The builders plate from yesterdays steam lorry. A search revealed that some details of our mystery machine. Foden 10988, was built in 1923 with a 6 ton capacity, and worked in a quarry in Castlemaine.
A Foden steam lorry (VIC 5-107) seen here at Healesville Railway Station back in 2009. Foden built most of their steam lorries as overtypes, with the boiler in the cab, making them look like traction engines.
A preserved MET-liveried AEC Regal III bus running a shuttle service between the Yarra Valley Railway and the Healesville town centre back in 2009. A tilt-shifted version of this image originally appeared on Brizbunny.
Jeff Thompson’s corrugated iron clad HQ Holden Kingswood in Wellington’s Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. Maybe Holden wasn’t a lost brand in 2005, but the well loved, and hated, Kingswood badge was having been replaced by the Commodore in 1978.
Definitely a lost brand, I only found one hit for “Ball’s Giant Compressor”, and there isn’t much more for the Ice & Cold Machine Co, St Louis MO.
Not quite a lost brand, but not far off it, as it was merged to form Mirrlees Blackstone a part of Alstom. Mirrlees were the builders of the worlds third diesel engine, and at one stage held the exclusive right for the diesel engine patent in the UK.
Lysaght Orb – Galvanized and Tinned.
