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Old 14-11-04, 20:26
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Default Now here's a coincidence...

I was having a look at some pictures of the "Peters 5 ton crane" which I think were taken either during or shortly after the war of an Australian CGT chassis, and I compared it to a CGT found last year in Wodonga:




And here's the Peters crane



The interesting thing is the Wodonga CGT happens to be the second of the only two CGT number 9 (Aust) to have been actually built. We know this because it still has it's data plate:



The other one would have had serial 0001.

The question is whether the Wodonga truck is the same one pictured in the 1940s, or it's brother. They were both built by the same engineering company - it might just be the only two CGT 9s shared the same fate.

Here are some more pictures of the Peters crane.
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Last edited by Hanno Spoelstra; 03-01-11 at 21:39. Reason: (picture) links fixed
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