Kempston:
The Star Atkinson looks like it could have done with a couple of bearers spread along the middle of the platform
and a bit more string over the load
Cracking tilt you posted there Buzzer! I always did like those who took the trouble to âline outâ the individual drop-sides and sign-write the names of countries in each section. There were some particularly good Middle-East examples.
5thwheel:
Buzzer:
Philip Judge machinery and forage merchant and haulier, BuzzerNot a lot ground clearance Buzzer,do they hydraulically raise themselves perhaps?
David
Is it only me who thinks they look ridiculous ? Sure, they are ok for a show vehicle, but an ordinary everyday working motor ? the low skirt wouldnât last a week.
Spardo:
Thatâs a strange way of stacking flour bags on the Holgateâs Guy. To help the driver distinguish different customers perhaps?
Farm deliveries Iâll bet , or at least agricultural merchants .
Buzzer:
Some more, Buzzer
Hi Buzzer,
My mate Chris Deveraux helped convert the Yeoman Volvo when he worked at Heathrow commercials, they had an F16 engine fitted as part of the project.
Dave.
dave docwra:
Buzzer:
Some more, BuzzerHi Buzzer,
My mate Chris Deveraux helped convert the Yeoman Volvo when he worked at Heathrow commercials, they had an F16 engine fitted as part of the project.
Dave.
Hi Dave I bet that cost a bob or three but its been about for a long time now has it not, always like the F88/9 shaped cab there is just something about it maybe my age, Buzzer.
grumpy old man:
5thwheel:
Buzzer:
Philip Judge machinery and forage merchant and haulier, BuzzerNot a lot ground clearance Buzzer,do they hydraulically raise themselves perhaps?
David
Is it only me who thinks they look ridiculous ? Sure, they are ok for a show vehicle, but an ordinary everyday working motor ? the low skirt wouldnât last a week.
I was wondering how it goes onto farms to load being that low? They used to load bales directly off the fields, no idea if thatâs still the case?
Kempston:
I was wondering how it goes onto farms to load being that low? They used to load bales directly off the fields, no idea if thatâs still the case?
Is it not simply air suspension all round, a bit like the system I had on the Volvo FH wagon and drags, which can be lowered or lifted at will. We couldnât get them that low though, our reason was for dropping and lifting demount bodies, but, if required to be super low for loading for instance, there is no reason why that canât be arranged.
If it was purely for show off reasons, I agree, ridiculous, just as I do not like anything overblinged for blingâs sake.
Useful for creeping under low bridges though. 
Spardo:
Kempston:
I was wondering how it goes onto farms to load being that low? They used to load bales directly off the fields, no idea if thatâs still the case?Is it not simply air suspension all round, a bit like the system I had on the Volvo FH wagon and drags, which can be lowered or lifted at will. We couldnât get them that low though, our reason was for dropping and lifting demount bodies, but, if required to be super low for loading for instance, there is no reason why that canât be arranged.
If it was purely for show off reasons, I agree, ridiculous, just as I do not like anything overblinged for blingâs sake.
Useful for creeping under low bridges though.
I used to drive wagon and drag for Argos with demount bodies and as you say that was done by lowering and raising the rear suspension and also the trailer suspension but the front suspension didnât lower and regards to the back and trailer we were told not to drive any distance with the suspension raised or lowered other than what we had to do to demount a body.
A Mercedes Benz lorry delivering bottled water to many shops in Wigan town centre.
Ray Smyth.
Kempston:
Spardo:
Kempston:
I was wondering how it goes onto farms to load being that low? They used to load bales directly off the fields, no idea if thatâs still the case?Is it not simply air suspension all round, a bit like the system I had on the Volvo FH wagon and drags, which can be lowered or lifted at will. We couldnât get them that low though, our reason was for dropping and lifting demount bodies, but, if required to be super low for loading for instance, there is no reason why that canât be arranged.
If it was purely for show off reasons, I agree, ridiculous, just as I do not like anything overblinged for blingâs sake.
Useful for creeping under low bridges though.
I used to drive wagon and drag for Argos with demount bodies and as you say that was done by lowering and raising the rear suspension and also the trailer suspension but the front suspension didnât lower and regards to the back and trailer we were told not to drive any distance with the suspension raised or lowered other than what we had to do to demount a body.
I had to give up the idea of some vehicles because they couldnât supply front suspension, forget some but one at least was Magnums, so I went with the one that could do and that was Volvo. I needed it for all axles, trailer included.
A DAF of Roberts Bakery from Northwich in Cheshire was waiting to reverse onto
the unloading area at Sainsburys supermarket on Worthington Way, Wigan. 26.06.2021.
I wonder whether the strange pink colour was original, or has it faded with time ?
Ray Smyth.
Thanks to Buzzer, Chris Webb, Punchy Dan, kmills, Suedehead, pyewacket947v, dave docwra and Ray Smyth 
and all the craic
Oily
Philip Judge wagons on show abroad credit to Peter Schöler for the photos.
Philip Judge Magnum from a year or two back, all credit to Mark Hobbs for the photo.
Oily
Looking good this morning Dan.
