Harry Wills as featured on episodes 1 and 2 of the recent Toll NZ Talking Trucks show, in the cab of Robby Caulfield's 190 International.

Harry used to own Minginui Transport hauling logs out of Maungapahatu near Te Whaiti.

Here is a young Harry (on the right) next to his GUY truck with one of the 100 footer logs they used to carry for logging spars.

Episodes one and two are on Part 1 to 6 on the Toll NZ Talking Trucks DVD and features Harry talking about logging in his day 1950's and 60's.

Young Harry with his box cab Leyland and a load of logs.
Harry's LAD cab Leyland Hippo in Maungapahatu.
Another view of Harry's Hippo, and this picture forms the wed site's logo.
Harry's GUY with one of the 100 footer logs they made logging spars with. It needed two smaller logs underneath it to stop the overhang from dragging on the ground.

Here's another view of the 100 footer log showing just how much overhand there was.

Here's the Minginui Transport fleet in the 60's.

Two GUY's, two International Acco's, one Leyland Hippo and a Mercedes Benz.

Harry told us he bought this Mercedes Benz brand new at around 3000 pounds. People thought he was mad, saying he could have bought two Commers for that amount of money. The truck was built for the autobahns of Germany not the forestry hills of New Zealand, so to make it actually able to do the job they had to put a Hippo double drive back end under it, and install some reduction boxes to make it do the work of hauling native timber out of Maungapahatu. As a boy I remember this truck grinding it's was up hills as I sat next to Harry, I thought I could get out and walk faster. I remember Harry saying if I could start it, I could drive it - It was the row of glow plugs switches that threw me.
This is Harry's 190 International. There's not too many photos available but from what Harry was telling us in episode 1 of Toll NZ Talking Trucks, he just loved them, the noise of the old GM engine, and the power...He also said he wondered how he did it back then after spending a little time in Robby Caulfield's International 190. The car in the photo is a Studebaker Lark.