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Couple of other photos of SS CANONBAR - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=392550 www.awm.gov.au/collection/303053/

Ha! This is much more interesting than it seems ... From - www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=21243 -

ss CANONBAR built by Ardrossan Drydock & Shipbuilding Co, Yard No 236 Last Name: KETTARA IV (not in Schell) Previous Names: ROSITA (1949) VALIENTE (1959) Propulsion: steam, triple expansion Launched: Thursday, 14/04/1910 Built: 1910 Ship Type: Steamship Ship's Role: Cargo Tonnage: 708 grt Length: 185.5 feet Breadth: 32.1 feet Draught: 11 feet Owner History: North Coast S. N. Co Ltd, Sydney 1926 John Burke Ltd, Brisbane. Requisitioned in WW2 [hence the photo at the AWM website above] 1946 Hong Kong owners, later Singapore/Panama. Status: Sunk - 16/03/1966 Remarks: O.N. 125242. 1910 Registered Sydney. 06/1910 Completed. 1966 Shelled off North Vietnam in the demilitarised zone.

From - www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?195182 -

SS Kettara IV was shelled (N Vietnam Army) and sunk off the DMZ, Vietnam on the 16th March 1966 and all the crew were lost. She was on route from Singapore for Danang, with a carg of cement & general cargo.

56 years working life is not bad, I think. Plus several wars ...

Thinking this is after 1926 because of 'Brisbane' on the lifebelt. Or not?

beachcomber australia I was just thinking the same thing. But do those vehicles look older, with no pneumatic tyres?

61 & 60 are Arrol-Aster 2.4litre, 59 & 58 are Ford 2litre. 56-52 are Bugatti 2.3litre, 51 is a French SARA 1.8litre. Interesting to see them racing with the roof up!

Oh dear, @Notes. The race regulations required them to complete the first two laps with their hoods up - common racing practice in those days for touring car races, such as Le Mans.

In 1928 they had to put the hoods up and race for two laps with them up; in 1929 they had to put them down before setting off.

Of the Australian capital cities which closed their networks between the 1950s and 1970s (only Melbourne and Adelaide retained trams, although Adelaide only had one line in operation), Brisbane was the last capital city to close its tram network. Despite the decision to shut down the network, Brisbane's trams were held with great affection by locals, and their removal was termed "one of the most appalling urban planning mistakes in the city’s history".[2] There have been ongoing proposals since the early 1990s to reinstate a functional tram network. Through the 1940s and 1950s, the tram system enjoyed strong political support within the council, which continued to expand the tram network and upgrade its fleet with some of the most advanced trams in Australia.[3] Trolleybuses were introduced in 1951. The last tramway to open was in March 1961.[1] Clem Jones became Lord Mayor of Brisbane the same year, and all new route construction was canceled.[1] The decline of the electric street transport systems By 1948 Brisbane's trams failed to return a profit as they could not compete with the more efficient bus services.[3] Urban development, often well away from public transport, the rise of suburban shopping centers, and the relative decline in the cost of motorcars meant that as elsewhere, Brisbane's public street transport system increasingly had to compete with the private motor car and patronage slowly declined from a post-war peak of 148 million passenger journeys in 1946 to approximately 64 million passenger journeys in 1968. Political support for the tram system waned in the 1960s, particularly so after the Paddington tram depot fire on 28 September 1962. 67 trams were destroyed, which represented 20% of the entire fleet.[3] Brisbane's Lord Mayor Alderman Clem Jones was a pro-freeway and private car. The Kalinga, Toowong, Rainworth, and Bulimba ferry routes closed in December 1962.[4] The Brisbane Tramway Museum Society was formed in 1968 to preserve some of Brisbane's trams. At present the museum has 24 Brisbane trams in its collection, with 6 operational; California type tram 47, Ten Bench tram 65, Baby Dreadnought tram 99, Dropcentre tram 341, Four Motor tram 429, and the last tram built and officially operated in Brisbane, Four Motor Phoenix tram 554. Tramway operations commenced at the museum at Ferny Grove in 1980. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Brisbane