Fairmont ST-2

Tutts note that they knocked out some 346 between 1961 and 1981, although records such as plates are indicating that cars were built as early as 1950

The SAR cars were generally fitted with a timer and buzz coil, as were the NSWGR cars, Queensland cars often had an Eisemann AM1 magneto.

This car was overhauled by AN not long before it was sold - note the reclassification to Australian National's plant coding system now CC175.

Cobdogla Steam Friends (South Australia) has converted one of these to 24" gauge.

Woolooga on the Goomeri Branch, Queensland. This is an ST2 that has been remotored with a Briggs and an infinitely variable belt drive, with a reversible box. Still in use June 2002.

F174 sat on the scrap pile in Port Lincoln for a few years before turning up at an auction at Islington Workshops.

As cars become rarer - this is more a restoration proposition that it was a few years ago.

The motor was built in April 1949, so the car would be early to mid 1950. The plate belongs to one of the cars preserved in Western Australia, sadly it is minus its motor

This car was owned by Millars, and made its way to the Boyanup Museum, in the South West of Western Australia. It is one of at least three cars that made its way to WA - Builders number 105, engine number 84648.

The engine, like that of the car above, was built some time in the first half of 1949, probably around April. Allowing for shipping, these cars would have been assembled sometime in 1950. This is suggestive of these cars being demonstrators for Tutts. Serial Number 104 is in Queensland.

I understand that there were a couple in the North West on the Iron Ore lines, and that the builders of the railway to the Francis Creek Iron Ore mine in the Northern Territory also has a couple on the 42" gauge track there.

I was also advised that the WAGR took on a Fairmont for its remote Marble Bar Line. I am not sure if this was the car whose plate is shown above, or another car. The correspondance I have suggests that there were possibly two ST2's owned by the WAGR.