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[martc]

Blackpool South signal box being demolished April 1982.

[martc]

Thirty years ago, on the 20th of July 1994, serial production of the GAZ-3302 'Gazel' began at the Gorkiv Automobile Plant.

Isn't there some sort of connection between the Gazel (Gazelle in English) and the Sherpa?

[bigstraight6]

5 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

That’s fantastic! I love seeing stuff like that.

Youd never get away with it nowadays running equipment in that condition. I don’t think the equipment would last nowadays being used abused like that either. 

A few similar AEC’s used for that road building type use were found in an old yard a few years ago with some other road trucks. Pretty sure they’ve been restored to road worthy condition now. 
There were some that had their cabs cut in half for whatever reason too, so driver only!

AEC’s were so well built as evidenced by that video, very old at the time but still capable of gruelling work and the sound of those engines! 

[martc]

Fassi are still very much with us and making a massive variety of lorry mounted cranes, lifts etc ...

https://www.fassi.com/it/

 

[martc]

[martc]

14th Street and 9th Ave, New York, in the 1980s, this was the meat packing area and also a notorious red light district, make your own jokes.

[bigstraight6]

12 minutes ago, martc said:

14th Street and 9th Ave, New York, in the 1980s, this was the meat packing area and also a notorious red light district, make your own jokes.

Can’t park that there drives!…

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, martc said:

Thirty years ago, on the 20th of July 1994, serial production of the GAZ-3302 'Gazel' began at the Gorkiv Automobile Plant.

Isn't there some sort of connection between the Gazel (Gazelle in English) and the Sherpa?

Echoes of Espace?

[bigstraight6]

I had a love of Lorries from an early age, when I was about 12 years old I used to visit the premises of a small operator of tippers that was very close to our family home, they ran a mixed fleet of Leyland, AEC, Ford and Scammell ‘s and this image brings the memories back of the fleet parked up for the weekend on rough ground with the puddles they stood in stinking of diesel. Happy days!

[Supernaut]

23 hours ago, martc said:

14th Street and 9th Ave, New York, in the 1980s, this was the meat packing area and also a notorious red light district, make your own jokes.

Woah, a White Western Star!

I only know that from the game Snowrunner. It's a good truck. In the game at least.

[martc]

1 minute ago, Supernaut said:

Woah, a White Western Star!

I only know that from the game Snowrunner. It's a good truck. In the game at least.

Good spot, which one?

[Dyslexic Viking]

23 hours ago, martc said:

14th Street and 9th Ave, New York, in the 1980s, this was the meat packing area and also a notorious red light district, make your own jokes.

And is there a Mercedes truck in the picture? red top left seen from the side. I didn't think they were sold there but it looks a lot like a Mercedes.

 

[Supernaut]

11 minutes ago, martc said:

Good spot, which one?

The white and blue one just left of the centre of the photo.
God, that's a Mack R series next to it, too! That's one of my favourite mods for American Truck Simulator...

[Dyslexic Viking]

56 minutes ago, bigstraight6 said:

I had a love of Lorries from an early age, when I was about 12 years old I used to visit the premises of a small operator of tippers that was very close to our family home, they ran a mixed fleet of Leyland, AEC, Ford and Scammell ‘s and this image brings the memories back of the fleet parked up for the weekend on rough ground with the puddles they stood in stinking of diesel. Happy days!

I wonder what the longevity and durability was like on the British trucks? In the 1950s, Scania and Volvo could easly pass half a million km without engine overhauls, so I wonder how the British trucks compare?

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In 1949, Scania-Vabis launched direct fuel injection in its diesel engines, considerably increasing fuel efficiency. In fact, the durability of this engine range was so good that it became known as the “400,000-kilometre engine” In 1950, the company instituted an award for those who had driven the distance with their Scania-Vabis without an engine overhaul. The award was handed out for the first time in 1954. Over a period of years, nearly 2,000 of these honours were presented to drivers and truck owners, before being discontinued due to the fact that almost all engines met these criteria.

 

[martc]

5 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

And is there a Mercedes truck in the picture? red top left seen from the side. I didn't think they were sold there but it looks a lot like a Mercedes.

 

A quick google search shows that they did sell MB lorries in the US, and they were made in Brazil but, I think, assemebled somewhere in North America!

The Kurzhauber  ('short bonnet' for obvious reasons) L series lorries where sold there until 1991. It was the last Mercedes-Benz truck to be sold in North America until the Sprinter range of vans in 2001, although the Mercedes-Benz badge persisted on Freightliner engines of Mercedes-Benz origin.

From the US 1979 brochure.

Another street scene featuring one somewhere in the US.

 

[danthecapriman]

I was watching an old video on YouTube a while ago of somewhere in New York filmed in the 70’s just of various street scenes etc and there was one of those Mercedes L series trucks on there. I noticed it immediately as it was very out of place for the USA.

Anyone know how common or not they were in the UK? 

On 26/07/2024 at 19:55, martc said:

14th Street and 9th Ave, New York, in the 1980s, this was the meat packing area and also a notorious red light district, make your own jokes.

Red tractor at the front is an International Fleetstar - also featured in the Snowrunner game!

[martc]

It's 1960, and a Porsche 718 Formula 2 car is stood in front of the Racing Department's Opel Blitz.

[willswitchengage]

On 27/07/2024 at 19:35, Dyslexic Viking said:

I wonder what the longevity and durability was like on the British trucks? In the 1950s, Scania and Volvo could easly pass half a million km without engine overhauls, so I wonder how the British trucks compare?

From memory British trucks followed the 'US construct' of often outsourcing engine development - obvs Leyland made engines but others used Gardner, Cummins, GM and the like, whereas European manufacturers tended to make their own engines.

The US market has sort of moved to more of a European construct with all the big manufacturers now making their own engines (Kenworth/Pete now use a PACCAR engine which is basically a DAF design) but you can still select a Cummins or Caterpillar option.

[Richard_FM]

On 28/07/2024 at 21:13, willswitchengage said:

From memory British trucks followed the 'US construct' of often outsourcing engine development - obvs Leyland made engines but others used Gardner, Cummins, GM and the like, whereas European manufacturers tended to make their own engines.

The US market has sort of moved to more of a European construct with all the big manufacturers now making their own engines (Kenworth/Pete now use a PACCAR engine which is basically a DAF design) but you can still select a Cummins or Caterpillar option.

My Kingfisher Book Of Cars & Trucks was my introduction to how lorries could different engines & gearboxes according to customer spec, with Hardy Spicer gearboxes being a popular choice of gearbox.

[martc]

Developed in the early 60s at the Rosdormash enterprise, the B-63 aerodrome vacuum cleaner was installed on various KrAZ chassis,  it was used to remove dust from the runways of airports.

The B-63 could clean up to 12,500 square metres of road surface in an hour. The width of the sweeping strip was 2.5 metres and the working speed a heady 2.78 - 5.56 km/h. It could also spray water, deicer etc.

Three B-63 's were used to clean up after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In particular, they cleaned the roads around the nuclear plant, as well as the streets of Pripyat. They  were equipped with filter-ventilation systems, radiation control devices, mechanised remote control devices for unloading the bunkers and vacuum-trapping devices.
They also for sprayed reagents to deactivate the area. Afterwards, two out of the three were buried in the Buryakovka PZRO (Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility)  the third was sent to the Rassokha PVLRO for disposal.

The last photo is the more advanced B68 from the 1980's.

[martc]

Somewhere in Italy, in the '80's I guess.

[danthecapriman]

32 minutes ago, martc said:

Developed in the early 60s at the Rosdormash enterprise, the B-63 aerodrome vacuum cleaner was installed on various KrAZ chassis,  it was used to remove dust from the runways of airports.

The B-63 could clean up to 12,500 square metres of road surface in an hour. The width of the sweeping strip was 2.5 metres and the working speed a heady 2.78 - 5.56 km/h. It could also spray water, deicer etc.

Three B-63 's were used to clean up after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In particular, they cleaned the roads around the nuclear plant, as well as the streets of Pripyat. They  were equipped with filter-ventilation systems, radiation control devices, mechanised remote control devices for unloading the bunkers and vacuum-trapping devices.
They also for sprayed reagents to deactivate the area. Afterwards, two out of the three were buried in the Buryakovka PZRO (Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility)  the third was sent to the Rassokha PVLRO for disposal.

The last photo is the more advanced B68 from the 1980's.

Interesting trucks. I know they used an awful lot of different vehicles for spraying the area around Chernobyl and Pripyat, from small tanker/sprayer trucks, fire engines right up to some huge Belaz trucks fitted with tankers instead of dump truck body’s. 
There was a fleet of these Kraz trucks too for removing highly radioactive debris from the most highly irradiated areas.

Kraz trucks were built in Ukraine so it was local anyway, and supplied a lot of equipment for the cleanup.

These special tippers though were based on the 256 dumper, but the cabs were cut off and replaced with a single man cab which was made from lead! The windscreen and glazing was thick radiology glass and they had special military grade cabin ventilation and filtration systems.

Once their job was done they were so badly contaminated the only thing they could do with them was to bury them in the deep clay and sand lined pits where all the most highly contaminated waste and vehicles ended up, such as this one…

  
You can see the prime mover of a MAZ537 along with a pair of its matching tank transporter trailers amongst other stuff! 
When they started doing this they literally digging the pits and pouring the waste in, any cars, motorcycles etc etc that were left in the exclusion zone were loaded onto the tank transporters and taken to these sites. Then they were usually crushed by bulldozers or tanks before being shoved into the pits. 
As the cleanup operation progressed the Soviet government started complaining about the costs of the operation regarding vehicles! 
Obviously as equipment was sent there and used it became contaminated. Then eventually the equipment needed maintenance or repairs but this was difficult because they were so contaminated it wasn’t safe or even possible for humans to repair them. So as they stopped working they got left in big yards and fields and were replaced by more new vehicles! Obviously costs in replacement vehicles was enormous! Then at the end most of it ended up buried or permanently left in the scrap yards.

It must have cost an eye watering amount of money!
 

[busmansholiday]

15 hours ago, martc said:

Somewhere in Italy, in the '80's I guess.

Interloping Berliet (or a Ford Transcontinental as it used the Berliet cab) far right.

[martc]

A bit late, but here's the olympic rings on their way to the stadium -

In Melbourne, Australia, 1956. Any idea what the lorry is?

[martc]

Here's another unknown (for me), this time we're in Brooklyn in the '60s'.

[martc]

A Lancia van run by an asti spumante producer. Asti is my fave fizzy drink (far better than prosecco or champagne, fight me). I'm guessing the tables and chairs point towards a mobile bar.

Something a little more 'watery' in Paris Appropriate DAF van though.

[martc]

FIATs, FIATs everywhere.

After care service. Sometimes* even FIATs break down (I'm assuming its a FIAT 1500).

[Dyslexic Viking]

2 hours ago, martc said:

A bit late, but here's he olympic rings on their way to the stadium -

In Melbourne, Australia, 1956. Any idea what the lorry is?

It looks very similar to a US Ford F series F4 to F8.

[Dyslexic Viking]

2 hours ago, martc said:

Here's another unknown (for me), this time we're in Brooklyn in the '60s'.

It also looks like a Ford, guessing F100 late 1950s? 

[Vantman]

3 hours ago, martc said:

A bit late, but here's he olympic rings on their way to the stadium -

In Melbourne, Australia, 1956. Any idea what the lorry is?

International harvester lorry?