Who needs diff-locks?

Do you think they had options of HT, AT and MT in those days? Probably only had 2 or 3 tyre manufacturers to choose from to start with.

I think you missed the point of my comment

Probably didn't have choice of wide tyres either, then!

Sorry, that should have been FX, or more correctly, "48-215" Holdens! [;-)

Ron,
you can call it an FX if you like. We all know that it was an FX in our younger days, stuff the purists.

Drove on many similar roads in both trucks and cars, also pushed/pulled many trucks out with a dozer or tractor.

Stopped at the memorial in Tarcutta recently, and thought about the number of mates I had lost to road accidents over the years.

Mate that inter dozer was the newest up to date model with no cable blade. Ha. Ha.

Oooh, Rockape! It's back to the Tractor ID class for you!! [;-)

That ain't no Inter!! It's an Oliver DDH fitted with a hydraulic Bristand Trail Builder blade!

The tractor would have been fairly new, or certainly not more than about 3 or 4 yrs old.

The dreadful conditions of the Hume Hwy in the '57 floods in N.S.W., along with the large number of stranded semi-trailers at Tarcutta (over 300 for a week at one stage) - and the resultant uproar from truckies and the large number of companies dependent on trucking - galvanised the Govt to upgrade that section of the Hume Hwy shortly afterwards.

Several semis overturned in the bogs, one with a load of drums of petrol. The petrol caught fire and the whole lot ended up as toast.

There were so many bogholes along the Hume Hwy, the bogs were given names! - such as the 12 mile and the 27 mile Bogs! (measured from Wagga).

Ron,
definitely got that one wrong. Drove a few old cats 14A D8's with cable bull blades and an old RD4. When we think about it, the roads have come a long way.