Good to see all you blokes haven’t been slacking while me and the cook have been wandering around Aus,all top stuff and will keep me busy for a while.
I have a few photos we took while travelling across the Nullarbor plains probably not real HH stuff but some are heavy by European standards,its called the paddock by the blokes who do it on a weekly basis,I didn’t do it to often myself and found it a tough stretch of road but there were men who said the same about the roads I frequently travelled, each to his own.
Wynn’s Pacific 6x6 heavy duty prime mover Reg No GDW 277 ‘Dreadnought’ seen here pulling out of the Ferranti factory at Hollinwood near Oldham while hauling one of the many transformers they transported out of there over the years.
The same load now pictured in Oldham town centre turning left onto Union Steet and then heading East on the old A62 over the Pennines into Yorkshire.
Wynn’s Pacific’s were originally built between 1942 and 1945 by the Pacific Car & Foundry Company of Renton Washington who supplied many heavy six wheel drive armoured tractor units to the US Army for tank recovery with many of them later being sold on after the war and employed on civilian heavy haulage operations.
One such company to take advantage of these surplus WW2 vehicles was Robert Wynn & Sons Ltd of Newport South Wales who became renowned for their six superbly converted examples.
All six were registered for UK road use and were given the following names…
‘Challenger’ (Reg No YDW 356)
‘Conqueror’(Reg No HDW 122)
‘Dreadnought’ (Reg No GDW 277)
‘Enterprise’(Reg No ADW 228B)
‘Helpmate’ (Reg No GDW 585)
‘Valiant’ (Reg No 1570 DW)
Powered by ■■■■■■■ NHRS6B six cylinder in line supercharged diesel 250 bhp engines Wynn’s designed and built the crew-cabs and ballast boxes themselves.
Did anyone come across a company called Fallon haulage from leeds , they used to move a lot of heavy machinery back in the 70’s and 80’s . They had a yard on Whitehall road they also had a place beside A1’s trailer park at birstall
Some more from Israel. A big problem which one had to overcome over there was the transport of boats from the Med to the Red Sea - remember that for many years the Suez canal was either inaccessible or blocked, so sights like the below were not uncommon. It was a nerve wracking trip, what with having to traverse the descent to the Dead Sea plains which was a narrow and winding road back then without any run-out areas whatever - a mistake usually had dire consequences. Macks and Autocars had this class for themselves until the Leyland Contractor became available in 64.
Oh, for those who wonder about the naming of Scammells and Albions as Leylands, this had to do with avoiding being black-listed by the Arabs for selling to Israel. So Scammells were to be sold in Arab countries, Leylands in Israel…
Well some great pics you put on here! Thanks
Here is one i did last week,not so heavy (18400kg) but it sure was big 10m long and 3.9m wide and just under 4.5m loaded. But biggest problem was that it was 2.54m between the back wheels so it was good to have the hydralic adjusters
Tomorrow im of to Norway to pic up my new trailer so tomorrow its a goooood day
Three purchased 1988-89 for GEC Stafford. ALE provided the staff and operated them. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ engine/transmission.
Then went to GEC-Alsthom, which then became Alstom who operated them themselves.
ALE then bought-out Alstom Distribution Services Division in 2004-ish and the trucks were operated by ALE again, still in Alstom colours but with ALE stickers. Eventually they got painted into ALE colours and then got sent to South Africa.
Dirty Dan:
Well some great pics you put on here! Thanks
Here is one i did last week,not so heavy (18400kg) but it sure was big 10m long and 3.9m wide and just under 4.5m loaded. But biggest problem was that it was 2.54m between the back wheels so it was good to have the hydralic adjusters
Tomorrow im of to Norway to pic up my new trailer so tomorrow its a goooood day
Danne
What do you use this kind of harvesting machine for in Sweden? Corn?
Dirty Dan:
Well some great pics you put on here! Thanks
Here is one i did last week,not so heavy (18400kg) but it sure was big 10m long and 3.9m wide and just under 4.5m loaded. But biggest problem was that it was 2.54m between the back wheels so it was good to have the hydralic adjusters
Tomorrow im of to Norway to pic up my new trailer so tomorrow its a goooood day
Danne
What do you use this kind of harvesting machine for in Sweden? Corn?
Hi froggy! Its used for al sorts of grain(right word?). The thing you put in front of it was 35" wide and it was sent earlyer on other truck. Right word for it??
moomooland:
1Wynn’s Pacific 6x6 heavy duty prime mover Reg No GDW 277 ‘Dreadnought’ seen here pulling out of the Ferranti factory at Hollinwood near Oldham while hauling one of the many transformers they transported out of there over the years.
0The same load now pictured in Oldham town centre turning left onto Union Steet and then heading East on the old A62 over the Pennines into Yorkshire.
Wynn’s Pacific’s were originally built between 1942 and 1945 by the Pacific Car & Foundry Company of Renton Washington who supplied many heavy six wheel drive armoured tractor units to the US Army for tank recovery with many of them later being sold on after the war and employed on civilian heavy haulage operations.
One such company to take advantage of these surplus WW2 vehicles was Robert Wynn & Sons Ltd of Newport South Wales who became renowned for their six superbly converted examples.
All six were registered for UK road use and were given the following names…
‘Challenger’ (Reg No YDW 356)
‘Conqueror’(Reg No HDW 122)
‘Dreadnought’ (Reg No GDW 277)
‘Enterprise’(Reg No ADW 228B)
‘Helpmate’ (Reg No GDW 585)
‘Valiant’ (Reg No 1570 DW)
Powered by ■■■■■■■ NHRS6B six cylinder in line supercharged diesel 250 bhp engines Wynn’s designed and built the crew-cabs and ballast boxes themselves.
Cheers moomoland! Feel free to post owt about Wynn’s mate, I’m currently reading a book about the whole enterprise, it’s quite astonishing what they’ve done over the years.
gerard:
Did anyone come across a company called Fallon haulage from leeds , they used to move a lot of heavy machinery back in the 70’s and 80’s . They had a yard on Whitehall road they also had a place beside A1’s trailer park at birstall
I’m sure Dean has got a picture of them hidden somewhere in his vast archive
DIG:
Good to see all you blokes haven’t been slacking while me and the cook have been wandering around Aus,all top stuff and will keep me busy for a while.
I have a few photos we took while travelling across the Nullarbor plains probably not real HH stuff but some are heavy by European standards,its called the paddock by the blokes who do it on a weekly basis,I didn’t do it to often myself and found it a tough stretch of road but there were men who said the same about the roads I frequently travelled, each to his own.
Cheers Dig
You’ve came up with some rather brilliant stuff as well mate, Cheers!
Leyland Ash:
Some more from Israel. A big problem which one had to overcome over there was the transport of boats from the Med to the Red Sea - remember that for many years the Suez canal was either inaccessible or blocked, so sights like the below were not uncommon. It was a nerve wracking trip, what with having to traverse the descent to the Dead Sea plains which was a narrow and winding road back then without any run-out areas whatever - a mistake usually had dire consequences. Macks and Autocars had this class for themselves until the Leyland Contractor became available in 64.
Oh, for those who wonder about the naming of Scammells and Albions as Leylands, this had to do with avoiding being black-listed by the Arabs for selling to Israel. So Scammells were to be sold in Arab countries, Leylands in Israel…
Cheers for the info and pic’s… and clearing the Scammell subject up, I’d vaguely remembered it had to do something with that, but wasn’t sure anymore… old age kicking in I’m afraid… wasn’t there another marque that was “rebranded”…? Thus because the original name of the brand was some swear word in that language…? Does that ring any bells, or am I becoming senile already…
Dirty Dan:
Well some great pics you put on here! Thanks
Here is one i did last week,not so heavy (18400kg) but it sure was big 10m long and 3.9m wide and just under 4.5m loaded. But biggest problem was that it was 2.54m between the back wheels so it was good to have the hydralic adjusters
Tomorrow im of to Norway to pic up my new trailer so tomorrow its a goooood day
Danne
Cheers Danne! Cracking machine isn’t it? Never knew Fendt build those as well, I only know the version build by New Holland… this just might be a proper picture topic, various agricultural machinery on low loaders
