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[willswitchengage]

Discovered today that the Renault Magnum has finally been discontinued. RIP to a genuinely outstanding design:

 

[RoadworkUK]

Discovered today that the Renault Magnum has finally been discontinued. RIP to a genuinely outstanding design:

I did a writing about a Renault Magnum brochure here. The pictures are nice, even if you CBA with the words.

[quicksilver]

I stumbled across this old Cargo recently. It even has Plaxton coach seats for extra luxury after the owner's dog ate the originals!

Cherwell Cargo by quicksilver coaches, on Flickr

[Vin]

I remember a haulier near Dover who ran a couple of these that were fitted with Mack engines(and badges).

 

Certainly when the Magnum came out twenty years or so ago, Mack was part of Renault. Don't know if they still are...

 

And I believe the Magnum was a Mack in Australia...

[willswitchengage]

Both are part of the Volvo group

[Split_Pin]

Magnum had a 16.4 litre Mack V8 and was badged as Mack in some countries, as was the smaller Manager model with the Club of 4 cab. I have an Italeri model of a Magnum that has a 'Truck of the year 1991' decalon the windscreen.

[Felly Magic]

Used to regularly see a black MACK badged magnum near Rothwell (Leeds), looked a beast. Getting quite thin on the ground these days too. A few showmen are using the odd Magnum I've noticed as well

[Felly Magic]

Proper truckshite now, taken a few years back, an ex gritter Atki then in the hands of a showman

 

[Grundig]

I always liked the look (& sound) of the Mercedes-Benz NG/SK 

 

[oman5]

I always liked the look (& sound) of the Mercedes-Benz NG/SK 

 

Yeah they do sound good, especially with a v10. I never liked driving them though. the EPS gearbox was dreadful and the engines, despite humungous capacity just didn't want to pull.

[mercrocker]

That showmans Atki is proper rare - check out the low-mounted wiper boxes and Smiths heated screen....I love stuff like that, the fairground blokes now seem to just be running ex-fleet stuff.

[Richard]

There was an American themed circus in Perth a couple of weeks ago that had several 1990s American trucks, they must be hard work to drive around the back roads of Scotland. Pictures from their Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/CircusVegasUK

 

 

 

[Wackeldackel]

I remember a haulier near Dover who ran a couple of these that were fitted with Mack engines(and badges).

Coombe valley before he went to volvos? There was also a chap from Eastry or Sandwich way who had Renault motors can't remember who now, will ask my old man.

[willswitchengage]

I think in Oz the Renault Premium was sold as a Mack, with the Mack engine? Perhaps explains if they've been imported over here, being RHD etc.

 

That cab also made its way onto Finnish Sisu trucks, they got Cat engines I think:

 

[Cavcraft]

 

 

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

That TM about to mow down The Hollyoaks Marching Band made me think that apart from army 4x4's, I haven't seen a Bedford TM or Ford Transcontinental for 20 years or more. You see plenty of 70's and 80's Volvos and Dafs either still working or on their way to shows, but considering how popular the big Ford and Bedford were,they all seem to have gone,could it be a lot of them weren't sleeper cabs as they were often Post Office,supermarket or tanker haulers ,so not as desirable to general hauliers in later life?

[oman5]

There are one or two TMs and Transcontinentals on the show circuit, but both are rare. I seem to remember that the cabs rusted badly on both trucks and neither sold in anything like the same numbers as the Volvo f88. the ford was unusually heavy which counted against it and the TMs Detroit diesel was horrifically thirsty. I think later versions used a cummins L10 or the Bedford 500 engine which must have been miserable to drive with so little power.

I would give my left nut to have a drive in a Detroit powered TM, there are apparently loads of them still at work in New Zealand. The kiwis love 'em.

[Cavcraft]

There was a Detroit powered TM at a truck show at The Raven, Whitchurch not too many years ago now, and I saw a working one at a quarry in North Wales about 15 years ago. 

That company in the picture (Edge Transport) are still going.

[Jon]

That TM about to mow down The Hollyoaks Marching Band made me think that apart from army 4x4's, I haven't seen a Bedford TM or Ford Transcontinental for 20 years or more. 

 

 

I would give my left nut to have a drive in a Detroit powered TM, there are apparently loads of them still at work in New Zealand. The kiwis love 'em.

 

Just for you two, here's a snap of a TM I took a couple of years ago, freedom camping at one of the local council run camping grounds. It was indeed Detroit powered but I didn't hear it running, unfortunately. The owner lives in it full time, as far as I'm aware. It's now parked up just off the main highway, at the local dogs home. 

 

 

I've seen a few TMs knocking about but only one that I can think of which was working. Sounded good though!

[Grundig]

That TM about to mow down The Hollyoaks Marching Band made me think that apart from army 4x4's, I haven't seen a Bedford TM or Ford Transcontinental for 20 years or more. 

 

.. & the forgotten half sister - The Renault R series

 

[Shep Shepherd]

Coombe valley before he went to volvos? There was also a chap from Eastry or Sandwich way who had Renault motors can't remember who now, will ask my old man.

 

I lived in Eastry from 1977 to 2001 and cannot recall any local haulage contractors using Renaults to a great extent; the majority used Volvos and DAFs.

[Noel Tidybeard]

.. & the forgotten half sister - The Renault R series

 

better looking than the transconti

[Felly Magic]

An awesome Bedford KM wrecker that attended The Bedford Gathering, known as Tonka

 

 

 

 

[twosmoke300]

Was that a snow plough / gritter in a previous life I wonder ? Dad had a km with a similar hook set up on the front and it was an ex council gritter

[Felly Magic]

Another ex BOC wrecker, this time 'TONKA II' which was built on a Bedford TM chassis

 

 

[Felly Magic]

A rare Scammell S 26 now. Long's of Leeds had a few 'Chinese 6' T45 rigid curtainsiders in the 1980's, which may have been some of the last Scammell's built

 

[Skizzer]

Guy Big J by Skizzer, on Flickr

 

Leyland Terrier, Volvo F6 by Skizzer, on Flickr

[Richard]

I can't remember if I've posted these in this thread already but I'll post them again anyway.

 

P1020394 by RichardB5, on Flickr

 

DSC_1072 by RichardB5, on Flickr

 

1972 Leyland Terrier powering a very crude sawmill.

 

DSC_2718 by RichardB5, on Flickr

 

One of a pair of '68/'69 Bedford KMs we found down a mine.

[jbh110tdi]

one of my mates 

 

[Vin]

guymag.jpg

 

That Guy is ace. The truck you see a glimpse of on the right...doesn't look like anything British from that period. It's a similar style to a Scania-Vabis LB76 and I know they sold those in the UK. It isn't a Scania though - a bit of googling comes up with it being a Magirus-Deutz Pluto. I didn't know they sold those in the UK. Everyday is a school day etc...