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[quicksilver]

Some Sunday evening spotting as it was the Gaydon Retro Show today and I was hoping a few things would come home this way. This bellowing V8 Scania turned up almost immediately

But what's that on the back? Let's have a closer look.

This lot were all in convoy, heading back to Suffolk. The Harvester King is quite a famous lorry apparently.

And these guys are from Milton Keynes so I see them quite often but not usually with a load like this.

 

[High Jetter]

Mk 1 Tranny is FIT!

[Crackers]

Some lovely trucks up at Statfold Barn this weekend. 

The COE Mack is one of 3 in the country apparently and the owner has driven all 3 of them at various times. 

I have never seen this before, apparently it was a prototype based on a Leyland Cub(?) bus chassis. 

And this... Well I've never seen or heard of an FTF before. Some kind of showmans tractor perhaps? The badge suggested it's Detroit V8 powered and has an auto transmission of some kind, maybe Allison. Looks pretty chonky! 

[martc]

FTF - Floor Truck Fabriek, part of  Floor's Handel en Industrie  - is one of those makers that regularly appeared in the Observers Book of Commercial Vehicles. 

Several smaller Dutch and Belgian builders  started life modifying the thousands of allied (in particular US) lorries left behind after the second world war. Once the supply dried up they built their own with proprietary parts - often UK sourced.

FTF followed a slightly different path - first as hauliers, then building trailers and then assembling new Macks from kits, but by the '60's they started to make there own lorries . They followed the pattern of their sister companies by using  proprietary parts, in their case US engines and Motor Panels cabs. They stopped production in 1995.

 

 

[martc]

On 9/11/2023 at 12:20 PM, Crackers said:

I have never seen this before, apparently it was a prototype based on a Leyland Cub(?) bus chassis. 

 

Talking of over hanging cabs -

A tight bend in town and you could take out several dozen pedestrians with either of these.

Labelled as 'a well-known vehicle in Monaco' - how well known is it? (I've never heard of it, but there again I'm not the sort of person you'd find in Monaco).

 

[Crackers]

48 minutes ago, martc said:

Talking of over hanging cabs -

A tight bend in town and you could take out several dozen pedestrians with either of these.

Labelled as 'a well-known vehicle in Monaco' - how well known is it? (I've never heard of it, but there again I'm not the sort of person you'd find in Monaco.

 

Yes, it reminded me of that one. Was custom built by Merc for the sole purpose of transporting that race car on the back. It was supposedly capable of 100mph loaded! 

Jay Leno has a working replica. 

[busmansholiday]

19 hours ago, Crackers said:

 

I have never seen this before, apparently it was a prototype based on a Leyland Cub(?) bus chassis

Tiger Cub bus chassis. 

[martc]

Any idea what the lorry, with the spectacular front wings, is? We're in Helsinki in 1960.

[Vantman]

Bedford J type

[martc]

3 minutes ago, Vantman said:

Bedford J type

Ta, that was quick, I thought it might have been a Sisu, or something from Sweden, didn't think it would be a Bedford.... have some cheese as a reward -

 

[Vantman]

Thanks!   I knew straight away as the picture i posted was of my Bedford J3,my venture into the world of car transport.

[quicksilver]

9 minutes ago, Vantman said:

Thanks!   I knew straight away as the picture i posted was of my Bedford J3,my venture into the world of car transport.

Was it an ex AA wagon? Looks very much like the first batch of AA Relay vehicles with the 3.3 petrol Cresta engine.

 

[Vantman]

1 hour ago, quicksilver said:

Was it an ex AA wagon? Looks very much like the first batch of AA Relay vehicles with the 3.3 petrol Cresta engine.

 

It certainly was ex AA,i wouldn't want to be running it now with the price of fuel!

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Vantman said:

Thanks!   I knew straight away as the picture i posted was of my Bedford J3,my venture into the world of car transport.

Nice pic. A D in your surname would make you a fortune!

[MiniMinorMk3]

Ernest Marples, the transport minister, carries out checks on a diesel vehicle in November 1963 as pressure increased to reduce emissions.

[martc]

This is the Roustabout Trivan made in Frackville, Pensilvania. The Trivan’s power came from either a Kohler 32hp 2 cylinder 4 stroke air cooled petrol engine or a 30hp 2 cylinder 2 stroke air cooled diesel engine that powered the single rear wheel. The Trivan had a fibreglass body attached to a heavy duty steel tube chassis and 'airbag' suspension. Production cstarted in 1962 and ended in 1964 after 112 vehicles had been made.

[5speedracer]

On 8/31/2023 at 5:08 PM, martc said:

When I started with a small car haulier in 1996 I had one of those Hoyner trailers, a full 20 years after this one was snapped. With some extra rampage it was possible to get 9 Fiesta/Corsa sized cars on it.

[quicksilver]

3 hours ago, martc said:

This is the Roustabout Trivan made in Frackville, Pensilvania. The Trivan’s power came from either a Kohler 32hp 2 cylinder 4 stroke air cooled petrol engine or a 30hp 2 cylinder 2 stroke air cooled diesel engine that powered the single rear wheel. The Trivan had a fibreglass body attached to a heavy duty steel tube chassis and 'airbag' suspension. Production cstarted in 1962 and ended in 1964 after 112 vehicles had been made.

A pickup with a single rear wheel right in the middle of the load bed? What a gr8* design.

[martc]

 

 

A Berliet Stradair serving as a studio for RMC, Istres, late 1960's.

[martc]

[martc]

A fantastic looking Citroën NDP350.

[martc]

Now should this be in the lorry or bus section? It's got to be a coach underneath, but it's a van above. Hestair were the corporate owners of Dennis at the time.

The photo shows it on West Ealing Broadway, 1978. Also spot the Lancia.

 

[busmansholiday]

21 hours ago, martc said:

Now should this be in the lorry or bus section? It's got to be a coach underneath, but it's a van above. Hestair were the corporate owners of Dennis at the time.

The photo shows it on West Ealing Broadway, 1978. Also spot the Lancia.

 

Looks more likely it's a LWB version of the Dennis Delta 1600 truck chassis. 

[martc]

Any idea what the transporter is?

[martc]

Another fantastic Berliet - a mobile shop in this case, flogging beach goods by the look of it.

[martc]

'It says here six blue ones and a green one; anyone seen the green one?'

[5speedracer]

14 minutes ago, martc said:

'It says here six blue ones and a green one; anyone seen the green one?'

That must have been an absolute twat if you ever had to reverse.

[Vantman]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Any idea what the transporter is?

@martc Commer chassis with Alexander body.

[quicksilver]

2 hours ago, martc said:

Any idea what the transporter is?

The famous Ecurie Ecosse transporter as modelled by Corgi. Commer Avenger coach chassis with TS3 engine and bespoke Alexander body. It even gets a mention on the Ecurie Ecosse Wikipedia page, which says it sold for £1.8 million in 2013. Lynx restored it, hence the Eventer.

[Shep Shepherd]

My current wagon. I'm now tramping for a small general haulage company in West Thurrock, having finished with Woodland Group in July after nearly three years (between then and starting my current job, I suffered five weeks working for Uniserve, whose transport department couldn't run a piss-up in a brewery; just because a company has a fleet of brand new trucks, it doesn't mean that it's any good to work for). A definite step up from the knackered 17 plate Actros I used to drive ^^