Then and Now | Early hybrid proved a disaster

By Joe Wooding, Albury & District Historical Society
April 4 2020 - 11:04am
ON THE ROAD: The motor van of the ill-fated Mueller Petrol-Electric Road Train at Hay, New South Wales Picture: SUPPLIED
ON THE ROAD: The motor van of the ill-fated Mueller Petrol-Electric Road Train at Hay, New South Wales Picture: SUPPLIED

Albury's main thoroughfare saw an extraordinary display of mechanical might in May 1914 - 100 tons of the fully loaded Mueller Petrol-Electric Road Train ground its way up Dean Street to the railyards.

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