SA Railways LP 2A Carrier 2515 Recovered

[Ian Patrick]

In our search for parts for Carrier 2515 as noted above we came across the remains of Victorian Railways Carrier 755.

The hull was in pretty poor condition but it had a lot of useful parts that had been removed from 2515.

The previous owner of this carrier was able to fill us in on it's post-army history (which is quite brief); The carrier was purchased at an army disposal auction in 1946, was used for 2 years to tow a grain bin around the property but was found to not perform very well at this task and it was put to rest where we recovered it from. So it had sat in the same spot for 60+ years which explains the size of the tree growing through the rear of the carrier and the tree growing over the front of it. The tree in the rear strangled itself through the rear steelwork which had to be cut out as part ofthe recovery operation. The carrier had been salvaged of parts over the years to keep other farm trucks operational.

This carrier is fitted with one of the 5 spoke front idler wheels.

Ian