Saw this old beaut working today, sounds very well, poor photo from ok Google hands free!
Steve
another 8 leg EC , this one an X reg , wellingborough scrap company , and another fairly regular one to go past my house . cant get a decent photo of their E series skip motor though
tony
The Courage ERF four wheeler was ex H.G Simonds brewers of Reading, they ran loads of ERF’s.
Pete.
Buzzer:
Tuesdays trifles. Buzzer
The shot of the Mays Atky has thrown me right off course as it is on a G plate and is, by the looks of it, a 9’ 6" WB which makes it a Silver Knight prior to the longer WB ( 10’ 8" ) being launched in 1970/71 on J & K plates. However where the “curved ball” comes flying in is because it has the “peak” headboard which was added within the roof mould in 1972 on L reg Atkys ! So I wonder if this Mays motor had been in an accident possibly and was rebuilt with a late cab ■■? Cheers Dennis.
Buzzer:
Monday, Monday, Buzzer
Going to stick my head out as a pedant and say the Major has the wrong colour grill 
essexpete:
Buzzer:
Monday, Monday, BuzzerGoing to stick my head out as a pedant and say the Major has the wrong colour grill
Think you will find most Fordson Majors had orange grills to match the wheels, the later white or cream wheeled majors also had same coloured mudguards usually had the silver grill but they were a good tractor what ever colour they came in back in the day, Buzzer
Bewick:
Buzzer:
Tuesdays trifles. BuzzerThe shot of the Mays Atky has thrown me right off course as it is on a G plate and is, by the looks of it, a 9’ 6" WB which makes it a Silver Knight prior to the longer WB ( 10’ 8" ) being launched in 1970/71 on J & K plates. However where the “curved ball” comes flying in is because it has the “peak” headboard which was added within the roof mould in 1972 on L reg Atkys ! So I wonder if this Mays motor had been in an accident possibly and was rebuilt with a late cab ■■? Cheers Dennis.
I was thinking that also Dennis plus it has the later Borderer type square fuel tank and not the Silver Knight round tank.
20 May 1986
Sefton
Bootle
Mersyside
Eng
Hastily grabbed shot of a little LV cabbed ERF 4x2 fridge van,.
Hiding in the shadows…
jshepguis:
Bewick:
Buzzer:
Tuesdays trifles. BuzzerThe shot of the Mays Atky has thrown me right off course as it is on a G plate and is, by the looks of it, a 9’ 6" WB which makes it a Silver Knight prior to the longer WB ( 10’ 8" ) being launched in 1970/71 on J & K plates. However where the “curved ball” comes flying in is because it has the “peak” headboard which was added within the roof mould in 1972 on L reg Atkys ! So I wonder if this Mays motor had been in an accident possibly and was rebuilt with a late cab ■■? Cheers Dennis.
I was thinking that also Dennis plus it has the later Borderer type square fuel tank and not the Silver Knight round tank.
It did start life as a Silver Knight.
Click on pages twice to read.
Reading this very interesting article, I discover that timber-framed cabs were still fitted as late as 1968 in UK. Here, I think the last such fitted trucks were the Berliet GLA and GLB, the production of which was stopped in 1959.
This is exactly the kind of dashboard I always loved. Exhaustive information, clearly available and also nice to look at. Far ahead from today’s crap digital stuff!
Froggy55:
Reading this very interesting article, I discover that timber-framed cabs were still fitted as late as 1968 in UK. Here, I think the last such fitted trucks were the Berliet GLA and GLB, the production of which was stopped in 1959.
you could still get a new borderer as late as an n plate (1974-75) i think the last one built with the atkinson cab was an 8 wheel defender built in 1975 .
i could be wrong , my atkinson books at home .
tony
tonyj105:
Froggy55:
Reading this very interesting article, I discover that timber-framed cabs were still fitted as late as 1968 in UK. Here, I think the last such fitted trucks were the Berliet GLA and GLB, the production of which was stopped in 1959.you could still get a new borderer as late as an n plate (1974-75) i think the last one built with the atkinson cab was an 8 wheel defender built in 1975 .
i could be wrong , my atkinson books at home .
tony
Correct Tony i’m in the middle of restoring a 1975 N reg Borderer and have rebuilt the cab with new timbers and new metal where required.
Froggy55:
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This is exactly the kind of dashboard I always loved. Exhaustive information, clearly available and also nice to look at. Far ahead from today’s crap digital stuff!
Exactly.
My wife has a wee Fiat car with so much digital crap loaded on it. We are still discovering things months after acquiring it! She simply doesn’t bother…
jshepguis:
tonyj105:
Froggy55:
Reading this very interesting article, I discover that timber-framed cabs were still fitted as late as 1968 in UK. Here, I think the last such fitted trucks were the Berliet GLA and GLB, the production of which was stopped in 1959.you could still get a new borderer as late as an n plate (1974-75) i think the last one built with the atkinson cab was an 8 wheel defender built in 1975 .
i could be wrong , my atkinson books at home .
tonyCorrect Tony i’m in the middle of restoring a 1975 N reg Borderer and have rebuilt the cab with new timbers and new metal where required.
Bewick:
jshepguis:
tonyj105:
Froggy55:
Reading this very interesting article, I discover that timber-framed cabs were still fitted as late as 1968 in UK. Here, I think the last such fitted trucks were the Berliet GLA and GLB, the production of which was stopped in 1959.you could still get a new borderer as late as an n plate (1974-75) i think the last one built with the atkinson cab was an 8 wheel defender built in 1975 .
i could be wrong , my atkinson books at home .
tonyCorrect Tony i’m in the middle of restoring a 1975 N reg Borderer and have rebuilt the cab with new timbers and new metal where required.
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Shot of what were probably a couple of the last Borderers built which I bought in October 1975 and were on P regs.
Busy busy at Yarmouth NMP
