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Motor cars and trucks

552 photos1879–1999

552 historic photos for Motor cars and trucks, taken between 1879 and 1999, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 13 decades, with the most from the 1930s (220). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

1870s 1 1880s 1 1890s 1 1900s 10 1910s 6 1920s 20 1930s 220 1940s 117 1950s 28 1960s 9 1970s 6 1980s 25 1990s 108

1930s19 photos

Caravan and 1937 GY model 25hp Vauxhall sedan with a body by Holdens Matraville, 19381938Chrysler Airflow, 19381938Chrysler convertible coupe taken for Liberty Motors, 19381938Chrysler coupe taken for Liberty Motors, 19381938Enmore Theatre lorry free Christmas cake to each child Sat matinee 24 Dec 19381938Federal motor lorry of Golden Fleece, 19381938Honorary Doctor of Laws ad eundem gradum degree conferred on Lord Nuffield, 19381938Humber sedan taken for Liberty Motors, 19381938LaSalle Phaeton Taken for Liberty Motors SLNSW 23428, 19381938Motor Transport building Typists at work, 19381938Side view of tractor limber and gun at Randwick Drill Hall, 19381938Sydney Service Station Flinders Street, 19381938The Australian Army Field Artillery Units tractor hooked up ready to tow a gun at Randwick Drill Hall, 19381938Enmore Theatre lorry - free Christmas cake to each child, Sat. matinee 24 Dec 1938 - by Sam Hood1938Ford V8 float- “Australia's March to Nationhood” Australian 150th Anniversary Celebration, 19381938The Rocks, Sydney, c. 1939c. 1939Jackson and Spring lorry taken for Transportation News, 19391939Macdonald Hamilton Cos window display Pioneer Motor Tours SydneyMelbourne or Sydney to Brisbane 7 days 8 pounds 8 shillings taken for Metropolitan Art Studios, 19391939Randwick Municipal Council tipping garbage truck taken for WR Beecraft Ltd, 19391939

1940s41 photos

A.B.C. truck 19401940Van Praag 19401940A.B.C. truck recording soldiers off to war, Darling Harbour, May 19401940Gas producer on Ford car, 19401940Motor lorry, 19401940Opening of General Motors works at Pagewood, 19401940Opening of General Motors works at Pagewood Looking down on the overhead lighting gantries, 19401940Opening of General Motors works at Pagewood Menzies chatting with officials of GM, 19401940Opening of General Motors works at Pagewood Part of the electrical control panel, 19401940Opening of General Motors works at Pagewood Part of the roof, 19401940Opening of General Motors works at Pagewood Section of the showroom, 19401940Opening of General Motors works at Pagewood View of GM Administrative block and assembly works from clocktower, 19401940Opening of General Motors works at Pagewood View of the assembly works, 19401940Packard showroom, 19401940Packard showroom, 19401940Service station copy photograph for Grace Bros, 19401940Ford car showroom, Sydney, c. 1950, by Sam Hood, 1925–551925–55Fire truck and firemen, NSW Brigade headquarters 19411941Bus depot Pittwater Road 19411941Demonstration of the Winther fourwheeldrive truck by the Sterling Motor Company Bronte and Bondi, 1925–571925–57Dummy petrol pump to advertise Purr Pull petrol on the Bathurst road for Horan Brothers garage, 1925–571925–57Edwards Dunlop machine Woodward, 19411941Elliotts lorry, 19411941Penfolds truck, 19411941Penfolds truck, 19411941Penfolds truck JRogers Waverley, 19411941AWM, 19421942Penfolds Wines trucks, 19431943Penfolds Wines trucks, 19431943Penfolds Wines trucks, 19431943Penfolds Wines trucks, 19431943Penfolds Wines lorry block out background, 19431943Smashed Hoyts Buick 41 840 1940 Sedan with headlight blackouts and rear charcoal gas producer Stanmore, 19431943Tram tempe bus depot, 1940s1940sArmy disposals Ford F60S 4wheel drive tiptruck taken for Mr McIntosh Ford Motor Truck Co Homebush, 19441944Australian Blue Metal Co trucks for Mr Freeman Ford News, 19441944Australian Comforts Fund Salvation Army canteen truck outside the Sydney Town Hall taken for Australian Comforts Fund, 19441944Bus taken for Properts Body Works, 19441944Dinner to Austin Diamond Railway Refreshment Room, 19441944Fordson motor tractors, 19441944Golden Fleece motor van, 19441944
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