Well i drove a 93 unit with a tag axle i think that was a range change but a little overwhelmed at 38 ton but better than the 290 Renault.This tight fisted Yorkshireman will be at his local having to drink Guinness because the landlords removed Tetleys bitter due to the quality now being dire since they closed the Leeds site and decided to brew it in Wolverhampton.Tetleys had their own spring and the waters different up here to what they have in Wolverhampton.Carlesberg probably the biggest p@#%ks in brewing
Good old set of greedy boards on there 
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robroy
Yes modifications were done by Lock. Explanations shown below plus what RKE 110G originally looked like when D A Johnson owned it.
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Looks like a classic case of lack of proper pre-production testing (try saying that out loud!
). If they’d run it round the off-road testing circuit the windscreen would probably have popped out after the first six yards. A lot of pretty primative Atkis came off the production line in those days, yet some seriously good truck engineers were employed by them. OK they went to ERF and elsewhere later but still…
Yeah of course…..it’s the windscreen..obvious now.
Cheers for that mate.
Whenever I see those Hi lines, I think about a day talking to an old guy in a cafe bloody years ago, who had a strange way of talking, he sounded ‘H’ s all the time…he said to me about a Hi Line he’d seen.
‘‘Saw an hold hakki the huther day and it was the hugliest f. in thing I’ve hivver seen’‘ 
(Aye ok …..but I found it funny anyhoo.…ya had to be there.)
There was one subtle difference to the unit, by the time I came to drive it, and that was a narrow sleeper pod had been added. Not sure if Lock did that. One thing I do remember was the underpowered Gardner engine and the number of times I broke down. On one occasion having to be dragged off a ferry, having dropped the trailer, because the brakes had locked on.
Bit of a ball ache lifting that on and off,mind you back in them days,drivers would stop to help each other
Imagine being parked up in yer day cabbed Seddon for the night between those 2 Transcon bad boys at the time.
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Yeah but in those days when you were parked up with yer mate in his sleeper cab, with you in yer lowly day cab, you got the top bunk rather than sleeping across yer engine.
I even remember at least once (in those days, when drivers socialised) , meeting drivers for first time, having a few pints together, and him offering you his top bunk…(not a euphemism btw, all done in a strictly hetero type way. )
I’ve done that too. We always used to stand around with tea or beer and chat, even if everyone was foreign. Now the curtains come round, the telly goes on and no one utters a word.
Yeah never cabbed it always digs loved it especially the coughing and spluttering through a blue haze at the lorry park in the mornings joking aside. Arrive late afternoon early evening a meal a chat anybody going up town, sometimes the pub for a pint game o dominoes other times the pictures if there was a half decent movie on. Yate’s Wine Lodge Nottingham some very unusual female characters 
in there, at the bar you handed over your money that was taken to a cashier sat in kiosk and the change brought back, bar staff weren’t trusted, there was a gallery with live music a fiddle and piano no kidding jeez. At my age looking back it is without doubt the part I wish I could live through again.
Cheers
Happy New Year.
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Err not everybody, …ok I ain’t the party animal ‘down the road’ I used to be, and I aint out evert night, but way I look at it if you can’t make the best out of being a tramper, and have a bit of a social life whilst away, the job ain’t worth doing…..go to the ‘dark side and do days……yawwwn.
