Truck Shite

[Crackers]

If it's cheap enough and the Cylinders have space in the field I'll buy it  

 

editor's note: the above statement is non-binding and may not be used as evidence in any subsequent proceedings.

[808 Estate]

Lets play Thunderbirds.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255613603552?hash=item3b83c20ee0:g:NTAAAOSwYPJiaAD2

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Have we had the Rowe Hillmaster yet? Cornish designed and built and the old workshop still stands to this day. In fact, my brother's mechanic mate used to work there a few years back. 

An interesting read...

http://www.busmuseum.org.uk/webnews/news018.htm

[Datsuncog]

A couple of my (very old) pics posted recently on the Puddlethumper Circus thread, and then I thought mebbe some on here would like a gander too...

Taken in August 1988, I think. The American 3-Ring Circus, touring Ireland that summer.

I'd only recently watched Convoy for the first time, so this got me very excited indeed - it wasn't a Mack R-series, but an F-series was tolerably close...

[bigstraight6]

On 7/11/2022 at 8:19 PM, Dick Longbridge said:

Have we had the Rowe Hillmaster yet? Cornish designed and built and the old workshop still stands to this day. In fact, my brother's mechanic mate used to work there a few years back. 

An interesting read...

http://www.busmuseum.org.uk/webnews/news018.htm

The company I drive for has one on display at the head office in Cullompton, she was brand new to the company.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

21 minutes ago, bigstraight6 said:

The company I drive for has one on display at the head office in Cullompton, she was brand new to the company.

That's fantastic. Kudos to the company for retaining the old girl for 60+ years. I've just googled the plate and found your old post about it: 

Their heritage collection looks immaculate too! 

[High Jetter]

I need to go to Devon again.

[twosmoke300]

That reminds me @chaseracer, don’t forget to give Andy that Hillmaster book 😂

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, twosmoke300 said:

That reminds me @chaseracer, don’t forget to give Andy that Hillmaster book 😂

As soon as he returns from Scotoshite...

😎

[martc]

Ridley Road Market sometime in the 70s. Ridley Road Market has been an East London institution since the late 1880s, encapsulating the area’s rich history of immigration and cultural diversity – sometimes being at the forefront of it, as it was in 1947 and 1949 when it was the site of clashes between Oswald Mosley-led fascists and the Jewish anti-fascist 43 Group.
 

[dozeydustman]

On 09/05/2022 at 20:18, quicksilver said:

And the big question: what on earth was this Perth & Kinross Council dustcart doing 400 miles south in England?!

Transferred to another district which has the sane contractor or bought by a rent-a-wreck place and hired to the local authority in your area.

That distance in a 250hp Econic must have been glacial in pace. And very uncomfortable.

[martc]

Attention lorriests in the East Riding and N Lincs - it's pea picking time which usually involves old lorries with stainless steel hoppers being brought out of their 11 month slumber...

I've seen an ERF, numerous olden Scanias and a Volvo F10(?)  so far...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 7/11/2022 at 8:19 PM, Dick Longbridge said:

Have we had the Rowe Hillmaster yet? Cornish designed and built and the old workshop still stands to this day. In fact, my brother's mechanic mate used to work there a few years back. 

An interesting read...

http://www.busmuseum.org.uk/webnews/news018.htm

Sorting a load of old photos on my phone and discovered these Hillmasters. I'd forgotten I'd seen a load of them ages ago! 

 

[puddlethumper]

Another Vegas truck.

[bigstraight6]

11 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Sorting a load of old photos on my phone and discovered these Hillmasters. I'd forgotten I'd seen a load of them ages ago! 

 

Yes I’ve seen and photographed these, the tractor unit is the sole survivor of the few that were built and originally was registered 1 JAF new to Dingle & Sons of Stoke Climsland, mated to a low loader trailer to move their road rollers and other plant.

[martc]

[sutty2006]

Give me the good ole days before rear under run bars, reflective tape, side marker lights, etc etc etc etc

[Vantman]

For your express deliveries😀----Austin/Morris/Leyland FG  with a Cummins 6BT😃.

[danthecapriman]

Anyone seen this?

Amazing old truck with a bit of a history to it which gets touched on in the vid’s. Looks like an interesting project! The guys also got an old Autocar tractor unit too.

 

[doug]

Spotted at Biggar.


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[martc]

 BelAZ-549B experimental mining dumper with a gas turbine engine from a MI-8 helicopter, 1969.

[CreepingJesus]

Not as abandoned as it seemed at first sight, it seems to be literally 'out to pasture' as a farm/stable hack. 

[martc]

 

[twosmoke300]

Dad bought an IFA like the blue one when we were in Aberdeen . Had a fucked gearbox and no one could rebuild it . This was about 1990 tho 

[808 Estate]

This is rather cute.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155091120323?hash=item241c26b0c3:g:Hr4AAOSw8xFi3sPQ&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsC06FbCKyU7X4XsBvZyqLR9PauKwo1L9%2BaXiTGBcjooL9Wf%2FIFXbJQT6uPECPA%2Bme8T8nD7r62CRl5eV4wktArpnyRqTm57a%2Fb4T8BQYUuNWIxuPmlXHPF%2B4NTkdTdoddABVV%2FZOjqCz%2BttMFRfCvTRu%2BCEgjrSjEAe%2BMorWySqKVLSqn33NBCL5FtKOycgIsD0gEv6TNAJZyYYUiFlT1cT6%2Foc1fmReqbFW8WxfXxeO|tkp%3ABk9SR4K-w5jYYA

[Noel Tidybeard]

headlight peaks on a dustybin lorry- fuck off! 🙄🤔

[puddlethumper]

1 hour ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

headlight peaks on a dustybin lorry- fuck off! 🙄🤔

and a scabby brush.

[Mally]

2 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

and a scabby brush.

Triggers broom.

[CreepingJesus]

<sees Peckham reference>

<sees Trigger reference>

<checks for Robin Reliant*> 

Cushty.

Now had it been Denzil's old Daf 2800, I'd have been all over it. Although in fairness it would make a tidy classic truck with a more sympathetic livery.

Edited August 21, 2022 by CreepingJesus
Sneezed...!

[High Jetter]

Saw this ERF t'other day parked up in a smoll residential close