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[danthecapriman]

2 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I remembered  during breakfast now that they were called Dayton wheels, at least in North America, so if you search for Dayton truck rims or Dalton truck wheels then you will find some info online. 

They are talked about in this 7-minute podcast but are mostly ads in it.

 

And in this one, this comment was below.

So Dayton and Trilex rims look quite similar if not exactly the same.

This company appears to still produce Trilex rims and mentions some advantages of them.

https://safholland.com/at/en/products/trilex-wheel-system-1

So I think they were preferred in certain markets and not in others and slowly disappeared over time instead of being banned.

Well found👍

That does make sense actually, that they’re favoured for off road or in remote places as it makes fixing problems easier. Obviously you’d be nowhere near tools, equipment or breakdown/recovery in places like that.

So maybe they weren’t banned in the UK/Norway etc, just as you say, not the favoured option. In the UK your never really all that far from facilities anyway I suppose so the advantage of them here would be minimal. 
One thing I have noticed though, is you don’t often see British trucks in other countries using them?

[Dyslexic Viking]

3 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

One thing I have noticed though, is you don’t often see British trucks in other countries using them?

I don't remember seeing it either and quickly googled Bedford trucks in Africa and no one had wheels like that, maybe there's a reason for that but I don't know.

[Snipes]

6 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Well found👍

That does make sense actually, that they’re favoured for off road or in remote places as it makes fixing problems easier. Obviously you’d be nowhere near tools, equipment or breakdown/recovery in places like that.

So maybe they weren’t banned in the UK/Norway etc, just as you say, not the favoured option. In the UK your never really all that far from facilities anyway I suppose so the advantage of them here would be minimal. 
One thing I have noticed though, is you don’t often see British trucks in other countries using them?

Probably weren't banned just never submitted for type approval (or whatever the process was back then, idk)

[martc]

 Sainsbury's lorries parked at one of their depots, 1976.

[martc]

18-tonne Seddon Atkinson flour tanker, photographed, when new in 1986, outside Hovis's Solent Mill, Southampton.

[martc]

These particularly ugly things are Pacific M26's made by the Pacific Car and Foundry company for heavy haulage, tank transporting etc during the second world war. They were popular in France once they became surplus to the US Army.

[Dyslexic Viking]

11 minutes ago, martc said:

That truck looks like a WW2 US army M25 tank transporter also known as the Dragon Wagon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M25_tank_transporter

[martc]

Just now, Dyslexic Viking said:

That truck looks like a ww2 US army M25 tank transporter also known as the dragon wagon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M25_tank_transporter

I think the M25's had 2 axles, the M26 had three.

[martc]

Sainsbury’s staff loading a trolley collection vehicle in the car park of the High Wycombe branch, 1973.

[Dyslexic Viking]

1 minute ago, martc said:

I think the M25's had 2 axles, the M26 had three.

Yes, I got it wrong, according to wiki, the M25 is the combination of the M26 truck and the M15 trailer.

[High Jetter]

42 minutes ago, martc said:

Sainsbury’s staff loading a trolley collection vehicle in the car park of the High Wycombe branch, 1973.

Unloading, shirley, unless they were shipping them elsewhere?

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Sainsbury’s staff loading a trolley collection vehicle in the car park of the High Wycombe branch, 1973.

Tesco’s couldn’t stretch to the luxury of a Mercedes!

 

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Tesco’s couldn’t stretch to the luxury of a Mercedes!

 

I worked for Fine Fare in the early 80s. My last job on a Saturday before we closed was to WALK round all the car parks in the town rounding up our trollies. I reckoned on about 12 at a time on “our” side of the High Street, but only about 8 if I had to get them across the road.

[New POD]

9 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Tesco’s couldn’t stretch to the luxury of a Mercedes!

 

I'm pretty sure the super markets of Redditch shared one of those in the 80s. There was always 3 or 4 in the underpass next to the houseshare i lived in.  

[quicksilver]

That's dredged up a long-forgotten memory. I'm sure Sainsburys in the Milton Keynes Food Centre had a trolley collection vehicle based on a Renault Master that I used to see trundling around the city centre.

[MJK 24]

A bit modern (brand new) but does anyone know what these wheels and tyres are about?!

They were spotted last week on the back of a Volvo 18 ton chassis cab.  The type with a little DAF cab fitted.

Never seen anything like them before.  A quick Google shows the tyres are £1,100 to £1,300 each and out of stock everywhere!

 

[Vantman]

I have only ever known them as 'Super Singles', supposedly for weight saving,i had a mate with them on his tipper back in the 1990s.

[New POD]

21 hours ago, quicksilver said:

That's dredged up a long-forgotten memory. I'm sure Sainsburys in the Milton Keynes Food Centre had a trolley collection vehicle based on a Renault Master that I used to see trundling around the city centre.

They should offer you one free if you collect enough nectar points ir club card points. 

I live about a 7 minute walk from Tesco.  Sometimes I walk. Only if I know I'm only going in for a few things.  Have to remember to only use a basket otherwise you end up buying too much to carry home. 

Because the petrol station is the nearest bit of Tesco, I have pushed a trolley as far as I can and then abandoned it in the corner and carried the stuff home. By that time about 4 mins walk. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Road trip through Telemark county in Norway with several old trucks and great scenery and views.

 

[500tops]

Spotted this beauty today at 'Wheels' Wadebridge 

[Metal Guru]

8 hours ago, 500tops said:

Spotted this beauty today at 'Wheels' Wadebridge 

A fine pantechnicon.

[EyesWeldedShut]

12 hours ago, 500tops said:

Spotted this beauty today at 'Wheels' Wadebridge

We ran an identical one as a horsebox for about ten years - Marsden Vanplan SWB body with the massive luton made for a comparatively manoeuvrable 7.5 tonne with a bed you could sit up in over the cab.  VanPlan made that body for about 30 odd years (I think they went bust around 2010). The shark's gill side doors for accessing the engine were priceless  
Ours was a 1990 AWD TL - Perkins Phasor engine with a 5 speed Spicer gearbox - still noisy/slow but better than a TK - went to Belgium, Holland & all over UK in it. It's now SORN'd someplace in S. Wales (OLZ 4118 is the plate)

[martc]

On 15/07/2025 at 17:46, High Jetter said:

Unloading, shirley, unless they were shipping them elsewhere?

Well, in most of the photo's they are loading (pushing up the ramp) and in one they are unloading. So, on the whole, they're loading.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Well, in most of the photo's they are loading (pushing up the ramp) and in one they are unloading. So, on the whole, they're loading.

Indeed, somehow I only registered the last pic. I sit, corrected.

[martc]

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[martc]

A Hoveringham Quarries Scammel roaring off the Tinsley Viaduct in 1970.

[martc]

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[martc]

Turns out that it's not just Italian lorries which were RHD. This Swiss built Saurer is in Switzerland, a country noted for it's alpine roads and precipitous drops, easier to negotiate from the right hand side of the cab.

Saurer is still with us, but they have returned to their original expertise -  the manufacture of looms. Oh, and A Sulser are still here, hauling, warehousing and training.