NMP But saw this this week on the M40 still working
robthedog:
NMP But saw this this week on the M40 still working
That’s nice. I don’t see many older Renault trucks still in service, and when I do, they’re invariably Magnums.
Doggage:
robthedog:
NMP But saw this this week on the M40 still workingThat’s nice. I don’t see many older Renault trucks still in service, and when I do, they’re invariably Magnums.
That reminds me, I saw a first generation Magnum pulling a racing team trailer last week on the M1.
ezydriver:
Doggage:
robthedog:
NMP But saw this this week on the M40 still workingThat’s nice. I don’t see many older Renault trucks still in service, and when I do, they’re invariably Magnums.
That reminds me, I saw a first generation Magnum pulling a racing team trailer last week on the M1.
There was one in the paddock @ Goodwood couple of weeks ago
ezydriver:
Doggage:
robthedog:
NMP But saw this this week on the M40 still workingThat’s nice. I don’t see many older Renault trucks still in service, and when I do, they’re invariably Magnums.
That reminds me, I saw a first generation Magnum pulling a racing team trailer last week on the M1.
Sounds more like a hobby rather than a revenue earner
robthedog:
NMP But saw this this week on the M40 still working
Shaun who operate’s this superb lorry is a fellow member on the Leics & Rutland truck drivers forum.he recently renovated this motor as he was peed off with modern electronics.
ezydriver:
Amazing stuff. That’s almost up there with the logging F88. There’s only 8 years between them.Does anybody know if that Scania 2 series (I think it was an old X reg) still works? I think it was a pinkish and yellow colour, and pulled a flatbed trailer. I seem to recall it worked out of the Avonmouth area, but I could be wrong. I know it was working a few years ago because it overtook me. But I’ve seen nothing of it for a while.
I used to see it on the M5 up Birmingham way, I thought it was a ghost 
It had me worried 
There’s a 4 series in the same colours so I guess its a replacement for it.
vwvanman0:
Not in the same league as the logging f88 but this is always working at the fair in Llandudno on the bank holiday weekend show we attend.Steve
I drove this lorry from it’s base in Derbyshire to Llandudno & back again with a trailer behind full of fairground equipment, a 4 hour journey each way, it’s actually quite a nice lorry to drive once it gets rolling, its a challenge to mingle in modern day traffic though, pulling away from junctions & roundabouts can sometimes “inconvenience” the odd BMW pilot
1970commer:
vwvanman0:
1Not in the same league as the logging f88 but this is always working at the fair in Llandudno on the bank holiday weekend show we attend.
Steve
I drove this lorry from it’s base in Derbyshire to Llandudno & back again with a trailer behind full of fairground equipment, a 4 hour journey each way, it’s actually quite a nice lorry to drive once it gets rolling, its a challenge to mingle in modern day traffic though, pulling away from junctions & roundabouts can sometimes “inconvenience” the odd BMW pilot
Its a great looking old truck with the the gold leaf lettering, do you work it regularly in the summer? Only ever seen it at Llandudno.
Steve
vwvanman0:
1970commer:
vwvanman0:
1Not in the same league as the logging f88 but this is always working at the fair in Llandudno on the bank holiday weekend show we attend.
Steve
I drove this lorry from it’s base in Derbyshire to Llandudno & back again with a trailer behind full of fairground equipment, a 4 hour journey each way, it’s actually quite a nice lorry to drive once it gets rolling, its a challenge to mingle in modern day traffic though, pulling away from junctions & roundabouts can sometimes “inconvenience” the odd BMW pilot
Its a great looking old truck with the the gold leaf lettering, do you work it regularly in the summer? Only ever seen it at Llandudno.
Steve
I only drive it for Ian once a year Steve, it also goes to a couple more rallies but only local to Derbyshire.
With Llandudno being such a big fairground event the Howard family need all the drivers they can get to take all their vehicles up there, it’s not a lorry you can just let anyone out in either, some of today’s drivers would struggle to get it off the yard.
1970commer:
vwvanman0:
1970commer:
vwvanman0:
1Not in the same league as the logging f88 but this is always working at the fair in Llandudno on the bank holiday weekend show we attend.
Steve
I drove this lorry from it’s base in Derbyshire to Llandudno & back again with a trailer behind full of fairground equipment, a 4 hour journey each way, it’s actually quite a nice lorry to drive once it gets rolling, its a challenge to mingle in modern day traffic though, pulling away from junctions & roundabouts can sometimes “inconvenience” the odd BMW pilot
Its a great looking old truck with the the gold leaf lettering, do you work it regularly in the summer? Only ever seen it at Llandudno.
Steve
I only drive it for Ian once a year Steve, it also goes to a couple more rallies but only local to Derbyshire.
With Llandudno being such a big fairground event the Howard family need all the drivers they can get to take all their vehicles up there, it’s not a lorry you can just let anyone out in either, some of today’s drivers would struggle to get it off the yard.
Thanks for the information, it does look challenging to drive.
vwvanman0:
0Not in the same league as the logging f88 but this is always working at the fair in Llandudno on the bank holiday weekend show we attend.
Steve
Is this an ex Sid Harrison motor?
Pennineman:
vwvanman0:
Not in the same league as the logging f88 but this is always working at the fair in Llandudno on the bank holiday weekend show we attend.Steve
Is this an ex Sid Harrison motor?
It is an Ex Harrison’s motor, here’s a picture of it when it was a working lorry NMP
ezydriver:
Amazing stuff. That’s almost up there with the logging F88. There’s only 8 years between them.Does anybody know if that Scania 2 series (I think it was an old X reg) still works? I think it was a pinkish and yellow colour, and pulled a flatbed trailer. I seem to recall it worked out of the Avonmouth area, but I could be wrong. I know it was working a few years ago because it overtook me. But I’ve seen nothing of it for a while.
the Scania your on about used to run out of Avonmouth docks its parked up now. spoke to the driver a couple of yrs back he told me he’s bought a newer one and when he finds time he is going to restore the old one.
buf:
ezydriver:
Amazing stuff. That’s almost up there with the logging F88. There’s only 8 years between them.Does anybody know if that Scania 2 series (I think it was an old X reg) still works? I think it was a pinkish and yellow colour, and pulled a flatbed trailer. I seem to recall it worked out of the Avonmouth area, but I could be wrong. I know it was working a few years ago because it overtook me. But I’ve seen nothing of it for a while.
the Scania your on about used to run out of Avonmouth docks its parked up now. spoke to the driver a couple of yrs back he told me he’s bought a newer one and when he finds time he is going to restore the old one.
Ah ok, thanks. Thought I hadn’t seen it for a while.
1970commer:
Pennineman:
vwvanman0:
1Not in the same league as the logging f88 but this is always working at the fair in Llandudno on the bank holiday weekend show we attend.
Steve
Is this an ex Sid Harrison motor?
It is an Ex Harrison’s motor, here’s a picture of it when it was a working lorry NMP
Gardner 180 then? used to love seeing Syd’s Scammell’s trundling down the M1 back in the '80’s 
Is Les Baston still going on with his Seddon?
Also, I saw a SA Borderer a couple of years back, it was working for some company renting historic vehicles and delivered a small narrow-gauge steam engine to leadhill railways:
Also back in Poland a friend’s father owns a big farm, and he has a 1990 Liaz and I think 1984 Jelcz tipper, still in mint condition - as he rarely uses them except from the harvest time, which is just a few weeks in the summer. One like this:
orys:
Is Les Baston still going on with his Seddon?Also, I saw a SA Borderer a couple of years back, it was working for some company renting historic vehicles and delivered a small narrow-gauge steam engine to leadhill railways:
Currently taxed til next March, suggesting it’s still on the road, and possibly still delivering historic vehicles. Nice one.
I saw that Borderer up at Beamish in April, it had brought some locos from down south.
Often see Mornflake’s Scania 93 on the M1 and a chap in a white four wheeler ERF E series, Allmans I think.
My fave older wagon I see regularly has got to be Alan Agar’s F12.
Every time I see it I’m transported back to reading LDDs in Truck 
my missus is currently moaning about them bloody noisy green things are going past the house again . Those bloody green things being a fleet of Foden Alphas all tankers on anglian water, v reg to about 55 reg, six and 8 wheel rigids with a couple of 44 tonners thrown in for good measure , lovely.
tony