AUSTRALIA
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REDEX AROUND AUSTRALIA RELIABILITY TRIAL
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1952 - REDEX RELIABILITY TRIAL
Willis family photo feature
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1953 - REDEX RELIABILITY TRIAL
1953 - The Redex trial cars at Morphetville ready to head off to Melbourne. Photo: unknown.
1953 - A team gathers outside there Holden Dealers shop prior to the 1953 Trial. Photo: unknown.
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1953 - FRANK KLIENIG
1953 - Frank Klienig entered the years event in a Morris Minor. Photo: unknown.
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1953 - ALICE SPRINGS
1953 - Location Alice Springs. Photo: unknown.
1953 - Lex Davison and Stan Jones both entered the trial in 48 125 series Holdens. pictured here at Bond's Chalet in Alice Springs. Lex finished 4th and Stan 27th after penalties were handed out. Photo: Gary Poole
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1953 - HOOT GIBSON
Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia facebook photo feature
1953 - Owner and driver of the Vangaurd Spacemaster Hoot Gibson from Mansfield Victoria carrying out some repairs at Julia Creek with his brother and navigator Sid Gibson from Waikerie South Australia and co driver Les Ramsey also from Mansfield. Photo: Mark Gibson.
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1953 - JACK DAVEY
The signed photo was givern to Bill the Mule Frances by Jack Davey in Port Hedland in 1953 when he was competing in the Redex Trial in a Peugeot 402.
Jack was a compare of the radio show Pick a Box in the 1940's and 1950's, Bill cannot remember the number of Peugeot's he repaired but they all broke the chassis above the rear axel, Bill repaired them at the Hedland Transport workshop on the corner of Edger and Hunt Street, Bill was working for Ron Blowes at the time and driving a Leyland Beaver semi trailer.
1953 - Jack Davey |
1953 - Ron Blowes Hedland Transport workshop and the Mules truck. |
Photo: Bill Francis collection. |
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1953 - JACK MURRYIn 1953 Jack Murry competed in a 1948 Ford Mercury sedan, Jack became known as Gelignite Jack because when he was approaching a town he would lite up a short fuse on a half plug of gelignite and throw it out the window creating a bit of excitement.
Bill made the comment to our man Tempo in an interview that if you did this today you would be locked up as a terrorist.
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(research Bill and Leslie Temperton)
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1953 - JOHN MARSHALL & KEN TUBMAN
1953 - John Marshall and Ken Tubman take the win in there Peugeot 203. Photo: unknown.
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1953 - WALTER LUXTON & FRANK LOBB
1953 - Walter Luxton and Frank Lobb drove the Mercedies in the 1953 event finishing 29th. Photo's: State Library of SA.
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1953 - Unknown parked outside Dominion Motors the Singer dealer after the Trial. Photo: John Reid collection.
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1954 - REDEX RELIABILITY TRIAL
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1954 - REDEX RELIABILITY TRIAL MAPS
Old Time Photos Of Cars, Trucks, Buses and Service Stations facebook photo feature
1954 - A 48 series Holden crosses the Hawkesbury River Bridge north of Sydney. Photo: Ormond Butler collection.
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1954 - REDEX AT THE EKKA
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1954 - JACK DAVEY Redex Reliability Trial
Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia facebook Photo feature
1954 - Jack Davey's entry in the 1954 event. Photographer: unknown. Photo; Mark Pickering collection.
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1954 - REDEX RELIABILITY TRIAL
Around Australia Car Trials facebook photo feature
(use controls to pause - forward or reverse 14 images)
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1954 - REDEX TRIAL
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1955 - REDEX RELIABILITY TRIAL PRESS RELEASE
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1955 - REDEX RELIABILITY TRIAL
Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia facebook Photo feature
1955 - The all Womens team sponsored by the Womens Weekly magazine. Photo: Womens Weekly.
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1955 - REG SPARKS & CLEM SMITH
Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia facebook Pictorial feature
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1955 - O'SHEAS KATHERINE HOTEL
Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia facebook feature
1955 - The number 35 Vangaurd sponsored by the Courier Mail Brisbane outside O'Shea's Katherine Hotel in the Northern Territory. Photo: Lawley Brown collection.
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1955 - FRANK KLEINIG
Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia facebook Photo feature
1955 - Frank Kleinig and his co driver sit beside their damaged Volkswagon in the 1955 REDEX while on route to Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia. Photo: National Film and Sound Archive.
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1955 - MIDLAND PERTH WA
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1955 - REDEX RELIABILITY TRIAL THE NULLABORE
Bill Francis recalls: I was driving this 600 Leyland at the time doing a load from Perth to Port Augusta along with my co driver Vin Hoskins, When we came across a broken down 403 Peugeot trial car, The diff had failed so we hooked up the car behind the semi and towed it into Ceduna, and yes i did carry a camera in those days.
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1955 - BILL BONNEY & RAY HAMBLEY CLARKE
Around Australia Car Trials facebook Photo feature.
1955 - Bill Bonney and Ray Hambly-Clarke's Renault Regate at the Ceduna Showgrounds. Photo: Hal Moloney collection.
1955 - CEDUNA SA
Around Australia Car Trials facebook photo feature
1955 - Photo's at Ceduna Oval. Photo's Fred Miller.
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1955 - GOULBURN Court House
Old Motor Racing Photographs Australia facebook photo feature.
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11th September 1955 Photo's: Outside the Goulburn Courthouse. Photo's Glenn Anthony Paine.
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1955 - Around Australia Car Trials facebook Photo feature
1955 - The Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun newspapers made a hugh effort in covering the 1955 trial.
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1955 - MODERN MOTOR MAGAZINE REPORTED
September 1955
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1956 - THE VISOR MAGAZINE REPORTED
30th June 1956
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2019 - GERALDTON GARDIAN REPORTED
19th January 2019
15th February 2019
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unidentified photo's
can you help with any information on the following images, such as year - subject - location - photographer or any stories attached to the photo: please contact me on 08 97 260000 cheers.
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Phil Smith and Don Collins in their 48 series holden. Photo: Jo Collins collection.
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