Vehicles required for filming in NSW

[Mike K]

A few of us from the club down here have got involved with various TV series and a few movies as well ...

The Sullivans was one , back in the 1970's .

I was called up for a TV mini series 'The Dunera boys' . A mock up WW2 POW camp was built down at Pt. Cook . I was on hand full time keeping an eye on the vehicles , my own and other club members cars. I didn't get on with any of the TV crowd, another culture totally alien to me . Lots of well known people like Warren Mitchell ( Alf Garnett ) and the short cockney chap Bob Hoskins was there . John Mellion and other aussie celebs were all over the place .

They set up a scene with me driving Col Andersons Marmon Herrington ( it ran like a swiss watch ) .... just as the director set "action", the damn thing ran out of petrol ... he was fuming , the director went nuts. Every time he looked at me after that I thought I was for the guillotine . They wanted me to manouvre it into a tight corner for a particular shot ... I tried 3 times but they gave up .. wasted film in the can that was

It wasn't a bad series really . About Jewish German refugees from Europe being sent to a POW camp.. true story . I told the props Woman that a WW2 jeep ( mine ) shouldn't be seen in a story set in 1940 , but she said " its in the script " .