Photographs from the Harold Paynting collection, State Library of Victoria - Part 1

Here are some truck photographs from the State Library of Victoria (SLV). They are from the Harold Paynting Collection. Mr. Paynting, was a  motoring enthusiast and charity worker and had acquired the archive of a commercial photographer named Lyle Fowler, consisting of between 14,000 and 15,000 8" x 10” cellulose negatives, most of which were identified, dated and labelled. They were largely for the period 1932–72. You can look at them all on the State Library website www.slv.vic.gov.au  Harold Paynting also edited the James Flood books of motoring photographs which were published in the late 1960s, early 1970s. To see more of the Harold Paynting collection, click here.

State Library of Victoria  photograph H2009.185/2

Victor Smorgon and Company wholesale meat salesmans trucks, Faraday Street in Carlton.
Taken in the 1930s.  The trucks are a Maple Leaf, a Chev and two more Maple Leafs.

State Library of Victoria image H2009.20/67

 A series of photographs of Australian Crystal Gypsum Plaster products trucks, taken in the 1930s. The truck above is a Diamond T and is also shown below with a Ford.

State Library of Victoria image H2009.20/68

State Library of Victoria image H2009.20/69

The Ford, above and the Diamond T, below.

State Library of Victoria image H2009.20/66

State Library of Victoria Image H2011.52/277

Wirth's Circus truck - the name on the door is A. C Russell carriers. I believe it is a KS5 International. I do not know the name of the elephant. The photo was taken 1945 or 1946.

State Library of Victoria image H2009.95/2

State Library of Victoria image H2009.177/20

The Kraft Walker Cheese factory International. Photograph dated between 1923 and 1935.  Truck and trailer shown separately, below.

 State Library of Victoria Image H2009.177/22

State Library of Victoria Image H2009.177/21

State Library of Victoria Image H2011.52/7

Another Kraft Cheese factory truck, dated 1940s.

If you want to see more photographs from the Harold Paynting collection, then clock here.