Thanks for posting the link to the Shap video m.a.n rules. It’s great to see proper wagons in action again. Unfortunately, for me at least, the vision of the supposedly freighted Tennant wagon and drag breezing up towards the summit at 25 mph doesn’t quite coincide with the mental image that I still retain of watching Fred Rose’s KV cabbed ERF eight leggers grinding up at walking pace, fully freighted with newsreel from Cooke & Nuttall at Horwich , destined for Dundee.
To be fair, I’ve only watched the first couple of minutes of the first part. There may be more resonant images to be viewed in subsequent parts.
I do realise of course that we all owe a debt of gratitude to all those vintage vehicle restorers and enthusiasts for their efforts in coming even close to reproducing historical scenes.
The pinnacle of road haulage in the UK, ( to my mind that is ), occurred during the mid 50s to mid 60s, so It would be practically impossible to reproduce a plausible re-enactment of those Halcyon days.
Fair play to everyone involved in these historic vehicle events, but I guess I’m probably too much of a purist and need to accept that history is history,…end of.