From: tonygull (tonygull@ozemail.com.au)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 12:12:00 PST
The serial no of Les ACKWX : ACKWX-353-6930.
Photos in a week or so hopefully.
He was most grateful for the info, he has blank
side panels that can now be louvered at an
aero engineer shop he has access to.
I will ask Les, i think he had some wheels made
to suit, also think he had a way around
the instrument panel situation.
His truck did not have the correct engine,
which my book says would be the 248ci,
but has a Chev Blueflame motor fitted.
he thinks the truck may have entered Oz
in the Port of Woollongong, with a shipment
of trucks etc from England...during the '50s
thousands of off-road trucks were imported under
special duty-free provisions, mainly from Belgium,
to complete major infrastructure projects.
When they were 'worn-out', they would be
auctioned and a new lot imported.
Les told me when he first developed an interest
in these matters he went to an aution (in the
1960s) and the truck went for $1200, his
weekly wage was $30...so he started to build one up from surplus parts
...he still has it, I saw it, but i dont think it ever got finished.
regards tony
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