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Fleet of lorries in a Waikerie street

c. 1935, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/2645

Fleet of lorries with trays loaded with bags and crates, and drivers standing beside them.

Tip wagon in use at an orchard at Waikerie

c. 1930, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/2646

Tip wagon in use at an orchard at Waikerie, a farmhouse behind.

Wentworth Wharf during the 1931 floods with water almost over it

1931, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/2693

Wentworth Wharf during 1931 floods, the water almost over it, and a truck approaching through the mud.

View of Wentworth Bridge from a boat passing through

c. 1950, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/2780

View of Wentworth Bridge taken from a passing riverboat, with onlookers on the bridge, and a line of trucks and cars waiting to cross.

P.S. Gem snagged in Higgin's Cutting near Cal Lal, N.S.W

1948, Photograph, PRG 1258/1/1355

Side view of the upper decks of P.S. Gem, which snagged and partly sunk, in Higgin's Cutting near Cal Lal, N.S.W., November 1948. [From information provided by Frank Tucker, the Gem sank at Cal Cal, not Higgin's Cutting]. According to another researcher, the Gem hit a snag next to what was then known as Scotty's Woodpile on Lindsay Island about 500 yards upstream from Wompinni House on the opposite bank.(Wompinni was part of Kulcurna Station then owned by the Higgins family and is still standing). The Captain realised the boat was in trouble but also knew that if he abandoned ship on that side of the river, they would not be able to get help because no-one lived there. He allowed The Gem to drift downstream and steered it to a sandbar next to what the Higgins family referred to as the First Creek. This was close to where the old Police Station and Customs House once stood. The Captain ran the boat aground on the sandbar, the passengers were able to get off safely onto the bank. One man had suffered a heart attack during the panic and had died. He was left on his bunk. Someone went for help to Wompinni and soon Mr J.T. Higgins and family were on the scene. His daughter Denys Higgins, aged about 19 at the time and mid-way through her nursing studies was rowed out to the Gem by her father to examine the body of the man to see if there was anything that could be done for him. In the meantime, all the crew and passengers were cared for by the Higgins family with cups of tea and food. Efforts were made to engage buses from Renmark to transport the passengers and crew back to Renmark but because the roads at the time were in a poor state, they were eventually all taken on trucks and by private transport.

Damaged vehicles

Oldham, Bill, 1942, Photograph, PRG 691/12/11

View of a truck and car parked adjacent to a battle damaged building.

Recreational swimming

Oldham, Bill, 1942, Photograph, PRG 691/12/12

View of soldiers swimming near a damaged and over-turned truck.

Vickers light tanks in Syria

Oldham, Bill, 1941, Photograph, PRG 691/12/22

View of a Vickers (5 ton) light tank on a trailer behind a truck.

Road from Port Moresby to Rouna

Oldham, Bill, 1943, Photograph, PRG 691/12/48

View of two army trucks on steep road en route to Rouna from Port Moresby.

Lunch is brought up (Victoria, Labuan)

Oldham, Bill, 1945, Photograph, PRG 691/12/119

Lunch being served to Australian troops at Labuan from the back of a truck.

Railway accident at Fords

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/7/229

Overturned locomotive and trucks after a railway accident at Fords, near Kapunda, South Australia.

Railway accident at Fords

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/7/230

Overturned locomotive and trucks after a railway accident at Fords, near Kapunda, South Australia.

Railway accident at Fords

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/7/231

Overturned locomotive and trucks after a railway accident at Fords, near Kapunda, South Australia.

Refrigerators being loaded into railway goods carriage

Kelvinator Australia, 1937, Photograph, BRG 315/10/1

Thirty Kelvinator refrigerators in crates being loaded from two trucks into a rail goods carriage for the Zinc Corporation Ltd at Broken Hill.

View across Adelaide suburban market gardens

Gazard, John, c. 1900, Photograph, D 4645/5(Misc)

View across market gardens, looking south-east, possibly in the Plympton district, showing residential suburban area in background and southern end of Adelaide Hills on skyline.

Loading sheep at Yadlamalka Station

c. 1940, Photograph, PRG 1335/14/14/30

View of sheep being loaded onto trucks at Yadlamalka Station.

Loading sheep at Yadlamalka Station

c. 1930, Photograph, PRG 1335/14/12/15

Truck being loaded with sheep at Yadlamalka Station.

First load of wool

c. 1930, Photograph, PRG 1335/14/12/20

'The first load of wool' in bales on the back of a truck at Yadlamalka Station.

Carting water at Yadlamalka Station

c. 1930, Photograph, PRG 1335/14/12/21

'Angie carting water' features a truck with a water tank on the tray.

Response to Cyclone Tracy

Australian Red Cross Society. South Australian Division, 1974, Photograph, SRG 770/40/384

Darwin Red Cross Relief banner on the side of a truck.

Rowing teams and crowds

1909, Photograph, PRG 778/23/1/8

Two teams of rowers standing beside their boats mounted on trucks on rail tracks, with a crowd of people around them. A young couple, the man holding a child, could be relatives of Dame Roma Mitchell. The place is unknown; there is a galvanised iron shed with 'Adelaide Steamship Co.' written on it, and in the right background behind the houses can be seen a line of hills. A two-storey building is being erected behind the large galvanised iron shed.