Tasmanian Thornycroft

[Mike K]

This B&W pic is likely to be the same Thornycroft 6X4 workshop truck that Chris C restored many years ago back in the late 1970s, it was featured in a W&T magazine. I spotted it back in 1989 near Deloraine. Before it was located at Deloraine, I saw it at a theme park near Launceston where Chris C was doing Bren Carrier rides for kids. Apparently the truck has been through quite a few owners in Tasmania.

From facebook:

Lunnicks were a UK company who came out in 1952 to work at the new HEC Tailrace at Trevallyn. This is their "state of the art mobile workshop". An old 1940's Thornycroft converted to house workshop equipment such as lathe, etc. AV Jennings, the builders, bought it from Lunnicks and used it for a few years. I used to walk past it on the way home from Cosgrove High school in the middle 1960's as AVJ were based in Lampton Ave, Glenorchy. Some years ago it had been restored and I saw it at Rutherglen. I wonder if it is still around?