I was chatting to a mate who's into pre war stuff and he was saying there are a lot of old sidecars knocking around in the lucky country as the country was ideal for them. But nowadays nobody wants them! You blokes apparently had quite a swathe of small manufacturers like Dusting back in the day...
But apparently rather than the UK style being low fitting, the Australian designed ones are often high and point upwards at the front partly due to the bad dirt roads (obviously in times gone by) and natural hazards hopping about.
Shame there's not much info about on old chairs and chair manufacturers. Its a bit of an arcane subject.
Just had to have a dig at my cousins across the ditch, probably just jealousy as you blokes have better weather and earn more! But when our rain clears once in a blue moon we have a ripper of a country to ride our old pommy junk around in.
Ah will try and take some pics soon, still all a bit of a lash up bodywise...the setup effectively seems to have a degree of passive steering but it does mean the bike can lean out on corners (only a bit but sure feels weird at any speed)
But bounces and jiggles quite happily up & down my gravel drive.
The front and back mounts pivot, while the third cross mount from under the seat towards the sidecar wheel is the one thats sprung, so the sidecar wheel moves fore and aft slightly as the bike tilts.
the a10 in the background is just mocked up with a dummy engine, forks loose in the triple clamps, tanks off my racing rig so lots to be done there...still collecting parts