In the background

[Keith Webb]

A Canadian 2C1 bodied F15 in the background of this National Archives film about Darwin. There are other ex MVs in the movie too, it's a good watch.

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[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

A Canadian 2C1 bodied F15 in the background of this National Archives film about Darwin. There are other ex MVs in the movie too, it's a good watch.

Hi Keith,
A good link there. That looked like Kurt Johannsen's Diamond T road train loading and moving out.

regards, Richard

[motto (RIP)]

You're right Richard, Kurt would have to be the most likely suspect as owner/operator. There is a second Diamond T further back alongside of its trailers waiting for the first one to move out.
Most of those drums must have been empty. There would have been some interesting ones among them.

David

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by motto

You're right Richard, Kurt would have to be the most likely suspect as owner/operator. There is a second Diamond T further back alongside of its trailers waiting for the first one to move out.
Most of those drums must have been empty. There would have been some interesting ones among them.

David

Hi David,
That scene is typical of photos of his trucks in his book, A Son of the Red Centre. I seem to recollect he had the contract to collect the drums from military bases etc and bring them South. He designed the self tracking trailers too, using axles from military trailers (Carrier trailers I think).
This reminds me to read the book again.

cheers Richard

[motto (RIP)]

There is one of Kurt's Diamond Ts with two of his trailers hitched up to it on display at the Road Transport Hall of Fame near Alice Springs.
The truck is named Bertha and had been modified by Kurt with a lengthened chassis and from memory a GM 6-71 diesel in place of the original Hercules DFXE.
It's an impressive rig even by todays standards and is in its rightful place as a part of Australian history.

David

[lynx42]

Here is Kurts Diamond T in the parade in Alice Springs in 2010.

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The trailers were at the Road Transport Hall of Fame. Check out the hubs.
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Regards Rick.

[Richard Farrant]

I remember my first visit to Alice in 1992, we had a lay over during the Variety Bash and heard of a railway museum, went over there and I was more interested in the derelict trucks laying around, the two Diamond T's and trailers, a Bedford OL and a real rarity, the Rotinoff Viscount. This was 3 years before the truck museum, never thought at the time that I would be back so soon, when we were present for the opening of the Transport Hall of Fame in '95. All these trucks except the Bedford now in the museum.