The Classic Commercial Vehicles (Bus, Trucks etc) Thread

travancore · 9th October 2017, 01:52

I had never noticed ivory coloured steering wheels before.

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ca 1955

schakravarthy · 28th October 2017, 14:44

Spotted this now

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vharihar · 31st October 2017, 06:50

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I had never noticed ivory coloured steering wheels before.

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ca 1955

I believe a 1612 chassis costs about Rs 15 lakh today. So thats about a 7 % pa compounded price increase over the past 62 years (or maybe a bit lesser, say 6 % pa, considering that todays models are better equipped than those days (power steering, etc).

schakravarthy · 3rd November 2017, 14:01

Spotted along the Bangalore-Mysore highway

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karlosdeville · 8th November 2017, 11:30

This Premier Roadmaster truck brochure was shared on a faceboook page. I remember seeing a similar truck, a fire engine, at the Premier Auto plant in Kurla, which was taken over by Fiat at the time. I assume it was scrapped when they sold the premises. I don't know of any of these that survive actually!

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KartikeyaL · 11th November 2017, 13:03

Fire fighting after the Quetta earthquake

Klub Class · 11th November 2017, 14:45

A 1942 Dodge Power Wagon with Perkins P6 engine :

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travancore · 21st November 2017, 19:40

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Quite a fleet for a Technical School in the 1930's

vinay kamath · 28th November 2017, 21:46

1947 model truck

https://www.olx.in/item/1947-hindust...tml#6322724525

Klub Class · 4th December 2017, 18:41

Must be one among the Dodge Sportsman vans that came to the country through UNICEF projects

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karlosdeville · 7th December 2017, 12:35

Chanced upon this 1940s Chevy truck - so common at one time, now almsot extinct. This particular one seems to be running complete Tata drivetrain.

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KartikeyaL · 16th December 2017, 13:17

Alamy stock photo,bus in British India

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Bus service on a street in Khewra, a salt mining district in Punjab, British India

ajay99 · 16th December 2017, 19:59

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Originally Posted by Klub Class

Must be one among the Dodge Sportsman vans that came to the country through UNICEF projects

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Unlikely that this is a Unicef car , because usually Unicef cars are all RHD.
More likely to be a Ex Embassy car, because it is a 1978 car which has been registered in Bhopal sometime in the nineties .

condor · 16th December 2017, 20:58

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Originally Posted by karlosdeville

Chanced upon this 1940s Chevy truck - so common at one time, now almsot extinct.

Sad to see them rotting away.

Btw, what's that cream-ish color car in the back-ground ?

karlosdeville · 18th December 2017, 15:12

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Originally Posted by condor

Sad to see them rotting away.

Btw, what's that cream-ish color car in the back-ground ?

That's a 1949 Ford V8.

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