Trip along the Birdsville Track [B 69530] • Photograph
An H.E. Ding truck
An H.E. Ding, of Yunta, truck, loaded with bales of wool, and parked outside a shed. Three men are standing in front of the truck.
An old buggy
An old buggy parked in the outback.
Truck being loaded
An H.E. Ding truck parked beside a dump in the outback; three men are digging and appear to be loading the truck with soil.
Outback homestead
View of an outback homestead, with a vehicle parked under the verandah.
Driver and passengers
A man in the driver's seat, with three women passengers, in a stripped down car in the outback.
Memorial plaque
Closeup of the plaque on a memorial to the Simpson Desert expedition 1939.
Aerial view of settlement
Aerial view of a settlement, possibly an outback homestead and out buildings.
Royal Mail truck
Two men standing on the running boards of the vehicle carrying the title 'Royal Mail'. According to a researcher, the man in the jacket and tie may be K.M. (Rex) Hall.
Map of C.T. Madigan's desert crossing
Map (apparently on a cairn) of C.T. Madigan's desert crossing, June 1939, showing the country between Maree and Alice Springs.
Plaque on memorial
Plaque commemorating the Simpson Desert crossing by the surveyor John Gibson and his assistants, Roger wreford, Ron Burge and Larry Yeates, in 1970.
Woman with a radio
A woman sitting in the shade in a sandy area, operating a radio.
Film crew
A film crew, with an Afghan at an unidentified location.
Outback homestead
A distance view of an outback homestead, with surrounding outbuildings.
Sandhill in the desert
View across a desert landscape with station buildings in the background; inscription on the print reads 'Pandie Pandie. H.S. [homestead] between sandhill & Diamentina. Sandhill cnaegrass, Acacia sp, Coolibahs, Bohenias, wild stock'.
Outback store
View of a stone building with the sign 'store' on the fence posts out the front.
Homestead ruins
View of the ruins of Coongie homestead and sanded-up stock yards near Innamincka.
Outback building
View of a two storey buildings in the outback.
Outback homestead
View of a small outback homestead, made of rammed earth and with galvanised tin roof. Two men are sitting in the yard out front.
Outback building
View of two storey building in the middle ground with a smaller structure closer to the camera.
Truck at Abminga Station
A loaded truck, with five men standing in front, parked at the Abminga railway station. A researcher has added that this is 'Dr Cecil Madigan and party with Harry Ding's truck after it was off-loaded from train at Abminga. Driver, Tom Kruse then carted Madigan's equipment up to Old Andado Station'.
Truck in front of a stone building
A small truck, loaded aith bales of wool, parked outside a large stone building - possibly a wool store or shearing shed.
Repairs en route
A stock transport truck undergoing repairs en route: the front of the truck is suspended from a tree by a chain pulley and the wheels have been removed; two men are working in the foreground.
Repairs en route
A stock transport truck undergoing repairs en route, with one of the front wheels at a peculiar angle.
Mail truck on the Birdsville track
Distant view of the Maree to Birdsville Royal Mail truck stopped at Clifton Hills letterbox -Pirika.
Mungarannie
View of Mungarannie with station buildings in the distance.
Truck at an outback station
A truck loaded with goods, parked beside an outback homestead.
At Mungarannie bore drain
Water from the Mangarannie bore, on the Marree - Birdsville track flowing over the desert; two maen are standing near the heavily ladened mail truck in the distance.
Outback photographic composite
Photographic composite, possible from a book, featuring: loading sheep at an outback station; Glasson's Motors fleet arriving at Broken Hill Railway Station with the wool from the outback; and unloading wool from outback stations into railway trucks at Broken Hill.
Truck in the desert
A heavily loaded truck driving over a sandy ridge, watched by a man. Believed to be the Leyland Badger mail truck driven by legendary truck driver/mailman Tom Kruse, the truck now rests in the Birdwood Museum after restoration and a re-enactment trip on the Birdsville Track.
Truck in the desert
View of a stock truck along the Birdsville Track, with a sedan car behind it. This image is likely to be the Leyland Mammoth Major of H.Ding, Yunta and driven by Tom Kruse.