pete smith:
Robert,
If it was an Alvis Stalwart you had to load you had a lucky escape,unloaded one of these things which had run out of fuel it cost £30 in fuel to get the thing started only for it to run out before we could get it up the corner of the yard, think it was a 8 cyl Rolls Royce petrol,
That makes me feel better! Mind you, I suspect it would have been put on the trailer for me - and yes, it was a Stalwart! Robert
pete smith:
Robert,
If it was an Alvis Stalwart think it was a 8 cyl Rolls Royce petrol,
The B80/1 was a great motor at least as good if not better than the ■■■■■■■ 903 in the Thornycroft Nubians.
Carryfast:
pete smith:
Robert,
If it was an Alvis Stalwart think it was a 8 cyl Rolls Royce petrol,The B80/1 was a great motor at least as good if not better than the ■■■■■■■ 903 in the Thornycroft Nubians.
He didn’t have it for long, but boy did he have some fun playing with it. But as Pete said, it was jolly thirsty! Robert
robert1952:
Carryfast:
pete smith:
Robert,
If it was an Alvis Stalwart think it was a 8 cyl Rolls Royce petrol,The B80/1 was a great motor at least as good if not better than the ■■■■■■■ 903 in the Thornycroft Nubians.
He didn’t have it for long, but boy did he have some fun playing with it. But as Pete said, it was jolly thirsty! Robert
This one would have sunk in the water as it had no seal around the tail board, it did fire up first time once we got fuel in it and did sound sweet, I will have a ride down there in the week to see if it is still there, if so I will get a photo of it,
Here are a couple of pics of heavy haulers operated by Brame P of Wintzenheim (Colmar 68). Apparently, they owned an ERF NGC ‘European’, we’re having trouble finding a picture of it so keep your eyes peeled! Cheers, Robert
pv83:
Now honestly, the bloke that came up with this must have been on some heavy medication I reckon…
The Dutch heavy haulage fraternity would still find a reason to chop the top off the cab. 
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anorak:
All that effort to chop the cab, just to lower one end of the boom of the crane by about a foot!
Yes I thought along same lines till I saw some of the pics lower down, it could be the difference between getting under a bridge/obstacle or not. All look to have been done properly by Esteppe or similar.
robert1952:
pv83:
robert1952:
You ‘special types’ men were a breed apart: I take my hat off to you!
Robert
Cheers Robert
And I’ve to concur with Danne, you “long haul” men were a special breed to, I’ve got much respect for all that pioneering you lot didThanks Patrick! I never even got to pull an empty low-loader. I was sent to pick one up with an old Scania once and as I tried to couple up, the jaw on the 5th-wheel broke so that was the end of that assignment!
Wasn’t going to laugh about this Robert… but I was never any good with a stiff upper lip mate
pete smith:
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Cheers Pete, keep 'em coming mate!
That drawbar unit on the second pic, proper wagon that is 
Someone has spent some money restoring this lot, Nooteboom trailer with the “hinged” wheel sets, a friend of mine had one of those Scania’s to pull his steam engine about, he sold it in the early 2000’s, green cab and I’m sure it was an F reg, Ray Preece from Hednesford, anyone got a pic of it please?
pv83:
pete smith:
.Cheers Pete, keep 'em coming mate!
That drawbar unit on the second pic, proper wagon that is
Is the rear axle steered by a second man, or some automatic system?
What is the make of the lorry? I will guess at Ginaf.
pete smith:
Someone has spent some money restoring this lot, Nooteboom trailer with the “hinged” wheel sets, a friend of mine had one of those Scania’s to pull his steam engine about, he sold it in the early 2000’s, green cab and I’m sure it was an F reg, Ray Preece from Hednesford, anyone got a pic of it please?
I had a trailer similar to that ( single axle , hinge out wheels, dutch , out of the ark etc) rock up here to load a backhoe last week, driver had just come back from holiday and told to take x trl number and load at Coventry, only thing was they hadn’t shown him how to use it.
he’d been here about 4 hours and eventually got the rear wheels separated only to find there were no ramps with it and the step up onto the deck was to high for the wheels to go up . eventually left here around 3 to go back to Immingham empty, they sent HC Wilson in the next day with a 7 axle job for an 8 tonne backhoe.
tonyj105:
pete smith:
Someone has spent some money restoring this lot, Nooteboom trailer with the “hinged” wheel sets, a friend of mine had one of those Scania’s to pull his steam engine about, he sold it in the early 2000’s, green cab and I’m sure it was an F reg, Ray Preece from Hednesford, anyone got a pic of it please?I had a trailer similar to that ( single axle , hinge out wheels, dutch , out of the ark etc) rock up here to load a backhoe last week, driver had just come back from holiday and told to take x trl number and load at Coventry, only thing was they hadn’t shown him how to use it.
he’d been here about 4 hours and eventually got the rear wheels separated only to find there were no ramps with it and the step up onto the deck was to high for the wheels to go up . eventually left here around 3 to go back to Immingham empty, they sent HC Wilson in the next day with a 7 axle job for an 8 tonne backhoe.
Er…it’s not that difficult to load a backhoe, is it? Even without ramps, just use some chunks of wood and that normally gets the job done…?
But on the bright side, you did get a look on that nice trailer Wilson’s got
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anorak:pv83:
pete smith:
.Cheers Pete, keep 'em coming mate!
That drawbar unit on the second pic, proper wagon that isIs the rear axle steered by a second man, or some automatic system?
What is the make of the lorry? I will guess at Ginaf.
I think it’s steered by rods, on the later models they introduced the hydraulic steering system.
You might be right about the lorry, probably Ginaf or Terberg otherwise.
Couple more restored lorries with single axle low loaders taken at a truck show at Amsterdam couple of years ago by my uncle.
pv83:
tonyj105:
pete smith:
Someone has spent some money restoring this lot, Nooteboom trailer with the “hinged” wheel sets, a friend of mine had one of those Scania’s to pull his steam engine about, he sold it in the early 2000’s, green cab and I’m sure it was an F reg, Ray Preece from Hednesford, anyone got a pic of it please?I had a trailer similar to that ( single axle , hinge out wheels, dutch , out of the ark etc) rock up here to load a backhoe last week, driver had just come back from holiday and told to take x trl number and load at Coventry, only thing was they hadn’t shown him how to use it.
he’d been here about 4 hours and eventually got the rear wheels separated only to find there were no ramps with it and the step up onto the deck was to high for the wheels to go up . eventually left here around 3 to go back to Immingham empty, they sent HC Wilson in the next day with a 7 axle job for an 8 tonne backhoe.Er…it’s not that difficult to load a backhoe, is it? Even without ramps, just use some chunks of wood and that normally gets the job done…?
But on the bright side, you did get a look on that nice trailer Wilson’s got
on a site , yes , here ,no, new backhoe, small front wheels, large step and H+S all over. no ramps = no load , we let an irish lad load himself last week with a mini dumper , big mistake, he put one of his ramps on the wrong way round as he couldn’t get them near enough together for the wheels , hit the throttle hard as he came off the step of the other ramp(it was about 3inches proud of the trailer bed) and ended up doing a wheelie on a mini dumper till it came to rest on the back of the excavator he also had on, not exactly funny that one.
