tyneside:
essexpete:
Geordielad:
By the way forgot to mention at the end of the last post, I believe these new Albion’s apart from those examples built for the Comm Motor Show sadly never went into production but they remain the last Albion tractor units built. Franky.So the updated hi datum Albion never made the market?
The last Albion we bought new was a 4 wheel tipper in about 1970 with the LAD cab, that was reg TPT 228K.
12 months later inquired at FW Cawthorne about an Albion 6 wheel chassis and we were directed towards the Leyland Bear. This had the High Datum cab with a 401 engine (Turbocharged IIRC) and 6 speed box. The reg on that was VPT 993L. Went to get another chassis about 9 months later and by this time the new Reiver with the G cab was available. The first one we had was reg APT 826L.
Tyneside
Our local Readymix plant had several J or K plate Reivers which seemed very outdated at the time. I gather that, cost apart, the LAD suffered less, or more easily repaired, damage on site work.