Biglorryblog's "Sliding Tray King" in Queensland, Cam Mcfadyen has e-mailed me these aviation curiosities . "Hi Brian,seeing as you're a popular chap with the blog and all,do you think the good folks at Reed Business could give you a slightly larger mail box?"
tell me about it Cam--on average I get 50MB of pictures PER DAY!!!! Anyroadup cam says: "I took these pics earlier in the week at the Rockhampton airport.The odd looking truck above looks to be a very early AACO chassis with an MIR Mack cabin fitted to it.The old ACCO`s where renowned for their lack of brakes [just what you need on an airport refueller!],and this one looked like it would be able to match that with a lack of power as well.Truly a dynamic combination that would be reasonably acceptable on the level surrounds of the Rocky aerodrome.."
"But wait,there's more, a couple of MM`s.See ya,Cam." And for a quick pie what are the others?
So what is it? And click through here for one more....
And what about the big red one?
While that white Ergomatic is an AEC Mammoth Major as Cam says, the other one is a Leyland, not an AEC. A few weeks ago I wouldn't have known that but I have now learned from one of BLB's esteemed contributors that the AECs had full width "grilles" below the windscreen and the Leyland "grilles" were shorter as can be clearly seen in this photo. The other truck of course is an N-series Volvo.
Volvo N1025 to be precise, Vic!
Have any BLB readers memories of the N Series Volvos which the Smith & Robinson tanker concern used during the late 1970s I think. I recall chasing one around midnight in my Z cars days and being hard pushed to catch it as he was going that quick. And when I stopped it, the driver was a really old guy - not even a young tearaway. They were obviously highly geared.