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quicksilver Rank: Renault 16

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Spotted this today. Not as I thought an Isuzu although it has the same cab, but the prototype of the new Rightech RT75 electric truck developed by Wrightbus in conjunction with a Chinese company. I assume it was going to the Wrightbus Repower centre in Bicester but obviously not trusted to get there under its own power as it was being towed by a diesel wrecker.

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The Old Bloke Next Door Rank: Lancia Gamma

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danthecapriman Rank: Talbot Tagora

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51 minutes ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

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Jesus! That one company must be responsible for probably 99% of all Leyland Marathon sales!

quicksilver Rank: Renault 16

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13 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Jesus! That one company must be responsible for probably 99% of all Leyland Marathon sales!

And they're still in business today so they obviously survived the experience.

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Metal Guru Rank: Talbot Tagora

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6 hours ago, quicksilver said:

And they're still in business today so they obviously survived the experience.

I remember them , used to be based in Strood in Kent when I lived there. (Still are I think).

martc Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Up the Luton.

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Bilofix was a spin off from Lego, instead of plastic they used wood and metal.

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martc Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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1965 transport cafe, Oxfordshire. Looks like an Austin  Morris FF outside.

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martc Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Canella is still with us and is a national institution in Italy.

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martc Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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We've had a look at these Magirus Deutz lookalikes before. As we know they are in fact ZIL-4331s at the I.A.Likhachev plant, 1985. Any resemblance to the Magirus is purely coincidental.

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5 hours ago, martc said:

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Plucky Brits used the colour scheme and developed a long running sitcom from that pic, fun phact 🤣

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6 hours ago, martc said:

Up the Luton.

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Bilofix was a spin off from Lego, instead of plastic they used wood and metal.

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Totally passed me by, but spent hours with Balsa wood at school. (This place, not thought about that for decades)

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quicksilver Rank: Renault 16

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I hadn't seen anything properly old apart from the odd horsebox for a while but these two N-reg oldies turned up today. Hard to believe they're getting on for 30 years old.

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danthecapriman Rank: Talbot Tagora

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This just came up on my YouTube.

Interesting video about heavy haul. 
Seeing the Pickford’s trucks delivering the transformer was good. That transformer was the kind of thing I used to work on! Good to see how they would have been taken to site.

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martc Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I remember watching a set of those delivering a transformer to Creyke Beck sub station in Cottingham, watching them get around the junction of Park Lane and Northgate from my mates front bedroom was something I won't forget.

Incidentally, Creyke Beck is now the southerly terminal of the Dogger Bank wind farm (the world's largest, currently being built in the North Sea, which will provide enough power for 6 million homes) and similarly large transformers were also delivered in a similar manner, by Allelys, but this time down the A1079 Beverley by-pass rather than Park Lane as a) Park Lane is too twisty and b) the new substation is the other side of the railway.

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The transformers, made by Hitachi, were offloaded at King George V docks in Hull, driven up the A63, then cross country and back down the A1079 to the site.

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martc Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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A 1968 Commer Santana Walk-Thru of the Spanish Civil Protection service. Santana Motors introduced them in October 1963 manufacturing them under licence at its Linares factory. The Walk-Thru was used by many companies for merchandise distribution for example Correos (the Spanish post office), Coca-Cola and the curiously named Bimbo. The one above has a 4-cylinder, 3.33 litre, 70hp Perkins 4203 diesel engine.

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On 23/02/2025 at 17:00, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

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Swains continued running Marathons long after most had disappeared from the roads and the did the same with the Roadtrains that followed.

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