RFW was an Australian specialist vehicle manufacturer based in Chester Hill, Sydney. The firm specialized in heavy industrial vehicles including coaches, fire appliances, garbage trucks and road-rail vehicles for use in the Asia Pacific region. Many of its vehicles were all wheel drive. The RFW models featured a wide choice of original running gear for their wide range of vehicles for several roles from Scania, Caterpillar, Cummins, Detroit Diesel, Nissan Diesel UD, Rolls-Royce Diesel and also Bedford & Hino.

History

RFW was founded by former Royal Australian Air Force fitter (Bob) Robert Frederick Whitehead. ^{[1] [2]} RFW completed its first vehicle in 1969, a 8 x 4 [[using a KM Bedford cab dump truck. ^{[3] [4]} All trucks & Bus chassis were custom hand built by a small team to customers specifications & requirements

Output examples

• 9 Airport crash tenders for Royal Malaysian Air Force ^[5]
• 7 6x6 trucks for EPT Electric Power Transmission at Maryong NSW
• 21 4x4 & 6x6 fire proof cab bush fire trucks for Woods & Forest Dept Mount Gambier SA
• 9 Coach chassis for Ansett Pioneer for use in the Northern Territory ^{[6] [7]}
• 3 Road-rail vehicles for Hamersley Iron ^[8]
• 5 Road-rail vehicles for the State Rail Authority ^[9]
• 14x14 wheel drive road legal Sewage pump for Brisbane City Council ^[10]
• Catering vehicles for Qantas ^[2]

References

External links

Media related to RFW at Wikimedia Commons