Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

Credit to Bahnfrend for the photo and related information.
Quote “View of a Fowler 16 nhp single cylinder ploughing engine no. 5872 of 1889, on display outside the Gnowangerup shire offices, Yougenup Road, Gnowangerup, Western Australia. It was used as a ploughing engine from its arrival in Western Australia in 1889 until 1912, and then, following conversion work, as a steam bulldozer until the late 1920s. It has been on display at its present site since 1989.

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Being a recent pothole casualty* prompts this post.
*n/s front suspension coil and shock absorber and aye shock at the price of parts :open_mouth: hours of darkness and puddle filled holes not easy avoided.
Oily

I’ve done some miles on and 957 t . Came new in 1978 and was still plodding on locals well into the 80s .It became the wagon we got saddled with on service days .

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Star down under.:
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Is that a Mastiff or a Reiver?

Looks like a Riever, it’s a 6x2 with the second (lazy) axle being a lift axle.

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I hope he/she is going to throw a sheet or two over that load.

David

Sunday morning at the Fruit & Veg packing factory at Martland Park,Wigan.
The U.K. Volvos are parked up for the weekend, and the two MAN artic fridge
lorries from Murcia in south east Spain are waiting to unload.

Ray.

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oiltreader:
Being a recent pothole casualty* prompts this post.
*n/s front suspension coil and shock absorber and aye shock at the price of parts :open_mouth: hours of darkness and puddle filled holes not easy avoided.
Oily

Hey up Oily heard a little fact today on Boom Radio the first road in the Country to be tarmacced was in my hometown of Nottingham
You ought to see the state of the roads there now
Gary


Took this picture today on MichaelWood services

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Love all 3 of them MRM, but I have never transported an outsize dumper like that and I wondered. Do they leave the brakes off on it just in case they catch a bump in the road. :confused: :laughing:

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Yes John, Diesel was spelled incorrectly. :slight_smile: Ray.

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Yes John, Diesel was spelled incorrectly. :slight_smile: Ray.

Yes, a common mistake, but those were the days, dinner, bed and breakfast for 10 bob. :laughing: Some were good, a few very good, and many simply bloody awful. The reason why so many of us slept at The Three Pedals. :smiley:

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