Not my photo , a Mr Sutton apparently hope he doesn’t mind me posting it. It must be a 1930s 0hoto looking at the cab , we’ve been trying to find out who the two in the photo are but no success yet
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That’s an early 1930’s Mammoth Major Six. The extension of the radiator suggests that its original petrol engine has been replaced by a Gardner 6LW. Several early Mammoths and Mammoth Majors were fitted with Gardners until AEC got reliability from its own 8.8 diesel engine in 1933/34.
The Mammoth Major Six has a Bradford registration (as expected) from March 1931 up to May 1935 so can’t pin it down to any specific year, except maybe any detail changes that occurred during the time span. Franky.
It’s definitely from Bradford Franky Henry Long Transport , i’m surprised that it could have had a Gardner in it though but unfortunately thete’s no one to ask as they have all passed away
ramone:
It’s definitely from Bradford Franky Henry Long Transport , i’m surprised that it could have had a Gardner in it though but unfortunately thete’s no one to ask as they have all passed away
I wonder if registration details for this vehicle still exist somewhere? If so they would probably have the engine capacity recorded. IF the owner had notified the authorities of the engine swap we could deduce what engine was fitted, no?
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The long shallow fuel tank is the clue that it originally had a petrol engine. It has the same rear axle hubs as the J. M. Mills eight-wheeler. Gardner was the only reliable retro-fit diesel engine available in the early 1930’s. The attraction of a Gardner engine was much improved mpg compared with a petrol unit along with less maintenance.
I was trying to put an approximate date on it and it looks fairly new , note there’s no covers for the lights which would make it before 1939 or after 1945 but like i said it looks newish so ma6be mid 30s
Its definitely between 1931 and 35 as KY on its own only covered those years, KY appeared again in the Sixties. The 903 in the reg could mean its from the early end of the period if not 1931 then 1932, depends how many vehicles were registered when KY began in March 31. Franky.
A shot taken with lorry going over the river Tees at Yarm with goods train going over the viaduct in the background. Picture courtesy of the Stockton council archives which are an interesting history of the area.
The alignment has changed but that is about 50 yards further on from here:
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The traffic looks to have followed the stone wall on the left.
jshepguis:
A shot taken with lorry going over the river Tees at Yarm with goods train going over the viaduct in the background. Picture courtesy of the Stockton council archives which are an interesting history of the area.0
That’s a great photo of a AEC MK3 tinfront and what looks like a Riddles ex WD 2 -8 -0 loco pulling a freight train over viaduct. 
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Nice photos Graham.
The BRS MK5 looks like Queensferry depot with that Flints reg,maybe loaded out of Shotton.
One for Chris Webb to enjoy…
A couple of photos taken by Alec Tyson in Syria in 1959. Alec was a senior AEC manager working the AEC’s export department. These are Mk.111 Mammoth Major Mk.111 6x4 tractor units supplied to the Iraq Petroleum Company, based at Homs, and they were building an oil pipeline across the desert.
AEC Mammoth Major 6x4 tractor unit, one of several AEC supplied to the Crown Agents, a government funded department that provided people and equipment to Commonwealth countries for infra-structure construction projects. The cab is a Bonallack design for export vehicles, although a few home market AECs were supplied with these cabs
In Australia Cec Spencer of Channel Transport from Windorah in Central West Queensland ran bonneted Mammoth Major Sixes as livestock hauling roadtrains. Their main destination was Quilpie railhead. The photos were taken in 1960 and 1961. One of these AECs had survived awaiting restoration in Melbourne.
Roy Behn’s MaMmoth Major Six tractor worked hard for its living. The first photo is a 45-tons travelling gantry crane en route from Newcastle to Mount Isa mines. The lorry behind was a Mack NR powered by a Leyland O.680 engine carrying ball mill ends for Mount Isa and drums of diesel for both lorries. The second photo is from 1960. A mere 40 tons this time in central Queensland between Kynuna and McKinlay. The road was very badly rutted and the AEC could only average 10 mph. (And we complain about potholes in UK roads!)
Thanks Graham,I spent some time in those MK3s,a lot were ex Shell Mex and BP as you know.SLD 793 was one of them,taken at Sheffield.
gingerfold:
In Australia Cec Spencer of Channel Transport from Windorah in Central West Queensland ran bonneted Mammoth Major Sixes as livestock hauling roadtrains. Their main destination was Quilpie railhead. The photos were taken in 1960 and 1961. One of these AECs had survived awaiting restoration in Melbourne.
Those Mammoth’s were a good looking truck. Heres a bit more about the Channel Transport roadtrains. Looking at the pics i am
surprised they are not carrying more spare wheels. I can only assume that the road speeds were alot less than modern roadtrains
so maybe they never use so get so many blow outs ?
1962 Click on pages twice to read.
We’ve seen this Mk.V in black and white, here’s the colour version.
