Hi all,I recently picked up this old girl,not used much here in Australia I am told.It is mostly complete with all guts and drain in column base intact,but missing hose and ID plate and the hose hook is bent,and has been painted duck ***** green at some stage and has a crack in the column base.Am wanting to find out its value,ballpark.Thanks all.


Pics to follow as I messed them up. Doh !

Trying the image thing again

i was offered $4000.00 last week for mine. charley

Thanks Charley,and what sort of condition is yours in ?

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Beautiful Matt. Now theres a good find. Hard to see whats on top? Looks like a globe mount. Air Whip? or?

here is mine. do you have the org back door?mine is gone.charley

one more, charley

Here is mine, the one on the right is original and the one on the left I'm looking for a fluted pedestal. Do not know value, but Jacks book value is 5,000.

Thanks guys ,the top of mine looks fairly plain ,so i doubt anything fitted to it ,and yes the original back plate is still on it.Am now wondering ,do I leave it as is or tidy her up a bit,ie red paint,replacement dial face etc

THE TOP WAS DESIGN FOR SOME TYPE OF LIGHT ATTACHMENT.

frank! mine is a mod 26 also?????????????? charley

Charley maybe yours was made for a air whip. Never seen one like it before. You don't see these very often. Maybe some other members will post.

Forgive my ignorance.Whats an air whip ?

An air whip is a tall vertical pipe that is attached to the compressed air supply by a spring. A hose is attached to the top of the air whip pipe. The hose can then be pulled over to the other side of a car to fill a tire and then it springs back to vertical and out of the way.

Air Whip

Excellent,thanks for that.I recently stopped at a service station on a nearby motorway just out of Sydney,and while using the airline to pump up the tires,I couldn't help but thinking that the modern pump is so similar in operation as the model 26 (but digital dial),,you dial up the pressure required,when you reach it a bell goes DING,however no sign of an airwhip or anything to perform the same fonction,its more of a snake system,,,hose just gets chucked on the ground,damn colonials lol

I imagine the spring-loaded and counter-weighted air whips sometimes scratched cars and injured people back in the day.

If that was a fire hydrant. It would be to tie up horses back in the day. I think the top was added later. Still looks better than the originals.