Truck Shite

[Dyslexic Viking]

The overloaded truck reminds me of a photo from Norway of another overloaded truck that I have shared before.

I'm guessing this is a police check and with people on the back it made it do this.

[danthecapriman]

Here’s an overloaded AEC Mammoth Major 6 doing a wheelie!

Ex Wimpey tipper now in off highway use for a road construction contractor during the building of the M25. 
These were literally loaded until nothing else would physically fit in the back! They were beat to hell but cobbled back together to keep them going. In the days before ‘elf & safety’ ruined everything.

[quicksilver]

19 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The overloaded truck reminds me of a photo from Norway of another overloaded truck that I have shared before.

I'm guessing this is a police check and with people on the back it made it do this.

Is that a Morris? It looks it could be a scene from 'Heartbeat' where Claude Greengrass has got himself into one of his many scrapes.

[Dyslexic Viking]

2 hours ago, quicksilver said:

Is that a Morris? It looks it could be a scene from 'Heartbeat' where Claude Greengrass has got himself into one of his many scrapes.

Yes I'm pretty sure this is a Morris and think a LC but not sure about the model number but taking a guess at an LC5?

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

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[martc]

Can I release the handbrake now?

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[quicksilver]

Roll up, roll up, the circus is in town! Come and witness rare and wonderful sights like a Scammell Highwayman and a Kenworth side by side, and a breeding pair of Peterbilts.

They've got five American trucks that they've had a while but the Scammell is a recent acquisition from the sadly defunct Carters Steam Fair. They've kept Carters livery as a tribute but asked Joby Carter to signwrite their name on it. It does run and they collected a living trailer with it recently (a long and slow journey) but usually travels on a low-loader and is used just as an eye-catcher.

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[Dyslexic Viking]

If anyone wants to read about the history of a Volvo G89 with a hard and long working life in Australia, you can below.

https://www.fullyloaded.com.au/truck-restoration-tillys-1964-volvo-g89/

 

[D.E]

FTF

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

Lavenders lorrys early 1960s. Gordon Tumps Granger,Harold Fox,Herbert Smart & Charles Moate.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

This interesting 1952 Bedford O type skip lorry was spotted on display at the Gloucestershire Vintage & Country Extravaganza last year. Apparently in the mid-50s, Boughtons were building skip loaders for use on oilfields in the Middle East and some of their first utilised Bedfords. One was exhibited at the Commercial Motor Show and a resulted in a collaboration with the French manufacturer Marrel and the result was the Boughton-Marrel skip loader.

[quicksilver]

Here's a weird one.

This old Iveco looks like it's been dragged out of a hedge  but what's going on with that numberplate? FSS 9601 certainly isn't a UK reg and doesn't match any format I recognise.

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, quicksilver said:

Here's a weird one.

This old Iveco looks like it's been dragged out of a hedge  but what's going on with that numberplate? FSS 9601 certainly isn't a UK reg and doesn't match any format I recognise.

Looks like a garden growing up on the cab roof and down the curtain side!

Thats got ‘pull me over’ written all over it driving around in that state.

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Shite pictures. Sorry:

 

[martc]

On 21/03/2025 at 15:23, quicksilver said:

Here's a weird one.

This old Iveco looks like it's been dragged out of a hedge  but what's going on with that numberplate? FSS 9601 certainly isn't a UK reg and doesn't match any format I recognise.

Isn't that a Norn Iron number plate? Often sold cheaply in GB to folk who either want a) a 'personal' plate but don't have the gelt or b) want to cheaply disguise the age of a vehicle.

[martc]

Both of these companies are still with us, they sell furniture.

FIAT 625's.

 

[martc]

A Saviem SM10 , they had a large spacious cab with a flat floor and the gear lever came out of the dash next to the steering wheel.

[martc]

UAZ-452D.

[martc]

A KAZ-4540, got the looks of those Leyland DAF's the MoD used to use, the ones that replaced the Bedford TK.

[martc]

This is brilliant - this is an electric maid of all work at a brewery in Vitebsk, Belarussia. It was made in Bulgaria by Balkankar. 1967.

[martc]

The coalman is after some plaice on the bone. Or eggs.