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Sorting my grandfather's slide collection I found the picture below. It seems he had a bit of a focus issue! but the picture of this nice shiny 'vintage' car caught my eye for its background content.

Sitting proudly in the back is a T fire engine with solid rear wheels. This may have been a conversion kit to a car?

The picture was taken somewhere between 1956-61 based on the brown/red and white plates. The plates look rather 'new' so it may be closer to 56 than 61.

Back then plates were issued for 5 year periods and changed by colour and layout each issue.

The location is Upper Hutt city at "Memorial Park" in Trentham.

I have no idea where the cars have gone to now or where the engine resides, but it is a reasonable guess it is still tucked away "somewhere".



And if you are interested in a bit of history:

Adrian, going solely on the forward position of the front running board bracket, I would say that one is a TT . The front bracket on a car chassis is some 10" or so back from the mudguard mounting.

Allan from down under.

And the wheelbase is so very long.
Neat pics Adrian.
Neat TT!

I believe that Len Southward had a TT fire engine.
I do know that several fire appliances that were housed in Wanganui, including the Tilling Stephens Fire Escape were items placed in his collection too.