tinkers

What do tinkerers do ? Certainly this fellow does not tinker.

Horse power due to the petrol shortage in 1948 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105817660?searchTerm=%...

More from 1967 Australian Women's Weekly - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48078461?searchTerm=%2...

A man's world on wheels. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tinker Jeff Carter (1928-2010) was Australia’s great photographer of ‘ordinary’ Australians at work and leisure. When ‘asked to leave’ Melbourne Boys High School in his final year, 1946, he took to the road with a typewriter and camera, finding work in the high country with cattle, the subject of his first photo-story. www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2017.128/jeff-carter-with-h... I first met Jeff when he lived at Foxground near Gerringong.

Not sure if "Tinkers" is the correct term

oh oh her poor little cheeks

'Irish Travellers' is the polite term, though Romany gypsies call them by a less polite name. The tent is called a 'bender', and is modelled on the Romany 'tan'.

Great post war vintage.They are not believed to be Roma or Drom 'gypies' having working seasonally and travelled in Ireland for centuries , more recently England. "I hope this Blog will become a collection of some of the living Irish Traveller (Tinker or Pavee ) traditions I've being lucky enough to encounter and perhaps even some of the random moments that grace my life with a sense of personal order... sure, time will tell :) " barefootpavee.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html Kildare County Council Library Services Celebrating Inclusion and Cultural Diversity www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzmYCP2jvfY&feature=player_em...

What is the context of this photo? It remains me of the "Migrant Mother".