Found slides: Seventy years ago, the crowds gather around to cheer on the first drivers to cross the finish line (and, eventually, declared the winners) of the Redex Round Australia Reliability Trial in Park Avenue, Westmead, Burramattagal Country, Western Sydney, 11 September 1955. Photo by a member of the Down or Tyler families
1: Looking towards the Redex Round Australia Reliability Trial 1955 road race finish line, marked by banners over a street in Western Sydney. Among the crowd of spectators are a pair of police officers, reporters, photographers, newsreel camera operators on top of vans and several steel caravans
2: Spectators crowd around the garlanded and blue boiler-suited drivers of the first cars across the finish line. Almost everyone’s attention, however, is drawn to something happening to the right of the photo: from their expressions, one could assume that they’re listening to the announcement that the winners would not be finalised until the condition of the cars was examined (later ruled in these drivers’ favour)
3: Another view of the crowds in the street, watching as the two drivers, mostly obscured by the crowd, walk beneath a newsreel camera operator panning across the scene