Stuart tank my facebook

Mrs Vampire · #1 29-10-12, 08:25

http://www.facebook.com/#!/stuart.armytank

I put up stuff about where I am up to in the two restorations of stuarts I am doing. I will most likely put the gun tractor when I get to that

Mrs Vampire · #2 29-10-12, 09:21

A great read

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=...tracks&f=false

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Ryan · #3 29-10-12, 11:05

Welcome to MLU, a great collection you have there. How long have you been collecting?
ryan

Hanno Spoelstra · #4 30-10-12, 02:38

Gina,

Welcome to MLU, and please do us a favour and post some pictures here too. Not all of us are on facebook.

Thanks,
Hanno

Mike Cecil · #5 31-10-12, 07:50

Keith,

You should recognise that FGT!!!!! I sure do!!!!

Mike C

Keith Webb · #6 31-10-12, 12:11

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Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Keith,

You should recognise that FGT!!!!! I sure do!!!!

Mike C

Yep, I certainly do and was intimately acquainted with it for about five days too, back in 1976.

Her ARN is 134804 and this is a pic in Goulburn on the trip south - it was pumping rather a lot of oil out the rear main seal the whole trip back, leaving a nasty mess on service station forecourts each fuel stop.

aj.lec · #7 31-10-12, 22:06

Bigger question
Where is it now ?

Mrs Vampire · #8 31-10-12, 22:56

I have been collecting one way or another all of my life.

The #9 is back in Sydney not so far from where it was moved from all those years ago. In the photo above the stop was more likely to be for Oil than petrol

I would put up photos but have not figured how to on this forum.

Mrs Vampire · #9 31-10-12, 23:24

I would be grateful if someone could tell me how to post images. I have read the thread on it and the instructions there dont work for me.

if I try to insert image I am directed to insert the web address for my pictures. the attachment buttons don't do anything ..

Keith Webb · #10 31-10-12, 23:49

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Originally Posted by Gina Vampire

I would be grateful if someone could tell me how to post images. I have read the thread on it and the instructions there dont work for me.

if I try to insert image I am directed to insert the web address for my pictures. the attachment buttons don't do anything ..

Hi Gina

To post pics the way you're trying you have to have somewhere online to put them such as a free Flikr account as I use.

There are comprehensive instructions to be found in the readme section of the forum here.

Mrs Vampire · #11 01-11-12, 00:00

Thanks Keith

I cant get the attachments thing to work as advertised. I dont have Flikr but can do that . I have picasa does that work like Flikr?

sorry for being such a dunderhead with this stuff.

Keith Webb · #12 01-11-12, 00:11

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Originally Posted by Gina Vampire

Thanks Keith

I cant get the attachments thing to work as advertised. I dont have Flikr but can do that . I have picasa does that work like Flikr?

sorry for being such a dunderhead with this stuff.

Could be the size of your files. Hanno (as you'll no doubt read in the instructions) urges we use the upload to forum option.

Please give me a call on the number I sent in the PM.

aj.lec · #13 01-11-12, 07:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gina Vampire

I would be grateful if someone could tell me how to post images. I have read the thread on it and the instructions there dont work for me.

if I try to insert image I am directed to insert the web address for my pictures. the attachment buttons don't do anything ..

The easiest way I found is when posting click on the manage attachment and click on the basic tab.This will then bring up browse, click on that and look through your files and attach
The resizing action takes ages or not at all so is better to resize them before attaching
If you havent got a program that resizes. Easy way is to send an email to yourself.It will ask if you want to make pictures smaller. Click yes
Then save somewhere you can find it then attach in the forum
A bit long winded way of doing it but it works

Mrs Vampire · #14 01-11-12, 12:10

many thanks Keith and all . Your advice is apples, my browser was not.

None of your good words helped until I ditched IE9 and used Firefox. There are apparently known issues with IE9 used with windows seven.

all is working for me now so look forward to a flood of photos

Lionelgee · #15 01-11-12, 12:42

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Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Yep, I certainly do and was intimately acquainted with it for about five days too, back in 1976.

Her ARN is 134804 and this is a pic in Goulburn on the trip south - it was pumping rather a lot of oil out the rear main seal the whole trip back, leaving a nasty mess on service station forecourts each fuel stop.

G'day Keith,

I grew up in Goulburn and I remember when the Governor's Hill Servo was exactly like it shows in the photograph. I did not live too far from it and frequently rode my pushbike around there. Jeeze the photo certainly brings back a lot of memories that I had since forgotten about. Off to the right of the photo in the foreground there is a big shed that used to be Kermac engineering shop (you can see it just above the sign for 24 hour windscreens). The shed was at the back of my primary school. It was where I played on my first CMP as a kid in the early 70's and it was an old crane truck. Back in 1976 when the photo was taken I was in Mulwaree high school. The high school was just out of the shot - but not too far as the crow flies from the servo.

I wonder how much the servo's heavy recovery truck would be worth now?

Kind Regards
Lionel

Keith Webb · #16 01-11-12, 21:03

When I first scanned the negative (not having looked at it for 30 plus years) I thought this may have been Yass but Max let me know where it actually was.

Nice to think there was a connection all those years ago when I drove through as a 21 year old. The Mini van on the left belonged to Nelson Wilson and we drove through the night on our way to Sydney. Am I correct to assume in those days that servo would have been on the Hume?

I have another pic somewhere of the FGT in Wodonga and I think Tarcutta too.

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Originally Posted by Lionelgee

G'day Keith,

I grew up in Goulburn and I remember when the Governor's Hill Servo was exactly like it shows in the photograph. I did not live too far from it and frequently rode my pushbike around there. Jeeze the photo certainly brings back a lot of memories that I had since forgotten about. Off to the right of the photo in the foreground there is a big shed that used to be Kermac engineering shop (you can see it just above the sign for 24 hour windscreens). The shed was at the back of my primary school. It was where I played on my first CMP as a kid in the early 70's and it was an old crane truck. Back in 1976 when the photo was taken I was in Mulwaree high school. The high school was just out of the shot - but not too far as the crow flies from the servo.

I wonder how much the servo's heavy recovery truck would be worth now?

Kind Regards
Lionel

Mrs Vampire · #17 01-11-12, 22:22

Ahhh I am fairly sure the Mini belonged to Nelson Wilson's son Lionel . though he had a mini of his own it was quite old and he borrowed his sons Mini club-man to do the trip.
The registration LNO gave Lionel the nickname Lino

Lionelgee · #18 04-11-12, 05:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

When I first scanned the negative (not having looked at it for 30 plus years) I thought this may have been Yass but Max let me know where it actually was.

Nice to think there was a connection all those years ago when I drove through as a 21 year old. The Mini van on the left belonged to Nelson Wilson and we drove through the night on our way to Sydney. Am I correct to assume in those days that servo would have been on the Hume?

I have another pic somewhere of the FGT in Wodonga and I think Tarcutta too.

Hello Keith,

Yes the Governor's Hill servo was the first one coming into Goulburn on the Hume Highway from Sydney. The Goulburn bypass did not get built until the late 1980's early 1990's.

Kind Regards
Lionel