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ERF dumtrucks: From a book by Nick Baldwin comes this info - First ERF dumptruck was model 54G in 1958 (the first production truck with disc front brakes, which soon gave way to drums). 5LW powered, half cab, 7 cu yd body. Also offered with 6LW (model 64G). Developed through 60s and 70s - last model...

Thanks Paul - I had not imagined it might be a bought in cab that Federal used, but certainly looks that way.

Cheers,
Tony

The wide cab on that dumptruck looks very familiar Paul - USAAF Federal C2 wrecker? No air springs on the dumper, so maybe a Federal but not a wartime chassis? Bit odd as that wide cab was to accommodate the wrecker crew - a dumper chassis cab would be narrower. Maybe a classic New Zealand 'bitsa' ?...

Thanks for taking the trouble to share this gem on dropbox - a great publication!

What is your 1/50(?) model on the cover - looks like an early crawler loader? EDIT: think I found it - a 977?

Tony

essexpete wrote:….. I'll bet those old Fodens were hot b@stard places to be on a long day in Oz!

I wonder if the heat-reflective silver paint job had any effect?

That last roadtrain hauler (green) looks like a Rotinoff. Were there many of these out in widebrownland?

Now that sounds more like a stiff lever shaft :lol: - must be tight to beat the injector element spring! If engine runs ok the element must be returning. I guess all engines had these priming levers but I confess I never knew my old Benford belt drive dumper had one, so I reckon that might have been...

That sounds like a cold start lever - allowing fuel rack to open more than normal and as soon as the engine starts it drops back out.

Hey Martin - DIORAMA this!

And a tipping tumbril at that! I sometimes use one on rubber tyres and a drawbar behind a tractor. I was discussing their use with an old retired farm worker - he said when on muck carting duty they would make a muck heap somewhere on the fields and described how they were used. The tumbril would be...