oiltreader:
Talking Kippers, Polish tipper body, French wagon, credit to Alexandre Prevot for the photo.
Oily
That looks to be a very short wheelbase. I can’t look at that kind of truck without thinking why oh why did the UK not pull out their collective fingers (I write that as I should be getting on with some work 
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Thanks for the well wishes its nice to be back home in me own bed, hard to believe the ERF & Volvo are of the same era in transport, know which i’de choose for sure, Buzzer
Thanks Buzzer
That truck belonged to a mate and I did a hot shot trip to Melbourne as second driver in it with off shore equipment 3 years ago then reloaded for Perth and retuned home, I had some time my son and his family over there and we were still back in a total of just under 6 days.
A good truck to drive and comfortable to sleep while travelling.
Dig
DIG:
Thanks Buzzer
That truck belonged to a mate and I did a hot shot trip to Melbourne as second driver in it with off shore equipment 3 years ago then reloaded for Perth and retuned home, I had some time my son and his family over there and we were still back in a total of just under 6 days.
A good truck to drive and comfortable to sleep while travelling.
Dig
I remember you telling me about it at the time Dig, and how I envied such a one off retirement adventure. 
Buzzer:
Whats in the baskets in the first pic, anyone got any ideas, Buzzer
Many years ago we used get distilled water for batteries in large glass “bottles” packed in straw and a cage exactly like the photo.
Tyneside
tyneside:
Buzzer:
Whats in the baskets in the first pic, anyone got any ideas, BuzzerMany years ago we used get distilled water for batteries in large glass “bottles” packed in straw and a cage exactly like the photo.
Tyneside
They were called Carboys if I.I.R.C.
I.C.I. used them for transporting acids but you wouldn’t carry them one on top of the other if they were full or if they hadn’t been purged.
I presume that the picture is a delivery of a load of new ones.
mushroomman:
tyneside:
Buzzer:
Whats in the baskets in the first pic, anyone got any ideas, BuzzerMany years ago we used get distilled water for batteries in large glass “bottles” packed in straw and a cage exactly like the photo.
Tyneside
They were called Carboys if I.I.R.C.
I.C.I. used them for transporting acids but you wouldn’t carry them one on top of the other if they were full or if they hadn’t been purged.
I presume that the picture is a delivery of a load of new ones.
CARBOYS !! Thanks, could not remember that name! Going back sixty years now.
Tyneside
tyneside:
mushroomman:
tyneside:
Buzzer:
Whats in the baskets in the first pic, anyone got any ideas, BuzzerMany years ago we used get distilled water for batteries in large glass “bottles” packed in straw and a cage exactly like the photo.
Tyneside
They were called Carboys if I.I.R.C.
I.C.I. used them for transporting acids but you wouldn’t carry them one on top of the other if they were full or if they hadn’t been purged.
I presume that the picture is a delivery of a load of new ones.
CARBOYS !! Thanks, could not remember that name! Going back sixty years now.
Tyneside
You are welcome Tyneside, back in the late fifties and the early sixties, I used to go with my brother-in-law during the school holidays. He had an O type Bedford and then he got a brand new Thames Trader. He was on contract to I.C.I. and one of the rules was that I was not allowed to climb on the back of the lorry, if he was carrying glass carboys.
I remember that one of his workmates had acquired a new carboy, took it out of its cage, put a load of pebbles in the bottom and turned it to a lamp standard.
Do you remember those, a tall lamp with a huge shade that most people had in the corner of the living room. 
Bewick:
Buzzer:
BuzzerGot to 'fess up John I ran 6 of the beasts
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Hitlers revenge , but they are head and shoulders above the crap MB are producing now
Turkish ford 500bhp according to the door badge seen 19/7/23 at silentnight Barnoldswick.
Wonder if they are any good?
Steve
vwvanman0:
0Turkish ford 500bhp according to the door badge seen 19/7/23 at silentnight Barnoldswick.
Wonder if they are any good?
Steve
I see a few of them , that included parked on Driglington by pass A650 to Bradford
