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[Lionelgee]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Yep, I certainly do and was intimately acquainted with it for about five days too, back in 1976.

Her ARN is 134804 and this is a pic in Goulburn on the trip south - it was pumping rather a lot of oil out the rear main seal the whole trip back, leaving a nasty mess on service station forecourts each fuel stop.

G'day Keith,

I grew up in Goulburn and I remember when the Governor's Hill Servo was exactly like it shows in the photograph. I did not live too far from it and frequently rode my pushbike around there. Jeeze the photo certainly brings back a lot of memories that I had since forgotten about. Off to the right of the photo in the foreground there is a big shed that used to be Kermac engineering shop (you can see it just above the sign for 24 hour windscreens). The shed was at the back of my primary school. It was where I played on my first CMP as a kid in the early 70's and it was an old crane truck. Back in 1976 when the photo was taken I was in Mulwaree high school. The high school was just out of the shot - but not too far as the crow flies from the servo.

I wonder how much the servo's heavy recovery truck would be worth now?

Kind Regards
Lionel

[Keith Webb]

When I first scanned the negative (not having looked at it for 30 plus years) I thought this may have been Yass but Max let me know where it actually was.

Nice to think there was a connection all those years ago when I drove through as a 21 year old. The Mini van on the left belonged to Nelson Wilson and we drove through the night on our way to Sydney. Am I correct to assume in those days that servo would have been on the Hume?

I have another pic somewhere of the FGT in Wodonga and I think Tarcutta too.

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

G'day Keith,

I grew up in Goulburn and I remember when the Governor's Hill Servo was exactly like it shows in the photograph. I did not live too far from it and frequently rode my pushbike around there. Jeeze the photo certainly brings back a lot of memories that I had since forgotten about. Off to the right of the photo in the foreground there is a big shed that used to be Kermac engineering shop (you can see it just above the sign for 24 hour windscreens). The shed was at the back of my primary school. It was where I played on my first CMP as a kid in the early 70's and it was an old crane truck. Back in 1976 when the photo was taken I was in Mulwaree high school. The high school was just out of the shot - but not too far as the crow flies from the servo.

I wonder how much the servo's heavy recovery truck would be worth now?

Kind Regards
Lionel

[Mrs Vampire]

Ahhh I am fairly sure the Mini belonged to Nelson Wilson's son Lionel . though he had a mini of his own it was quite old and he borrowed his sons Mini club-man to do the trip.
The registration LNO gave Lionel the nickname Lino

[Lionelgee]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

When I first scanned the negative (not having looked at it for 30 plus years) I thought this may have been Yass but Max let me know where it actually was.

Nice to think there was a connection all those years ago when I drove through as a 21 year old. The Mini van on the left belonged to Nelson Wilson and we drove through the night on our way to Sydney. Am I correct to assume in those days that servo would have been on the Hume?

I have another pic somewhere of the FGT in Wodonga and I think Tarcutta too.

Hello Keith,

Yes the Governor's Hill servo was the first one coming into Goulburn on the Hume Highway from Sydney. The Goulburn bypass did not get built until the late 1980's early 1990's.

Kind Regards
Lionel