Is it a truck, lorry, or a pick-up utility?
Atruck known years ago as a lorry but possibly even small enough to be a ‘pickup utility’.
It is No. 3 in the fleet of Cambridge Co-op Dairy Co. Ltd.
The dairy factory was then, as it is now, at Hautapu a mere 3.6 kilometres from Cambridge. In the day, on gravel roads, this could have been a hair-raising adventure with harsh suspension and relatively narrow tyres.
The body was built by Ferguson Builders Cambridge according to a difficult-to-read sign on the cab side below the number.
Of particular interest are the curious wheels.
The bevelled outer sections of the discs are covered with rivets.
We can’t tell the vehicle make and are not previously acquainted with these wheels nor, as it happens, the cream tyres. And what is the location? Any ideas would be most welcome.
Contributed by Perry Rice, Heritage Librarian – Photographs, Hamilton Central Library.
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