Fergie47:
pete smith:
Right little grafter me Fergie so will tenner a night do?Yep, in the woodshed…
Couple of more heavies …
For a tenner in the woodshed…sounds like a bargain eh. Does that include breakfast as well then 
Great heavies again Fergie, merci beaucoup
pv83:
For a tenner in the woodshed…sounds like a bargain eh. Does that include breakfast as well then
You’ll have to share breakfast with Nobby, if you think yer hard enough to get it off him, he don’t normally take prisoners…bon chance with that one mate…
Fergie (Dave) think you owned this F89 the reg was SWX886M IIRC I had it for a while one of several I owned plus a few F88’s as well on the old style Volvo’s cheers. You may also recognise this other Volvo lets see cheers Buzzer.
Fergie47:
pv83:
For a tenner in the woodshed…sounds like a bargain eh. Does that include breakfast as well thenYou’ll have to share breakfast with Nobby, if you think yer hard enough to get it off him, he don’t normally take prisoners…bon chance with that one mate…
Buzzer:
Fergie (Dave) think you owned this F89 the reg was SWX886M IIRC I had it for a while one of several I owned plus a few F88’s as well on the old style Volvo’s cheers. You may also recognise this other Volvo lets see cheers Buzzer.
Yes, that’s the 89 John…and the Squibb 88, now I think this is AFTER the Avon Tyre contract when she was in Avon colours, red chassis, white cab… then she was resprayed red chassis, red cab,… nice to see them again, can’t believe that’s 45 years ago… 
Fergie47:
Evocative photo of the week !!!
That looks like an open sewer to me Dave ! Oo er ! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Fergie47:
Evocative photo of the week !!!That looks like an open sewer to me Dave ! Oo er ! Cheers Dennis.
You’re a philistine Den…unappreciative of idillic French country life. …that is probably one of the many disused canals, built by Napoleon to transport his men and materials to fight those bloody English…bloody sewer my a**e… 
So THAT’s Nobby! I never thought to ask her name.
DISPATCHER:
Fergie 47hi dave as you like F88/89 here’s one before go in the field
chris
Fergie have told DISPATCHER his stuff is good enough to go on BMA’s thread what you think, Buzzer.
i would pay good money to see one of the cash for crash brigade brake testing that beast tiptop , dave
DISPATCHER:
Fergie 47hi dave as you like F88/89 here’s one before go in the field
chris
That’s nice Chris…you had an F89 ?
Buzzer:
DISPATCHER:
Fergie 47hi dave as you like F88/89 here’s one before go in the field
chris
Fergie have told DISPATCHER his stuff is good enough to go on BMA’s thread what you think, Buzzer.
When he put the Willems drawings up a few posts back, I thought that too…
Evening all,
Totally kaput tonight having felled a series of Pine trees, and logged them up, and cleaned the site…(unlike the local “tree surgeons would ever do”.)…but I can hardly feel what is supposed to hurt now…
Dispatcher, those pictures that you put up are a delight, put a few on with BMA, Im sure that as an artist he will not mind…they are super!
I always sign for my goods at my local builders merchants with a picture of a lorry…but never as good as yours!!!
Buzzer, now you have me thinking about the Mont Cenis “Fell” Railway…and its bridges made in West Bromwich…perhaps a few words tomorrow, …(that is if tomorrow comes)…oh my back, knees, arms, and anything else that “dangles”…
Where is the embrocation…or the Bollinger…the latter will be better!
Cheerio for now.
tiptop495:
Hey, Still today at work in Belgium.Eric,
Probably on off-road use, I guess. Anyway, it looks like a GLR 8 M 4x4, its wheelbase being too long for a tractor. Maybe a former fire rescue truck? Very interesting!
Fergie47:
pete smith:
Right little grafter me Fergie so will tenner a night do?Yep, in the woodshed…
Couple of more heavies …
Morning all,
The sun is high in the sky…so off to work I go…more tree cutting, (well pruning today)…and a bit of demolition…ah spring is here!
Fergie those are great pictures, may I pop a few words about each one?
The first of Pas de Calais based SITCA Dewasmes Pacific. Of all the French heavy haulers who utilised these Hall and Scott petrol engine behomoths Dewasmes had the largest fleet by far…and most of their tractors were also used as dumpers when the A26 was being built. A most interesting company, not the least for their fleet of home built trailers, very clever engineers, and the constantly rebuilt those Pacifics into all sorts of configurations!
Then we have a 180 tonne TG 100 Willeme from Argenteuil based Société Transports Gennervilliers, STAG) whose main client was Plessis - Bellville based Poclain, for whom they distributed both component parts and machines.
None larger than the 140 tonne EC1000 shown in the bottom picture, posed I think, (looking at the background), at Plessis-Bellville, sitting comfortably on STAGs 8 line Nicolas. The imposing tractor was STAGs Berliet TBO 120, (nominal) 120 tonner. Power was by ■■■■■■■■ (as in the previous Willeme TG 100), but in this case ex works ■■■■■■■ 335, with gearing via an Allison Torquematic CLBT 5860 6 speed semi auto box with torque convertor. Axles were originally Berliet units, but at 120 tonnes plus, (and plus was the name of the game)! so were replaced by Clark triple reduction units, (a common replacement on most French heavy haulers, Willeme included).
This Relax, M3 cab version of the TBO joined STAG in 1967, and was still a front line tractor when I was spending a lot of time with them in the late `70s. Not really clear from the posed picture, prior to departure, is the pusher unit at the rear of the 8 line Nicolas trailer, which almost certainly would have been one of STAGs earlier Berliet TBO 15 M 6 4.95…4.95?..95 tonne design weight…well that was good for a starter!
Fantastic lorries those TBOs, and they lasted so well…and a real beaut to drive!
Off to the Orchard…and try to remember a bit about the Mont Cenis railway…Now that is a really interesting story…and its really a British one at that!
Cheerio for now.
Have asked the question on Trucking in the 80’s int. thread about how many International journeys were done on legit permits as to the ones on bent ones, back then even some of the so called straight companies were on iffy papers. Wonder how much bung money went in between the permit and backing sheets bet it was a sizeable wedge.
Saviem when you first went to Italy did you need permits and were they readily available, don’t spose you were on a tacho either, what did you use ? often wondered about this subject, Buzzer.
Saviem:
Evening all,Totally kaput tonight having felled a series of Pine trees, and logged them up, and cleaned the site…(unlike the local “tree surgeons would ever do”.)…but I can hardly feel what is supposed to hurt now…
Dispatcher, those pictures that you put up are a delight, put a few on with BMA, Im sure that as an artist he will not mind…they are super!
I always sign for my goods at my local builders merchants with a picture of a lorry…but never as good as yours!!!
Buzzer, now you have me thinking about the Mont Cenis “Fell” Railway…and its bridges made in West Bromwich…perhaps a few words tomorrow, …(that is if tomorrow comes)…oh my back, knees, arms, and anything else that “dangles”…
Where is the embrocation…or the Bollinger…the latter will be better!
Cheerio for now.
Hi Saviem,
Mont Cenis railway bridges made in West Bromwich, would that have been Braithwaites? If so there is one of their “truss girder” bridge’s on the old Great
Western line, the one that crosses the cut back of Compton Park, you can see it off Henwood Road, Cheer’s Pete
