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[doug]

Sure as sunrise.

At Glasgow Transport Museum today. A load of old Albions.

[Cavcraft]

From last week's motorbike ride, these were at Midway truck stop near Whitchurch

[martc]

[martc]

An electric bread loaf! Or to be precise a U-131. 1975.

[martc]

Dresden, 1963. This old funicular carriage is being taken to the museum, it was replaced by more modern units -

which you can still travel in today.

But the question is what is the tractor pulling the carriage? Bearing in mind we're in the DDR, it's got the look of a Scammel about it.

[martc]

[martc]

A Polish registered DAF in 1994, lots of western lorries ended up getting a second life further east once the curtain collapsed, note it's still carrying its Dutch livery.

[martc]

[martc]

It's 1993 and Harper Construction of Milton Keynes took delivery of four IVECO tippers. The bodies were built by McGovern Bodies of Willesden, London and all were fitted with Harsh tipping gear. At the time, McGovern was Harsh’s appointed dealer for the London area.

Note the Ford badges. IVECO had a 52% stake in Ford of Europe (lorry division) and models made at the Ford factories carried the Ford badge.

[martc]

The last known photographic evidence of a bin collection in Birmingham. Here's another one -

They are battery powered, made by GY Electric. I can't find much info on them, but I wonder if they're related to GEC who had factories in the area?

[danthecapriman]

11 minutes ago, martc said:

Dresden, 1963. This old funicular carriage is being taken to the museum, it was replaced by more modern units -

which you can still travel in today.

But the question is what is the tractor pulling the carriage? Bearing in mind we're in the DDR, it's got the look of a Scammel about it.

The tractor looks to be right hand drive too. Could it be a Scammell? Possibly a leftover from WW2 or a captured one still left behind?

[martc]

The last delivery of the day prepares to leave while the errand boy has a rest on the trolley.

[martc]

A Soviet 'AB1' cherry picker on a ZIS-5 chassis, used to repair overhead tram cables, street lights etc.

[martc]

We've had these before, built in Spain, based on an Auto-Union/DKW design.

[martc]

Bunga-bunga.

[quicksilver]

It's a brand new Foden!

Sadly not really, just a DAF XF pretending to be a 'Foden XL 6000' but Terry Seaman loves his Fodens so much this is the second time he's persuaded his local dealer to supply a DAF with Foden badges. If only Foden were still around this is probably what they'd look like now.

[5speedracer]

On 13/04/2025 at 20:38, Cavcraft said:

From last week's motorbike ride, these were at Midway truck stop near Whitchurch

That 4350 is fabulous.

[Cavcraft]

1 hour ago, 5speedracer said:

That 4350 is fabulous.

Agreed. That and the other Foden (rebadged Daf) were my favourites.  The 4350 is one of those things you could park outside your living room window, throw the telly away and just sit there facing the lorry day and night.

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[ETCHY]

On 30/03/2025 at 19:34, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

T45 was a bloody cool shape.

I remember the Leyland version coming out & my dad bringing me brochures home from work.

It was so modern looking folk really started to think  Leyland were going to be OK.. 

[danthecapriman]

4 hours ago, ETCHY said:

T45 was a bloody cool shape.

I remember the Leyland version coming out & my dad bringing me brochures home from work.

It was so modern looking folk really started to think  Leyland were going to be OK.. 

I remember them well. There seemed to be loads of them around in the 80’s and 90’s. I always liked them and they’re still a nice looking truck but you never see them anymore. The last ones I saw were sat on some waste ground out of use gathering dust in Cyprus.

[ETCHY]

5 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

I remember them well. There seemed to be loads of them around in the 80’s and 90’s. I always liked them and they’re still a nice looking truck but you never see them anymore. The last ones I saw were sat on some waste ground out of use gathering dust in Cyprus.

I think they were very bad for rot.

I saw a couple in Malta, but no never see them now.

Uber cool & very '80's especially the colours & decals on tbe factory ones.

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