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January 10

Here’s another from the NCB days. Scammell Crusader with a V8 Detroit motor. 2 stroke diesel screamer, sounded awesome.
second pic is how it now looks.

10,466 · January 10

46 minutes ago, rattlecan said:

Here’s another from the NCB days. Scammell Crusader with a V8 Detroit motor. 2 stroke diesel screamer, sounded awesome.
second pic is how it now looks.

As many of these as you've got please!

January 10

1 hour ago, Matty said:

As many of these as you've got please!

Ok few more. The Guy Big J4T tractor unit was another one of our garage breakdown trucks. When it had sort of ‘come to the end of its life’ predictably the fitters got it (coz we were obviously scum 🤣) so we made a solid bar for it for tow ins.

The rest are just part of the fleet

January 10

Strangely I’ve only just realised but the Marina van hiding behind the Leyland Octopus, I bought from the Coal Board before it went to auction for the princely sum of £200. Was perfect for my bloody great Doberman at the time

1,510 · January 11

21 hours ago, rattlecan said:

Ok few more. The Guy Big J4T tractor unit was another one of our garage breakdown trucks. When it had sort of ‘come to the end of its life’ predictably the fitters got it (coz we were obviously scum 🤣) so we made a solid bar for it for tow ins.

The rest are just part of the fleet

Thanks for posting all these. I grew up in a mining area - our house was 2 streets away from the pit (but not the one my dad worked at). Those that would have been in use in the 70s & 80s bring my childhood memories flooding back.

January 11

22 minutes ago, auntiemaryscanary said:

Thanks for posting all these. I grew up in a mining area - our house was 2 streets away from the pit (but not the one my dad worked at). Those that would have been in use in the 70s & 80s bring my childhood memories flooding back.

I worked at the Road Transport Depot for Notts area near J28 M1 (it’s now a MacArthur Glenn Designer Outlet shopping centre) some of the pics I’ve already put up are in the yard there.

Heres some more, (although not vehicles per say, in fact one is yours truly as a young lad) but they are of the garage & yard on the very last day of British Coal ownership before we all got sent up the road. I took a camera to work that day knowing it was so. They aren’t the best as they are pics of pics, but you get the idea

10,466 · January 11

16 minutes ago, rattlecan said:

I worked at the Road Transport Depot for Notts area near J28 M1 (it’s now a MacArthur Glenn Designer Outlet shopping centre) some of the pics I’ve already put up are in the yard there.

Heres some more, (although not vehicles per say, in fact one is yours truly as a young lad) but they are of the garage & yard on the very last day of British Coal ownership before we all got sent up the road. I took a camera to work that day knowing it was so. They aren’t the best as they are pics of pics, but you get the idea

My best mate at work was in engineering at Hapton Valley colliery near Burnley. Went from school and stayed till near the end. When Hapton shut he transfered to Agecroft till that shut then spent some time on coal sampling. Now fucks about in paper Mills with me. I'll show him these pictures tomorow. Thanks @rattlecan. Solid gold these

1,510 · January 11

20 minutes ago, rattlecan said:

I worked at the Road Transport Depot for Notts area near J28 M1 (it’s now a MacArthur Glenn Designer Outlet shopping centre) some of the pics I’ve already put up are in the yard there.

Heres some more, (although not vehicles per say, in fact one is yours truly as a young lad) but they are of the garage & yard on the very last day of British Coal ownership before we all got sent up the road. I took a camera to work that day knowing it was so. They aren’t the best as they are pics of pics, but you get the idea

Thanks again. What a handsome young man, bet you couldn't keep those Sutton lasses away from those luscious locks🤣

I lived near Mansfield (Crown Farm) Colliery. Dad worked at Clipo (Clipstone). I left school in 1986. Dad made a half hearted effort to ask me if I wanted to try and get an apprenticeship at the pit. Never sure why he raised it, he truly hated working underground. Well the writing was on the wall for coal mining by then and I declined. The old man took redundancy just before RJB took over. The mine itself limped on til 2003.

January 11

55 minutes ago, auntiemaryscanary said:

Thanks again. What a handsome young man, bet you couldn't keep those Sutton lasses away from those luscious locks🤣

I lived near Mansfield (Crown Farm) Colliery. Dad worked at Clipo (Clipstone). I left school in 1986. Dad made a half hearted effort to ask me if I wanted to try and get an apprenticeship at the pit. Never sure why he raised it, he truly hated working underground. Well the writing was on the wall for coal mining by then and I declined. The old man took redundancy just before RJB took over. The mine itself limped on til 2003.

Great stuff, don’t know if you know, but Clipo headstocks (which were always some of the highest ever) have been given ‘listed’ status.

Last I heard some company was trying to set up some sort of zip line from the top of them.

Can just imagine a few ‘old boys’ saying 50 quid to climb up there, ya can get fucked, I spent half my life there. 🤣

40,906 · January 13

Meanwhile, another nationalised coal miner using MAZ-205's in a drift mine in Gusinoozersk, the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1959

40,906 · January 13

Italian advert saying it comes with an Opel diesel engine. Any different to the diesels fitted to UK models?

40,906 · January 13

A C-1036B concrete mixer on a MAZ-5334 chassis, Rostov Oblast Volgodonsk. The banner reads '500,000m3 concrete' so I guess they are celebrating the production of 500,000m3 of concrete.

40,906 · January 13

40,906 · January 13

Kamaz 53212.

3,547 · January 13

As promised by my gaffer before Christmas, I was upgraded to a 26t Volvo FM when I returned to work after the holidays. Here it is at Fleet Services on January 2nd, my first day driving it:

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And here it is in Kings Lynn yesterday:

All in all, it's a fabulous truck (It's great to be back in a Volvo at last), despite the cab's interior being a bit muckier than I'd have liked. It's cleaning up well, though

17,896 · January 13

4 hours ago, martc said:

I wonder how close that can design is to the Ford-IVECO Cargo and subsequent Eurocargo. Is they were just cosmetic updates there's a candidate here for a 40yo design.

10,468 · January 13

56 minutes ago, willswitchengage said:

I wonder how close that can design is to the Ford-IVECO Cargo and subsequent Eurocargo. Is they were just cosmetic updates there's a candidate here for a 40yo design.

I think the EuroCargo cab was all new and shared nothing with the Ford cab but is itself an over 30-year old design. It's had a couple of facelifts, but the cab shell is the same one that was introduced in 1991. Ashok Leyland in India may still be using the original Ford cab though.

10,466 · January 13

6 hours ago, martc said:

Italian advert saying it comes with an Opel diesel engine. Any different to the diesels fitted to UK models?

I know the CF2s that my dad had when I was little were opel diesels. Don't know about the CF1

2,567 · January 14

Here is my lorry.

40,906 · January 14

20 hours ago, quicksilver said:

Ashok Leyland in India may still be using the original Ford cab though.

This one?

The Ecomet, looks similar overall but there are differences - door windows and lights for example.

https://www.ashokleyland.com/in/en/products/trucks/ecomet-1415-te-2

10,468 · January 14

1 hour ago, martc said:

This one?

The Ecomet, looks similar overall but there are differences - door windows and lights for example.

https://www.ashokleyland.com/in/en/products/trucks/ecomet-1415-te-2

Definitely the same cab shell. Different doors and grille but the rest is the same. The grille design reminds me a bit of the Leyland G cab.

17,896 · January 15

Dennis Eagle has made a tractor! Well, given their venerable Elite 2 a fifth wheel.

It's marketed at a 44tonner - I wonder how the Volvo D8 engine will cope with that.

4,288 · January 15

On 14/01/2024 at 19:21, martc said:

This one?

The Ecomet, looks similar overall but there are differences - door windows and lights for example.

https://www.ashokleyland.com/in/en/products/trucks/ecomet-1415-te-2

That does appear to be the ancient Ford Cargo cab, it’s a funny old World where an Indian truck manufacturer currently uses the Leyland ‘plughole’ badge from the latter era of Lorry production in the UK, but you can now buy a Chinese electric MG car here if you wish.

January 15

Whoops, sorry it's upside down!

4,688 · January 17

Was looking for something else when I found these…. Is the Leyland a truck or a coach?

19,188 · January 17

On 14/01/2024 at 19:21, martc said:

This one?

The Ecomet, looks similar overall but there are differences - door windows and lights for example.

https://www.ashokleyland.com/in/en/products/trucks/ecomet-1415-te-2

I shall ask the question at work of those that might know. There are people with 50 years service starting when it was the plughole of doom. (Some call it the arsehole of doom)

8,972 · January 17

8 hours ago, andrew e said:

Was looking for something else when I found these…. Is the Leyland a truck or a coach?

Leyland Leopard bus chassis with Marshall body, apparently now preserved.

19,188 · January 17

On 15/01/2024 at 19:59, bigstraight6 said:

That does appear to be the ancient Ford Cargo cab, it’s a funny old World where an Indian truck manufacturer currently uses the Leyland ‘plughole’ badge from the latter era of Lorry production in the UK, but you can now buy a Chinese electric MG car here if you wish.

According to my guru this morning, its probably a 1970s Leyland designed chassis, and they are chucking a different cab on it.

To be fair, the Daf LF made at Leyland has cabs we buy from Renault. It comes fully trimmed to our spec. And it's bolted to hinges on the chassis.

January 17

On 13/01/2024 at 16:36, martc said:

Italian advert saying it comes with an Opel diesel engine. Any different to the diesels fitted to UK models?

We had a huge fleet of them at the NCB, in a variety of forms. Vans, mini bus, pick ups etc. Probably more than a hundred I’d guess & all had Opel diesels in them. Absolutely shit they were, wouldn’t pull ya foreskin back & leaked oil from every possible gasket known to man.

We did have about 6 that were Mines Rescue vans, so they had the 2.3 petrols in, same as Victor, Firenza etc & they were sound

22,904 · January 17

On 13/01/2024 at 16:36, martc said:

talian advert saying it comes with an Opel diesel engine. Any different to the diesels fitted to UK models?

Originally the Bedford CF had Diesel engines from Perkins, the 52hp 4.108 or the 62hp 4.154.

Opel engines from ‘77.

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