b'Thiess road camp,early 1930s.1933 1934 1936Horn & Thiess Thiess Bros and Thiess toysHorn & ThiessLes Thiess and Henry Stumpy Horn,After being under-powered forboth in their early twenties, join forces toThiess Bros is officially established the tough Kilkivan job, the brotherstake on bigger jobs, starting the spirit ofand registered in Toowoomba byinvest in a Caterpillar D4 tractor for collaboration that continues to this day. Bert and Stan Thiess. Meanwhile, thetheir next job at Tuchekoi near Gympie.firm of Horn & Thiess is registeredA Caterpillar D6 soon follows, then a in Toowoomba by Stumpy Horn andCaterpillar D8the best (and biggest) Les Thiess. It successfully tenders forequipment that anyone could lay their the Kilkivan roadworks job to removehands on at the time.50,000 cubic yards of earth.11'