Truck Shite

[sutty2006]

[5speedracer]

On 08/12/2024 at 16:56, martc said:

In 1987 R&N Transport put this Seddon Atkinson 4-11 on the road. It had disappeared without trace 10 years later, which is a shame as I really liked them. My fantasy lorry fleet would contain several Seddon Atkinsons, and some Atkinsons.

That must have been near the end of the line for that cab as the Strato was launched in 1988 with the DAF/Pegaso cab and they looked really good. it just made the old cab look old and they did like to rust a bit.

[Vantman]

I had the pleasure of visiting Harrisons depot many years ago when i was 'trunking' i wish i had bought one of these when they became available.

 

[busmansholiday]

2 hours ago, Vantman said:

I had the pleasure of visiting Harrisons depot many years ago when i was 'trunking' i wish i had bought one of these when they became available.

 

Their depot was amazing, how they found drivers who'd drive those when most people were operating power steered Volvos etc was always beyond me 

[sutty2006]

Nissan. To note, nothing underneath is rusty, crusty, grotty, corroded….. must be nice working in a climate where you don’t need a hot spanner to remove nuts n bolts 

 

 

[Volksy]

I think they were originally an EBRO. Which got rebadged as a Nissan when they bought the brand

[martc]

Another foreigner in the USSR.  I think that's a Belaz (probably a 540), with it's bonnet up, behind.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

May be a repeat.

[Dyslexic Viking]

I didn't know that an American truck with an air-cooled Deutz engine existed.

 

[danthecapriman]

13 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I didn't know that an American truck with an air-cooled Deutz engine existed.

 

Those Deutz diesels were also used in some plant equipment over in the USA, front loaders/forklifts etc.

[Dyslexic Viking]

A small number of Praga trucks were sold here in Norway but none are known to have survived and no photos have appeared of any of these until now.

Here is one of them a Rogaland registered Praga in road work in the 1960s.

[martc]

More foreigners in the USSR, as mentioned before I don't understand why they imported lorries when they had a vast, compressive range of home made ones to choose from.

These are Komatsu-Nissan KNWF 15Ts. A joint venture between Komatsu and UD (Nissan Diesel). Strangely a quick internet search throws up only cyrillic brochures, where they made specifically for the USSR, and why did they need brochures it would surely be a state purchase, unless this is post the collapse, if so they are very old looking lorries.

 

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, martc said:

More foreigners in the USSR, as mentioned before I don't understand why they imported lorries when they had a vast, compressive range of home made ones to choose from.

These are Komatsu-Nissan KNWF 15Ts. A joint venture between Komatsu and UD (Nissan Diesel). Strangely a quick internet search throws up only cyrillic brochures, where they made specifically for the USSR, and why did they need brochures it would surely be a state purchase, unless this is post the collapse, if so they are very old looking lorries.

 

Being the USSR I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the foreign trucks and equipment were imported for ‘evaluation and testing’ purposes. Or in English, seeing what everyone else was doing and copying it or backward engineering it for their own products. Like China do!

[Joey spud]

Rings are still going near me.

What would have been the nicer truck to operate ?

[Joey spud]

[somewhatfoolish]

On 08/12/2024 at 17:04, martc said:

I'd have a few Karriers in my fleet as well. Piccadilly Circus, 1967, note the chap operating the sprays from his perch behind the cab.

What's the purpose of this? The amount of water doesn't seem enough to do much washing of gunk into the drains. 

[martc]

2 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

What's the purpose of this? The amount of water doesn't seem enough to do much washing of gunk into the drains. 

I think it was more to dampen the roads to keep the dust down and possibly to cool the streets a little in the summer rather than washing anything  away.

I can remember council bowsers doing this in the '70's (and possibly the '80's) but it's not a routine thing nowadays (at least near me) however you still see road sweepers doing it outside building sites.

[somewhatfoolish]

I remember from holidays in France seeing the streetcleaners using what must have been fire hoses to 'sweep' streets with and wondered if it was an ineffectual british copy.

[willswitchengage]

2 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

I remember from holidays in France seeing the streetcleaners using what must have been fire hoses to 'sweep' streets with and wondered if it was an ineffectual british copy.

Surely in France this is because the streets are always typically on fire?

[somewhatfoolish]

Come to think of it they were wearing yellow tabards.🤔

[bigstraight6]

I’ve driven this from brand new back in February this year, it’s just turned 100,000 miles. 

[busmansholiday]

On 22/12/2024 at 15:45, Joey spud said:

Rings are still going near me.

What would have been the nicer truck to operate ?

I can tell you the Bedford TK may have been reliable but was a real t**t to work on the engine as the cab didn't tilt and that flap behind the cab door was the main access to the engine/ clutch / gearbox.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

May be a repeat.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, bigstraight6 said:

I’ve driven this from brand new back in February this year, it’s just turned 100,000 miles. 

You need a rest, M9!