Carrier transport trailers

[Pedr]

G'day Guys,

Here's what I know.

There were a number of variations of carrier trailer. Some of which were tilt style. There was a photo album containing pictures of all of the different models trialled / manufactured, however with the death of an older collector the exact whereabouts of this album is no longer known.

Post War, All ( possibly all ) carrier trailer were sold at public auction with the greatest majority being purchased by Kurt Johannsen ( the Australian outback legend, Biography " A son of the Red Centre " ). Kurt, whom passed away only a couple of years ago, used components from the trailers to create the first Australian road train, towed by a Diamond T 980 Tank Transporter. In a phone conversation with him, he stated that there was one remaining trailer that he was aware of at a station north of Alice Springs, that was used as a plant trailer for a small bulldozer. I tried to find the trailer by making contact with the station but they had no knowledge of it.

The Transport Hall of Fame museum in Alice Springs have a couple of the trailers that Kurt built with the components of the carrier trailers. Hugh Davis made contact with them and managed to get the remains of another of these Johannsen trailers to reclaim the stub axles. It is intended to add these to a trailer that was found and believed to be a carrier trailer.



That trailer is owned by the South Australian group. Shown here with A. Newton's Carrier.

The other picture is one of the axles from the Kurt Johannsen trailers. It was built from a pair of carrier trailer stub axles welded to a heavy beam.

Pedr