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DEANB:
Patrick, so you loaded out of P.Brame at Colmar ■■ You obviously chased up the office for more
pictures of there NGC then ■■
No mate, I was at the Liebherr premises, hence Colmar’s finest 
Forgot to ask about that NGC, next time I will ask one of the drivers… 
Rikki-UK:
pv83:
Cheers moomoland! Is that the same Curtis from back in the day?Nearly
It was Mark Curtis company, Son of George Curtis. He set up after Sarens shut the Crowle and Immingham GE Curtis yards and absorbed some of the trucks into The Sarans Middlesborough ballast fleet. The rest was sold off/sent to Belgium.
Mark ran for a few years but shut up shop in the end and went back working for Sarens.
Aah cheers for the info Rikki! Bit of a downer though, would be chuffed to see a Curtis wagon back on the road…
pv83:
DEANB:
Patrick, so you loaded out of P.Brame at Colmar ■■ You obviously chased up the office for more
pictures of there NGC then ■■No mate, I was at the Liebherr premises, hence Colmar’s finest
Forgot to ask about that NGC, next time I will ask one of the drivers…
Ok Patrick when you said Colmar i thought you were talking about Brames !
Patrick ,Thanks for posting the piece about Nooteboom. Very good read and enjoyed the pics chap !
A mixed selection.
Patrick
You mentioned Alatas Big Lift awhile back, here are a couple more from my uncles collection first is an old Diamond T, second the Mercedes Titan.
Another history lesson then, whilst tracking the origins of heavy haulage (could be the title of a book eh) and multible axle trailers, the name Culemeyer popped up, as a engineer he already thought of the problems caused by the overweight on axles and what it did to the roadsurface and bridge constructions, so to reduce that, he invented the “strassenroller” a multi axled trailer with enough axles to divide the weight equally… all this in 1931, truly ahead of his time…
Johann Culemeyer (16 October 1883 - 20 January 1951) was a German engineer.
Culemeyer was born in Hannover in 1883 and, in 1936, he became a director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and in that capacity was responsible for the construction, procurement and running of road vehicles, railway wagons and heavy transporters.
As early as 1931, he had designed a transportation system which was subsequently named after him, the “Culemeyer heavy trailer”. This heavy road trailer enabled the transportation of goods wagons on the road. These trailers initially had four axles with 16 solid rubber wheels. From 1935, a six-axle, 24-wheel version was also produced.
Under the slogan Die Eisenbahn ins Haus (‘The Railway to Your Door’) goods wagons were brought to factories and other places that did not have their own railway links from the nearest loading station. It was patented on 29 November 1931 under the name Fahrbares Anschlussgleis (‘Rail Link on Wheels’) and demonstrated to the public for the first time on 24 April 1931 at the Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin.
In the Deutsche Bundesbahn the trailers were hauled by Kaelble tractors; the Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR) in East Germany used Tatra tractors.
Whilst Culemeyer heavy trailers have been largely superseded on the roads by lorries, in some factories and firms they are still used occasionally.
Culemeyer died in 1951 in Nordholz, Cuxhaven, in north Germany.
jshepguis:
Patrick
You mentioned Alatas Big Lift awhile back, here are a couple more from my uncles collection first is an old Diamond T, second the Mercedes Titan.
Cheers mate! Make sure to thank your uncle
And don’t hesitate to post some more eh…
Cheers Dean, just trying to keep it as interesting as possible for everyone…
Love those Brame P pic’s, and maybe they are indeed Colmar’s finest
