Sugar Ray:
Its an ex British Army tanker unit, here`s one in action.
Taken in the entrance to Marne Barracks■■?
cieranc:
And the white paint writing on the screen/grill is the lot number from the Witham sale.There you go, Witham’s sold it, someone drove it to Immingham, DFDS shipped it, now it’s overseas.
Mystery solved.
Not quite cieranc 
, where was it going to we wondered. We stopped a couple of kilometers away from the customs and made a coffee, after half an hour nobody had come through so we carried on. Fairly soon we came to a T junction where you turned left for Northern Botswana and Zimbabwe and right for Southern Botswana and South Africa. So where they will they end up ? could be anybody guess but I would think that somebody is making a very small profit or are they 
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Can’t help you with that I’m afraid.
Anyone know where it’s going?
mushroomman:
cieranc:
And the white paint writing on the screen/grill is the lot number from the Witham sale.There you go, Witham’s sold it, someone drove it to Immingham, DFDS shipped it, now it’s overseas.
Mystery solved.
Not quite cieranc
I can’t get my head around the finances of African countries which all seem to be poor (except Nigeria where they have money that they want to send to me) A few years ago I took a well shagged out counterbalance flt to Purfleet where an African bloke had bought it, it had a spare engine with it and the one in it needed a skilled hand to start it and keep it running. He’d paid about £700 for it and then paid us about £100 to transport it to him. So he’d paid £800 for a shagged forklift that was still in Essex and needed space on another vehicle heading to Africa. What it would have ended up costing on arrival is anyone’s guess. I can only assume that somewhere along the line some foriegn aid is being diverted and some skimmed off. Unless they are poor because they keep paying top dollar for old crap.
mushroomman:
cieranc:
And the white paint writing on the screen/grill is the lot number from the Witham sale.There you go, Witham’s sold it, someone drove it to Immingham, DFDS shipped it, now it’s overseas.
Mystery solved.
Not quite cieranc
I can’t get my head around the finances of African countries which all seem to be poor (except Nigeria where they have money that they want to send to me) A few years ago I took a well shagged out counterbalance flt to Purfleet where an African bloke had bought it, it had a spare engine with it and the one in it needed a skilled hand to start it and keep it running. He’d paid about £700 for it and then paid us about £100 to transport it to him. So he’d paid £800 for a shagged forklift that was still in Essex and needed space on another vehicle heading to Africa. What it would have ended up costing on arrival is anyone’s guess. I can only assume that somewhere along the line some foriegn aid is being diverted and some skimmed off. Unless they are poor because they keep paying top dollar for old crap.
mushroomman:
Sugar Ray:
Its an ex British Army tanker unit, here`s one in action.
Hello Ray, I thought that it might of been Army as an ex R.A.F. one would of more that likely had a yellow stripe around it which it didn’t have. Does that GST07 code mean anything to anybody
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Well done Graham A, I didn’t spot the IMM code for Immingham
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Regards Steve.
Not 100% sure but i think GST07 IS REF to the type of pumping gear fitted.
Surely that would be on the tank though, because you could swap tractors?
cieranc:
Surely that would be on the tank though, because you could swap tractors?
Hopefully Dieseldave might be able to shed some light on it.
On the ticket on the front of the tanker you can see its original forces reg number 36 AY 10, there is a web site some where that will tell you the vehicles history and where it was based etc but i cant remember what it is.
GST 07 will be the tractor units task number in the MT dept and it probably stands for general service tractor or tanker.
grousebeater
8wheels:
I can’t get my head around the finances of African countries which all seem to be poor (except Nigeria where they have money that they want to send to me) A few years ago I took a well shagged out counterbalance flt to Purfleet where an African bloke had bought it, it had a spare engine with it and the one in it needed a skilled hand to start it and keep it running. He’d paid about £700 for it and then paid us about £100 to transport it to him. So he’d paid £800 for a shagged forklift that was still in Essex and needed space on another vehicle heading to Africa. What it would have ended up costing on arrival is anyone’s guess. I can only assume that somewhere along the line some foriegn aid is being diverted and some skimmed off. Unless they are poor because they keep paying top dollar for old crap.
Withams were knocking these ex-reserve units out at about £12.5k at the last disposal sale.
Even with the costs of shipping and wages to drive it south, it’s a bargain. Say, an absolute max of £18 grand all in.
That’s for a double drive unit with steel suspension, no more than a few thousand miles on the clock, in top condition with easily sourced parts + very basic engine electrics so any bush mechanic can fix it. As above, that’ll work hard for another 20 years yet.
The tank has probably never been used. If it has, it’ll want swilling with acid to kill the diesel weed found in all the Queens green trucks. But even then, that unit and a low use tank for £12k. Bargain. Don’t matter about it being hatch-fill, don’t think it’ll be seeing FL regs where it’s going!
If you were to buy a modern unit, what would you get for £20k ?
A 56 plate Iveco Stralis or MAN TGA with 600+k on the clock?
How long would one of those last pulling an overloaded trailer on the roads in Africa?