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Originally posted by Mike Kelly
There was , years ago , a nicely restored WW2 Leyland retriever in a museum in QLD ( Caloundra ). I saw it in 1979.
Where is it now ?
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Mike,
Would that have been the one that was sold at the Pickles auction in Newcastle NSW in 1997? I was there and was told that it was a Blitz workshop body on it. Not exactly restored but looked fairly intact, with all the nice brass plates still in the cab. For the sad people amongst us, Pete are you there (?), the chassis number was WLW 1/308739, taken from the catalogue you understand. I am not in the habit of collecting numbers!
After Beltring a few years ago, I was contacted by someone near Bristol with a Retriever looking for a gantry body (he had seen my friend's Austin K6 gantry and thought we could help), whilst talking about how rare the Retriever is nowadays and speaking of the one at the Australian auction, he told me it was now being restored in Norfolk.
Richard
16-04-04, 22:36
Re: Retriever in OZ
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