Trucks • Find • State Library of South Australia

Trucking yards, Alice Springs

Mengersen, Walter Henry, c. 1935, Photograph, B 70311/34

Cattle yards with cattle waiting to be trucked away, near Alice Springs.

AMSCOL ice cream truck

Noyce, J. J., 1962, Photograph, B 70546

A Mercedes semi-trailer with a refrigerated van, bearing the Amscol ice cream logo. Pictured at Port Lincoln, 20 January 1962 (Tunarama weekend).

AMSCOL milk truck

c. 1980, Photograph, B 70549

A forward-control Volvo refrigerated milk tanker and trailer, bearing the Amscol ice cream logo.

Truck crossing a creek

1930, Photograph, B 69530/119

View of a loaded truck crossing a flooded creek.

Truck bogged on track

1930, Photograph, B 69530/122

A man beside the back wheel of a heavily loaded truck which is bogged in loose sand.

Truck on sandy track

1930, Photograph, B 69530/124

View of an unloaded truck travelling at speed over a sand hill.

Travel party beside their truck

1930, Photograph, B 69530/125

Two men and a woman identified by a researcher as 'George Williams (co-driver), Ken Crombie (driver), Vera O'Donohue and Otto, July 1939', in front of their partially unloaded truck in the desert.

Truck tracks

1930, Photograph, B 69530/126

Deep tyre tracks of the truck which has just passed over very wet ground.

Colin White with army truck

1942, Photograph, B 70698/6

Colin White standing beside a 1940 Chev truck at Darwin, 1942.

Carting hay at Victor Harbor

c. 1946, Photograph, B 70698/8

Two men in front of a truck and trailer, both heavily loaded with hay. The outfit belonged to A.H. Shearer, Victor Harbor.

Arthur Degner standing beside a truck loaded with tree stumps, with Joy Buscall sitting on the mudguard. The inscription on the back reads '1946. Victor Harbour. Stump picking. Joy Buscall sitting on mudguard'.

Quarry at Loxton

1947, Photograph, B 70698/14

View of the quarry at Loxton, with a front end loader scooping up rocks, with two trucks parked nearby.

Loading mallee stumps at Alawoona

1948, Photograph, B 70698/15

Colin White standing on his truck beside a train at Alawoona, after loading mallee stumps onto the train.

Colin White at Alawoona

1948, Photograph, B 70698/16

Colin White standing beside his K5 International truck at Alawoona.

Silvers Circus vehicles

Giles, Stephen, 2007, Photograph, B 69282/441

View of some of the trucks and caravans belonging to Silvers Circus, parked near the Marion shopping centre, 2 February 2008.

Silvers Circus vehicles

Giles, Stephen, 2007, Photograph, B 69282/442

View of one of the trucks and caravans belonging to Silvers Circus, parked near the Marion shopping centre, 2 February 2008.

Bond's 4WD truck at Finke River

Harris, Kevin, 1947, Photograph, B 70782/58

Bond's 4 wheel drive truck parked in a sandy area at the Finke River.

CFS fire truck at Oakbank racecourse

Giles, Stephen, 2008, Photograph, B 69282/453

A CFS fire truck at the Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival, 22 March 2008.

Steam engine and coal truck passing with a head of steam

c. 1930, Photograph, B 70752/59

Apparent double exposure photograph of a steam train. The laden coal truck and the system driving the wheels on the engine can be seen.

A truck load of Packhams Late pears at Wittunga farm

Ashby, Keith, 1959, Photograph, B 70984/44

Keith Ashby at the wheel of his International truck with a load of Packhams Late pears. The view also shows the farm shed, old pigsties (left foreground) and the Kikuyu Paddock.

Cobdogla hawker's truck

Kimber, F. C., 1924, Photograph, B 29034

Cobdogla: Hawker Jacobs' truck (a Ford?).

Truck being loaded

Phelps, H. V., c. 1950, Photograph, B 67014

A Highways Department truck being loaded with sand or gravel.

Miniature fire truck

Dolman, Scott, 2006, Photograph, B 71971

A miniature fire truck used by the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service (SAMFS) to promote its services, at the Port Adelaide lighthouse, 12 February 2006.

Delivering a transmission tower

c. 1940, Photograph, BRG 201/13/2/86

A transmission tower constructed by Forwood Down ironworks being delivered on the back of a truck, photographed in Commercial Road, Port Adelaide.

Jervois Embankment 1929 with tractor train hauling small trucks

c. 1929, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/213

Jervois Embankment construction 1929, with a tractor train hauling small trucks.

Victorian rail truck loaded with wool bales at Echuca

c. 1900, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/291

Victorian rail truck loaded with 139 wool bales weighing 24 tons, at Echuca, with group of men sitting on top, standing beside it, and peering through the steam engine at left rear.