This mobile butchers lorry spends one day per week at Market Place in Wigan town centre.
The butchers is Wayne Walker from Liverpool, and I assume the van spends a day in other
nearby towns…Birkenhead, Ormskirk, Southport, Warrington, etc. Picture from Brian.
gazzer:
Buzzer I would say that is a locally made (Oz) cab based on the Stuttgart Road Blocker above.
Says: Stockport. Brisbane on the door.
You wouldn’t be the first driver to get Stockport mixed up with Southport Gazzer.
You can’t buy a stick of rock in Stockport.
It actually says “Murwillumba-Southport-Brisbane” on the side, all locations it serviced. On the front is painted “semi trailer bus” not an uncommon configuration in the day.
gazzer:
Buzzer I would say that is a locally made (Oz) cab based on the Stuttgart Road Blocker above.
Says: Stockport. Brisbane on the door.
You wouldn’t be the first driver to get Stockport mixed up with Southport Gazzer.
You can’t buy a stick of rock in Stockport.
It actually says “Murwillumba-Southport-Brisbane” on the side, all locations it serviced. On the front is painted “semi trailer bus” not an uncommon configuration in the day.
Still waiting for one of you QLD experts to show me a picture of the Crossley railbus I used to catch while looking for work near Mackay, I think it was. Even a specialist Australian railway history forum couldn’t manage it, producing all sorts, AECs etc. but not a Crossley. Sort of thing that makes you doubt your sanity.
gazzer:
Buzzer I would say that is a locally made (Oz) cab based on the Stuttgart Road Blocker above.
Says: Stockport. Brisbane on the door.
You wouldn’t be the first driver to get Stockport mixed up with Southport Gazzer.
You can’t buy a stick of rock in Stockport.
It actually says “Murwillumba-Southport-Brisbane” on the side, all locations it serviced. On the front is painted “semi trailer bus” not an uncommon configuration in the day.
Still waiting for one of you QLD experts to show me a picture of the Crossley railbus I used to catch while looking for work near Mackay, I think it was. Even a specialist Australian railway history forum couldn’t manage it, producing all sorts, AECs etc. but not a Crossley. Sort of thing that makes you doubt your sanity.
It’s got me doubting your sanity too, David.
I’ve done quite some research and deligated the same to a ferroequinologist friend, with a particular bent for Queensland Rail, to no avail. QR were big AEC fans, but I/we can find no record of a Crossley.
Ugly looking thing, the Youngblood’ Jimmy(?), but I suppose an early effort at streamlining.
And to SDU and the Crossley debate. I really did see one, and rode on it, I remember because as a student of history I remembered the famous Crossley Tenders, so-called, that the Black and Tans used to sad effect in Ireland in the '20s.
But I do feel a little bit of a ‘my Johnny is the only one in step’ at the moment.
Spardo:
Ugly looking thing, the Youngblood’ Jimmy(?), but I suppose an early effort at streamlining.
And to SDU and the Crossley debate. I really did see one, and rode on it, I remember because as a student of history I remembered the famous Crossley Tenders, so-called, that the Black and Tans used to sad effect in Ireland in the '20s.
But I do feel a little bit of a ‘my Johnny is the only one in step’ at the moment.
We still luvya, David, in a very blokey way of course.