I’ve got a couple of Corgi models of eight wheelers delivering pre-cast bridge beams using a turntable on the bed and fixing the other end to an independant bogie so that the load is sort of a semi trailer itself.
I imagine when unloaded the bogie is just hitched up and towed as it has an A frame on it.
The two models I’ve got are a BRS AEC Mammoth with an Ergomatic cab and a Tarmac Guy Invincible.
Anyway, I just wondered if anybody had any pictures of this sort of set up? I’ve seen pictures of a similar sort of thing with a tractor unit, but never of this set up, which I presume is from the days when the eight wheeler was far more common on work other than tippers.
Please don’t post pictures of the other kind of bogie.
I thought I had a much better picture than this and in any case it seems that
the bogie may be coupled to the back of the wagon.
With a tube as short as that, which doesn’t look very heavy, I wonder why they
bothered with the bogie at all. Shunted forward a bit and well secured it would
have made a nice little load for the Otto alone.
Here’s a better one and more what you had in mind I think, pity about the 4-in-
line bogie though, must have been a bit of a handfull down the
banks.
Anybody recognise the pub in the background?
Has a bit of the look of that big one on the old A2 (later the A 296) just off the
first exit to the south of the Dartford Tunnel. There was a service road opposite
where it might be parked. If so, I spent a couple of nights in there while my old
Kew Dodge artic was repaired in a garage just up the road.
Incidentally the place where I first saw a Magirus Deutz, the original bow
fronted imports that had a bit of the look of the Mercs of the day.
Two memory-bringing-back photos there Spardo.Annis and Co,Pump Lane,Hayes and BRS Scunthorpe with a Distington Engineering tubular structure.Used to see Scunthorpe BRS,North Lincs Haulage and H & L Workington regular on the old A18,with varying wide and long loads on the back.Always used to keep a sharp eye open for 'em coming out of the sun on a winters morning,especially at Crowle where the road narrowed under a railway bridge .There was a cafe there called the Two Rivers and is or was Thompsons yard eventually.
Thompsons had brown and cream Ergo cabbed mandators and then moved onto Volvo’s. F86,88 F7, 10 and 12 all featured in the late 70’s through to the 90’s. Along with the odd rogue sed ak, erf and a few early powerliners. The family eventually sold out to Martin’s then were bought and ruined by Seafield’s!. Yard is still there, the company ain’t!
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Thompsons had brown and cream Ergo cabbed mandators and then moved onto Volvo’s. F86,88 F7, 10 and 12 all featured in the late 70’s through to the 90’s. Along with the odd rogue sed ak, erf and a few early powerliners. The family eventually sold out to Martin’s then were bought and ruined by Seafield’s!. Yard is still there, the company ain’t!
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Was that the W.H.Martin at Brigg, Badgerb.?
They had a lot of ergo AEC’s and double shifted steel from Scunthorpe to B’ham area in the 70’s.
Yes it was Martin’s of brigg. I remember them running in a green and white livery out of the steel works at scunthorpe and with cement powder tanks. Thompson’s went to red with a brown stripe and sign writing, and then to red with a cream stripe when they were ‘re-branded’ as thompson freight services.
The old cafe at Double rivers must have been knocked down in the late 70’s, the old railway arch went in the 80’s i think.
