OOps, double post. 
OK, firstly Dig
tell me are you allowed to use those roof mounted spots.
I think the answer is yes, on a forward control vehicle. I researched this law because I wanted to mount them on my car when transporting the dogs. I couldnât get enough vision at night in dark forests with full beam because that would have raised the dip above legal height, but I wasnât allowed because the law stated that they must be more or less over the front of the vehicle, thus it was out for a bonetted one. This was in France of course but I believe it was the same in UK. That is not to say that many donât flout that rule, they do, but it is a risk.
As regards Mushroomanâs question.
I never saw or heard of a virgin on that route, and that includes a tree. 
As Dig says, I donât think I ever saw a BP station either we used to fill up, both out and back, at Timber Creek Post Office. We would wake him up in the middle of the night and he would cook us steaks while pouring Beenleigh rum and diesel. 
BTW, I didnât run to Wyndham meat works but to Carlton Downs Station to load up the cows. Arrive in the morning, the station owner and his wife would be on hand with a 25 litre billy going and half a cow on a spit. Then sleeping in the bulldust in the afternoon before going past the crush at twilight to load the cows, all through the side doors on our single decks, and then off back to Katherine.
Apart from Timber Creek the only stop was on the by-pass at Kununurra (we werenât allowed in to town with the trains), and a walk about a mile I think to the pub. Usually for a barbie chicken and a nice cold beer. You canât say we didnât get our meat and no veg in those days.
One last comment on the tanker trains. Buntine had one, with tanks in Shell colours carting hot bitumen which used to run double manned from Darwin to the Alice I think. As I have mentioned before, the 2nd man would sometimes sleep on a tray on the chassis behind the day cab but the practice stopped after one time when a hatch wasnât dogged down and that tray was covered in hot bitumen when the brakes were applied sharply. Fortunately there was no sleeping beauty there at the time.
DIG:
oiltreader:
Longthorne usually livestock but general as well, not a good snap by me but reckon itâs the same unit.
OilyI think your correct Oily same jigger pretty flash to but tell me are you allowed to use those roof mounted spots.
Dig
Hi DIG, all for show a bling contest, mines better than yours caper and Iâm sure not paid for by the gaffer unless he/she is an owner driver. We were quite happy with a n/s Blue Spot 
Cheers
Oily
oiltreader:
DIG:
oiltreader:
Longthorne usually livestock but general as well, not a good snap by me but reckon itâs the same unit.
OilyI think your correct Oily same jigger pretty flash to but tell me are you allowed to use those roof mounted spots.
Dig
Hi DIG, all for show a bling contest, mines better than yours caper and Iâm sure not paid for by the gaffer unless he/she is an owner driver. We were quite happy with a n/s Blue Spot
Cheers
Oily
There is a company called Longthorn Oily that is firearms manufacture and do some very good bling on their shotguns I wonder if there is a connection.
Dig
Is that the infamous Sammy Davis Highwayman being closely examind in the first picture? If so, it might explain why the law are involved. 
Buzzer:
Buzzer
Never seen a Magivers unit that clean.Buzzer. they were mainly looking like that Brambles B model.
mushroomman:
Good afternoon Dig and S.D.U. I thought that I would stick these two photos on here of road train tankers, just in case you may have come across them about twenty years ago.
The photos were taken at the B.P. garage in Kununurra, Western Australia, where I am sure that Spardo used to stop on his way to and from the Wyndham Meat works.I have been meaning to ask David this for about ten years now. Did the track from Kununurra to Wyndham go past the old prison tree.
And who is that company on that photo of the road train that Buzzer put on yesterday, with the Northline trailer in the middle. Is it Gillardâs or Gilberts
I am sure that I have got an old photo of one of their road trains somewhere, but can I find it at the moment nooooooo.
1
0
Thatâs Gilberts, major players on the northern run, out of Adelaide. Northline specialize in east west freight. Theyâve probably loaded the trailer in Perth for Darwin and subbied the Adelaide Darwin leg to Gilberts.
Hi Ian, I knew that I had a photo of one of their road trains somewhere in the photo show box. This one was taken next to the âWelcome to Alice Springsâ sign coming from the north.
Sorry David, I had forgotten about the fuel station at Timber Creek and after Googling about the Prison Tree, I knew that it was somewhere along the road to Wyndham.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boab_Prison_Tree,_Wyndham
Dig, this was the van that we had at the time and after four years The Mushroomlady persuaded me to sell it and buy a boat. 
It was one of the worst mistakes that I ever made but you know what they say, the best two days of having a boat is the day that you buy it and the day that you sell it.
You might remember this guy who was very popular in his day.
mushroomman:
Hi Ian, I knew that I had a photo of one of their road trains somewhere in the photo show box. This one was taken next to the âWelcome to Alice Springsâ sign coming from the north.3
Sorry David, I had forgotten about the fuel station at Timber Creek and after Googling about the Prison Tree, I knew that it was somewhere along the road to Wyndham.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boab_Prison_Tree,_Wyndham
2
Dig, this was the van that we had at the time and after four years The Mushroomlady persuaded me to sell it and buy a boat.
1
You might remember this guy who was very popular in his day.
0
Heâs still very popular in some quarters. He managed to get one of the cars on the podium at the Gold Coast. Go Dicky!
Spardo:
Is that the infamous Sammy Davis Highwayman being closely examind in the first picture? If so, it might explain why the law are involved.
As far as I know, Sammy and his brothers were the highway men. 
mushroomman:
Hi Ian, I knew that I had a photo of one of their road trains somewhere in the photo show box. This one was taken next to the âWelcome to Alice Springsâ sign coming from the north.Sorry David, I had forgotten about the fuel station at Timber Creek and after Googling about the Prison Tree, I knew that it was somewhere along the road to Wyndham.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boab_Prison_Tree,_Wyndham
Dig, this was the van that we had at the time and after four years The Mushroomlady persuaded me to sell it and buy a boat.
You might remember this guy who was very popular in his day.
Cant agree with you MRM about boats I roo the day I sold mine but it was the smart thing to do as we used to go to Steep point every year to camp on the beach for 3 weeks and go fishing around the coast there and our motto was a âbad day fishing is better than a good day workingâ
But the area was declared a no dogs area and all the camps had restrictions that took away the magic of the place so we dont go anymore and the boat was just sitting collecting dust in the shed.
Dig
Is the od looking âcaboverâ or forward control a pre war Ford?
essexpete:
Is the od looking âcaboverâ or forward control a pre war Ford?
Its an 1936 Studebaker, Buzzer
essexpete:
Is the od looking âcaboverâ or forward control a pre war Ford?
Possibly a Karrier cab grafted onto a Fordson, judging by the radiator.
Its a 1936 Studebaker.
