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
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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