Me too all the way to Germany i should have left it there.It came with a blindfold for approaching hills
I had one Merc “Y” reg so about 1983-ish. It gradually lost what little power it had so went to a local diesel service workshop. IIRC it needed the injector pump stripping and cleaning up. They said that every so often a dose of oil rich diesel should be run through it, as the injector pumps were subject to internal corrosion. Long time ago and it might have been me getting it wrong back then too.
After that one I had a new double sleeper Merc. Not as quick as some other trucks we had, but the cab was a major step up from the Sed-Atk and ERF around then.
Dont think it is Ramone, but most of the Gilders in Gloucester are related in one way or another but that does not mean they all get on 
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Is it my eyesight or the camera angle that makes this look like a stretched cab. Or is it a stretched cab?
Is the rear of the cab not flared out to form a wind deflector.
Spotted a new WS transport truck on the M27 tother day, William Stobart apparently and my son told me he has ordered 100 Aero FH’s so that will naff up the transport scene once again
Good question…. it does look like a stretched cab to me too. But…at the same time the door looks too short?
The recessed panel behind the door window looks almost square, whereas here,
it looks nearer 2/1 h/w. On the white one the cab seems to go just back from the rear of the mudguard…and on the red one? Maybe a tad further back? The high roof and 3rd axle suggests a lot has been done to it. I certainly would not be putting money on it either way from that picture.
I bet Pat Duffy would have had a better input than me.
That looks more clearly like a stretched cab I agree.
I would suggest (disregarding overall length laws) a bit of extra space might have been made for a bigger sleeper when a 3rd axle was added “back in the day”.
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I think that unit used to run in and out of Immingham about 20 years ago pulling trailers off the docks you used to see it regularly when shipping out of Stenna Killingholme
(A bit of useless information there btw 
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Love the D series. . apart from the spotlights on the top of the bumper 
The Russell wagon’n’drag with the round timber is interesting. I carried round logs like that on a falt trailer (no goal posts) just the once. The idea was to put two logs on the trailer, then loosely put two or three chains over them. Secure the chains but with slack in them. Then drop the third log on top. That would settle into the “vee” and tension up the chains. One or two more over the top and “it ain’t goin’ nowhere, mate”.
The trouble was I had straps and not chains. After putting some straps on the top log was dropped…and two straps promptly snapped. Tilbury dockies aren’t normallythe most patient souls but with assistance from them and some other drivers from different companies going to the same drop, cadging odd scraps of chains etc….the situation was rescued.
Never did round timber again on a flat. Given goal posts it would have been OK.
These DAFs did like to rust but that looks like it was dredged out of the North Sea.
Must you? 
Still hideous.
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Those new Mercs really are getting to you !!
We used to do a lot of stone blocks up into the Glasgow / Edinburgh area. They were all shapes and sizes straight off the quarry face.
Put them onto kickers and plenty of wedges hammered into the gaps then chains across the top.