, pick and maddock.
-- Edited by Cupie on Thursday 8th of September 2022 03:17:55 PM
Yep that's about what We carry, Boy scouts motto be prepaid.
Craig1 said
08:42 PM Sep 8, 2022
Bit like the Lucillle Ball movie
Whenarewethere said
09:23 PM Sep 8, 2022
landy wrote:
Cupie wrote:
Whenarewethere wrote:
Probably didn't have a battery bank of any description, hundreds of litres of filtered water or grey water or black water & associated furniture! Or an endless list of white goods.
Doesn't look as if is is carrying half of Bunnings, Supercheap & Anaconda on the front & rear causing tail wagging the dog issues, in boxes which make a coffin look more like the size of an urn relatively speaking!
Or an entire electrical grid & communications system on the roof.
It would be interesting to see the mass of the caravan.
What are you trying to say here? LOL
I bet that he had a full set if 1/2" imperial sockets, a vice, a bloody big hammer, full size axe, perhaps a long bar chainsaw with fuel & files, a pair of fencing pliers to go with a part roll of fencing wire (no gaffa tape), a length of strong chain and a trolley jack to augment a bottle jack & axle stands. Almost forgot the adjustable spanners. A drum of engine oil & can of grease would be a must as would be a couple of jerry cans of fuel. Of course no one goes anywhere without a tin of a range of bolts nuts nails, slot head screws and an assortment of such like.
Heavy cast iron camp oven, a few saucepans and frypans & a few bricks, along with a jaffle iron, hotplate, wire grill and steel tripod for the billies etc.
Hidden away somewhere would be a few sloppy joe cane rods a cane fishing creel full of all sorts of stuff (particularly bloody big hooks, heavy sinkers and 20lb line, perhaps even a net in an old chaff bag for the outback streams .. not forgetting a few bells for the set lines), a few Alvey reels and a good old ex Army slouch hat.
No wonder the back of the truck is sagging even without the tow ball weight.
edit .. Oops forgot the shovels, crowbar, pick and maddock.
Yep that's about what We carry, Boy scouts motto be prepaid.
But note the lack of tool box. The tools were placed centrally over the axle group. People have lost this basic knowledge.
A large caravan and truck parked somewhere in a street in Brisbane - 1956. The caravan is thirty feet long and was built by the owner, Mr J. J. Holmes, of Warnambool in Victoria. The caravan has three rooms which include a bed-sitting room, a shower recess and toilet and a kitchen-dining room, which has two extra bunks.
Hubcaps say Chevrolet and it could be a 1950 Chev 3100, all 67kw of it! Very safe they were, because they were way too slow to get to any accident scene! Cheers
What about the weights & did it have a WDH? The truck seems a bit down in the ass. LOL
Looks like a great van well before its time & standing in front of a great Queenslander home of the day.
Hi Cupie. Decent sized truck so no WDH needed! Truck must already have quite a load though,as the caravan drawbar is still on the jockey wheel! Lots of wooden blocks under van chassis too, but safety chain connected. Possibly just a picture-shoot but van seems to be very low and wheels are well up into the wheel well? Did you notice the "indicator" attached to the door of the truck? Cheers
That would be a bah humbug to you wavers , me thinks
Probably didn't have a battery bank of any description, hundreds of litres of filtered water or grey water or black water & associated furniture! Or an endless list of white goods.
Doesn't look as if is is carrying half of Bunnings, Supercheap & Anaconda on the front & rear causing tail wagging the dog issues, in boxes which make a coffin look more like the size of an urn relatively speaking!
Or an entire electrical grid & communications system on the roof.
It would be interesting to see the mass of the caravan.
What are you trying to say here? LOL
I bet that he had a full set if 1/2" imperial sockets, a vice, a bloody big hammer, full size axe, perhaps a long bar chainsaw with fuel & files, a pair of fencing pliers to go with a part roll of fencing wire (no gaffa tape), a length of strong chain and a trolley jack to augment a bottle jack & axle stands. Almost forgot the adjustable spanners. A drum of engine oil & can of grease would be a must as would be a couple of jerry cans of fuel. Of course no one goes anywhere without a tin of a range of bolts nuts nails, slot head screws and an assortment of such like.
Heavy cast iron camp oven, a few saucepans and frypans & a few bricks, along with a jaffle iron, hotplate, wire grill and steel tripod for the billies etc.
Hidden away somewhere would be a few sloppy joe cane rods a cane fishing creel full of all sorts of stuff (particularly bloody big hooks, heavy sinkers and 20lb line, perhaps even a net in an old chaff bag for the outback streams .. not forgetting a few bells for the set lines), a few Alvey reels and a good old ex Army slouch hat.
No wonder the back of the truck is sagging even without the tow ball weight.
edit .. Oops forgot the shovels, crowbar, pick and maddock.
-- Edited by Cupie on Thursday 8th of September 2022 03:17:55 PM
WAWT,
I bet he didnt have a Peltier Cooler.
Maybe a big old ice box or a kero fridge but definitely not a Peltier Cooler.
He was from VIC and heading north, he would have sold the Peltier at Wadonga.
-- Edited by Ivan 01 on Thursday 8th of September 2022 04:18:53 PM
-- Edited by landy on Thursday 8th of September 2022 06:07:35 PM
Yep that's about what We carry, Boy scouts motto be prepaid.
But note the lack of tool box. The tools were placed centrally over the axle group. People have lost this basic knowledge.