Trip along the Birdsville Track [B 69530] • Photograph
Truck in the desert
View of a stock truck along the Birdsville Track, with a sedan car nearby. This image is likely to be the Leyland Mammoth Major of H.Ding, Yunta and driven by Tom Kruse.
Truck loaded with wool
A truck loaded with bales of wool, and with an equally loaded trailer behind, passing a gate.
Museum display
View of communication equipment, including a Morse keyboard, in a museum.
Trucks parked outside a house
Two trucks parked in the road outside a house.
Trucks parked on the road
Two trucks parked on a road, with buildings in the distance.
Stock trailer
A stock trailer hanging over a rise, with two men standing under the back.
Stock truck and trailer
A large stock truck pictured near some trees.
Bogged truck
Three men standing in front of a bogged truck, loaded with bales of wool. A researcher has provided the information 'The truck is Harry Ding's AEC Mammoth Major'.
Shell roadhouse
View of a Shell (petrol) service station and roadhouse.
Loaded truck
View of a truck loaded with bales of wool.
Truck crossing a creek
View of truck and trailer, loaded with bales of wool, crossing a creek bed.
Man talking on a radio
A unidentified man talking into the microphone on a radio. [Duplicate of B 47089/136.]
Two men sitting in the shade of a vehicle
Two men sitting in the shade of a vehicle. A researcher has added that the photo shows 'the rear wheels of Harry Ding's AEC Mammoth Major after Harry's brother George, on right and driver, and his mate got it out of a bog'.
H.E. Ding's truck
Four men working with shovels adjacent to a truck belonging to H.E. Ding of Yunta.
H.E. Ding's truck
A man standing in front of a stock transport truck belonging to H.E. Ding of Yunta.
H.E. Ding's truck
A truck belonging to H.E. Ding of Yunta, Olary and Lyndhurst parked in the street of an unidentified town, with another truck piggy-backed on the tray and a number of people posing for the photographer.
J.W. Manfield's premises
A wagon being pulled by a camel team, standing outside the premises of J.W. Manfield & Co. According to a researcher, this photograph was taken by her great grandmother, Alice Hopewell. It is of the Hergott Springs/Marree Store of which Alice's father, A. B. Hiddle, was one of the proprietors.
Car outside a house
An old car parked outside a house, with a man pouring water into the radiator.
Aerial view of sandills
Aerial view of sandhills.
An outback home
An outback home with weatherboard walls and tin roof, and the family standing outside. According to a researcher, this photograph was taken by her great grandmother, Alice Hopewell. It is of the Innamincka Station Homestead and the people are, left to right: Mr & Mrs Albert Pope of the Innamincka Hotel and Mr & Mrs Blake Miller. Blake Miller was manager of Innamincka Station. Alice did sell her photographs so perhaps that is how this and several others are in the Maddock collection.
Innamincka Hotel
View of the Innamincka Hotel with people standing in front. According to a researcher, this photograph was taken by her great grandmother, Alice Hopewell. It is of the Innamincka Hotel with Alice's father, Arthur Hiddle on the left with the Pope family who ran the hotel.
Wally Bottom
Casual portrait of a man wearing a patterned short sleeve shirt with a glasses case in the top pocket. According to a researcher, the man is Wally Bottom, of 'Bottom and Clarke' Transport out of Broken Hill. He was later the manager of Silverton Transport in Broken Hill.
Desert transport
View of six men standing in front of an old vehicle and a four wheel dray which is pulled by camels.
Man beside bore hole
Tom Kruse sitting on the ban of a bore hole pond; with a truck and metal drums (some in the water) in the background.
Bogged truck
A man digging in front of bogged truck belonging the H.E.Dinge of Yunta; the truck is piled high with boxes and packages. [Duplicate of b 47089/116.]
View across flooded plain
View from the cabin of a truck which is moving across a flooded plain. [Duplicate of B 47089/145.]
9 Mile crossing on Bluff track
View of a loaded truck bogged on a track, with another vehicle in the background. An annotation on the image indicates that this is '9 Mile Crossing - Bluff track'.
Truck crossing a creek
View of a loaded truck crossing a flooded creek.
Wheel tracks
View looking back at the wheel tracks made by a truck after it has crossed a flooded plain. The tarpaulin covering the truck's load is visible in the foreground. [Duplicate of B 47089/146.]
George Aiston
A man photographed in front a truck which is being unloaded; he is standing with his hands in his pockets and a pipe in his mouth. According to a researcher, the man is George Aiston, Mulka storekeeper and ex-policeman from Mungerannie Police Station.