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coomsey:
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One of the specialist vehicles used by the RAF to transport missiles to be loaded on to a plane.
Some of the film quality is very poor but the sound is good and it takes me back to 1969 riding in Dad’s AEC tipper with Dad or Norman. Nothing better for a 9 year old lorry obsessed boy than riding in the new but noisy AEC Ergo with the 505 revving away.
Helif that little truck couldn’t fly. Well over 60mph on a flat road with 10 ton of ballast.
Kempston:
Just saw this on the internet, sorry if it’s been posted before. Nmp0
Looking at it on my phone it looks like its new outside Oswald Tillotsons Burnley , great photo
essexpete:
https://youtu.be/UWrfIfQUlNMSome of the film quality is very poor but the sound is good and it takes me back to 1969 riding in Dad’s AEC tipper with Dad or Norman. Nothing better for a 9 year old lorry obsessed boy than riding in the new but noisy AEC Ergo with the 505 revving away.
Helif that little truck couldn’t fly. Well over 60mph on a flat road with 10 ton of ballast.
They were good for 75 mph
ERF-NGC-European:
Not my pic.
Hampshire Car Bodies cab,same as the one I had.
Dennis Javelin:
coomsey:
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0One of the specialist vehicles used by the RAF to transport missiles to be loaded on to a plane.
Thanks Dennis, I wondered what it was about
Star down under.:
https://youtu.be/eRQPbF1Mj_8
Brilliant that , i’ve never seen it before , whats the general feeling regarding ARC in Australia , i was once reading a forum and they weren’t keen at all , but they probably weren’t designed for rugged Australian work. I think they called them pommy crap or something similar
Great pics! 
The artic at 2:24 appears to be carrying batteries but has nearly as many more in the unit’s battery box!
ramone:
Star down under.:
https://youtu.be/eRQPbF1Mj_8Brilliant that , i’ve never seen it before , whats the general feeling regarding ARC in Australia , i was once reading a forum and they weren’t keen at all , but they probably weren’t designed for rugged Australian work. I think they called them pommy crap or something similar
Haha, anything Pommie was crap once Kenworth became available, in the early 60s. By 1971 they were made in Melbourne. Now Kenworth are designed for our conditions, varying vastly from American specifications.
I’m not old enough to have any personal experience with heavyweights from the mother country, but before the availability of the Yank products, I understand AEC, Leyland
and Foden were well respected.
AEC (and Leyland/Albion) lasted longer as highly respected bus chassis.
Rather than taking this thread too far off topic, I’ll start a new thread about the potted history of Pommie trucks in Australia.
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That’s a dangerous looking trailer which would need approaching with caution! The unit looks a bit odd as well Robert, any info?
ERF-NGC-European:
coomsey:
ERF-NGC-European:
0That’s a dangerous looking trailer which would need approaching with caution! The unit looks a bit odd as well Robert, any info?
No info, I’m afraid. The tipper body stands rather high, like a ‘cassette’ body, so the centre of gravity appears to be uncomfortably high. I wonder what that machine is, forward of the trailer wheels: perhaps it is a cassette-type and is demountable. The only odd thing I can see about the unit is that it stands low, so I imagine that the trailer is heavily laden.
Ro
ERF-NGC-European:
ERF-NGC-European:
coomsey:
ERF-NGC-European:
0That’s a dangerous looking trailer which would need approaching with caution! The unit looks a bit odd as well Robert, any info?
No info, I’m afraid. The tipper body stands rather high, like a ‘cassette’ body, so the centre of gravity appears to be uncomfortably high. I wonder what that machine is, forward of the trailer wheels: perhaps it is a cassette-type and is demountable. The only odd thing I can see about the unit is that it stands low, so I imagine that the trailer is heavily laden.
Ro
Knowing Sam Anderson that AEC MK5 Mandator and tipper would certainly be well loaded.I’d imagine it would be summat like pig iron in that trailer. 
It looks like a donkey engine on the trailer , only one connection from the unit , presumably electrics .
rigsby:
It looks like a donkey engine on the trailer , only one connection from the unit , presumably electrics .
Would the unit on the trailer be used to operate the hydraulic rams? There’s a pipe running from the neck of the trailer back along the chassis. I can only presume that it connects to this unit as there doesn’t seem to be anything else it could be for. This would allow for the trailer to one used by any artic that was available rather than one fitted with a PTO.
I agree with Rigsby, a donkey engine for the hydraulics. There were plenty around here for tippers and powder tankers, looks like Spenborough tipping gear with the two outriggers.
Pete.