Make and year of this truck

I'm with the B61 Mack brigade too. In Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia in 1967 I fronted up to Noel Buntine, road train cattle haulier and legend (he actually has a highway named after him) to ask for a job. He pointed me to one of those which had 3 trailers behind it. I did the first round trip of 1,200 kms with an Aussie driver to get the hang of the 2 gear sticks and 20 odd gears and after that I was on my own. Mine was a B61, but not as smart as that, so that might not be , but it definitely is a B-model Mack. I can still feel it even now.

 

That sounds pretty minor compared to all the other stuff people have done throughout history to make a living. Not to mention going home to a smoky cave and sleeping on the ground to get ready for the next session. I'll take the Mack.

 

While we are talking IDing American trucks, can someone answer with what this is, posted on an Australian forum the answers we've had so far include Oskosh. Marmon and Corbitt. Any advance on those guesses?

 

How do you get to motor on this ? This just showed up about week ago

 

Sure looks a lot like an old Hayes Anderson. Grill and fenders look very similar. Hayes isn't very well documented and not a lot of photos online. The roof cap shape looks similar. Some photos I dug up online show some Hayes with narrow cabs as well.



Edit: Even has the same style tow hooks on the bumper.

 

I have no idea what that truck is.

 

Neither do I. Little oval on radiator shroud to oval/small for the hayes-anderson, head light brackets stick up,not hangy down.

 

There were a lot of trucks built between the World Wars. A lot of the companies made a few trucks and went out of business or merged with other builders. Almost all the car manufacturers would build a few trucks if the money was there.
There wasn't much sentiment about old machinery in those days and a lot of old iron was cut up for scrap or repurposed. My Grandfather had a portable sawmill that was cobbled together on a Ford Model T frame. It used the model T engine and gear boxes. When the engine blew he salvaged all the running gear and sawmill stuff and pushed the rest off into a canyon to rust. If I remember right he replaced it with a Fageol. A chain drive Mack was the last sawmill truck he had. Both of those were sold to a collector in Sacramento.
Heavy iron in those old ones. Fenders and bumpers you could really hit something with.

 

Take a look at the radiator on this 1930 Ford AA. The widow's peak and oval are very similar in style, enough to make one wonder if there's some Ford lineage involved.