Home brew sleeper cabs...Moderators: ERF-NGC-European, dieseldave By posting content to TruckNet, you're agreeing to our terms of use and confirm that you have read our Privacy Policy, and our Cookie Use Policy. You acknowledge that any personal data you post on TruckNet may be accessed by other members of TruckNet and visitors to the forum Home brew sleeper cabs...Anyone remember those cab extentions which we used to bribe the workshop crews to build on the cab of your Bedford TK's/KM's/Ford Cargo's/Leylands/etc, in lieu of a proper sleeper cab?
There were some very strange looking concoctions bolted on the cab backs...any photos of them would be appreciated. Richard '
Richard -------------------------------------- 'who needs traffic calming when there's a sweeper in front of you...''
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Hi
found this advert for a sleeper conversion in a 1982 Bedford Operator magazine that might be of interest
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...That's spot on, BillyBob...and very upmarket too! Most of the ones I remember seeing were very much a home brewed thing, but looks very posh.
Many thanks for that... Richard '
Richard -------------------------------------- 'who needs traffic calming when there's a sweeper in front of you...''
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...
A couple of Fords whith a Whitacres conversions
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Hi this is a model done by Unity Conversions of Little Lever Street Bolton, they sent me this picture of a Hipwood & Grundy motor to show me what the finished article would look like, any ways I had my 110 Scania done but when I took it up there in an old mill it were I nearly had second thoughts but carried on and was well pleased with the results. cant remember how much it cost but it sure was better than kipping across the seats.
In my early days I got two fella's from a car repair shop to put a hutch on the back of a Mammoth Minor AEC, that was scary once they nibbled the back of the cab Saterday and I needed the truck to go to work on the Monday but they did it with a sheet of mild steel and 1 inch angle but that was back in the day.
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...They all look a darned site better than the Jennings nesr boxes they stuck on the back of Walton-le-Dale's finest!
Steve
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Some nice images there guys, thanks ever so much. I remember back in the day that some would knock the side windows out of the TK cabs and have a metal box welded across the resulting hole, at least could you get yourself across the parcel shelf behind the seats.
The upmarket version was made by cutting the back of the cab right off, and welding in an extension plate, then welding the back of the cab back on. An old piece of carpet, a pile of blankets (or if you were lucky, a narrow mattress) a set of old curtains, and away you went with your smart sleeper cab. How things have changed.... Richard '
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Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Regards JOHN.
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Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Terrific pictures...thanks guys, keep 'em coming!
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Richard -------------------------------------- 'who needs traffic calming when there's a sweeper in front of you...''
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Here is one i like,would make the Daf to a great longhaul unit me think.
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Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...
That AEC must have been quite a talking point in its day..
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Blimey...some of those are real posh compared to what I'm thinking about. I guess I'm going back to...ooh, the late '70s-early '80s or so.
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Richard -------------------------------------- 'who needs traffic calming when there's a sweeper in front of you...''
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Hey, to all a goor newyear.
I think that the MB1418, F88 and Daf 2600 must be the most welcomed imports with their standard sleepercabs ???? At Scania it was still an option. Eric, A Fuller driver is a happy driver
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...I managed to find one image on the 'net showing what it is I'm babbling on about...
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Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...see bedfords never die,
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Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...
And he did Pakistan in that! Robert Fuller Roadranger
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...In a two word answer...."sod that..."
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Richard -------------------------------------- 'who needs traffic calming when there's a sweeper in front of you...''
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Did you pay him "night out" money Dennis?
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Even with the large cab's coming straight out of the works nowadays, it seems that for some it isn't quite what they had in mind..?
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Did you pay him "night out" money Dennis?
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Now we're on the right track...thanks, keep them coming!
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Richard -------------------------------------- 'who needs traffic calming when there's a sweeper in front of you...''
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...Early 60's Fodens. Maker of the "dog box" unknown, but I've seen pics of others like these in Oz.
Re: Home brew sleeper cabs...That Trader looks well
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