Bill Richardson Transport World - Invercargill NZ: Classic Restos - Series 55
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- čas přidán 3. 03. 2024
- While in the deep south of New Zealand, Fletch revisits Bill Richardson Transport World, a favourite destination whenever he travels to New Zealand.
The museum was founded by Bill Richardson, who developed a fascination with trucks at a young age. Bill was determined to restore his grandfather's 1939 International, which he finally found in 1967. This truck became the foundation of his collection, which grew to include 150 rare, unique and interesting trucks and 200 petrol bowsers over the years. Bill became well known among vintage truck collectors and anyone looking for a home for vintage trucks. The collection grew to include every make and model thanks to one man's passion.
Sadly, Bill passed away in 2005, but his legacy lives on with his daughter Joselyn O'Donnell, who continues to run his company HWR Transport and the truck collection. The family opened Bill Richardson Transport World to the public in 2015, and today, it is the largest private truck collection of its kind in the world.
Workshop Manager Darren takes Fletch on a tour of the massive 15,000 square meter facility, which is equivalent to a city block, to give some perspective. The collection has extended beyond the truck collection to include the family's other motoring interests.
There is a VW Kombi collection that is Joselyn's interest. After an initial bad experience on a driving holiday in a 1975 Volkswagen Kombi in Europe, where she suffered claustrophobia, it later became her passion first to collect and restore the very same Kombi she drove with Bill in Europe, right down to the same orange exterior and tartan interior. Out of this desire and a love of the VW Kombi, a collection of twelve models grew. Joselyn thinks Bill would have found this quite amusing, given her first experience with a Kombi.
Bill Richardson Transport World has a close connection with Burt Munroe's 'The Fastest Indian' movie, providing much of the memorabilia and Bill Richardson playing a small cameo in the movie. Oreti Beach, where Burt Munroe did most of his testing, is not far from Invercargill and is well worth a visit.
Fletch continues through this incredible collection and suggests that you allocate sufficient time to do it justice when visiting. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
A good reason to visit Invercargill
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Great classic video! Mike from Missouri
Last saw this museum in 2008. Good to see it again in an improved state.
Great video 👌
Thanks for the feedback Damien! 👍 -Ash
Enjoyed that
New Zealand is a great place to visit and this video has given me a must visit again.
Great video. Thanks Fletch, Jocelyn, Darren et al. I was surprised to see a Scammell Scarab in the mix.
Cheers Fletch,awesome show ❤️👍❤️👍
Visited Bill’s museum many time and yes there’s always new exhibits
Amazing collection and passion by Bill and his family. Thanks Fletch. 👍
Top collection thanks to bill and family
Thanks for show fletch
It's so fantastic to see the family continuing Bill passion and their own as well good one. Fletch, the bucket list is overflowing need a bigger bucket 😅
Thanks for the tour great place the trucks an the bowsers . Cheers mate
I get the feeling that people do not appreciate that this collection represents probably the most significant half century of human evolution, inasmuch as this was mankind extending physical powers (use of tools) to the point whereby heavy loads could be moved effortlessly by anyone. In my opinion, the only more significant development was the word processor in 1980, which evolved into the personal computer and opened the door to the internet, which in turn exposed all knowledge to anybody and everybody. I don't suppose this notion occurred to Bill but I hope the community catches on and ensures this can be appreciated by hundreds of generations to come. Here's to Bill. Being 81, one of those vehicles might even have been driven by me. LOL.
Which vehicle was that Tony. I’m 66 and I learned on a Bedford L8. NZPO linesman days.
9:46 What is an OE for most of the viewers that are not from New Zealand?
Overseas Experience (OE) is a New Zealand term for an extended overseas working period or holiday. Sometimes referred to as "The big OE" in reference to the extended duration of the travel - typically at least one year, and often extended far longer.
Either way, great episode!
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The best best pie shop is just around the corner. (Fat bastards pie shop ) fletch you didn't go. Aussie pies could learn from this place.
What's rarely mentioned but was told to us by the restorer who showed us around 5 or 6 years ago, is that you could fit a battery to 99% of the vehicles there and they would start and drive!
Thanks for that info. I didn’t know that. Have you been to the museum.
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