Lorrys

bmc460, Jul 1, 12:27pm
just interested to see what classic and vintage trucks people have and the history. i have a 1960 dodge kew that was new to alexandra transport as a tipper,a 1974 austin mastiff tractor unit that was a milk tanker in north island then calder stewert in milton got it to cart silos with. they put a hiab on it anda 1982 dodge hiline that was new to a farmer at milton ,he converted it to tandem drive. the diffs he used were ex army from britain. its got a v8 perkins 210 with 5 speed and 2 speed diffs. use them for classic truck runs.
sharpstuff, Jul 1, 12:49pm
i am restoring a 66 f1800D inter with6v53 detroit and 5 over 4speed boxes , originally with inglewood motors as a tractor unit , then normanby sawmill as a logger , it now has a longerdeep chassisfrom a petrol model,
love old gear , my other toys are a BH70 hough loader and TD14 inter dozer which is a pain to build tracks with as has manual angle and tilt blade
bmc460, Jul 1, 1:13pm
i drove f1800 once it had a v8 perkins 540 and a5 by 3 gear box i think.cant remember.you know what guys with inter tractors say if it aint red leave it in the shed lol
yuuhoo, Jul 1, 3:28pm
1956 RF195 with 510 perkins [[fix that with a GM one day] 5x3 trans and a 76 KM Bedford with a 6V71
Cheers mike.
budgel, Jul 2, 7:29am
Are American trucks lorries!, or just Pom ones!
sharpstuff, Jul 2, 7:42am
Poms call them lorrysbut a truck is a truck ,all have good and bad points ,
Id love a 190 with straight 6 detroit , had lots of them at a place i worked in in tauranga shifting housesanda bigger one with a 6/110 detroit , awesome .
ema1, Jul 2, 3:41pm
Yep I clearly remember those Dodge KEWS that Alexandra Transport Ltd had, I live there and ATL had quite a number of them, earlier on they were Kane's Transport and they ran several Austin Lodestar type trucks in the 1950's up into the early 1960's when ATL took them over.
Bedford "J" series trucks were in the mix too I think.
Mercedes Benz made up a large %of their fleet too around the samedecade and later on.
Fulton & Hogan bought them out then recently the ATL name and business has come back into action again as a separate entity.
Quite a mix of truck makes but Mack featured highly for some time and does still along with the odd Western Star , lots of Nissans/Isuzussome Scania's there for a spell. Even the odd few Sterling/Ford Louisville types, along with odd other "Ring In's."
I even drove the odd one of the old Dodge KEW's plus others occasionally when I was in my early trucking days, noisy damn things!
They came out to my folks family farm/orchard daily during the height of the fruit season to collect consignments of fruit packed in wooden boxes to go via rail (when rail was the thing back then) to the various markets around the country.
Think they were Leyland 375/400 powered,some of the Leyland/ Albion models around the same time used similar cab designs.
bmc460, Jul 2, 5:06pm
great to hear about the dodge kews ema1. mine as got a 350 leyland and 5 speed box with vacum eaton. im putting it back in the old colours. just need to get the purple paint
bashfulbro, Jul 2, 6:10pm
I drove one in the mid 60`s, single drive, we had a couple of othersthe same except they had 375 Leyland engines, they had electric eaton two speed.
We also had two or three tandem drives, i think from memory,they were AEC powered.
Those were great days.
bmc460, Jul 2, 6:28pm
one gotwrecked down here that actually had a v8 perkins in in and a roadranger plus tandem drive. it also had a flat floor cab.it was new to south otago transport.
poppajn, Jul 2, 6:35pm
Wilson & Kennard had a V8 one too, it went to Tulloch,s at Ohai in 1974. Wonder if it was the same one.
bmc460, Jul 2, 7:18pm
this one finished life at tuatapere so could be
bowla3, Jul 2, 7:34pm
I had the pleasure of driving the first 6x4 Fuso brought to NZ by Todd Motors and given to Winstone Ltd Auckland. On the road 16 March 1971.
It had a crap gearbox, 4 speed with overdrive plus a massive constant mesh transfer case. Replaced end of 71 with 13 speed roadranger. It was written off about 1980 after a crash on motorway near Tip Top corner.
Was resurected as a tow wagon at Wellsford, repowered from 240 hp to 280 then 310. Later was retired as a towie and a tip body put on. It is still in working order on a block of land West of Wellsford. Would most likely nor pass a WOF. Have some pics of truck and me as youngsters in 71 and more of the same in November 2010. Don't know who looks worse, the truck or driver. The 4x2 that came at the same time went to RFL and is now at MOTAT, but has a GM V! motor. So not really original
The owner of my old truck offered it to Mitsi dealers but they showed no interest, the same when I offered them the original paperwork- specs etc. Didn't have the decency to reply. Still got them and the price increases every day.
ladatrouble, Jul 2, 8:19pm
I remember both those Fuso's, when I was at Winstone's it had the Roadranger.RFL had a lot of Fuso's, so most likely drove and worked on the first one.it's in MOTAT, but pretty sure it has the original engine. I was there last weekend, but it's in storage so didn't get to see it again.I didn't like the Roadranger in them - they changed the shift pattern on some, and you made a fool of yourself before you looked on the dash and saw the shift pattern sticker.They also had a 3 position button on the knob, rather than a separate hi/lo on the stick.I would always push the button all the way like on the 2 position. Much preferred driving the LAD cab Hippo with 6 speed and 2 speed with the 680.
bowla3, Jul 3, 5:55am
Yes bashfulbro, that's the one. I have some pics of it from a couple of years back. Have some one arriving later today who knows how to do these things so will put up a copy.
poppajn, Jul 3, 7:04am
This one ended it,s life at Newvale Coal, still there, buried deep with a lot of other old truck,s.
studio1, Jul 3, 10:18am
What's a lorrys!
johnf_456, Jul 3, 11:32am
Generally what people from Britain call a truck.
bashfulbro, Jul 3, 1:22pm
What years were you at Winstone`s !, i left in late 1964
bowla3, Jul 3, 1:36pm
Was there twice. First job out of school, 1950, in spare parts store Symonds St. garage for about 8 months.
Then 1966! till 1972. At Symonds St till just before I quit when we all went to Lunn Ave.
bmc460, Jul 3, 2:56pm
i remember you driving a mercedes on a classic truck run and there was two v8 perkins blowingyou into the weeds on hills as well lol. one was a dennis with 510 and the other was my hiline.
ladatrouble, Jul 3, 3:33pm
I was at Winstone's Penrose workshop in 1974 - The Fuso was white by then. What a fantastic purpose built workshop that was.I had my own heated pit, with a heater above the top workbench, and also in the workbench below. It's the only job I've been fired from - I've managed to keep one step ahead of the bosses since.