Truck Shite

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[martc]

Can I release the handbrake now?

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[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.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[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.

[puddlethumper]

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[Leyland Worldmaster]

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.

[martc]

If I was the lad on the bike I'd start saying random numbers out loud. That'll teach him.

[martc]

I believe there's a Citroen H type under these.

[martc]

In 1994 Mornflake Oats—milling oats in Crewe since 1675—took delivery of three ERF EC14 Olympics supplied by their neighbours in Sandbach.

[Datsuncog]

7 hours ago, martc said:

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.

It's a similar format, with three letters followed by four numbers, but that's not a Northern Ireland series registration - they always have a 'Z' or an 'I' as part of the two-letter 'county code'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Northern_Ireland?wprov=sfla1

SS was never allocated as a GB office code, to the best of my knowledge - SR and ST were, and both in Scotland - so this one remains a bit of a head-scratcher, for now...

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

SS was never allocated as a GB office code, to the best of my knowledge - SR and ST were, and both in Scotland - so this one remains a bit of a head-scratcher, for now...

SS was East Lothian and then 1974+ Aberdeen issue  (SS xxxx itself was finally completed in November 1955)

 

but I agree thats no normal/standard issue British registration mark, i suspect it must be from some sort of British-connected/influenced place or the such like, something/somewhere that was RHD and used British style/fonted number plates

whatever it is must be pretty old, or fairly loosely connected going by that style of number plate font also

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.

in-fact I  wonder if thats not a registration mark at all, but instead some sort of company specific system? maybe the vehicle was used in a large yard or airport etc, and given an internal identification mark?

 

see for example this example from @cms206 

On 27/06/2022 at 15:57, cms206 said: