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[The Old Bloke Next Door]

From the Facebook post, Foden Haulmaster pictured at the Mellish Road island approaching Walsall in 1992.  The church in the background has since been demolished due to lime stone mining subsidense . Just out of view to the left is The Hatherton Arms pub which was my local when I was living in the area from 2004 until 2010. The pub is no longer a licensed premises having closed about ten years ago and converted into Flats.

 

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[quicksilver]

5 hours ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

From the Facebook post, Foden Haulmaster pictured at the Mellish Road island approaching Walsall in 1992.  The church in the background has since been demolished due to lime stone mining subsidense . Just out of view to the left is The Hatherton Arms pub which was my local when I was living in the area from 2004 until 2010. The pub is no longer a licensed premises having closed about ten years ago and converted into Flats.

 

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B R Whorton are best known for running these, thought to be the only two Quest 80 trucks ever made. The tipper was so crap it didn't even last a year on the road!

 

 

[5speedracer]

18 hours ago, quicksilver said:

B R Whorton are best known for running these, thought to be the only two Quest 80 trucks ever made. The tipper was so crap it didn't even last a year on the road!

 

 

Why ?

[quicksilver]

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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[danthecapriman]

51 minutes ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

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

[quicksilver]

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.

[Metal Guru]

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]

[martc]

A MAZ-504A and a load of Ladas.

[martc]

Up the Luton.

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

 

[martc]

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

[martc]

Innocenti A40s aboard a FIAT 600 series.

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[martc]

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

[martc]

[martc]

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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[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, martc said:

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

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, martc said:

Up the Luton.

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

 

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

[quicksilver]

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.

[danthecapriman]

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.

[martc]

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.

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.

https://doggerbank.com/

[martc]

ErAZ-762B

 

[martc]

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.

[bigstraight6]

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

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