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Froggy55:
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Nice bit of Anglo-French nostalgia here, curtesy of Pathe News:As you say. Exactly the atmosphere of the times when I lived in London, with only British-made cars and trucks on the tarmac; some of them almost-wrecks.
Nevertheless, it looks strange that a MB 1319 could me coupled to a maxi-size trailor; at least in France when the gross weight of such an outfit was 38 tonnes.
When we upped from 32 to 38 tonnes here in '83, I often used to drive Merc NG 1619 units with fully-freighted fridge trailers. Fine on the flat and downhill but very slow on the long climbs!
we had 1619 mercs at ferrymasters , when they went into europe the dutch told the drivers that they ‘didn’t work on mickey mouse trucks’
The best Merc NGs were, I reckon, the 1633s. To me, they were the last good Merc lorries because they performed well and still had manual 'boxes (and proper steering wheels 
). I didn’t like any Merc after that, with their EPS and Telligent nonsense.