Now here's a curiosity from AtkiPete in Oz. Clearly in the '50s money was tight downunder and while the Aussies could usually afford to build a swimming pool in the back yard the extra money for a diving board was just too much for them... So they invented the mobile diving platform and for a glass of the amber nectar and half a crown the 'diving board man' (usually a mate of the Ice Man and Dunny Man) would come around into the yard and off you went head first... (Or not). Actually Pete says: "G'day Brian, I see one of your army has a great website showing the lastest in boom trucks or cherrypickers as we call them. Here is a much older tower wagon used by the Ballarat tramways to repair overhead wiring. It is on a 1952 Bedford chassis and the insulated wooden platform is raised by an hydralic ram, powered by the gearbox PTO. Would this be the oldest 'boom truck' still in active service? Cheers Pete."
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