The territory of Northern Australia: place of birth of the modern Day road-train

In 1934, the Government of South Australia took delivery of the AEC built 8 x 8 diesel powered trucks, core pulling trailers axles two 4. The platform was designed to operate in the Outback of Australia, over Rocky, sandhills, drifting and along the Meandrujaca tracks through the Bush.

Typical arrangement of the axles on Steerable axles front and rear 8 x 8, played by training and interconnected steered wheel at each end, each of the trailers, allowing the garment to right angle turn prior to gate 10-and-mouth disease.

However, this was not the first road train in Australia. Long before this, so steam powered Locos hauled several trailers over Unmapped areas of "territory".

In the mid-1920s and Northern Railway from the Adelaide only got as far as Marree, South Australian Government began "the design of road train" to transport freight to the Northern Territory, as an aid in the development and settlement. In this respect, was approximately 4 years too late, because camel trains operating from Marree completed railway line late in 1929, the beginning of 1930.

AEC-built platform became known as the road train from the Government, played by training with only the minimum of the body, not of windows and doors, with the crew freeze in winter and cooking in the summer, as the large radiator with fan pusher was mounted by kierowcyi smaller fan in the front cowling drawing air into the cab.

8.85 Litres, 6 cylinders, 130 HP motor driving by 4-speed gearbox and 3 transfer rate case gave an ill-powered speed of 20 to 30 miles per hour. 1100 Mile trip from Oodnadatta, South Australia Alice Springs more than three weeks after taking.

Only 3 of these units were built, one AEC ever to Africa, another to Russia and the third to South Australia.

Road train, the Government operated in the northern part of the "territory" for about 10 years, covering around 800.000 miles.

In the immediate post war years, Kurt Johannsen and Dave Baldock converted army surplus Diamond T trucks and used them to tow a trailer to seven, Kurt Bush Road work, carting, and to 700 empty fuel drums, while Dave Baldock carted general cargo from Alice Springs to Larrimahwhere the railway to Darwin to restart.

This is the era identified as the birth of the "Modern Day" Road Train "

by Robert Rumball

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