Truck Shite

[High Jetter]

'the a'?

[martc]

IFA W50LA. The workhorse of the DDR and well beyond.

ZIL-157 Snow Blower.

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Hino shite; an interesting story:

https://driventowrite.com/2021/11/25/hino-trucks-robert-harris/#more-75874

[carburettor]

An truck, an camper, ideal for invading neighbouring Russian countries maybe?

[808 Estate]

That would properly fuck the neighbours off. Worth getting for that alone.

[sutty2006]

6 tonne winch? Wouldn’t pull itself out of bed with that! Nice truck though. 
I can imagine the apocalypse now. Russia invades UK. English man hides in ex Russian truck moving from village to village evading the enemy in search of Beer. 

[martc]

Iraq.

[rml2345]

On 2/12/2022 at 11:18 AM, sutty2006 said:

6 tonne winch? Wouldn’t pull itself out of bed with that! Nice truck though. 
I can imagine the apocalypse now. Russia invades UK. English man hides in ex Russian truck moving from village to village evading the enemy in search of Beer. 

Couple of snatch blocks and you'd be golden.

Also, there's a telly series in there somewhere. 

[sutty2006]

On 2/13/2022 at 2:46 PM, martc said:

Iraq.

That water looks suspicious. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Does anyone know why Bedford TK has hinges under the side window at the back? Have marked them in red below.

[busmansholiday]

Engine access, the cab doesn't tilt.

[JimH]

It's one of the reasons TKs were so popular as horse boxes and lutons. You didn't need to mess around trying to keep the cab tilting.

Of course, the other reason was that Bedfords are smashing but we all knew that.

[Crackers]

I know very litte about TKs, how would you go about anything other than routine servicing using an access flap like that? Surely accessing anything that wasn't right at the back of the engine would be a nightmare.

[worldofceri]

I imagine there’s a big ol’ removable engine cover inside the cab. Side hatch would be just for checking/topping up  levels I’d have thought.

[Vantman]

31 minutes ago, worldofceri said:

I imagine there’s a big ol’ removable engine cover inside the cab. Side hatch would be just for checking/topping up  levels I’d have thought.

No removable cover in the cab,side flaps and rear lower area of cab only. Most coachbuilders built in access covers to the front of the floor and bulkhead of the luton/box/horse and cattle box.

[quicksilver]

Was this style of Bedford the last forward-control truck available in the UK with a fixed cab? The small Bedfords finally gained a tilt cab with the TL in 1980, but the TK continued alongside it and the military M-type that used the TK cab survived beyond the end of Bedford in 1986 and was produced by AWD right up to 1992.

Fun fact: the Matchbox TK tanker has a tilt cab. An interesting case where lack of realism made the toy better than the real thing.

[rml2345]

Are TK cabs not held on with something daft like six bolts so they can be easily removed for serious engine work? Not as convenient as a proper tilt cab but better than a coach built affair. 

[martc]

Covent Garden 1972.

[Vantman]

On 18/02/2022 at 21:46, rml2345 said:

Are TK cabs not held on with something daft like six bolts so they can be easily removed for serious engine work? Not as convenient as a proper tilt cab but better than a coach built affair. 

To remove a TK cab you remove 4 cab mounting bolts, disconnect the wiring multiplugs, undo the steering column etc., then open both doors and lift off using a wide as possible lifting strap. The worst cab on job is changing a water pump, as it has to be done through the gear lever aperture.

[Dyslexic Viking]

15 minutes ago, Vantman said:

The worst cab on job is changing a water pump, as it has to be done through the gear lever aperture.

That sounds like an awful job. 

[ETCHY]

All this talk of Bedfords..

This is what they had to offer in 1973

 

[Vantman]

Thanks for posting that,great Covent Garden market memories for me, i used to go there as a 10 year old in 1955, leave home at midnight in a Bedford S type, a 2 hour journey to market,help unload and reload and 2 hours journey back home.  It was trips like this that started my interest in lorries and led to spending most of my working life with them.

[martc]

Meanwhile in Iraq.

[808 Estate]

[dozeydustman]

On 03/07/2021 at 16:38, martc said:

More pop deliveries...

I think Alpine was the Scottish tipple of choice, our local supplier was Citra.

 

My parents had an Alpine pop delivery once a week. I've always lived in the South East.

[martc]

13 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

My parents had an Alpine pop delivery once a week. I've always lived in the South East.

Turns out Alpine were based in Manchester and delivered all over the place.

[willswitchengage]

One for those with their speakers plugged in - M35A2 'Deuce and a Half'.

These were the staple trucks of the US armed forces from shortly after the Second World War until the 90s, when they phased out in favour of the boring Austrian designed FMTV. The A2 variant had a Hercules/Continental turbocharged 8 litre diesel, with probably the loudest stock turbo ever fitted to a truck. Unsurprisingly they were called 'whistlers'.

 

[doug]

From the ebay thread, anybody identify make and model of this truck?

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[Metal Guru]

On 20/02/2022 at 09:59, Dyslexic Viking said:

That sounds like an awful job. 

More like a job for a gynaecologist !

[quicksilver]

26 minutes ago, doug said:

From the ebay thread, anybody identify make and model of this truck?

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It's a Magirus-Deutz, probably 6x4 or 6x6 with an air-cooled V8.