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RICHARD READ, GLOS
bumper:
hi oilreader, few more from the rally scene,the albion is now stored in a farm building at beal. bumper
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Hi Bumper was this Scammell Handyman one of Peter Corbets, (Freeways), Great photos, Regards Larry.
Couple for Cattle Waggon Man. Shifting sheep New Zealand style. The 4axle rigid with a 4 axle trailer seem to be the preferred configuration for tippers, flats and livestock in NZ. Presume it’s to comply with the axle weight regulations. They need to be very manouverable as there are precious few dual carriageways out there.
Brilliant pics all thanks to benkku, bumper, kevmac47, dai,andrew and as I write tyneside 
In the pictures from Mike and in particular the Thornycroft Sturdy with an ULW of 2.5 ton, remarkable and good news, the really bad news alongside is the proposal that the Ministry may want to look at your books, for some small operators that would have been on an outsidein ■■■ packet long discarded 
Been snapping in Inverness today, so fresh off the camera.
Oily
Thanks to Mark Hobbs one or two from different bases in UK and Belgium.
Oily
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In the pictures from Mike and in particular the Thornycroft Sturdy with an ULW of 2.5 ton, remarkable and good news, the really bad news alongside is the proposal that the Ministry may want to look at your books, for some small operators that would have been on an outsidein ■■■ packet long discarded
The story with the Thornycroft goes a long way to explaining the demise of British industry in my view. The wagons were being built DOWN to a standard and if all operators wanted was an underpowered underweight platform to put an extra few cwt on then why were builders ever going to try and improve their products.
Not to mention all those petrol-engined Bedfords that were registered as having an unladen weight of 2 tons, 19 cwt, 3 qtrs. Excise licence was quite a bit cheaper if you got the lorry below 3tons. It even outweighed the fact that fuel consumption was a fair bit better when fitted with the somewhat heavier diesel.
hi larry sorry I don’t know if the scammell highwayman is ex joe’s could be old jimmys the long nose is ex sid Harrison took these photos about 5years a go at the corebridge show,bumper
I’ve been reading about Finland raising GVW to 76 tonne (last one to notice as usual). They have some amazing wagons already so I look forward to even better ones in future.
The story with the Thornycroft goes a long way to explaining the demise of British industry in my view. The wagons were being built DOWN to a standard and if all operators wanted was an underpowered underweight platform to put an extra few cwt on then why were builders ever going to try and improve their products.
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Evening all, really that is only a little part of the story!
Succesive UK Governments, of all persuasians have never recognised the relevant importance of road transport, as an industry. Neither has the industry itself, or the (supposed) relevant Trade Unions done anything to promote the industries worth to the general public. That is why for decades you had a legislative framework that was at complete odds with our near (European) neighbours.
Remember, it was illegal, yes illegal, to sleep in the cab of your “work place”, right up untill the 70s!!! So why should domestic producers build a lorry for the UK market fitted with a sleeper cab??
So do not assume that the UK builders could not build vehicles every bit as good as those from across the water…of course they could, but domestic legislation precluded them from so doing.
Then when imports from a stagnant European market place began arriving on these shores, mostly totally unable to comply with “our” regulations…well what did our politicians do, of course nothing. Despite the subsidised prices, despite the inability to meet UK C&U regs, they just let them flood in without forcing them to comply, as did our own product.
Why? because our market, and economy needed product to move goods, and our industry died.
Politicians, they say you get what you deserve…did we really deserve the generations of incompetents that we have had■■?
Im away to my Bollinger, to try and forget about all of this!!!
A bientot, Cheerio for now.
Johnny Skewes from Penzance has just retired his V6 D500 from active service
First reg 1967 he bought it in 1973 and has run it almost 7 days a week since then.
Still on the original V6 Engine. Not sure now many bodies though!!
Pictures are scanned from Today’s (28/03/13) Cornishman newspaper
Johnny is a great local character and the truck will be greatly missed from the streets of Penzance,
The story is on-line at www.thisiscornwall.co.uk
hey truckfing this is a configuration for 76 tonnes, 5 axle is 40tn on single lorry 
bma.finland:
hey truckfing this is a configuration for 76 tonnes, 5 axle is 40tn on single lorry
Thanks for that bma. The most we can have on a rigid is 32 tonnes. You love having lots of axles in Finland the tyre companies must welcome you. Twice a year with winter tyres
