KW and DAF are part of PACCAR, so it’s probably a DAF with a KW badge.
I’m not particularly au fait with MAN, despite owning one, fitted with a 10speed RoadRanger, but a '70s model here, was fitted with a 15 or 17 speed column shift.
Ah yes, I’d forgotten about the column-change. The Fullers were column-change in MANs in the '70s but had migrated to the floor by the '80s when I was driving them.
Maybe a Daf driver with aspirations. 
It’s LHD, so not Aussie manufactured.
The Maggie is definitely Australian, TNT piggybacking across the paddock, before it it was sealed.
I’ve never seen that model in the flesh, but an obviously later model had an air cooled engine.
When I was a young apprentice a driver dropped a 6x4 MAN at our yard, for work to be done. After all the adults failed to find reverse, I had a crack? I’d never driven a truck before, but how hard could it be? I also failed to find a reverse geat, from memory, I found five. A few more attempts by various other fellows, until the truck ended up nosed up to the back fence. It had arrived there, a foot at a time. Eventually we had to call the driver back, to move it to the workshop.
There was a small handle on the floor, behind the seat that had to be turned (90⁰, 180⁰?) to engage reverse. Obviously a set of reverse gears on/in the back of the 'box, giving the same numbers and ratios in forward or reverse.
Thirty plus years later, I had cause to move a mobile Coles crane, built on a MAN chassis, it had the same set up. I’d forgotten about the previous one, until after I was shown again.
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Cheers for the info!
I wonder what they made of that at MAN HQ, as their engines were quite the selling point and they did offer Fuller 'boxes at the time?
Yes it is! Saw one a couple of years ago at the docks in Zeebrugge, that was branded as a Kenworth. I guess that even in the dessert working on those oil fields, they appreciate a bit of comfort…
I’ll see if I can find that picture, impressive beast!
The wagon in the second pic is a Csepel I think, Hungarian make. The other big brand was Raba, that still exists, but they only make material for the military now.
Still in daily use in my area, this Mack. Registered early 2000, but I’s day it’s second hand. Mint condition anyway.
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It’s mate in the background doesn’t look too shabby either. 
It is indeed.
It’s an older one, under repair.
On the same premises, photographed a week ago are these two other Macks. MH 613 and R 800. No longer in use though; just for the pleasure of their retired owner who is presently refitting an engine (16 litre V8) to the first one.
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I recognise the yellow one as an R motor but not quite as I remember them, is it what they used to call the ‘Flintstone’ model due I think to the rather severe bonnet corners?
I think the R motors came in around 68/70 with the phasing out of the Bs. Anyway that was just after I was in the NT and Buntine had just one, which he drove himself, all the rest were Bs. Noel’s R motor was the first double drive one too hence why he (and George with a double drive rigid) stood by in case of towing need as the rest of us forded the rivers.
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Yes Spardo, R Model Flintstone although we didn’t use R800s on the road, that was the domain of R700 and 600, big brother was for desert exploration etc…
With a B in the background, to remind you of the two pair of thongs torture. 
Oh yes, red hot feet, big relief when we got to the river. 
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This is an electric Sovel. They also made refuse trucks tht could be seen in Paris in the 1960s, such as this one.
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