Scottish show 1965.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Great stuff Dan, & Well secured IMO, Of course No one would doubt your expertise in this field of work, Thank you posting this, Regards Larry.
Thank you Larry 
DEANB:
Scottish show 1965.0
Thanks for the pic. I have very fond memories of the Scottish show (not this one as I would only have been 9 at the time) and it was always eagerly awaited. I started going to these shows with school friends, probably in 1969, and they would always make a bee-line for the fancy car displays (it was a combined show IIRC) but I just spent all my time in the commercial section dreaming of the day when I could actually drive one of these behemoths. They always had a good selection of PSV’s which was a particular interest of mine.
Tommy
Froggy55:
That guy is certainly doing a good job with his twin-stick gearbox on a 1964 Mack B 61:franceroutes.fr/camions/boi … e-regrets/
Looking how he’s shaken on his seat, that truck must have been a nightmare to drive!
Never mind his ‘shaking on his seat’, that gearbox looks a bloody nightmare. 
*oody thing
grumpy old man:
Froggy55:
That guy is certainly doing a good job with his twin-stick gearbox on a 1964 Mack B 61:franceroutes.fr/camions/boi … e-regrets/
Looking how he’s shaken on his seat, that truck must have been a nightmare to drive!
Never mind his ‘shaking on his seat’, that gearbox looks a bloody nightmare.
No problem GOM, that was only a triplex box, even the quad box was ‘easy’ as long as you had widespread fingers and a handy elbow to loop through the steering wheel. 
Hi Dennis Javelin, I too have fond memories of visiting the Scottish Show in the Kelvin Hall first visiting in 1957 with my father travelling up from Carlisle on a WSMT Bristol LS saloon to Dumfries then a Guy LUF to Waterloo St staying two nights in Glasgow before returning home by the same route. I still have some lapel badges and brochures I was given by the salesmen /staff on the Leyland, AEC and Daimler and bodybuilders stands on that first visit. I returned fairly regularly until the shows ceased in the Kelvin Hall. Not at all interested in the cars that appeared later the show was much better in its original form as a commercial motor show with a wide range of vehicles from mobile shops libraries etc through to heavy haulage vehicles buses and coaches. The quality of coach painting on all vehicles was second to none even down to the tartan paint exhibited on an Atkinson Mk 1 radiator one year.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Spardo:
Froggy55:
That guy is certainly doing a good job with his twin-stick gearbox on a 1964 Mack B 61:franceroutes.fr/camions/boi … e-regrets/
Looking how he’s shaken on his seat, that truck must have been a nightmare to drive!
For modern drivers now, Froggy but, back in the 60s it was the bees’ knees, and we didn’t feel anything wrong with it. I drove bush tracks and dont remember all that vibration.
BTW, loved the Scania video too, but not my preference for a job.
Back in the early eighties, I drove several Bonneted old Berliet, and can tell you the diver was certainly not as shaken as in that Mack; otherwise, I would today be in a wheelchair!
Here’s an interesting video of a 1967 TBO, one of the very last fitted with the outdated “M” cab. Certainly not a model of comfort, but not a hammer-drill either!
youtube.com/watch?v=1DZREHaY0oY
Froggy:
Here’s an interesting video of a 1967 TBO, one of the very last fitted with the outdated “M” cab. Certainly not a model of comfort, but not a hammer-drill either!
Ha ha Froggy, nice smooth road. But, whatever the ride, it seems to have given him white line fever. He seems to think that that line is for him to line up his eyes on. Glad I didn’t meet him coming the other way as that Romanian did to me in similar country.
If you have ears with a sensitive disposition, perhaps best to mute the sound.
Spardo:
grumpy old man:
Froggy55:
That guy is certainly doing a good job with his twin-stick gearbox on a 1964 Mack B 61:franceroutes.fr/camions/boi … e-regrets/
Looking how he’s shaken on his seat, that truck must have been a nightmare to drive!
Never mind his ‘shaking on his seat’, that gearbox looks a bloody nightmare.
No problem GOM, that was only a triplex box, even the quad box was ‘easy’ as long as you had widespread fingers and a handy elbow to loop through the steering wheel.
You’re talking to a man here who never quite got the better of the Foden 12 speed box. 
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Although I could manage a 2 stick AEC MM. 
This nice ERF EC10 was parked up in Thirsk yesterday,complete with low loader. I was int car and couldn’t stop but the photos were sent to me by Andy Stanton this morning,and he’s given me permission to post them.Robinsons from Brompton Northallerton.
Lawrence Dunbar:
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You’ve been to Whitby you rascal
Although the Sentinel steam bus has left Whitby now. I think it now lives in Weston-super-Mare.
At one time it was the only steam bus in the world carrying fare paying passengers.
I Have indeed, This was about five years ago, We stayed in the Royal Hotel, I went on a ride on it and I was quite surprised how fast it was IIRC, The driver said it could top fifty, Plus it seemed to have good brakes too, There is some good history about it, IIRC It started out as a tar wagon then converted to this classic bit of gear, Regards Larry.
Spardo:
Ha ha Froggy, nice smooth road.If you have ears with a sensitive disposition, perhaps best to mute the sound.
Was that you, squeezed of the road by that Bas…d? I guess you had no time to note the truck’s numberplates.
Froggy55:
Spardo:
Ha ha Froggy, nice smooth road.If you have ears with a sensitive disposition, perhaps best to mute the sound.
Was that you, squeezed of the road by that Bas…d? I guess you had no time to note the truck’s numberplates.
Yes, I was that sad and profane person. You must have muted the sound to protect your sensitive ears because part of the dialogue was me asking, and getting an affirmative reply, if the driver had stopped.
The Romanian with a Slovakian tractor pulling an Italian trailer had indeed stopped and was the skinny one in the blue top explaining what had happened. At least I think that’s what all the arm waving was about. I eventually got out with some difficulty (the angle of the car prevented the door from staying open and I couldn’t hold it with my hand while using both of them to prise myself upwards). Fair play to him, he would not swap details but stayed with me for 2 hours and helped the recovery driver to get me out. I therefore had plenty of time to walk around with the video camera getting all the details I needed. This happened about 18 months ago and I received the €232 franchise (excess) payment last week, so the insurance company must have got all they wanted from the Italians. I understood his dilemma, on the other side of the road, away from his driving position, there was an immediate steep unguarded drop to the valley below, but he should have stopped on seeing me. I was avoiding his tri-axles and didn’t think the edge would give way. The damage, including 2 smashed windows, was caused by hitting the rock face. Once out I continued to deliver the 2 Boxer dogs (both uninjured and completely unfazed lying at one end of their cages ) I had onboard before getting a late meal (the ‘menu du jour’ was finished so they cooked me a steak at no extra cost ) in a routier at my overnight stop.
Thanks to Punchy Dan, DEANB, Froggy55, Lurpak, Lawrence Dunbar and Chris Webb for the pics also Froggy55 for the links
Oily
Looks a bit complicated.
