rare find

[jack neville]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

I think this guy came from Mansfield ..but not sure . The trailer looks to be custom made

MIKE

I actually built this trailer for Robin Mawson. This was the Mk 2 version. The first model I built was originally a dog trailer style with folding ramps scratch built to have a military look. Unfortunately the ramps were manually operated and a bit too heavy. The trailer was also pretty heavy and the whole outfit a little taxing on the Chev. The axles were made from blitz axles by cutting off the ends and sleeving a heavy tube over them. Blitz springs were used. On the second version robin wanted to reduce the weight plus make loading a one man operation. It has high sides and a beaver tail with fold down loading wedges. The beaver tail is slightly funnel shaped and there are guiding blocks welded on the ramp which centre the tracks as you drive up. Very easy to load. The same springs were used but a 25mm plate was lazer cut to fabricate a rocker suspension set up. The guards I fabricated to try and keep some sort of military look about the trailer. He has fitted a later model Chev engine which has been hotter up. The Chev is actually a Aussie RAEME workshop vehicle with fold out sides. As Scrivo says the outfit can maintain a good 80 kph on flat roads all day. Dies on the hills as would be expected but luckily Australia is pretty flat. Without the trailer attached the Chev flies and he has recently added 1100x20 tyres so even quicker. With the Geelong Miltary Re-enactment Group Robin's carrier and this truck is probably the most travelled carrier in Australia over the past eighteen years and has been seen all over the countryside and 'blown up' dozens of times in re-enactments. We would have sourced and restored an original carrier trailer but as this thread shows they are pretty hard to come by and their width is a problem.

[cliff]

Originally Posted by jack neville

but luckily Australia is pretty flat.

With this comment I am now sure that you have never visited Gympie, Queensland Jack

[Paul Dutton]

Originally Posted by cliff

With this comment I am now sure that you have never visited Gympie, Queensland Jack

Or go play in the hills outside Vic!!!!Lovely area but some bloody steep flat places there...!

[jack neville]

Ok we have some hills but our highest mountain(?) is 2228 metres. Mention that if you are in Nepal or the Andes and they laugh at you. Comparitively speaking men, Australia is flat.

[Wayne Henderson]

If you leave from my place, just out of Perth in WA, after about 1200km there is a hill near Eucla. About 1800kms after that there is a pass that goes thru some hills the other side of Port Augusta. Then lots of flat bits around Broken Hill unless you go south into Victoria which owns most of the hills in Australia and also the worst roads.
I went to Victoria once and didn't like it...too hilly.

Regards,
Wayne.

[Lynn Eades]

When we traveled across the Nullarbor on the Indian Pacific railway, the advertising said that there was a 400 mile long straight. What they didn't say was that after the slight kink we did another 250 miles.
The 1 type of vegetation, (about 1 foot high) stayed the same all the way. There were virtually no trees, no people, and no hills (and no drinkable water) Wayne this is one big back yard, you have.