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[martc]

ZIL 130B1

[martc]

A KrAZ-258B1 with a ChMZAP-5523 trailer transporting a T-100 tractor. Those Soviets really knew how to name things.

[LightBulbFun]

  On 01/11/2024 at 12:34, martc said:

@LightBulbFun

 

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probably 1930s? the Mazda brand name was in use by GE in the USA between about 1910 to 1945  and based on the wording and wattage rating they are talking about a gas filled coiled tungsten filament lamp so likely 1920 onwards

I have this original 1916~ 200W Mazda C lamp, one of the earliest forms of the common for many years, gas filled coiled tungsten filament lamp  

 

[martc]

 

A Unic 270 seen during the building of the Pringal Hotel, Leningrad, 1977-1978.

Another foreigner in the USSR. UNIC were a French manufacturer, taken over by FIAT  in 1966 and by this time part of Iveco.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Truck driving in Norway just before Christmas 1980. It is not subtitled but gives an insight into truck driving in Norway in 1980 and there are a some great trucks here, the Volvo F89 at the start worked until 1997 it then had a 20-year working life and probaly covered sevral millions of km in that time.  But I can't find any info on the Scania 111. And in case you're wondering, these are main roads. Will have to show this to dad later as all this is familiar to him and will bring back many memories.

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

  On 25/10/2024 at 19:56, bigstraight6 said:

Couple of pics from the last few days, the Scania wrecker dragged in one of ours that had thrown a rod through the block, the wrecker looked and sounded superb!

 

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legendary VW reliability showig through then

[bigstraight6]

  On 02/11/2024 at 14:11, Noel Tidybeard said:

legendary VW reliability showig through then

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Scania are top quality for reliability, this episode was down to an agency driver over speeding the engine big time, in the same week we had a 6 month old Volvo FH shit its engine due to a bearing in the turbo breaking up…

[Joey spud]

I'm sure @Vantman will remember Winters Recovery out at Kingsnorth.

[cms206]

Caught up with this today, still earning it's keep as far as I'm aware.

[Split_Pin]

Some guy on a truck Facebook page is trying to say the Volvo FL7/10 was a bus chassis. I know a standard F86 chassis had been looked at as a basis for the Ailsa but it was too high and under an Ailsa is nothing like a truck other than engine placement. 

I played dumb and said I'd be interested to hear the story but he just said he used to work at Volvo Truck and Bus and therefore knew what he was talking about.

Is that right? I worked* on these for several years in the 90s and never knew this.

*greased and checked levels.

[83C]

Lots of common bits of course, but the major difference is that the B10M had a mid-mounted horizontal THD-series engine rather than the vertical TD over the front axle. I’m not a truck expert but I really can’t see the B10M being a stretched F10 chassis, from the different engine placement, different placement of all the auxiliary kit, especially for B10M Mk.4 with the side-mounted cooler group, and the main chassis channels themselves being higher than on a HGV to accommodate underfloor lockers rather than the need to have a low loadbed or drop the 5th wheel as low as possible.

[cms206]

  On 07/11/2024 at 22:14, Split_Pin said:

Some guy on a truck Facebook page is trying to say the Volvo FL7/10 was a bus chassis. I know a standard F86 chassis had been looked at as a basis for the Ailsa but it was too high and under an Ailsa is nothing like a truck other than engine placement. 

I played dumb and said I'd be interested to hear the story but he just said he used to work at Volvo Truck and Bus and therefore knew what he was talking about.

Is that right? I worked* on these for several years in the 90s and never knew this.

*greased and checked levels.

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Never a bus chassis; I daresay some countries maybe had an F7 derivative as a front engined bus chassis (the Scania F113 and F94 bus chassis spring to mind) but the only front engined Volvo bus chassis in the UK were the B55 Ailsas and the two B57s, XSA 5Y and RMH 869Y.

The B10M owed more to the preceeding B58 than the F10, ans the FL10 was still several years away at that time.

There was also a couple of other oddball Volvos in the UK - Marshall Camair-bodied rear engines B59 VEB 566L which I sure remained unique, and East Lancs bodied B212 JTY which is variously quoted as a B57 (front engined) or a B7M; I suspect it's actually the former as the driving controls and axles are closer to a B58 than a B10M.

[Split_Pin]

  On 07/11/2024 at 22:43, cms206 said:

Never a bus chassis; I daresay some countries maybe had an F7 derivative as a front engined bus chassis (the Scania F113 and F94 bus chassis spring to mind) but the only front engined Volvo bus chassis in the UK were the B55 Ailsas and the two B57s, XSA 5Y and RMH 869Y.

The B10M owed more to the preceeding B58 than the F10, ans the FL10 was still several years away at that time.

There was also a couple of other oddball Volvos in the UK - Marshall Camair-bodied rear engines B59 VEB 566L which I sure remained unique, and East Lancs bodied B212 JTY which is variously quoted as a B57 (front engined) or a B7M; I suspect it's actually the former as the driving controls and axles are closer to a B58 than a B10M.

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I knew you'd know! It just seemed like such a ridiculous thing to claim.

He also said he hated FLs but doesn't ever seem to have driven or owned them. Compared to the ERF E series we had, the Volvos were infinitely more reliable. Despite the big engine tunnel, they also felt more spacious than the ERFs. Cabs used to go crusty along the top of the windscreen and where the cab rear springs landed but it was nothing a bit of mastic and royal blue paint didn't sort!

[sutty2006]

Spotted now, A11, eastbound and down. Full fat kenworth American rig. Nothing UK about it. Yank plates, yank lights etc. 

[andrew e]

https://expressdairytales.uk/express-dairy-eden-vale

Some crackers buried in here, well worth a ramble, amongst the obvious this - seems an unusual rig. Is it Dodge 300?

https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31177-those-spanish-built-dodge-heavies-in-the-uk/

[cms206]

  On 09/11/2024 at 23:36, andrew e said:

https://expressdairytales.uk/express-dairy-eden-vale

Some crackers buried in here, well worth a ramble, amongst the obvious this - seems an unusual rig. Is it Dodge 300?

https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31177-those-spanish-built-dodge-heavies-in-the-uk/

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It is indeed a Dodge 300, or Barrieros as they were also known.

[SunnySouth]

  On 09/11/2024 at 12:23, sutty2006 said:

Spotted now, A11, eastbound and down. Full fat kenworth American rig. Nothing UK about it. Yank plates, yank lights etc. 

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Bizarre. Filming, maybe?!

[busmansholiday]

  On 09/11/2024 at 12:23, sutty2006 said:

Spotted now, A11, eastbound and down. Full fat kenworth American rig. Nothing UK about it. Yank plates, yank lights etc. 

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I'll be from one of the US airbases down that part of the country.

[SunnySouth]

  On 10/11/2024 at 08:03, busmansholiday said:

I'll be from one of the US airbases down that part of the country.

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Ah! Bizarre sorts, the Yanks. You’d think it’d be easier for everyone just to use a native wagon, really…

[quicksilver]

The USAF have all sorts of weird and illogical things and a few I've seen have graced this thread. There was a Kenworth dumptruck that appeared to be RHD, two MAN TGAs (one LHD and one RHD) and a trailer that had a British curtainside body on a Yank chassis. The base exchange service runs Scanias with Yank trailers, mostly RHD but at least one LHD on Yank plates.

For more weird US forces stuff in the UK have a look through this gallery: http://www.romar.org.uk/page504.html. Loads of Yankee fire appliances but also a Bedford CF and a Sherpa in the mix!

[danthecapriman]

  On 09/11/2024 at 23:36, andrew e said:

https://expressdairytales.uk/express-dairy-eden-vale

Some crackers buried in here, well worth a ramble, amongst the obvious this - seems an unusual rig. Is it Dodge 300?

https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31177-those-spanish-built-dodge-heavies-in-the-uk/

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Awesome! Definitely a Spanish Dodge 300…

Like that model I built earlier this year!

 

[High Jetter]

  On 10/11/2024 at 11:51, danthecapriman said:

Like that model I built earlier this year!

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Blimey, that looks superb!

[andrew e]

@danthecapriman Thats the only reason I knew 😆

[danthecapriman]

  On 10/11/2024 at 12:23, High Jetter said:

Blimey, that looks superb!

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Thanks!

It’s a 1:43 scale. Built up from parts of various other readily available truck models and scratch built parts too. 
I’ve done quite a few different trucks now similarly.

Heres a GUY BigJ4 artic I did.

 
This one took a lot of building! 3D printed cab, heavily modified Altaya chassis, scratch built glazing and details. Trailer started life as a cheap Altaya fridge box trailer, so I took it apart and completely scratch built the new flatbed. 
They are big though, in 1:43 scale! Not the easiest things to store!

[martc]

A Futuro House being transported through Todmorden 1971. These were made in Finland so I guess it came off a ferry, Newcastle or Hull?

[martc]

[martc]

A wonderful 1969 Foden S41.

[martc]

[auntiemaryscanary]

  On 10/11/2024 at 16:07, martc said:

A wonderful 1969 Foden S41.

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Any idea what it's towing?

[EyesWeldedShut]

  On 10/11/2024 at 16:08, martc said:

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+1 for getting Stranraer into AS twice this week. @Metal Guru got his Halford's tyres done at the old McConechy's place and now here's one of our local milk tankers from back in the day.  Agnew & Lithgow were one of the local hauliers that did general stuff plus ran tankers for the Galloway Milk Creamery in Stranraer (the one below is Moddies from Glenluce which is about 9 miles East of Stranraer)
By the late 70s most of the milk fleet were in the same cream/beige livery so I'm guessing that there was some sort of rationalisation/takeover stuff going on