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[cms206]

Did someone mention GINAF?

 

The only two I've seen here in the UK, ideal for the extreme offroading motorhoming shiter in all of us.

 

Fugro Engineering Services - NLP 23V by cms206, on Flickr

 

Fugro Engineering Services - F958 RBH by cms206, on Flickr

[doug]

Fugro

 

[TagoraGL]

Heavy Truck-mounted Penetrometers!

 

http://www.fes.co.uk/downloads/Heavy-truck.pdf

[dollywobbler]

Remember when removals trucks all seemed to be these Van Plan Bedfords? I never worked out how you were meant to access the engine for maintenance...

 

[TagoraGL]

^ That looks like an old Bishop's Move van. Used to pass their local depot (an old cinema) going to and from school in the 70s. It had loads of those cream coloured Bedfords parked round the back.

[Split_Pin]

I remember those removal vans well!

[TagoraGL]

Been having flashbacks to seeing these DAF 3300s in Holland in the 80s. Designed to get the maximum load length from a draw-bar combination, it was really pushing the regulations to the limit.

 

They hacked the back off the the standard day cab and attached the rear wall to the B-pillars. To fit the engine under the shortened cab, the front axle was shifted back beneath the load bed so that the radiator could be mounted sideways behind the steps. As you can see, in order to regain a decent sleeping area the top-sleeper overhangs at the front, although no further than the front bumper.

 

 

[ruffgeezer]

50 Series Chod:

 

[Justin Case]

Now how did they do that

 

Dennis Dustcart by geoffp6, on Flickr

[pegaso]

Hi there - just got an email from Jim at the Bus Museum - apparently the Pegaso Troner is no longer in the yard. Anyone with any ideas as to where it might have gone please let me know. I don't know if he means not in their yard, or not anywhere on the Lathalmond estate, in which case it's been taken elsewhere (and maybe scrapped?!). I'd really like to find out!

 

Many thanks!

[Split_Pin]

That's a shame, I'm surprised at that.

 

I don't think the chances are brilliant to be honest.

 

If they couldnt trace the owner when clearing the yard then it might just have been scrapped.

[warren t claim]

Now how did they do that

 

Dennis Dustcart by geoffp6, on Flickr

 

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[worldofceri]

I bet those DAF 3300s were uncomfortable to drive.

 

Shortened day cab?! OK if you like to drive sat bolt-upright, I guess.

[Justin Case]

I knew I wasn't imagining things!

 

Any joy on the bin truck up a pole boys? I'm thinking Yorkshire. On a main road.

 

Not quite Yorkshire, Warren It is on an industrial estate in Aldridge, just to the North of Walsall and is in front of the former Jack Allen dustcart factory, now owned by Volant Passenger Vehicle Solutions, who refurbish buses on the site and are planning to start manufacturing buses shortly. You are right in one thing though; it is next to an office furniture warehouse

 

I was there today as part of the site is used for storing some of the vehicles from the former Aston Manor Road Transport Museum, which had to close when Birmingham Council removed its subsidy. There is some weapons-grade bus-shite there including a Metrorider which is undergoing a major rebuild, but the museum is still some way from re-opening.

[CreepingJesus]

An abandoned Daf 65, languishing in one of the back yards, at my current gig...

 

 

Funny thing is, I've been working up there on and off for near enough 7 years now, and I don't recall this being on the fleet in the past. I didn't even find it for the first couple of weeks I was working there! It's hidden between the cherry tank, and the pallet stack. It's a P-plate, and not much worse than the shite they've got on the road.

I have a soft spot for these, 'cos I learnt to drive in a similar one.

[pegaso]

OK - it's official I'm afraid. Spoke to David who now runs the yard where the Pegaso was stored and he says it 'went away' at least a year ago, when the yard was taken over. So it's either been cut up or is sitting rotting in one of the scrappers around Fife or wherever........... Big shame, if anyone finds any more info on its whereabouts or demise, I'd be interested to hear.

 

Thanks for all your help and interest!

 

Cheers!

[Split_Pin]

That's a shame, might have been the only one left in the UK.

 

I doubt a scrapper would admit to having it even if it was in theory yard, most of them are miserable, robbing gypos.

[CreepingJesus]

Sorry to hear that, it's grim. For what it's worth, I did an extensive tour of Fife scrappers at the end of last autumn, and didn't see anything bigger than the odd 7.5 tonner.

Couldn't you get BigLorryBlog involved? See if anyone can come up with anything there?

[quicksilver]

Sorry to hear about the Pegaso, the only one I've ever seen was the black Dutch one earlier in this thread.

 

The American circus are back and have brought a few more of their US rigs. One odd motor spotted amongst them was a Bulgarian-registered RHD Vauxhall Vectra which I guess belongs to a Bulgarian artiste who bought it over here and drove it home.

 

Big Chief Pete by quicksilver coaches, on Flickr

 

This Ken be Worth seeing by quicksilver coaches, on Flickr

 

Bilt to last by quicksilver coaches, on Flickr

 

Great Freightliner by quicksilver coaches, on Flickr

 

This one is apparently a GMC TopKick (silly name)

Just for Kicks by quicksilver coaches, on Flickr

 

Battering Ram by quicksilver coaches, on Flickr

 

Uncle Sam's Rams by quicksilver coaches, on Flickr

 

For the Magnum fans with bonus Spanish Alfa content!

El Magnum magnifico by quicksilver coaches, on Flickr

[CreepingJesus]

^Like your pair of Maggies there; Mk1 and 2 in one shot, is unusual.

 

Found these two lurking at the back of a yard on Saturday morning. I'm particularly taken with the S80 - it appears to be in the livery of the last proper job it had, a CV repair shop in Markinch High St., which isn't there any more. Mind you, the rudimentary nudge bar on the front of the ERF looks handy...

[CreepingJesus]

Need to balance up the commercial vehicle shite, with one from my side of the CV divide...

 

 

Scania 143 - 450 still earning its' keep. Rounded corners and the raised roof, say it's a 'Centurion' run-out model. As spotted at Tesco's Livingston RDC the other week.

[Split_Pin]

Nice, these are quite rare now eh? I have an old copy of Truck magazine from 1993 that contains a '500 bhp' shootout and although the basic design was over 10 years old at the time it really looked like a premium motor, even against the then-new FH. I also have one of those large 'EMEK' models of these Scanias that I got at Truckfest in 96.

 

There is a silver 6 wheel rigid Centurion/Streamline that drives around my home town all the time. I think its just a 6-pot one though. Quite a machine!

 

I reckon it was originally a tractor and has latterly been extended and now tows a drawbar. Its always full of some old rammle, more often than not scrap as theres a large breakers up the back of me. Incientally theres a plain-flavoured one sitting in that very yard where it will probably remain as the scrapman is a miserable cunt.

[CreepingJesus]

The 6-pots are getting thin on the ground now, altho' there's a really tidy 360, on t'Bay just now. The £10k asking price is a bit salty, but an equally good V8 might make that.

The logic behind them's hard to fault: they're incredibly tough, simple to fix (mechanical injection pump, not electronic), and a 6-legger will run at 44t quite happily (the standard chassis was designed for 55t use in Sweden).

I'll have to keep an eye out for the silver drawbar; the plain one might be ex-McLenaghan's of Slamannan. They had a 360 doing the pallet collections, and I haven't seen it for a while.

[Split_Pin]

I saw another one this morning from the train, this time a white artic. I seem to recall it was at the tramworks near Murrayfield stadium.

[oman5]

The 6-pots are getting thin on the ground now, altho' there's a really tidy 360, on t'Bay just now. The £10k asking price is a bit salty, but an equally good V8 might make that.

The logic behind them's hard to fault: they're incredibly tough, simple to fix (mechanical injection pump, not electronic), and a 6-legger will run at 44t quite happily (the standard chassis was designed for 55t use in Sweden).

I'll have to keep an eye out for the silver drawbar; the plain one might be ex-McLenaghan's of Slamannan. They had a 360 doing the pallet collections, and I haven't seen it for a while.

 

I agree. I had a 113 360 for about 8 years. not the best of pullers but totally reliable, and sounded good with a straight through eminox. I was sad to see it go, but she was drinking almost as much oil as diesel

[CreepingJesus]

I also should've thought of the 'G' chassis heavy haulers. Still a few about - wonder if GCS Johnston are still using their G143's.

 

Anyhoo...have an FL10 still slogging away to even up the Swedish balance!

[oman5]

I see your FL10 and raise you an R113m 360. I imagine my old one here has either been cubed or exported long ago, it was shagged when I had it

Scania was "replaced" with this. what a complete P.O.S the early actros really was. no torque, huge appetite for very expensive synthetic oil and stupid slow clicky flappy paddle gearbox. I hated it with a passion.

Shitty merc replaced with this..lovely motor and hard to fault apart from the colossal N/s blind spot. I ran this when firms were "flagging out" in the late '90s to avoid the ludicrously dear RFL, hence the dutch plate

This was my first ever wagon. 1993 Daf 85. ok to drive but only a 330 and out of its depth at 38t

[Tetleysmooth]

Scary stuff this is....

I've driven quite a lot of these - in artic form - for a living.

God, I'm old.

[Tetleysmooth]

Here's one I used to drive:

 

[CreepingJesus]

Pollock's have put a 141 in their show fleet; I'd a feeling something was missing from the 'period' livery, and looking at the pic of yours, I know what it is. A TELEX NUMBER! No TruckShite Haualge enterprise is complete without a telex machine, so we could all stand round it, and wait for the jobs to pour in. Fie on you, internet, you're far too modern...

Great photo, tho', all joking aside. I've spent a wee while looking at it, realising how different it is. You still in the mug's game that is truck driving?

@Oman...I was re-reading this thread earlier, and I read your comment about the Asda drivers giving the old ECS's the bodyswerve. There was a clique in Grangemouth who held onto them...and looked after tham like they owned them. There's a neat symmetry to your Actros comment tho; the one thing that unified them was hatred of the Actroses they got as Christmas rentals. I had one of their drivers very sheepishly asking me for the keys to 'his' Scanny, 'cos he couldn't get the Merc in reverse. Even after I showed him how.

Legend had it that Merc's engineers used the 'Telligent Shift / EPS system, 'cos the G16 box was so abysmally heavy to use, that Titan himself would struggle. But I had a pleasant few weeks with an Actros tipper a few years back, which had the hydraulic-assisted lever, and it was fine, if a bit slow. Never understood that one!