A 'SCRATCHBUILT', 12th scale Municipal Dust Cart.
Working Drawings for this vehicle were drawn by J.E.Bishop and Sons and it was published in "The Coach and Motor Builder, Sept 1927".
These vehicles were used to collect rubbish from the streets of Sydney, NSW, and were used for about a decade until Motor Vehicles eventually replaced them.
A one man operation of cleaning the streets and loading it into these vehicles, when loaded, then off to the incinerators to unload.
Sydney had Two Incinerators back then, one on the Sth side and another just to the West of the city, so easy loading and unloading as well, just tip the rubbish into the big hungry hole at the incinerators and head back for more loading.
OK, cheated a bit here, the tyres are 3D printed, as there is absolutely nothing else available that I could have used.
The reason that the tyres are WHITE, is that was the colour of natural rubber is WHITE and it could be used as -- White Rubber.
Somebody discovered that if you added Carbon Black to the WHITE Rubber, to create BLACK tyres, the Black tyres outlasted White tyres by about 5 times longer.
Nothing different with the construction, just used the normal methods to make it.
I was informed of what colour these Carts were painted and found out is is the exact same colour as the early Caterpillar Bulldozers and other bits of machinery that CAT made.
It's the exact same Yellow colour, as what is on the Yellow and Black road signs as well, Cat used that Yellow colour, to make their machines stand out, when working on roads.
Cat changed the colour slightly to what is called today ------ CAT Yellow.
First pic is what got me interested in these vehicles and even found the Working Drawing for them as well, so just got busy ---------
Working Drawings for this vehicle were drawn by J.E.Bishop and Sons and it was published in "The Coach and Motor Builder, Sept 1927".
These vehicles were used to collect rubbish from the streets of Sydney, NSW, and were used for about a decade until Motor Vehicles eventually replaced them.
A one man operation of cleaning the streets and loading it into these vehicles, when loaded, then off to the incinerators to unload.
Sydney had Two Incinerators back then, one on the Sth side and another just to the West of the city, so easy loading and unloading as well, just tip the rubbish into the big hungry hole at the incinerators and head back for more loading.
OK, cheated a bit here, the tyres are 3D printed, as there is absolutely nothing else available that I could have used.
The reason that the tyres are WHITE, is that was the colour of natural rubber is WHITE and it could be used as -- White Rubber.
Somebody discovered that if you added Carbon Black to the WHITE Rubber, to create BLACK tyres, the Black tyres outlasted White tyres by about 5 times longer.
Nothing different with the construction, just used the normal methods to make it.
I was informed of what colour these Carts were painted and found out is is the exact same colour as the early Caterpillar Bulldozers and other bits of machinery that CAT made.
It's the exact same Yellow colour, as what is on the Yellow and Black road signs as well, Cat used that Yellow colour, to make their machines stand out, when working on roads.
Cat changed the colour slightly to what is called today ------ CAT Yellow.
First pic is what got me interested in these vehicles and even found the Working Drawing for them as well, so just got busy ---------