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10 hours ago, Joey spud said:

I was working at a Paper Mill in Kemsley the other day and spied this parked up in their yard.

Looking at its Mot history shows its never been presented for a test.

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HGV/PSV MOTs use a different system that doesn't record tests on the DVSA website and is still at least partly paper-based IIRC. That looks tidy for a shunter, I've seen some that are literally falling apart. 

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On 09/10/2021 at 08:35, Joey spud said:

I was working at a Paper Mill in Kemsley the other day and spied this parked up in their yard.

Looking at its Mot history shows its never been presented for a test.

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Looks like it's still absolutely ready for the road. I wonder what its story is.

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Found a little story about a 6 wheel drive MAN truck that was left behind by the Germans. This was bought and used for transport to some remote mines here in Norway. It was very good in terrain but was terrible to drive. In the winter of 49/50 while transporting timber, it went through the ice and was lost forever. The picture of it is from the winter 46/47.

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The funfair is back in town after missing a year. Almost everyone has Volvos now and we're down to four ERFs, all relatively modern ones from the 1990s that are regulars here. I did find these two classics in Banbury though, and the V-reg has just had a fresh coat of paint at over 40 years old so its owner has no plans to pension it off any time soon.

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1 hour ago, quicksilver said:

The funfair is back in town after missing a year. Almost everyone has Volvos now and we're down to four ERFs, all relatively modern ones from the 1990s that are regulars here. I did find these two classics in Banbury though, and the V-reg has just had a fresh coat of paint at over 40 years old so its owner has no plans to pension it off any time soon.

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Find a lot of travelling entertainers use old ERFs. They love them. The usual Cummins engines are pretty bullet proof. They do well to keep them on the road. Parts were getting scarce 15 years ago …….. 

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ERFs and Fodens are still the favourites and Cummins and Gardner engines are spoken of with much reverence in the showman community, but even the newest ones are over 15 years old so they're dying out fast, supplies of both parts and complete trucks are drying up and they're reluctantly moving on to other makes. Volvo is definitely the new preference but there's quite a few DAFs and MANs are starting to make an impact too. Scanias apparently are great when they work but expensive to fix so they're not that popular.

This sentiment on a Volvo says it all really:

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16 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

ERFs and Fodens are still the favourites and Cummins and Gardner engines are spoken of with much reverence in the showman community, but even the newest ones are over 15 years old so they're dying out fast, supplies of both parts and complete trucks are drying up and they're reluctantly moving on to other makes. Volvo is definitely the new preference but there's quite a few DAFs and MANs are starting to make an impact too. Scanias apparently are great when they work but expensive to fix so they're not that popular.

This sentiment on a Volvo says it all really:

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Shame the sign writer couldn’t spell though. 

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KRAZ-255, and a little more modern, introducing the future -

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The brand new KAMAZ-6561 Hercules in the factory. It is an autonomous (ie unmanned) hybrid (diesel - electric) dumper used in mines/quarries. I suspect the unmanned function is used in the mine rather than on the road...

 

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19 hours ago, High Jetter said:

If automonous, why does it have a cab?

I suspect the autonomous bit is for use 'on-site' probably for ferrying between one fixed point to another along a clear, pre-defined route. Once off that route (eg on the public roads) a mark1 human being takes charge; hence the cab.

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