No mate, that was my rostered day off.
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The camera doesn’t do the climb justice.
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A highly personalized Mk 2 there.
Very much now, hopefully only a Cat 1when he crosses the coast, but a cat one can easily rip rooves off houses!
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Grace Bros was a department store, who had trucks to deliver furniture to their customers. They received so many requests to do house removals that they formed a sister company to do so. They morped into a national removal company, before focusing on office relocations, computer, ATM (when electronic banking became a thing) deliveries/installation and interstate courier work.
Myer bought Grace Bros, ultimately closing the transport side, to focus on their core, retail business.
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Grace Brothers was also the name of a fictional department store in a UK sit-com “Are You Being Served”.
Very popular at the time, but although dated now some bits might stand the test of time.
I seem to remember a pop group? Mrs Slocome’s Pussy?
Edit can’t find the pop group…oh well…
70’s 80’s comedy>
Maybe Mrs Slocombes pussy won’t have stood the test of time it may smell a bit now and could well have done at the time … is that too much?
Yes.
But I do remember chuckling, not so much at the action more the fact that the writers did not seem to be aware of the real Grace Bros down under which, of course I knew. 
I also appreciated the irony.
Arriving in Sydney in 1988 and seeing a department store called Grace Bros, I really did wonder whether there was an elaborate joke going on, but no, it was legit. I did a short stint with their removals side as a casual (casual is my middle name) and once got paid to drive one their new trucks from some hole in western Sydney to their store in a town called Nowra (if you’ve never been there, count your lucky stars).
Really interesting SDU, but my favourite bit was this:
In 1952, truck drivers were frustrated by the levies on interstate road transport, which were designed to protect the state-owned railways. The drivers placed a copy of the constitution in a wheelbarrow and pushed it by hand between Melbourne and Sydney. This journey took 11 days and that was two days quicker than a parcel mailed at the same time that was carried by rail.
One way to make a point, eh? The Hues & Vale case was year in court, but the final result was that trucks plying interstate did not have to pay registration, only compulsary third party insurance. When I had a White seni trailer exclusively on interstate, it was cheaper to “rego” than my Land Cruiser wagon.