Some great pics and History @JohhnyC., You've obviously got some history with Thiess Bros. A couple of inaccuracies though...I was born On Tooma Dam site in 1959. My father worked for Stan and Les Thiess over the course of 30 years starting on the Snowy Mountains Scheme and through many other jobs. The first Landcruiser that was brought into Australia was a loner and it was assigned to my father on Tooma Dam site by Les and Stan Thiess in 1958. My father was a Dirt Foreman and Stan and Les wanted first hand feedback on the Toyota and comparisons to the Dodge Power Wagon's and the Landrover series 1's that were being used as work vehicles to decide whether the Toyota would be a better option. Dad said could drive the Toyota to most places in and around the dam site where as he would have to park the Dodge and Landrover and get and walk as they couldn't handle the terrain. It was about 3 weeks after he started driving the Toyota that he made the mistake of bragging about how good it was at the Wet Mess and the Project Manager decided to assign the Toyota to himself.