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[willswitchengage]

That 8v -92 dunt fuck about eh?

 

I'm pretty sure the Carmichael airport fire engines used those.

 

Incidentally, just googled it and Carmichaels appears to be the most recent British vehicle manufacturer to close its doors - in mid 2018. RIP.

[bigstraight6]

Cummins also did a V6 IIRC, sure Atkinson and possible Foden used it.

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Dodge fitted the ill fated Cummins V6 vale engines in their 500 series, it was a very poor engine with numerous issues and was dropped after a short time and the company reverting to Perkins engines..

[sutty2006]

I'm pretty sure the Carmichael airport fire engines used those.

 

Incidentally, just googled it and Carmichaels appears to be the most recent British vehicle manufacturer to close its doors - in mid 2018. RIP.

2 stroke V8 diesels. They sound freaking awesome.

[busmansholiday]

2 stroke V8 diesels. They sound freaking awesome.

They did sound freaking awesome, especially with twin exhausts up the back of the cabs. We had a few 6x4 Scammells fitted with them for heavy haulage.

[Vin]

The green Volvos and Mercedes look like former fleet members of 'Humber McVeigh' of Grimsby... (they are Grimsby registrations too, JV & EE...)

 

 

[quicksilver]

OK truck lickers, what's the lorry in bigstraight6's avatar? I do know but it's a pretty obscure beast.

[doug]

OK truck lickers, what's the lorry in bigstraight6's avatar? I do know but it's a pretty obscure beast.

 

I know........but I cheated with google.

[Vantman]

Rowe Hillmaster?

[bigstraight6]

Rowe Hillmaster?

It is indeed a Rowe Hillmaster, one of the 120 or there abouts built by the Cornish company between 1954-62. The particular example in my avatar (126 CAF) is 1 of 15 that are apparently known to survive though I’ve not seen this particular lorry myself as it’s under restoration, I have seen a fair few of the other survivors as most are owned by Westcountry based enthusiasts and appear at local shows.

Another example (37 AOD) has just been restored by its original owners, the Gregory transport company and the lorry is now proudly on display in a heritage reception area of the companies Cullompton base.

[quicksilver]

The fair is in Milton Keynes at the moment. Amongst all the modern stuff I found this pair of classic Fodens still going strong with Hatwells Leisure's Electric Dreams Waltzer, and very nice they are too.

 

GCE 479W - Perry Hatwell by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

E465 MHW - Perry Hatwell by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

That puddle was really quite large BTW but those Fodens were worth getting wet feet for

On reflection... by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

[mercrocker]

Lovely....it saddens me to think that there might be no more fairground Fodens before long.    Resourceful bunch though, showmen, so maybe they will keep 'em going a bit longer.

[DodgeRover]

The last few times the fairs came by they were empty, I doubt they were even covering wages for the casuals let alone making any money. I wouldn't want to be a traveling ride owner/ operator these days

The days of getting £10 an hour cash for putting up/ pulling down then taking tickets/ eyeing up women at the smaller shows are gone.

[DodgeRover]

Wandered past a truck graveyard I've seen but not been able to get a photo before. This is the best I could manage.

[bangernomics]

Dad used to drive for these and those old A series were rebuilt overnight sometimes.

 

 

Used to go to Gordon’s farm on a Saturday morning and get paid about £20 to wash wagons. Best part was reversing them into impossible gaps because you could. Weird how I ended up in IT really.

[bangernomics]

I also used that red paint to do the rear subframe on my first mini after the radius arms died.

[Pillock]

Had a trip up to the Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland, because why not.

 

It's a good start when this is in their carpark...

 

Drinking and Driving is bad, mkay, but apparently you needed a stiff drink after piloting this

 

Anyone remember the Scampi Fries advert with the Roadrunner driving out of the sea? This is the scale model they used

 

TEH FEWTURE

[yellowperil]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz4XIldOb2E

 

This Scampi Fries advert?

[somewhatfoolish]

[bangernomics]

Had a trip up to the Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland, because why not.

 

It's a good start when this is in their carpark...

 

Drinking and Driving is bad, mkay, but apparently you needed a stiff drink after piloting this

 

Anyone remember the Scampi Fries advert with the Roadrunner driving out of the sea? This is the scale model they used

 

TEH FEWTURE

The future looks like an old Citroen

[Pillock]

It was the mid 90s take on the future, so it's sort of our futuristic past.

 

That said.... Well their idea of what the future entailed was:

 

* Aluminium chassis bonded with glue rather than welded.

* Computer controlled engine (fuel injection etc)

* Satnav (well, the speedo had "miles until next turn")

* A TV screen for unknown purposes

* Aerodynamic aids

 

I don't reckon that's a bad stab. Apparently it was on Tomorrow's World.

[Eddie Honda]

That's Eck Norton innit?

[Jon]

Cheers for the photos, Pillock, I'm glad the museum's still going. I went there in 1994 when I went on a mini-break to a hotel in Preston, with my parents (halcyon days....). I don't remember seeing the Scampi Fries Roadrunner at the time, which is strange, as I love Scampi Fries and I can't think where else it may have been at the time. I think if I'd been the model maker and spent all that time detailing that model, I'd be a bit miffed to see how little of it was actually seen in the final advert - I reckon the box body on a home made wooden go-cart chassis would've sufficed!

 

I also remember seeing the Transit Supervan II in its original mk2 body and livery, before the body was butchered into the smiley face Supervan 3 that Ford demonstrated a couple of years later.

 

 

I also brought this back as a souvenir of my visit:

 

 

Quite why I bought a souvenir ash tray aged 13 (when no-one in our house smoked), I'll never know. Equally strange is why I chose to bring it to NZ with me...

[doug]

Yours truly in the very truck.

 

[Jon]

Oh yeah, I had to have a 'go' in it myself, too! 

[doug]

This photo was taken at the auction at the break up of the old Albion Museum in Dumfries some years ago.

[Vantman]

Sleeper cab 1965 style!

 

[bigstraight6]

That LAD sleeper cab looks great, though it looks a bit of a struggle to get up on the bunk! Normally those cabs had 2 headlamps, and the sun visor is an extra, maybe it was destined for overseas

[martc]

^^^^ Where are those side windows in the boudoir from? First thoughts was a Reliant Regal mk111 but it doesn't look quite right...

 

 

I've definitely seen something like them somewhere and it's bugging me.

 

The hair mattress certainly sounds inviting though.

[Vantman]

[willswitchengage]

Saw some sick lorries on Saturday night... I was on the bus and these bad boys were moving some electrical transformer on the other side of the road. There was a pusher tractor too. We got ourselves a convoy!