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RFW was an Australian specialist vehicle manufacturer based in Chester Hill, Sydney. The firm specialized in heavy industrial vehicles including coaches, fire appliances, garbage trucks and road-rail vehicles for use in the Asia Pacific region. Many of its vehicles were all wheel drive.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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RFW was an Australian specialist vehicle manufacturer based in Chester Hill, Sydney. The firm specialized in heavy industrial vehicles including coaches, fire appliances, garbage trucks and road-rail vehicles for use in the Asia Pacific region. Many of its vehicles were all wheel drive. The RFW models featured a wide choice of original running gear for their wide range of vehicles for several roles from Scania, Caterpillar, Cummins, Detroit Diesel, Nissan Diesel UD, Rolls-Royce Diesel and also Bedford & Hino.2
RFW was founded by former Royal Australian Air Force fitter (Bob) Robert Frederick Whitehead. RFW completed its first vehicle in 1969, a 8 x 4 using a KM Bedford cab dump truck.
All trucks & Bus chassis were custom hand built by a small team to customers specifications & requirements
From Wikipedia’s article on RFW (company), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
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