Adriaan Beers: Dutch inventor and trademan!

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Another LV-55 from Muller-Holten with a cattle-trailer.

The ECT-UB-registration is confirmed to be Hoekstra-cabbed and indeed also A LV-55

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Also confirmed....a Van Eck Cabbed LVS-75 from 1963

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Just found a very good looking scalemodel from Van Staalduinen's LVS-75 and with respect to copyright

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Good to have scalemodels and pictures amongst the handful of preserved scale 1:1 models.

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Another nice example of a scalemodel from J.A. van Spronsen in Monster, an early customer of Beers.

Also a picture from Joh. de Waal in Werkendam, very active in extraordinary transports for contracters,
now clear to see it is a LV-55-tractor, the L-55 being introduced in 1959.

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An update: ECT had more orless about 20 Scania-Vabis LV's in their fleet, however
just 10 of them where property-owned for use on the yard and 10 were owned by
subcontractors doing both in- and outside the yard, hence the (semi-)daycab.

On a first thought the majority were Paul- and Hoekstra-cabbed and possibly more
information on the ECT-fleet is available soon.

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No spectacular news on the ECT-fleet.....but the majority seemed to be old(er) registered chassis
(possibly out of some fear to get stuck with the stock of old-fashioned chassis) with Paul-cabbed
parts with some influence when it comes to Hoekstra. By then, mid-sixties, the market was very
nervous on what to buy for what type of work, length, sleeper etc.

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What do you know about the forward-control Scania Vabis' vehicles produced before the introduction of the LV75?

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Do you have the second page of this article?

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Also confirmed....a Van Eck Cabbed LVS-75 from 1963

From 1963-1968 the spectacular 76-series came on the market and that was a genuine asset for the transport-industry!

Attached some pictures in front of the Södertälje-HQ

Some info on the Beers' "Handyman" coming soon

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Summer has been slow for input....Beers did well with bus-chassis B-21 and B22 in 1947 for both
busses as removal-lorries. Mind Deudekom from Amsterdam

Herewith the front page of an original instruction-book, a rare document!

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An example of the Beers "Handyvan" from 1950. This chassis had an interior for
a dentist and the body was made by De Graaff in Zevenhuizen.

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Some fresh input, though issued in 1961 by Beers, the S-number refers to the publication-code

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And the second part due to file-sizes

Note: by 1961 in total 5.000 Scania-Vabis-chassis were sold in Holland and Belgium since both
companies (Beers and Denonville) started to import this Swedish marque.

More stuff from the sixties later

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The Beers' company had clear eye for developments and transportation needs. After Scania-Vabis
was renamed in 1969 after the merger with Saab a welcome attempt was made to support the in-
creasing volumes for container-transport. Together with company HULO (van Huet) from Pannerden
in Holland, and known for their brickhandling-equipment, Beers engineered a container-trailer that
enabled the driver for more direct curves of steering.

Herewith some pages from the Scania-brochure. In "the book 'Scania Today' there is also info on it.

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Hulo were clearly a very innovative engineering outfit. I knew about their brick trailer cranes but hadn't connected them with these steerable trailers. I can sense a Hulo thread floating over the horizon ! Ro

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Just like mother-company Scania had their own house-magazine "VIA" also Beers had a magazine. Since
1967 "PK4" was published by Beers, later Scania Nederland. Though in Dutch, some milestones were in
the 1980 magazine....Beers' first year and in 1949 followed by Denonville in Brussels. Also the import
of Volkswagen got some attention and many years later, today, Volkswagen owns Scania and M.A.N.

As sais, the article in "PK4" deals with the transfer from Scania-Vabis towards Saab-Scania in 1969.