Hi
Robert if it’s any help here is a Saviem and dog 
Regards
Richard
Fergie47:
One of the French lads have sent me a disc with over a hundred pics on it, it’ll take some time sorting them out, but in the mean time here are some British wagons that were earning their living abroad…love the old 8 wheeler Leyland…Click on pic for full view.
Never seen such an outfit before! What could it be in the bags? Coffee? Any idea about the country?
Probably Australian wool. 
mushroomman:
Probably Australian wool.
Froggy55:
Fergie47:
One of the French lads have sent me a disc with over a hundred pics on it, it’ll take some time sorting them out, but in the mean time here are some British wagons that were earning their living abroad…love the old 8 wheeler Leyland…Click on pic for full view.
Never seen such an outfit before! What could it be in the bags? Coffee? Any idea about the country?
Australia and wool…the pic description says it’s a Hippo, I’d have said an Octopus, but could be a Hippo with an extra axle, will take a Leyland expert to sort that one out… 
Hi Dave I would agree with you (double drive) i may be wrong??
A quick update on that ERF-cabbed Pacific. I managed to locate a copy of Charge Utile magazine 206 in France (in which there was a Loste article) and I can now verify that the vehicle in question was indeed the Loste Pacific and that must have passed on to Sitra later on. More details on the ERF 1975 thread. Problem sorted! Cheers, Robert.
As a matter of interest, because I don’t think it got mentioned earlier, that she also had disc brakes on all 4 axles, as well as air suspention…
And it’s undoubtedly my favourite French wagon…here she is with some of her sisters… and the last two will make you wanna weep if you’ve got a soul… 
Robert, I know she’s not one of your specials, but she looks hansom…
Fergie47:
What is it, and what’s it for…?
Fergie do you know what that’s for or are you asking to see if any one does know its purpose, I always thought it was for securing the trailer when it was on a train carriage ie, a Kangaroo trailer like Jameson’s had back in the day to prevent it moving sideways when dropped on its legs to keep it central on the train, maybe I am barking up the wrong tree but someone will surely know, Buzzer.
I would say that’s to mount a hydraulic lift of some description to tip a trailer without a unit attached?
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The three hydraulic (?) pipes have me stumped, but it ain’t going to lift anything very high with that short ram, surely?
it was used for shunting kangaroo trailers ,the tugs had this quick release system fitted
Buzzer:
Fergie47:
What is it, and what’s it for…?Fergie do you know what that’s for or are you asking to see if any one does know its purpose, I always thought it was for securing the trailer when it was on a train carriage ie, a Kangaroo trailer like Jameson’s had back in the day to prevent it moving sideways when dropped on its legs to keep it central on the train, maybe I am barking up the wrong tree but someone will surely know, Buzzer.
Yes john, I do know, just testing you guys…
newmercman:
I would say that’s to mount a hydraulic lift of some description to tip a trailer without a unit attached?Sent from my SM-G900W8 using Tapatalk
Retired Old ■■■■:
The three hydraulic (?) pipes have me stumped, but it ain’t going to lift anything very high with that short ram, surely?
Both wrong guys…sorry… 
swayze1:
it was used for shunting kangaroo trailers ,the tugs had this quick release system fitted
Absolutely correct swayze…will post some more pics relating to that trailer tomorrow
Aha, them was air pipes, not drybollick! Had me well and truly fooled!
Retired Old ■■■■:
Aha, them was air pipes, not drybollick! Had me well and truly fooled!
At your age ROF…that’s normal 
Evening all,
Orrible day today… I had a series of Hospital visits…do the morons who rent the Hospital parking spaces from the NHS, (and then create an insane rate of charges to inflict upon the users of such facility) simply have no concience…and while the incompetent goons who manage our, (sacred), NHS, self congratulate themselves at making such revenue for their “Trusts” little realising that once more they are undervaluing assetts and choosing the “easy” route…(.using my business brain I calculate that they are about 45% below the actual nett earning potentia)l…and that does not include an increase in parking charges, simply working “smartly”.The unemployable who administer said facility play their little games to while away their time…(on basic minimum wage of course)…
Wolverhampton`s New Cross facility has a really good specialist Heart and Lung facility…but it has its own designated car park, of limited capacity…but the barrier, (controlled by camera), raises and admits the unwary…to join the hopeless crocodile of increasingly more frustrated victims who process in ever more confusion and frustration, as the time of their appointment/visit to a gravely sick relative, simply evaporates! There is simply no reason for this to happen…unless it is deliberate…
No doubt the lazy good for nothings who invigilate over this circus on their television screens enjoy the antics of their victims, the frustration, the anger, and the ensuing rows…but does no one think on…to just how this circus actually sums up the sheer incompetence of NHS management, and the bottomless cash cow that this over staffed, self congratulatory charade is run… Somewhere in there is great medical care…it is just surrounded, (subjucated), by incompetence!
Right grumpy tonight am I…Have you noticed the increasing series of warm historic nostalgia on our television screens regarding the Railways, and Canals?..Again, most of the media luvvies who deliver the warm, (and in many cases totally inaccurate) commentary,deliveredwith such conviction that these inaccurate words will become the accepted norm.
Where is the story of our industry?..Well?
Road transport has been the life blood of our country, and that of so many others…yet it is regarded in such low esteem…why?..The celebration of the cowboy?..in reality a mere insignificant percentage of the industry…Yet that is the image…we should all be ashamed indeed…
Yet look what the industry has achieved…everything that one eats, drinks, uses, buys , sells, manufactures, lives in, dreams of, simply everything that is made, and the means of making it…has been handled by us all, and the magnificent transport industry that we all have some stake within!
So why is it not celebrated?..I know not…but Im angry that the industry has for generations lacked a real voice…a voice that will make the General public understand just what is , and has been achieved on a daily basis for generations, …and by you Gentlemen and Ladies… why should your efforts not be recognised?..why not?..
There are memories on these threads that should have wider audience, from the domestic, to the exotic, from the simple, to the magnificent, one thing that I personally know so well…the general public, simply do not understand what we,( and I include every one of us), has done every day in this industry…and its about time that we had some recognition for it!..
So how do we promote Road Transport in all its forms, past, present, and future?..and how do we get recognition for what has been achieved?
Im away to my medicinal Bollinger…(and re-read jazzandys 50 shades of tarmac…again)…he is a good story teller…
Adieu.
Morning Saviem,
The above about New Cross is spot on,too many box tickers walking about, bed managers WTF are those? and the car parking is about as good as lorry parking is across the country.
That “Full Steam Ahead” on BBC 2 I find difficult to watch, you got 3 dingbats for an hour talking tosh and out of the whole program I probably see 15 minutes as I skip the rest, as for transport programs, UK only, we have Stobarts to represent us in these times,
Surely there is enough old film in the archives at the BBC,other channels are available, to make a decent series on the history of British road haulage, the Pathe set of films for example, there is enough knowledge on trucknet with Yourself,Bewick,Larry Dunbar and Harry Gill for example, real people who have done the job not “presenters” to add facts and stories to the afore mentioned films ?
Now let me find something to kick up the arse to calm me down!! Cheer’s Pete
I had a similar conversation with HRH Andy Salter when he was my boss at TRUCK, he raised a very valid point. It doesn’t matter what we do or say, people do not like lorries, they’re big, slow and in their way, that’s all they see, so ■■■■ em! I’m sure he finished the statement in a more pleasant manner, but the point remains the same.
It drives me up the wall, the only thing a lorry doesn’t deliver is a baby, but all the paraphernalia the baby needs to be born, including the concrete for the foundation of the maternity unit has been on a lorry, along with every man made item and all of the food we get from anywhere but our own gardens.
Yet we’re hated by 99% of the population.
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