I recently saw a picture of a lidded bucket type device bungee strapped inside the back wheel of a tractor unit, I guess the driver was using it for his laundry.
A lot of work if you ask me, luckily I have a magic basket at home, I put my dirty clothes inside and the next day they’re back in my wardrobe, clean and freshly ironed. I just make sure I take enough clothes for a couple of weeks on each trip so I can use the magic basket when I return home.
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Another example of those smart F8 MAN tops. Robert
Love the look of these F8 MAN tops, this is pic of MAN Roadhaus I drove for Frederiks, I was a big fan of the Roadhaus which I found to be a lovely Wagon to drive with an excellent cab to be away in 
It would be interesting to see a price comparrison to see the cost difference between buying the Roadhaus or buying a normal flat top cab & having the F8 top conversion fitted? Also applies to other wagons like the Scania 143 with I think was a Esteppe? high roof fitted, IIRC there was one running in Astran colours & Geoff Gilbert had at least one in his fleet, as Scania didn’t do a factory fitted high roof until the 4 series/Topline, despite the 143 main rivals Volvo/Globetrotter & DAF/Spacecab, obviously Scania felt the 143 bought enough to the table already, which few could disagree with. Chris
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Another example of those smart F8 MAN tops. Robert1
Love the look of these F8 MAN tops, this is pic of MAN Roadhaus I drove for Frederiks, I was a big fan of the Roadhaus which I found to be a lovely Wagon to drive with an excellent cab to be away in
You rightly distinguish between the older F8 customised tops and the later ones. The high F8 cab tops were supplied ex-factory by the likes of Esteppe. The later F90 cab had a factory Commander high cab option and later the Roadhaus came along, which continued into the F2000 cab. Your picture appears to be an F2000 Roadhaus. MAN’s factory high cabs were very roomy. Robert
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Hahaha!!! The policeman makes it. I doubt GB telly would allow that nowadays, harmless though it is.
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Here you go fellas,this is how it really looks. It’s a Beaver restored here in NZ,I took this at a truck show a few years ago near Auckland.
Thanks Jamie.
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Another example of those smart F8 MAN tops. Robert1
Love the look of these F8 MAN tops, this is pic of MAN Roadhaus I drove for Frederiks, I was a big fan of the Roadhaus which I found to be a lovely Wagon to drive with an excellent cab to be away in
You rightly distinguish between the older F8 customised tops and the later ones. The high F8 cab tops were supplied ex-factory by the likes of Esteppe. The later F90 cab had a factory Commander high cab option and later the Roadhaus came along, which continued into the F2000 cab. Your picture appears to be an F2000 Roadhaus. MAN’s factory high cabs were very roomy. Robert
There where two version highroof on the F90 , 1 the factory version and the version from Indupol belgium. The last was a higher than the german version. More space inside .
INDUPOL…a supplier on general FRP and GRP solutions for DAF, De Rooij and others was
nothing more and nothing less than a supplier of applications. Based in Arendonk, not a
half mile from Van Steenbergen known for their NGC’s
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Another example of those smart F8 MAN tops. Robert1
Love the look of these F8 MAN tops, this is pic of MAN Roadhaus I drove for Frederiks, I was a big fan of the Roadhaus which I found to be a lovely Wagon to drive with an excellent cab to be away in
You rightly distinguish between the older F8 customised tops and the later ones. The high F8 cab tops were supplied ex-factory by the likes of Esteppe. The later F90 cab had a factory Commander high cab option and later the Roadhaus came along, which continued into the F2000 cab. Your picture appears to be an F2000 Roadhaus. MAN’s factory high cabs were very roomy. Robert
There where two version highroof on the F90 , 1 the factory version and the version from Indupol belgium. The last was a higher than the german version. More space inside .
Hi HenryvdB, I bet there are no interior pics now of the inside of the MAN with Indupol conversion, it looks quite a bit higher than the factory option, & with the squarer shape must have offered more/deeper locker space. Chris
Tolemans mobile carparks modified their cabs I think they were F86,s and Maggie Deuz units. It was a extension bolted on the rear of the day cab slightly larger than the rear screen, through which was the access to the bed. they jutted out over the 5th wheel and they were nicknamed the coffin for that’s what they looked like. Not so good if you were a bit overweight and not so agile.
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Tolemans mobile carparks modified their cabs I think they were F86,s and Maggie Deuz units. It was a extension bolted on the rear of the day cab slightly larger than the rear screen, through which was the access to the bed. they jutted out over the 5th wheel and they were nicknamed the coffin for that’s what they looked like. Not so good if you were a bit overweight and not so agile.
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Superb thread, this:
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Coffins are on page one. Seems that, as the design of transporters changed, ordinary cabs became acceptable.
Except for the truck transporters, they have specific parts cut away to enable a certain amount of truck chassis to be carried. The Italians used to do the same, there were some very odd looking sleeper compartments around.
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And if you want to be really helpful you could leave them to soak in soapy water until you get home!Just leave them sloshing about in soapy water for 500 miles or so. That should do the trick.
On a (very slightly) serious note- did anyone make a “washing machine” thing for trips to uncivilised places? I imagine some sort of lidded/sealed tank with a couple of cricket balls in it. Something like that.
When I was doing China I noticed one of the other lads had a proper wash bucket in his trailer box, so I thought I’d do the same. Turns out he got it from some camping shop somewhere in Holland so there was fat chance I was going to get one. One of the places we used to go had 25 liter buckets with snap tight lids, They were pretty heavy duty. and a bit mingy, after a good wash I thought they’d do the trick so I wrangled one from the forman… I think I used Tesco cold water washing powder… I used to do half a day with soapy water, then tip that out and rinse a few times. I made a sort of grid that sat about half way down the bucket which I had drilled a load of big holes in ( cause I’d seen the other lad had the same sort of thing ) so you put that in and sat your wet clothes back on top of it for the rest of the day, which drained them out.
Use a proper washing line or a bit of string and cloth pegs… usually strung up between a couple of trucks… Don’t be tempted to use a Tilt cord cause they’re really mingy and put minging black lines right across your cloths…
I did a load one day mid November and the whole bucket with all the cloths froze solid…so I spent most of the following week with very little choice of things to ware…
Jeff…
This thread has just reminded me that I bought a Sputnik washing machine in South West Africa back in 1975 for a lot less than 100 Rand, it was ideal for working in the bush. And after doing a bit of Googling I am surprised to see that they are still selling them.
I.I.R.C. this photo from page 3 of the blue D.A.F. was driven by Keith Headley from Bury, Lancashire who did some Middle East work in the late eighties and early nineties.
700 Rand now. Worth it for the advertising alone:
“Wonder Wash is ideal for caravanners, bachelors, couples, single people, pensioners, students, barracks and even the housewife…”
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This thread has just reminded me that I bought a Sputnik washing machine in South West Africa back in 1975 for a lot less than 100 Rand, it was ideal for working in the bush. And after doing a bit of Googling I am surprised to see that they are still selling them.I.I.R.C. this photo from page 3 of the blue D.A.F. was driven by Keith Headley from Bury, Lancashire who did some Middle East work in the late eighties and early nineties.
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That blue daf is quite interesting. I can’t quite identify what the driver’s door is from. It’s not a DAF door.
This thread is really interesting. Some of those jobs look really slick and professional, whereas others look ludicrous 
Has anybody got any pictures of the insides of some of these home brew sleepers? Especially the small bolt on coffin types? I’d love to see what they looked like inside.
Never noticed the door on the Daf until it was pointed out, well spotted!
I would say it’s a bitsa, the front edge has to be Daf, the angle of the screen and hinge positions would be hard to replicate, the rest, who knows, the door handle is from an F10/12 and mounted much lower than the original Daf one.
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Never noticed the door on the Daf until it was pointed out, well spotted!I would say it’s a bitsa, the front edge has to be Daf, the angle of the screen and hinge positions would be hard to replicate, the rest, who knows, the door handle is from an F10/12 and mounted much lower than the original Daf one.
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Morning Mark,
The door is very strange but the Laybond Dat on the right was driven by a member on here 3300 John, perhaps he could shed some light on it, I see him lurking on FB so I’ll send an SOS! Cheers Pete
I’ve heard it said somewhere (where exactly now escapes me) that Keith’s cab was modified in Europe somewhere. That said, didn’t RABA use DAF cabs? Could it be one of their cabs which was used on Keith’s wagon?
