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[martc]

[danthecapriman]

4 minutes ago, martc said:

You can tell British Rail was a government owned company back then… so much free time they painted that!😆

Fantastic effort though.

[busmansholiday]

So,whilst I was chilling out the local binmen (refuse operators etc) came past in this FORD.

Presumably a rebadged errrr...

 

[quicksilver]

1 hour ago, busmansholiday said:

So,whilst I was chilling out the local binmen (refuse operators etc) came past in this FORD.

Presumably a rebadged errrr...

 

Not a rebadged something else but a Turkish-built descendant of the original Ford Cargo.

[busmansholiday]

2 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

You can tell British Rail was a government owned company back then… so much free time they painted that!😆

Fantastic effort though.

Coal Sector livery.

[danthecapriman]

58 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

Coal Sector livery.

When a mate of mine was a store man at Immingham they were bored one day so dug a can of paint out of the stores and spent the afternoon painting his Marina van in Railfreight grey! It was his own van too! Can’t imagine you’d get away with that sort of thing nowadays.

[busmansholiday]

1 hour ago, danthecapriman said:

When a mate of mine was a store man at Immingham they were bored one day so dug a can of paint out of the stores and spent the afternoon painting his Marina van in Railfreight grey! It was his own van too! Can’t imagine you’d get away with that sort of thing nowadays.

I worked for British Steel, don't ask how many people had blue garage doors...

[Markeh]

Wasn't there the old tale that a load of houses in Birmingham in the 70s and 80s had rooms painted in certain BL shades pinched from Longbridge?

[JakeT]

Applejack walls to go with the avocado fittings. Lovely!

[martc]

NYC Street Cleaner on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street.

[martc]

A KrAZ-256B being loaded by a DT-75 tractor using a PTS-77 loader apparently.

[martc]

The TL, Bedfords last gasp. The ferry behind it lasted a lot longer, built in 1979 for the Swansea-Cork service, the Connacht is still sailing, as Prince, between Italy and Montenegro.

[Vantman]

[Vantman]

[martc]

It's 1962 and we're on the new extension of the motorway between Malmö and Lund. We are installing the lighting on the bridge over the Kronetorp roundabout.

[martc]

Happy

[martc]

Ivan - 'Where do baby Zils come from?'

Boris - 'Well when a big Zil loves many other big Zils...'

These  ZIL-130's are bound for the Soviet republics of Central Asia, 1972.

[martc]

This photograph taken in 1938  andshows engineers busy repairing a Mail Van in the Studd Street Motor Transport Workshop in Islington, North London.

If I've learnt nothing else from various work training videos I do know you really shouldn't be wearing a tie when using rotating equipment.

[martc]

An ATSZ-Servier Centralised Gas Unit on a ZIL-130 chassis , built by the 'Experimental Plant No. 85 of the Civil Aviation' in Riga together with the French company Titan Aviation.

What on earth is a Centralised Gas Unit? For gas should we read 'aviation fuel'? Not that that helps much.

[somewhatfoolish]

On 18/09/2024 at 19:30, martc said:

Vehicles of the Baldini Group, the white one is an OM Lupetto, the 4x4 is a FIAT Campagnolo, the beefy looking one is probably some Yankee WW2 left over, I've no idea what it is.

It looks like a WW2 Chevrolet 1 1/2 tonner, but postwar mix'n'match may have put the cab on something else entirely.

[Leyland Worldmaster]

On an assignment in Europe:

 

[ETCHY]

On 11/10/2024 at 15:42, Vantman said:

Seem odd they use a Bedford, Leyland is only nearby so you'd have thought Leyland would've given them a better deal on a lorry.

[Vantman]

1 hour ago, ETCHY said:

Seem odd they use a Bedford, Leyland is only nearby so you'd have thought Leyland would've given them a better deal on a lorry.

Lathams ran a very mixed fleet, Bedford, Guy, Foden, Atkinson, Scania etc..

[martc]

GAZ-53s being loaded in Gorky River Port, 1986. Note the barge full of Ladas to the left.

[martc]

Several £'s worth on board.

[martc]

We're in The Netherlands, I suspect the lorry is x US Army, possibly refurbished, a thriving industry in the lowlands at the time. But what is it?

[martc]

A KAMAZ-5511 taking away bits of the Berlin Wall, Potsdam Square, November 1989. Note the IFA W50's in the background.

It must have been very bizarre for the members of the DDR armed forces watching this after years of defending it

[martc]

Waterloo Bridge, 1958. Grey.

[quicksilver]

11 minutes ago, martc said:

We're in The Netherlands, I suspect the lorry is x US Army, possibly refurbished, a thriving industry in the lowlands at the time. But what is it?

I think it's a White Ruxtall tank transporter so indeed American and ex military but strangely not the US Army. They were apparently ordered by the French but not delivered before France surrendered to the Germans so they were diverted to the UK.

[quicksilver]

A couple of icons* of past British motoring. The Bond Bug is local and I often see it driving around town. The ERF is the legendary E644 SOG that has been with its current owner for over 25 years - I remember seeing it when I'd go to the fair after school and while everything else has changed it has just stayed the same year after year.