Thursday, April 23, 2009

Photo challenge - Battling the elements

Below you'll find the entrants of the photo competition which ran till the end of March or thereabouts. Which one do you like best? The winner will receive a nice little gift in the mail direct from ACC's comprehensive pile of merchandise...

Votes please to accemagATbigpond.com - replacing the AT with @ as always. In no particular order:

Above: October 1962, Cora Lynn, Victoria - what looks like a Inter K-series is stuck in the Main Drain during flooding (seriously, she didn't just empty her tank...). Stuck or, er, pumping hard?! You can see the goal posts of the Cora Lynn football ground in the background.

Above: taken somewhere on the Darwin run, a Kenworth tests its tensile strength.

Above: fed up with the weather, these blokes decided to move to sunnier climes. This is Fraser's of Newcastle, well known house movers, making their Federal do all the work.

Above: a different take on battling the elements. What's left of this GM-powered White is fighting moisture on all fronts - soft ground, moss and rust. Good thing she's a tough old girl.

Above: another flood photo. An AEC of OAK Dairies in Hexham, NSW, is perhaps lucky it hasn't floated away yet.

Above: dateline - September 1979. Location - near Hugh River, Northern Territory. The truck - April 1979 Kenworth W923AR of Buntine Roadways. The load - a double-decker and two single-deck 40-footers loaded with cattle from Maryvale Station headed for the Alice Springs railhead. The elements - heat and bulldust.

Above: Esso, oh, oh, no! Probably losing this battle is what looks like a Bedford J-type on fire in February 1967 on Pitt Road, Vervale, Victoria. One suspects the tiger in the tank was a smoker...

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