Actual Tow Car photos leaving/arriving home

[kenny]

Here is another happy camper, this time back in 1956 (Ack SLQ catalogue).
Regards kenny

[kenny]

And another, this time 1940, can't make out the tow car though ? (Ack SLQ Catalogue)

[Mustang]

Sept 26, 2021 21:44:29 GMT 10 kenny said:

Here is another happy camper, this time back in 1956 (Ack SLQ catalogue).
Regards kenny

Love this style of van, (the tandem) would buy one in a heatbeat. 
Must have been a massive strain on those cross ply tyres?

[kenny]

Here are a couple more early tow car and 'compact' caravans! (Ack SLQ collection)

TOP Photo caption says: Family holidays in a 1936 Dodge with compact caravan"
MIDDLE Family in a caravan park in Queensland, May 1938
BOTTOM Damaged caravan and tents after Cyclone Annie, New Years Day 1963, nice Morrie  (to ya reckon they just pushed it back the right way and off they went?)

Enjoy, regards kenny

[Don Ricardo]

Sept 28, 2021 22:19:12 GMT 10 kenny said:

Here are a couple more early tow car and 'compact' caravans! (Ack SLQ collection)

TOP Photo caption says: Family holidays in a 1936 Dodge with compact caravan"
MIDDLE Family in a caravan park in Queensland, May 1938
BOTTOM Damaged caravan and tents after Cyclone Annie, New Years Day 1963, nice Morrie  (to ya reckon they just pushed it back the right way and off they went?)

Enjoy, regards kenny

Hi Kenny,

The top photo in this group is a Traveluxe collapsible caravan.

Don Ricardo

[Don Ricardo]

Hi Kenny,

I’ve got a hunch that this photo you posted is of an Orford caravan.



I can’t prove it because I can’t find a photo of a caravan the same, but Orford was located in Brisbane and a number of features (the side windows including the porthole, the paint job, the size of the van, etc) resemble the features of Orford vans in photos we do have.

The other thing is that I don’t think that van is as old as 1956. The design and style is more “modern” than that in my judgement - more very late 50’s or into the 60’s. Actually I would describe it as mid-century design.  The fact that the SLQ has marked it as 1956 doesn’t necessarily mean that’s correct. I’ve found that some of the dates given for photos by the state libraries can be out by a decade or more. I’ll be interested to hear what Hughdeany thinks about the date.

(Just to link my guess about Orford and a later date - Orford’s mid-50’s vans were a much older design than this - more of an oval shape - but their 1959-1962 designs were very similar to the van in the photo.)

Don Ricardo

[hughdeany]

Hi Don and Kenny,
Yes I agree it’s an Orford,as you say late 50s or early 60s.
Beautiful lines.🥰
I am just having my morning cuppa before making the 24 hour COVID dash from Qld to Victoria and it’s pouring rain,first we have seen in over 3 months!
Cheers
hughdeany

[kenny]

Here's an Holden FJ and van on the Gold Coast, and

Here's another one! 

(2 x Ack Gold Coast City Council Library)

[kenny]

Looks like this Falcon & van have just arrived home after holiday (or they took the van to servo to check the tyres). Whatever the case maybe, we've probably all driven into the yard with the van in tow....

[kenny]

This is an Ian Sutton photo via Flickr page of PMG vehicles

Bogged caravan by Ian Sutton, on Flickr

Caption says PMG Dodge Utility lending a hand.

Enjoy regards kenny

PS Don, there is also a PMG branded Mini Minor in that photo series fyi www.flickr.com/photos/151495594@N04/45362174354/in/album-72157681336405820/

[Don Ricardo]

Hi Kenny,

Great photo - looks like an early 60's Viscount.

That's a ripper collection of photos. Cobber will enjoy going through it I think - his whole life working for the PMG will pass before his eyes!

I was really interested to see the photo of the utility with the gas producer on the running board. Just makes you realise some of what our parents or grandparents had to cope with during the War.

I was also interested to see this photo:

PMG Utility Holden FB 'C-6453' 1962 by Colin McDiarmid, on Flickr

The van on the left is a Carapark, but I can't quite work out the other two.  Pity they parked the vehicles in front of the vans! Some people's priorities just make me shake my head!!

Don Ricardo

[kenny]

Here is another nice tow combination, Ford Falcon ute and an Olympic!

[jdazzle]

Not an XP 😊. More like XK or XL. Taillights of an XP sit differently 😊. Ps fantastic photos! TU!!

Aug 1, 2021 14:19:26 GMT 10 kenny said:

Or grab your XP and take off!  I wonder if the caravan has butterfly on it too?

[kenny]

Nice combo of HQ Holden and a Millard, what a great Aussie pair they make!

[kenny]

Here's one of a Chesney and a HR Holden at home, awaiting their next road trip together.

[kenny]

I know the Toyota is probably just parked in front of this Olympic but can you image the little Toyota taking the Olympic for a run?

[Mustang]

Jun 13, 2022 21:13:10 GMT 10 kenny said:

I know the Toyota is probably just parked in front of this Olympic but can you image the little Toyota taking the Olympic for a run?

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I expect the Olympic would have weighed more than the little Corona. You don't see many Coronas these days.

[kenny]

Here's another nice combo, a Ford Fairlane and a Viscount. Nice chunky tow bar on and ready to go!

[kenny]

Check out this combo, Holden Kingswood HT and a Millard.  Looks like some awkward shunting required to get hitched / unhitched here! regards kenny

[kenny]

I can't see a tow bar on this Mazda 323 but it seems reasonable it could haul this Chesney camper for a weekend get-a-way!

[kenny]

I can see a towbar on this Toyota Corona, but towing a Millard? It must have been workin' it!

[kenny]

Here's a nice union, an EK Holden and a Murrumba Star!

[Mustang]

And the everlasting "chain link" wire fence, they must had made hundreds of kilometres of this awful stuff.

[jdazzle]

I just love this whole series, thank you kenny!

[kenny]

Check out this optioned up HR ready to haul this tandem Franklin anywhere it wants to go!

"Hey dad, can I take my dragster on holidays too?"