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2008 Alexandra Truck, Ute & Rod Show

Coverage of the 2008 Alexandra Truck, Ute & Rod Show.

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Alexandra's Saturday night Hoedown (7 June) a major event

All the details are now locked in for the major Country Music Hoedown which will be held at the Alexandra Racecourse on Saturday evening 7 June.

The event will precede the Alexandra Truck, Ute & Rod Show on the following day and is expected to attract a large audience from the visitors in town for the Truck Show as well as local and district people.

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2008 Alexandra Truck, Ute & Rod Show entry form

Download the entry form for 2008 here.

The form can be completed and mailed with a cheque for payment to:

Alexandra Truck Ute & Rod Show
PO Box 44
Alexandra 3714

Or, brought along on Sunday 8 June with payment.

Alexandra set for another major woodchop

The Woodchop event to be staged at the Alexandra Truck Ute & Rod Show over the coming Queens Birthday weekend will again be the popular end of season drawcard for many of Victoria's leading axemen.

Supported by the Central Victorian Axeman's Association the event is rated as one of Victoria's leading woodchop competitions with significant prize money on offer.

To be held on the Sunday of the Queens Birthday weekend - Sunday 8 June- the event has again received significant sponsorship and in kind support from VicForests. VicForests established since 2004 is the State Corporation responsible for the sustainable harvest and sale of timber from Victoria's State forests.

The scheduled events at Alexandra will include all the popular wood chop competitions which draw plenty of interest from the leading male (and female) axe-persons!

Prize money will range up to $400 for each event drawing axemen from throughout Victoria and interstate.

The popular events will include the traditional standing block, underhand log, tree climbing and sawing events.

There's also a popular chain saw racing competition with plenty of noise and action.

There is also the spectacular and highly competitive three event relay involving both underhand and standing log cutting and tree climbing that has become a unique feature of the Alexandra competition.

With both junior and open events the junior competition is designed to attract emerging young axeman and women under eighteen years of age.

Woodchopping is the uniquely Australian sporting event that can trace its origins to about 1870 and has produced many outstanding competitors that have taken on the worlds best with great success.

Alexandra is expected to attract the top competitive axemen and women who are expected to be at peak fitness after the summer season of competition.

Woodchop co-ordinator Peter Halliday says that the Alexandra competition also helps to determine the final points totals for the leading axemen who have competed around the State throughout the season.

Enquiries and entries are invited to the Woodchop Competition, Alexandra Truck Ute & Rod Show, PO Box 44 Alexandra 3714 or to Peter Halliday on 03 5772 1188 during business hours or 03 5772 2904 evenings.

Historic Kenworths to feature at Alex

Update: Download the 2008 Alexandra Truck, Ute & Rod show poster

Australia's first ever Kenworth trucks introduced into Australia in 1962 will feature in a special exhibit at the Alexandra Truck, Ute & Rod Show to be held in Grant Street Alexandra on Sunday 8 June 2008 of the June long weekend.

Members of the Kenworth S Model Truck Appreciation Society will be bringing along a number of their trucks, several in fully restored condition, including what are the first four Kenworth trucks ever registered in Australia.

Amongst these will be Greg Melmoth's cab & chassis which with serial number 76632 was the first ever Kenworth introduced in Australia by Ed Cameron and his company Australian Kenworth Truck Sales which became the forerunner to the establishment of Kenworth's Australian manufacturing operation in the 1970s in Bayswater.

Greg's father finally owned the truck for many years and it currently has over 750,000 miles registered on the speedo although Greg says that it didn't work for probably a couple of decades, so its anyone's guess just how many miles it has run.

Ed Cameron now in his 80s is also likely to be a special guest at the Alexandra Truck Ute & Rod Show.

Ed has recently completed writing a history of his life in transport (continued more recently by his son Glen and the major Glen Cameron Transport Group) and his battles (including against the railways, import restrictions and various bits of government) to introduce superior highway trucks from Kenworth in the late 1950s - early 1960s to meet the rigorous demands of Australia's substandard roads and highways and the increasing demand for road transport after World War 2.

The book to be published in early 2008 will be a must read for anyone interested in transport history or with Kenworth blood in their veins.

Photo Caption

With the serial number 76632 Greg Melmoth's S model was the first ever Kenworth truck introduced into Australia on 21 August 1962.

With more than 750,000 miles showing on the speedo and a number of previous owners Greg is completing the restoration of the truck previously operated by his father.

Early expressions invited for trade sites

After the resounding success of the 2007 Alexandra Truck, Ute & Rod Show with record entries, an action filled program, a beautiful sunny day and a crowd of 12,000 people, early expressions of interest are invited from previous and new trade site exhibitors.

The Executive Committee is working to expand the trade site area, mostly on the bitumen in Grant Street, Alexandra's main street, to ensure sufficient space is available to fit all exhibitors in.

Early expressions of interest from exhibitors are invited to Truck Show committee men Andrew Embling on 0418 266 038 or Gordon Simpson on 0409 557 212.

Sponsor support invited

The Alexandra Truck, Ute & Rod Show only succeeds because of enthusiastic support received from both our local and national sponsors.

If you have a product or service you'd like to promote or donate for our prize pool, public auction listing, or some other feature we'd be delighted to hear from you.

Contact can be made with the Executive Committee members noted or to the Truck Show publicist John Kennedy on 03 9500 0432.