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[legasoil96]

It feels like sitting in a garden shed. The wooden frame flexing over ruts. Might have to tow that cargo another 10 miles in the coming days. It's going to feel a long way.

[mercrocker]

So nice to see old British lorries doing what they were built to do.    Back in the pre-Elfin Sayftee days we had a TK cherry picker at work - pogweasled to hell and suspiciously oily  but it was kept going right up until about 9 years ago.    Wish I had taken a photo but you know how it is - I'll do it tomorrow when its sunny / there is nothing next to it / I remember my camera.   Then it's tomorrow - and its gone.   

 

Threepenny-bits are a particular favourite of mine - an unpretentiously clever bit of cab design.   

[Coprolalia]

Has your old man still got the FE legasoil? 

I think I've got some photos somewhere from about 10 years ago when he was up at River. Will have to dig them out, good times!

[legasoil96]

Yes he still has the FE planning to put a beavertail on that. In theory I could drive it on a car license as long as it was unladen. Will get the proper license somewhen. 

you may remember this one . It got sold when the brakes packed up. So many memories and regrets.

 

 

 

 

These too . Also gone. Don't come up often now.

 

 

[legasoil96]

Then there was this fine scottish beastie which went ok but too thirsty so got flogged back north of the border. 

Better looking than a militant.

 

 

 

[wuvvum]

How thirsty is "too thirsty" when it comes to classic HGVs?  I can't imagine any of them worrying an AX 1.4D.

[worldofceri]

What's the mot/tacho/o-licence situation when working elderly lorries like that?  Or do you just operate a safe distance from any VOSA checkpoint?

[wuvvum]

I think pretty much everything needs a tacho now doesn't it, unless it's doing recovery work?

[legasoil96]

[Guest Hooli]

I thought they could get rerated as PLG? or is the old rules?

 

No tacho if it's not for reward.

[Inspector Morose]

One from my deep distant past.

 

 

[willswitchengage]

I like Cargos - they're quite distinctive. I wonder why Ford don't bother anymore?

 

edit: oh seems they do, just not here.

 

 

 

I cycled across Turkey last year and Ford there are still going strong with trucks still made by OTOSAN, although I haven't seen any exported. They had these tractors although they were rare compared to the normal European crop:

 

 

They were more popular though in medium haulage and construction, with both the cab we're familar with and an updated one that looks like that in the above image. According to Wikipedia they have similar alliances in Sarf America, too.

 

Incidentally Turkey is fascinating - it feels a lot like the UK as an ex-Imperial country now struggling to make headway in a globalised world that doesn't really 'fit in' anywhere.

[Jim Bell]

 

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[cms206]

I did nearly eight years on the apron at Glasgow Airport and our stuff was all pretty comprehensively fucked; in 2006 we still had a solitary Bedford TL on fleet, along with six Ford Cargos, five Iveco EuroCargos, three DAF 45s, two Leyland Roadrunners, three Volvo FL6.17 and one each Volvo FE7 and MAN 8.163; the EuroCargos were absolutely hopeless, the DAF 45s ate clutches, the MAN was expensive. The Roadrunners were automatics and weren't actually too bad, likewise most of the FL6s were auto; the manual one was a cow when it was cold. The last 7.5 tonners we ran were the last two Cummins Cargo 0813s which outlasted everything else we had. Those were absolutely tremendous trucks. I would have one in a shot.

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Trucks just don't look as purposeful these days.

[mercrocker]

Interesting use of black and white plates on that Routeman.....

 

Nice to see Hall's stuff, they used to work a gravel pit where I used to play around as a kid.   One of my Uncle's drove for them - Bedford KB tipper.    The 8 leggers were a less common visitor as most of the extraction used to get bought and used locally.    The pit and a nearby refinery were excellent lorry-spotting grounds for us nippers..... 

 

 

 

Edit - should have said KM!   Nothing to do with Isuzu back then!

[rml2345]

Those Routeman tippers were tremendous.

[Inspector Morose]

Michelotti, you know....

[rml2345]

Indeed! Handyman and Trunker shared a version of the same cab without the front overhang step.

Fabulous.

[Split_Pin]

Ford Cargos were one of the easiest motors to grease. I liked when one of those came into the workshop - we did servicing and repairs on other trucks not owned by the firm as well as our own. Having that over the pit meant that I didn't run the risk that day of having to lie under an FL7 whose grease channels in the front axle were usually blocked through lack of maintenance ( not my fault I must add)

[simmo]

Before and after, pics nicked from local interest (Reading) facebook page

 

[simmo]

Another one from facebook 

 

[gordonbennet]

The mad fools, no hivis, no safety helmets, no eye protection, no cones, no fencing, any member of the public could walk into the working area (if they were stupid enough), and right outside a real cafe.

Cracking crew cab wagon that.

 

Behind the lorry is that a proper weight scales, summat else ou never see any more.

[Vin]

Another one from facebook 

 

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Interesting truck this. Looks like a pre-war American Ford COE. War surplus I guess, with a home made crew cab grafted on...