tiptop495:
Hey Anorak, A bite off topic but!! The first I think was FIAT to put the aircleaner behind de cab,and all offered a changed intake if you needed the space of the intake pipe for the body.
The first F88 had the aircleaner in front of the right frontwheel which was a real disaster,you could change every month a filter. The design was so bad,Scanny’s was made lots better. They mounted the airfilter only there because it was the easyest place to fix it,but Always has been the worst for dirt.The latter F88 with the funnel ,could easiely let away because it stand on the side of the engine.
But I am sure the the oil aircleaner was much more cheaper and Scania used it a lot of time with even turbo engines.
Cheers Eric,
Sounds like SA might have copied the original Volvo design, without thinking about it properly.
JAKEY:
Hi Dennis , that’s better mate , any yard shunter photos ? “please”
Hows this shot for you “JAKEY”,After TEC640R was withdrawn from service we put it into the Paper Mill at Beetham as the shunt unit it would probably be about 15 years old or so when I took this shot.
This would have been a 1977 shot of a fairly new TEC640R in the same location ready to leave the Mill for the South,IIRC it was with a changeover load to Daventry and it returned the same day with a load of woodpulp from Tilbury.
Thanks Dennis , love these working truck shots . TEC still looked like it could do a long haul even when it was shunting .
Did you have road going shunters ?
JAKEY:
Thanks Dennis , love these working truck shots . TEC still looked like it could do a long haul even when it was shunting .
Did you have road going shunters ?
Glad you liked the shot “JAKEY”,and we always had a few taxed shunters that had finished their days of going up and down the road so they ran out of the depots locally at Milnthorpe,Garstang,Flint,Irlam,Rochdale,Radcliffe,Cullompton,Dunstable and Northfleet at various times over the years.We also ran a Mk11 Atky on Trade Plates for a number of years that pulled our recovery trailer from time to time,we always preferred to bring any of our motors that had (not often) come to grief in a RTA or occaisionally had suffered some mechanical failure,our Fleet Engineer did not like any Repair firm touching our motors if it was possible to return the motor to Milnthorpe,even Scania main dealers were distrusted,although we always returned any major accident jobs to Grahams Commercials bodyshop at Carlisle from anywhere in the UK,they were great lads and their work was faultless.Cheers Dennis.
Milnthorpe yard shunter for many years,used by our trailer/tyre fitter he treat it like a pet but it deserved a happy retirement as it was a reliable little motor all it’s working life,a reet lal’ cracker
Don’t know if I’ve posted this shot previously,but never mind,this was a nice Tag axle Scania,I bought it as “newish” secondhand off Keltruck,I think it may have come out of their own fleet,but it gave us reliable service as did all the many motors I bought of Mr.Chris Cheers Bewick.
Hi Denis, great thread, really enjoying reading it, the 113 360 to my mind was the best truck ever made, I retired mine last year (reluctantly) same age as yours J854EHS and still pulling like a train doing Spain and Portugal regularly and out pulling everything over the mountains on the N1
Equitran:
Hi Denis, great thread, really enjoying reading it, the 113 360 to my mind was the best truck ever made, I retired mine last year (reluctantly) same age as yours J854EHS and still pulling like a train doing Spain and Portugal regularly and out pulling everything over the mountains on the N1
Hiya Equitran,thanks for the kind comments I’m pleased the Bewick thread is of interest,do I detect something connected with horses in your “handle”? Yes the 112/113 360’s were great motors of which we ran many at Bewick Transport,but having said that, all the various models of Scanias gave us good service over the years from the 81’s through to the couple of 4x2 470’s we ran,these were two fairly new secondhand motors I bought,which were somewhat of an indulgence at the time,but the “price was right” at the time so I relented.Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
… Scanias gave us good service over the years from the 81’s through to the couple of 4x2 470’s we ran,these were two fairly new secondhand motors I bought,which were somewhat of an indulgence at the time,but the “price was right” at the time so I relented.Cheers Dennis.
Some people say that the electronic 470 was inferior to the mechanical 450 engine. Did you experience this, Mr. Bewick?
Bewick:
… Scanias gave us good service over the years from the 81’s through to the couple of 4x2 470’s we ran,these were two fairly new secondhand motors I bought,which were somewhat of an indulgence at the time,but the “price was right” at the time so I relented.Cheers Dennis.
Some people say that the electronic 470 was inferior to the mechanical 450 engine. Did you experience this, Mr. Bewick?
As far as I re-call the 2 470’s gave us reliable service.Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
Don’t know if I’ve posted this shot previously,but never mind,this was a nice Tag axle Scania,I bought it as “newish” secondhand off Keltruck,I think it may have come out of their own fleet,but it gave us reliable service as did all the many motors I bought of Mr.Chris Cheers Bewick.
Was this a special build Dennis ,if you note the Topliner in the distance has the lift axle wheels matching the front steer wheels which became standard on all rear lifts when the 3 series were introduced, yours had the earlier version which i always thought ,looked the better
Now this is a great shot which I took just as one of our fitters was reversing the new Seddon 32/4 out of the Milnthorpe workshops. I bought it in August '74 when I couldn’t lay my hands on a new Atky,so the fitters gave it the “Atky” treatment,Big A and a Borderer badge just so it would feel at home among 15 Atkinsons Never-the-less this was a great motor, ■■■■■■■ 220/Fuller 610/Group axle,we ran it on double shift for nearly two and a half years,then we re painted and lettered it and it went onto the Henry Cooke paper mill contract among a bunch of other Seddons but they had the 180LXB engines and could’nt hold a candle to this baby
Evening Dennis, i,ve not been on here for a while but i,d just like to say what a great thread once again i,d forgot what a diverse fleet you ran over the years and always well turned out in the old school way clean and loaded properly.Great stuff keep them coming.Cheers Richard.
scud:
Evening Dennis, i,ve not been on here for a while but i,d just like to say what a great thread once again i,d forgot what a diverse fleet you ran over the years and always well turned out in the old school way clean and loaded properly.Great stuff keep them coming.Cheers Richard.
Thanks for the kind coments Richard glad you are enjoying the thread,a lot of the credit must go to our drivers,shunters and fitters who all took a great pride in the old firms operations.Cheers Dennis.
Kraut night to-night ,how about this shot of one of a number 1844’s we ran on the European side of the fleet,seen here standing in the mill at Beetham coupled to a 4mtr Euroliner,IIRC it was a Crane chassis and a Grahams of Gildersome body some of the Graham curtainsiders ( I would never refer to them as “Tautliners” ) were open toppers which were fairly simple to operate and were very useful for overhead loading jobs.
Evening Dennis that merc looks a nice motor ,did you ever run paper onto the continent?we used to take large rolls of paper to a factory at ceprano in Italy it lay near monti cassino between Rome and Napoles, a decent run always plenty of weight but the rates could have been better.
Cheers Richard.
Bewick:
Kraut night to-night ,how about this shot of one of a number 1844’s we ran on the European side of the fleet,seen here standing in the mill at Beetham coupled to a 4mtr Euroliner,IIRC it was a Crane chassis and a Grahams of Gildersome body some of the Graham curtainsiders ( I would never refer to them as “Tautliners” ) were open toppers which were fairly simple to operate and were very useful for overhead loading jobs.
Nice German Atkinson with a Gardner V8 in it i do think this was the new Atkinson Gardner 8lxb motor - ,
The Grahams of Gildersome tautliner was just as good if not better than that other make every one rants on about.
Howay Bonny lad,I employed about 130 odd drivers and shunters that would all disagree with you as to which was the best “curtainsider”,to use the generic term,but it was,of course,the Bo-Alloy Tautliner by a country mile eh! Cheers Dennis.
Little Scania night to-night,we ran a number of these lesser powered motors 82’s,92’s and 93’s all great fleet motors especially the 93’s,which I should have bought more of (and I did have the chance ) but I was just a bit wary at the time as I thought they may have struggled at 38ton but it was no problem in the event,they coped easily with 38ton gross Cheers Bewick.
but it deserved a happy retirement as it was a reliable little motor all it’s working life,a reet lal’ cracker 
Cheers Bewick.
,how about this shot of one of a number 1844’s we ran on the European side of the fleet,seen here standing in the mill at Beetham coupled to a 4mtr Euroliner,IIRC it was a Crane chassis and a Grahams of Gildersome body some of the Graham curtainsiders ( I would never refer to them as “Tautliners” 
) were open toppers which were fairly simple to operate and were very useful for overhead loading jobs.
