Frankydobo:
It wasn’t the AWD system the vehicles the original poster was asking about, they were Scammell Units with Tippers, a place at Peterlee just off the A19 used to make them, I’m sure there was an article in Truck about them too. I often passed the works going up and down the A19 in the early 90’s. I believe they used a hydraulic drive system to transmit traction to the trailer wheels and the trailer stayed coupled to the unit. Whether they made many sales I don’t know they may have sold for export. Franky.
Hi Franky, DJB ENGINEERING LIMITED 1973-To Date Peterlee, County Durham, England… mentioned in the first paragraph of the link I gave, more here tractors.wikia.com/wiki/DJB.
Cheers
Oily
Frankydobo:
It wasn’t the AWD system the vehicles the original poster was asking about, they were Scammell Units with Tippers, a place at Peterlee just off the A19 used to make them, I’m sure there was an article in Truck about them too. I often passed the works going up and down the A19 in the early 90’s. I believe they used a hydraulic drive system to transmit traction to the trailer wheels and the trailer stayed coupled to the unit. Whether they made many sales I don’t know they may have sold for export. Franky.
Hi Franky, DJB ENGINEERING LIMITED 1973-To Date Peterlee, County Durham, England… mentioned in the first paragraph of the link I gave, more here tractors.wikia.com/wiki/DJB.
Cheers
Oily
I notice there’s not a word in that link about the existence of any type of motive unit apart from Caterpillar. But then, it is a Wiki (believe it if you like!) site!
i have hidden away somewhere,some camcorder footage of at least one T45 cabbed all wheel drive tipper at work near Cannock, close to what was then a new Sainsbury store.
Can anyone remember Leyland cabbed Scammel artic tippers, that used to have a propshaft from the tractor unit to the trailer wheels? Im sure I remember seeing these as a kid, I think the company they belonged to was Bernard Kettles or something like that. Has anyone got any pictures of them?
I did have a demo video of one of these trucks it was a scammell s26 as you say with the leyland roadtrain style cab i will have a look in my mums loft to see if its still there.
I think i saw a video or dvd of one of these working in truck and driver from a company that sells truck books etc
I remember an owner driver called Don Bush having a Scammell Multidrive, very smart, had a bit of air brush paintwork on the cab. He was on a video called top tipper trio i think. Another i remember was an ERF E10-325 tha was owned by Fewstone Quarrys, and i think it was in Trucking International in the late 90s when owned by another operator whos name escapes me.
There was a few SedAtki Stratos on open-cast work as well i think, these might still be operating, im not sure.
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I remember an owner driver called Don Bush having a Scammell Multidrive, very smart, had a bit of air brush paintwork on the cab. He was on a video called top tipper trio i think. Another i remember was an ERF E10-325 tha was owned by Fewstone Quarrys, and i think it was in Trucking International in the late 90s when owned by another operator whos name escapes me.
There was a few SedAtki Stratos on open-cast work as well i think, these might still be operating, im not sure.
it was fenstone who had the erf one but they did’nt keep it long it was nothing but trouble if i remember rightly.
I remember the Kettles AWD Multidrives from when we were running to the new A50 from Mere to the D road with scalpings etc, we would be sat waiting for a pull out of the s**t but they would fly past with no problems. I don’t know what the reliability aspect was though and they seem to have died a death.
Peter Bennie from Northampton had a T45 cab version and I think may have had an Volvo FL10 version for a little while as well.
GCE Hire Fleet from Peterborough had at least one T45 version as well.
An owner driver for Tarmac also had an AWD version with the ex-Bedford TL cab. There are some pics of that one in the Tarmac Tippers thread in the pic area.
