Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 2)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Oily please post summit on the Davies thread as it wont let me post after 5 consecutive goes, cheers Buzzer

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Going back a bit (though not as far back as you and and many others) in the late 70s we used to do a run from Somerton to Westbury/ Chippenham and back doing antiques transport. I remember Frome to Shepton being chocka with tippers - 6-wheelers, 8-leggers, F86, F7, ERFs, Fodens, Seddons, ergo-cabbed AEC/ Leylands and (of course) Scammells. Can’t remember the names of them but there were quarries, lots of them, on that road. I lived in Langport at the time, I still remember the noise of Wincanton ERF B-series milk tankers coming up the hill past our house at night. Yes, I am drifting off-topic.

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1966 show cutaway mandator
from commercial motor magazine

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What year you reckon this is ?

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It’s Earls Court 1974. You can just see the NGC on the ERF stand. By sheer coincidence, Vwvanman posted a picture of it earlier today on an ERF thread :rofl: ! Here’s another pic of it at the same show.

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Bedford? Gone. Dodge? Gone. Foden? Gone. Atkinson? Gone. Seddon? Gone. ERF? Gone. Leyland? Gone. AEC? Gone. Dyson?? I’ve got one.

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That sucks.

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There are a number of views of the Champ driving under water. As it enters the dip, the driver throws something to his right. Is it his flask of tea?

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I used to borrow an Austin Gypsy station wagon to take the kids swimming years ago.

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Should’ve borrowed a Land Rover mate, then you could have taken them home again. :wink:

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I had two Landrovers (a series 2a then a series 3) - both unreliable. I should’ve borrowed a Nissan Patrol. That would have got me home :rofl:

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My first digs in Darwin when I arrived was sharing with an Aussie lad who had just struggled in though the Wet. He told me how he had to abandon his Landy and take to the waters by himself. Obviously he made it. :sweat_smile:

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Who gets rich this side of the pond?

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Nice one Oily!

I think it was posted on the HH page as well, at some point, as it’s modern equivalent was a DAF used by a French firm.

FWD, but I’m sure the technicians had to scratch behind their ears to make it work!

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Make sure GOM has had his Complan before he sees those last two or he’ll be up all night!:rofl:

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Needed really good eyesight in those days to spot anything through those tiny mirrors. No wonder the old timers used to open the door and hang out when reversing.

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GOM nearly had an organism (sic).
That ‘push bar’ on the last one, I once 'modified ’ one of those, I was only a ‘yoof’, nobody had told be to build the air pressure up before moving. The radiator survived (just), the wall was undamaged. :laughing:

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Bloody larakin!