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Post by kenny on Jul 14, 2021 18:05:49 GMT 10
Ok here are today's stumpers. Looks like the first one has a name on the side but is also missing wheel, while the Premier sits nice a cosy in the garage! Thoughts? regards kenny
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Post by hughdeany on Jul 14, 2021 19:10:49 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, The top one is a late 50s Viscount ( of course) second looks like a Viscount Ambassador and the bottom one a nice bondwood but no idea of brand. Cheers hughdeany
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Post by kenny on Jul 14, 2021 19:50:53 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, The top one is a late 50s Viscount ( of course) second looks like a Viscount Ambassador and the bottom one a nice bondwood but no idea of brand. Cheers hughdeany Ahh does that say Viscount on the side? I couldn't quite make out but now you mention it..... thanks x 3!
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Post by kenny on Jul 14, 2021 19:59:00 GMT 10
Ok, lets slip in another three while we're on a roll! Top photo has two vans!
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Post by hughdeany on Jul 14, 2021 20:14:56 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, Top two look like a Murrumba Star and a Millard,middle one home made,bottom one a Chesney Pacemaker. Cheers hughdeany
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jul 15, 2021 10:47:39 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, The top one is a late 50s Viscount ( of course) second looks like a Viscount Ambassador and the bottom one a nice bondwood but no idea of brand. Cheers hughdeany Hi Kenny and Hughdeany, The first photo is a 1960 Viscount as indicated by the painted waist stripe and shape of the bulkhead over the front windows. The 1959 Viscounts had the wrap around windows like this one, but didn't have the waist stripe. And yes that is 'Viscount' on the side above the window. It was a Viscount habit for a number of years in the 50's and early 60's and very helpful for caravan sleuths too! Don Ricardo
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jul 15, 2021 10:54:18 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, Top two look like a Murrumba Star and a Millard,middle one home made,bottom one a Chesney Pacemaker. Cheers hughdeany Hi Hughdeany and Kenny, I reckon the middle van in the last set of photos is a Millard Safari like this one but with the front window pulled out? Don Ricardo
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Post by hughdeany on Jul 15, 2021 11:20:26 GMT 10
Hi Don, Going to disagree with you on the Millard,the flat part of the front where the window is is too small,and only fits a skinny window,the front bottom section is too high,and the top roll looks very round,just like home made vans were built as copies. Cheers hughdeany
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jul 15, 2021 12:41:33 GMT 10
Hi Hughdeany, Yes, I see and had considered all those points. It's difficult to compare two photos on different screens, but I'm still leaning towards my diagnosis! Regarding the window, I can see that the outline of the window in Kenny's photo seems too small, but if you take into account that (as it seems to me) the actual window frame and glass are missing from the van, then that would explain what appears like a smaller opening in the wall. When I compared the two vans and considered how the frame would fit, it seemed to me they'd look the same, but as I said it is difficult to compare two photos...so maybe you're right (as usual ). Don Ricardo
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Post by kenny on Jul 15, 2021 20:39:31 GMT 10
Thanks very much everyone! Lets look at the next three (lets call this lot Spool D for easy ID). Spool D - Kenny's best guesses: #1 - I just don' t know! #2 - Murrumba Star? (check out the uniformity of the window configuration) #3 - Millard Safari?
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Post by hughdeany on Jul 15, 2021 21:12:11 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, Top one still don’t know! 2-Chesney Pacemaker mid 60s 3-Millard Safari. Cheers hughdeany
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Post by kenny on Jul 17, 2021 14:59:52 GMT 10
Many thanks Hughdeany. If ever I was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and the question was about caravan identification, I'd ask to "phone a friend' Here are the next three I don't know the maker's of: My guess Top = Chesney Middle = no idea Bottom = Viscount
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jul 17, 2021 15:32:51 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, Another set of interesting photos. The van in the first photo definitely isn't a Chesney. It looks more like a Viscount from around 1961/2 to me, but I'll be interested what Hughdeany thinks. The van in the second photo is an aluminium Olympic like this one. The livery and the shape is very distinctive. The van in the third photo looks like a 1970+ Viscount Ambassador. It looks like a Viscount decal you can just see the tip of in the photo. Don Ricardo
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Post by hughdeany on Jul 17, 2021 21:03:30 GMT 10
Hi Don and Kenny, Totally agree with you Don on the three of them. Cheers hughdeany
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Post by kenny on Jul 17, 2021 21:26:07 GMT 10
Excellent! I've been busy looking at more today, here are the next ones, if I may..... My assessment: Top = Unsure Middle = Unsure Bottom = Coronet?
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Post by hughdeany on Jul 18, 2021 9:29:02 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, The top one looks like an early 60 s bondwood,either Lylack or Huntsman,the second no idea but I see it has a fixed kitchen window like Globetrotters had,and the bottom is a17 ft Coronet about 1969-70. Cheers hughdeany
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Post by kenny on Jul 18, 2021 15:27:00 GMT 10
THanks, I thought Coronet's had a crown over the 'c' hence my doubt. I've found three more! Top I don't know Middle Millard Bottom I think is a Chesney due to the four stripes on the awning
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Post by hughdeany on Jul 18, 2021 22:18:29 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, Top looks like a Millard,middle Millard and agree re bottom one being a Chesney. Cheers hughdeany
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Post by kenny on Jul 19, 2021 18:28:23 GMT 10
Thanks Hughdeany and everyone else following this little thread. The library contacted me today, they said we're the 'most prolific' updaters, isn't that nice! I'm sure a librarian doesn't offer their adjectives out to just anyone Here are three more: My guess: Top - Chesney because of the stripes but the awning goes all the way to the end unlike other Chesney's so - Unsure Middle - Chesney Pacemaker due to the full stripe? Bottom - unsure PS garage door ornaments are nasty, at least they're not on the caravan.
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Post by hughdeany on Jul 19, 2021 18:48:24 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, Top looks like a Viscount,second a Franklin Premier,third dont know,let’s see if anyone else has a go!😉 Cheers hughdeany
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Post by kenny on Jul 19, 2021 19:11:19 GMT 10
Hi Kenny, Top looks like a Viscount,second a Franklin Premier,third dont know,let’s see if anyone else has a go!😉 Cheers hughdeany Gosh, I was a long way off! Ok standing by...............
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Post by Surf Tragic on Jul 19, 2021 20:45:48 GMT 10
G'day Kenny
I've enjoyed looking at all the houses you've posted with the old Vans, as we lived in a Queenslander in Rifle Range Road in Gympie, brings back memories of nearly 60 years
ago.
Thanks. Surf Tragic
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Post by kenny on Jul 19, 2021 21:16:58 GMT 10
G'day Kenny I've enjoyed looking at all the houses you've posted with the old Vans, as we lived in a Queenslander in Rifle Range Road in Gympie, brings back memories of nearly 60 years ago. Thanks. Surf Tragic Thanks Surf, may I ask which Number RRR?
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Post by Surf Tragic on Jul 19, 2021 23:16:38 GMT 10
After reading your posts the other day, I checked on "Maps" for 62 RRR as it was when we lived there, but it is now 34 RRR, corner of Ranson Rd. I have visited there recently & the owners
showed me through the old house. There was 40 acres attached at the back that runs up to Bath Tce, (or the old Tin Can Bay Road). That is all developed now to where Dad surveyed off 2 house
blocks at 32 & 34 Bath terrace. We built 2 houses there & Dad & Mum lived at 34 BT until 1973. I married & lived at 5 Beresford Street, (now Crescent ) where Dad & I built most of the houses
in that Street. At the back of these BT blocks it sloped down quickly, this was the old Rifle Range with banks/ridges cut out to fire into from back down near the RRR place, (also Trap Door
Spider nests in this area)
These houses were the main parking spot for the Don 140 I'm restoring now.
The house in RRR was up on stilts & concreted underneath, all wooden posts, you can hardly see it now all grown over at the front with trees. There was an orchard on the LHS block with a
single car Garage where we entered off the Range Road, there is a house there now & new entry off Ranson Rd, so not much land connected to the original house block where we had a Jersey
milking cow.
Now you're stirring my memories Kenny, we were in that house from 1954 to about 1957, beaut place to live, with Noosa 50 miles away !! You can see how my Forum name originated
Cheers.Surf Tragic
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Post by Surf Tragic on Jul 20, 2021 13:15:59 GMT 10
photo 2 by Surf Tragic, on Flickr Red Gully Road Amamoor Qld about 1952. !948 Don 140 ..1951 Mk2 Humber Super Snipe. Dad went from Builder in Vic to Pineapple & Bean farmer for a couple years !!! That's yours truly on the left. & I know I turned 6 as we arrived there. Gympie1958 by Surf Tragic, on Flickr Don 140 at 34 Bath Terrace, Gympie. Qld . Pranking with Mates near new Mini. Don Ricardo, if these posts are innapropriate for this thread, please remove them . Thanks. Surf Tragic
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