Six wheels / 3 axles

[Junkman]

[Formula Autos]

[eddyramrod]

[twosmoke300]

The Chinese 6 lorry and bus has pretty much died out . Think the last one I saw was a milk tanker and that was years ago.

[mouseflakes]

[willswitchengage]

Leyland DAF Chinese Six by colinfpickett, on Flickr

[Micrashed]

Meanwhile, in Sunny Tenby....

 

[Squire_Dawson]

[londonm]

^ That Morris looks fucking appalling.

[Asimo]

^^ Half timbered and half arsed.

[Partridge]

8 wheels, because I can't count.

[gary_davidson]

[gary_davidson]

well hello there 

[Inspector Morose]

[Spiny Norman]

[Spiny Norman]

[Inspector Morose]

[Junkman]

[Inspector Morose]

[DSdriver]

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Well that's kicked a few brain cells into life. I was born in sarf lunnon, Anerley near Penge to be exact and we had the last trolley bus route in London going past our flats. I must have been on one a couple of times cos I seem to recall that they were quiet and there was a space at the front (presumably where the engine on a proper bus would have been) where people used to throw sweet wrappers and stuff. They had a long pole stored on them somewhere so that the driver could hook the overhead connection back on when it fell off. I was less than four years old at the time because I know we moved in 1956 to a posh house in West Wickham.

[Inspector Morose]

 

Just for you DS Driver.

 

 

 

 

[DSdriver]

Cheers!

[Junkman]

Six wheels, three axles, yawn...

 

[rml2345]

^ That thing is proper bonkers. Does it not have a hidden wheel used for testing tyres or something? I remember it appeared in an issue of Truck & Driver or similar years ago.

[Junkman]

Correct, it is a rolling tyre test laboratory built by Michelin.

It has two Small Block Chevies in the back, one for propelling the vehicle, one for driving the single central specimen tyre.

Since it is 'based' on a DS Break, it doesn't need Bureaux des Mines type approval to be road legal, officially it is just a modified DS.

[Asimo]

After all of the Hydropneumatic French madness,

 

Hydragas!  (Citroen engine however)

[anonymous user]

[dollywobbler]

I think this is thread of the year so far for me. Love it.

 

This is my own pic, hence it's not the ideal angle.

[willswitchengage]

Three + trailer

 

[pshome]

 

504 with sensible distribution of the 3 axles over the length of the vehicle.