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Burnett's Motors, Ashburton, International LF195 tipper at work carting rocks on the Timaru breakwater job in the 1960s. Also in the picture is a Caterpillar D4-7U series bulldozer. The L series International trucks were produced from 1950-1953 and were replaced by the R series trucks. The cabs used on these trucks which IHC referred to as the Comfo Vision cab were very widely used on many different brands of U.S. and Canadian trucks in the 1950s-1960s era. As well as International, other users were Diamond T, Hendrickson, FWD, Duplex, Oshkosh, Sicard, Leyland-Canada, Canada and Cline.
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A big German built O&K-(Orenstein and Koppel) dragline.
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First series Allis-Chalmers HD21 tractor on a single row of 8 transporter. You can tell this is an early model as you can see the Roots gear driven blower with air intake pipe. Later series were turbocharged. The tractor is fitted with a double drum winch and was likely used for working with towed Carryall type scrapers.
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Allis-Chalmers Tractomotive loaders. The Tractomotive Corporation of Deerfield, Illinois manufactured wheel loaders from 1947 using Allis-Chalmers components and fitted hydraulic loaders to A-C crawler tractors. Tractomotive was purchased by A-C in 1959. The Tractoshovel track loader is an A-C HD5G and the parked wheel loader is a Tractomotive TL12. The other loader being driven is a 1950s era Hough Payloader manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Co. of Libertyville, Illinois, a division of International Harvester from 1952.
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Allis-Chalmers HD9G track loader belonging to Whale Contractors Supplies loading a truck in a quarry or pit.
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An Allis-Chalmers HD9G Tractoshovel loading an Austin K4 tipper.
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Ford Jailbar tipper, under an Allis-Chalmers HD5G track loader. Note the kid in the cab...
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Ford Jailbar tipper, under an Allis-Chalmers HD5G track loader belonging to Whale Contractors Supplies of Onehunga, Auckland.
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Allis-Chalmers Tractomotive loaders. The Tractomotive Corporation of Deerfield, Illinois manufactured wheel loaders from 1947 using Allis-Chalmers components and fitted hydraulic loaders to A-C crawler tractors. Tractomotive was purchased by A-C in 1959. The Whale Contractors Supplies Tractoshovel track loader is an A-C HD5G and the nearest wheel loader is a Tractomotive TL12. Duck Bros. loader is a 1950s era Hough Payloader manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Co. of Libertyville, Illinois, a division of International Harvester from 1952. Also in the picture is a Winstone's 1953-54 Bedford A5 tipper.
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Allis-Chalmers Tractomotive loaders. The Tractomotive Corporation of Deerfield, Illinois manufactured wheel loaders from 1947 using Allis-Chalmers components and fitted hydraulic loaders to A-C crawler tractors. Tractomotive was purchased by A-C in 1959. The Whale Contractors Supplies Tractoshovel track loader is an A-C HD5G and the nearest wheel loader is a Tractomotive TL12. Duck Bros. loader is a 1950s era Hough Payloader manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Co. of Libertyville, Illinois, a division of International Harvester from 1952. Also in the picture is a Winstone's 1953-54 Bedford A5 tipper.
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Allis-Chalmers Tractomotive loaders. The Tractomotive Corporation of Deerfield, Illinois manufactured wheel loaders from 1947 using Allis-Chalmers components and fitted hydraulic loaders to A-C crawler tractors. Tractomotive was purchased by A-C in 1959. The Tractoshovel track loader is an A-C HD5G and the parked wheel loader is a Tractomotive TL12. The other loader being driven is a 1950s era Hough Payloader manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Co. of Libertyville, Illinois, a division of International Harvester from 1952.
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2 Austin Loadstar 5 ton tippers, one or both belonging to Ivan Whale, being loaded in a pit. The track loader is an Allis-Chalmers HD5G, the wheel loader to the left of the trucks is Duck Bros. Hough Payloader and the other machine is an Tractomotive TL12. Notice the driver levelling out his load with a shovel.
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An Allis-Chalmers HD9G Tractoshovel loading an Austin K4 tipper.
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Green & McCahill's Smith cable operated backhoe. Built by Thomas Smith & Sons, Rodley, Leeds.
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S model Bedford tractor unit hitched to a lowbed transporter carting an Allis-Chalmers HD5G track loader.
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Green & McCahill's Smith cable operated backhoe. Built by Thomas Smith & Sons, Rodley, Leeds.
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The big 4 wheel drive pivot steer tractor is a Wagner-probably a TR9 model with 4 cylinder Cummins diesel. Wagner Tractor Inc. of Portland, Oregon built their first 4WD agricultural tractor in 1954. In 1961 the tractor division of Wagner was sold to the FWD Corporation of Clintonville, Wisconsin, becoming FWD Wagner. The last Wagner tractors were built in the late 1960s and carried John Deere branding and colours as the result of a short-lived marketing deal. I would think this tractor would have towed a Carryall type scraper or a roller on construction jobs. I have never seen any evidence of Wagner tractors in N.Z. apart from these pictures. Just another one of the many agencies held by Cable Price over the years.
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Green & McCahill's Smith cable operated backhoe. Built by Thomas Smith & Sons, Rodley, Leeds.
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L.W. Moult's S model Bedford transporter with International TD6-Drott Skid Shovel track loader.
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Allis-Chalmers HD5 bulldozer with rear mounted winch and Cable Price Bonus Built Ford pickup.
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Allis-Chalmers HD5 bulldozer, Cable Price Ford Bonus Built F47 pickup.
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Ivan Whale's Austin K4 loaded by an Allis-Chalmers HD9G track loader.
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F.D. McIntosh, Gisborne, Leyland Comet with a Priestman dragline on a single row of 8 gooseneck trailer. Notice the dragline bucket sitting on the deck. That would be a load with a high centre of gravity and would require plenty of care when travelling.
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T.H. Hall, Wairoa, Albion CD21 Clydesdale carting concrete bridge beams.
Colin Kird Gisborne Driver Des Phelps said it took nine hours to do six miles Nte the chanins on the rear wheels 1920s Mode 51 White carting supplies into the Waitangi oil wells at Whatatutu
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North Otago Road Metal Co., Oamaru Thames Trader 75 and Bedford SLC3 gravelling a street in Oamaru. It would take some skill to achieve even spreads with those small single axle trailers.
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North Otago Road Metals' Dodge 300 series tipper getting a load of gravel from a shingle screen on a roading job. A Michigan loader is loading the hopper. The short conveyor that is visible above the truck deck is used to drop the tailings-big stones clear of the trucks.
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Bedford SSC8 tractor unit with Leyland 350 diesel engine hitched to a TMC bottom dumper belonging to the large Christchurch based roading and contracting company, British Pavements (Canterbury).
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Albion Reiver tar tanker of Waikato Bitumen, Cambridge.
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This Commer tipper was operated in their quarry by the Golden Bay Cement Co. at Tarakohe near Takaka. Fitted with a heavy duty quarry type body it is an early Mk.1 R7 model. It can be identified as a Mk.1 by the flat and dangerously slippery when wet cab steps, single rear window and windscreen wipers pivoted from the bottom of the screens. The face shovel loading the Commer is a Marion.
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Winstone's Bedfords in a quarry scene. In the foreground is an OLB that appears to have been relegated to pit truck duty, also 2 A5Ls and an SSC model with trailer being loaded by an NCK face shovel.
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An AEC Mammoth Major 8 wheeler of Harliwich Carrying Co., Roxburgh, Central Otago delivering large concrete pipes to an irrigation project in Central Otago.
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R.A. McLennan, Nelson Bedford S model tar sprayer.
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R.A. McLennan Bedford SSC tipper tipping into a road paver attached to a Caterpillar track loader.
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One of R.A. (Roy) Mclennan's International AB182 bitumen tanker trucks taking on a load of bitumen.
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Concrete and Metals, Motueka, International Loadstar F1800. This truck is an early model F1800 as it is on 10 stud Budd wheels. The Loadstar series was introduced in 1962 and only the first of the series sold here in c.1962-63 were on Budd wheels. All later trucks were on cast spoke wheels.
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R.A. McLennan's Bedfords-from the left-A5, 3 S models.
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R.A. McLennan's Bedfords-from the left-A5 and 3 S models. The wheel loader appears to be a Tractomotive/Allis-Chalmers TL10 and the track loader on the S Bedford is a Caterpillar Traxcavator.
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Nelson Asphalt's Chevrolet Loadmaster loaded with the dual rear wheel Fordson Major loader. It is followed by a c.1938-39 Federal with a roller on the deck, the next truck looks like a 1941-46 type Chevrolet with a large tank on the back with a Vauxhall car and caravan bringing up the rear. About to head away to a roading job up country by the look of it.
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A banjo diff equipped GMC CCKW 6x6 tipper fitted with a cam and roller hoist. The truck was operated by the large Christchurch based roading and contracting firm, British Pavements (Canterbury).
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A GMC CCKW 6x6 tipping roading chip off on a stockpile. The truck was operated by the large Christchurch based roading and contracting firm, British Pavements (Canterbury).
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A 1958 advertisement for T.M.C.-Trailer Manufacturing Company of Christchurch showing a Bedford SL with TMC tipping deck and EdBro twin ram underbody hoist of J. Mulholland & Sons, Contractors, Dunedin.
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126 Waimak inters mobile plant
A busy scene showing Farrier & Company's Metalmaster mobile crushing plant and 4 International AR162 tippers. The older truck parked on the other side of the plant is an International K6 or K7 model. The hopper is being loaded by a Link Belt Speeder face shovel with a Caterpillar D4400 or D315-(D4 size) power unit.
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Farrier Waimak, Christchurch, International K6 or K7 tar sprayer at work on a roading job. K series International trucks were built from 1940-47 and were replaced by the revised KB series that was current from 1947-49 before being replaced in turn by the all new L Line trucks in 1950. K/KB 6 and 7 models were powered by IH FAB, FAC and BLD-(Blue Diamond) overhead valve 6 cylinder petrol engines which were well regarded truck engines in their day offering replaceable cylinder sleeves which was not usually a feature of similar sized competitor trucks. IHC used a series of letters to denote drive train features-S as in KBS7 referred to a 2 speed Eaton drive axle, T as in KS6T would refer to a factory trailing axle and 2 speed drive axle and F as in KB6F referred to tandem driven rear axles-6x4. Although not likely to be offered in this size of truck the letter R as in KBR11 referred to a double reduction drive axle.
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Farrier & Co., Sydenham, Christchurch, International C40F negotiating a river crossing loaded with a fair bit of timber and towing a "Carryall" type scraper. The load is possibly wall and roof sections for a building and is complete with a water tank strapped on top. If this is the same truck as pictured in a previous photograph it appears to have a replacement cab fitted-a very utilitarian design compared to the earlier cab which more closely resembled the factory cabs fitted to these trucks in North America.
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Farrier & Company, King St., Sydenham, Christchurch, International C series tractor unit with single axle lowbed transporter carrying Farrier's Link-Belt Speeder excavator, rigged with a dragline boom and clamshell bucket. In later years Farrier & Co./Farrier Waimak would move out of Christchurch to their new site at Coutts Island, Belfast, alongside the Waimakariri River.
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Farrier & Co., Christchurch, International D30 tipper dumping a load of sand.
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Mowat's Contractors Dunedin, c.1938 Fargo FG6 with Smith Two Ten dragline on a lowbed transporter. Smith cranes and excavators were maufactured by Thomas Smith & Sons of Rodley, Leeds, England.
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J.W. Paton, carriers of Invercargill have hitched two International trucks up to what appears to be a trailer made from an old truck or steam wagon chassis. The excavator carbody and under carriage on that high wheeled trailer make a very ungainly load with a very high centre of gravity-things are definitely done differently today. The front truck is an c.1933-34 A4 and the second one is a 1934-36 C series-C30 or C35. The other truck is a c.1936 Fargo.
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Ivan Whale, Onehunga, Auckland early model Austin K4 tipper loaded by a Ruston Bucyrus face shovel.
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Manawatu County Council Austin K4 Tipper getting loaded with gravel by a Ruston Bucyrus 10RB face shovel in a pit.
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An brand new RE series LAD cab Albion Reiver of the Dunedin City Council Works Dept showing off its new steel tipping deck with twin ram underbody hoist and stabiliser.
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One of the ex-military Autocar U7144T tractors-(by this time fitted with a quite nicely proportioned locally made cab) with 2 axle transporter loaded with an early model Caterpillar D8 tractor outside the Dunedin premises of Caterpillar agents Gough, Gough & Hamer. After McJorrow Bros. one of the Autocars passed to Dunedin contractors, J.C. Mowat & Sons and in this picture with no signwriting on the cab it could have been owned by Mowats.
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A hive of activity at Farrier Waimak's crushing plant at Coutts Island Road, Belfast. There are at least 5 AA model International trucks in the picture. Most are tippers, but one is an artic hooked up to a bitumen tank trailer. The two nearest trucks and the one that appears to be ready to back under the bins are AA164 models-identifiable by their 6 stud Budd wheels.