Aubrey Austin holding his son Eric alongside a Thornycroft three ton truck carting the bitumen tanker in the mid 1920s

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Reference numberPRLPC-P0484

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TitleAubrey Austin holding his son Eric alongside a Thornycroft three ton truck carting the bitumen tanker in the mid 1920sDescriptionAubrey Austin in the foreground holding his son Eric alongside a Thornycroft three ton truck carting the bitumen tanker which was laying asphalt on Gympie Road in front of the Country Club Hotel (near the current location of the Four Mile Creek Hotel), Strathpine, mid 1920s. The Thornycroft truck was a 1924 model with solid tyres. Slightly inferior copy of PRLPC-P2240/6.Datemid 1920sCollectorAustin, EricRecord typePhotographFormat typePhysicalOriginal format colourSepia

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CollectionPine Rivers Library Photographic Collection

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PlaceStrathpine (Qld.)PersonAustin, EricSubject (keywords)Thornycroft (trucks)bitumenbitumen machinesgroups (people)road construction & maintenance

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Aubrey Austin holding his son Eric alongside a Thornycroft three ton truck carting the bitumen tanker in the mid 1920s

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Aubrey Austin holding his son Eric alongside a Thornycroft three ton truck carting the bitumen tanker in the mid 1920s