Thanks Pv83 for these most interesting pictures of unusual quarry equipment! I wouldn’t like to operate the Komatsu digger on the cliff edge…
robert1952:
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Robert…this photo is one of a collection ( I’ve posted a few before) taken outside a restaurant by the patron who’s passion it was to photograph his customers and their lorries…I think over the years he took hundreds which were posted up in the restaurant bar… I’ll see if I can find a few more later…
I don’t ever remember a British transport cafe owner doing a similar thing… 
pv83:
Absolute cracking pic’s Fergie!
But I’m a bit confused now, thought that the old Berliet works was still there…? Or isn’t that the same place as where they build the Renault’s nowadays…?
Cheers, Patrick
Here is what I’ve been able to piece together, parts of the old factory were used by Renault, but as the site was bigger than they required the rest was flattened and then sold off…I think…maybe, perhaps … 
…Michel will know more…
Fergie47:
robert1952:
0Robert…this photo is one of a collection ( I’ve posted a few before) taken outside a restaurant by the patron who’s passion it was to photograph his customers and their lorries…I think over the years he took hundreds which were posted up in the restaurant bar… I’ll see if I can find a few more later…
I don’t ever remember a British transport cafe owner doing a similar thing…
I’ve never heard of it in Britain either. I think there were one or two others in France who did it, and one prolific example in Spain (there’s a whole website of those somewhere). Cheers, Robert
Here you go Robert, and everyone else of course…pic’s taken by the patron…someone did name the restaurant once, but I cant find it…
the first one I think, is the wife and children of the owner…
more…click on pick for full view.
Fergie47:
more…click on pick for full view.
Nice ones mate!
Makes you wonder why they haven’t done that more often, there isn’t a better way to have a look at the history of the automotive industry, or how other things have changed over the years…
I’ve noticed that you were around as well in those days, seems you were parked up behind that unit in the 7th pic…
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Froggy55:
Now, here’s a mighty Rochet-Schneider Ajax 485 artic belonging to Transports Escudé, of Grenoble. Probably one of their last trucks produced, just before they were bought by Berliet in 1950/52. Powered by a home-made 10.179 litre diesel developing 150 bhp.
To supplement your pic Froggty, here’s another Rochet Schneider
Froggy55:
The little Saviem artic (bottom left picture) was part of the urban delivery fleet of the SNCF (French Railway Board). They were fitted with the Scammell automatic trailor coupling.Now, here’s a mighty Rochet-Schneider Ajax 485 artic belonging to Transports Escudé, of Grenoble. Probably one of their last trucks produced, just before they were bought by Berliet in 1950/52. Powered by a home-made 10.179 litre diesel developing 150 bhp.
Found two more pic’s, with the latter one being a “rebatched” Berliet already…?
Hey Fergie, Trust you to come up trumps with the pictures. Fantastic. You even pampered Patrick!! What customer service from Fergie Ltd!! Thank you.
Herzliche Grüße
Johnny
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jsutherland:
Hey Fergie, Trust you to come up trumps with the pictures. Fantastic. You even pampered Patrick!! What customer service from Fergie Ltd!! Thank you.Herzliche Grüße
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Pampered me, pampered me! Now there Johnnie, I never needed any pampering…just sommat to satisfy me needs… 
But on the other hand, I would like to thank the services provided by Fergie’s LTD, I’ll stop whining…for a bit
Cheers Fergie, absolute cracking stuff there once again!
Fergie47:
robert1952:
0Robert…this photo is one of a collection ( I’ve posted a few before) taken outside a restaurant by the patron who’s passion it was to photograph his customers and their lorries…I think over the years he took hundreds which were posted up in the restaurant bar… I’ll see if I can find a few more later…
I don’t ever remember a British transport cafe owner doing a similar thing…
Many years ago the cafe at the High Brough Moor on the A66 had a collection of photos on the wall. Lots of them were of the blizzard conditions we often encountered in that area at the time. I have a dim recollection of the cafe on the A50 at Tean (on the old road) also had a board with photos. Ps. Patrick, I saw a lot of your vehicles yesterday in Northumberland ( just north of Newcastle) were you one of them? Regards Kev.
Hiya mate,
I’ve visited that cafe on the A66 couple of times, but can’t remember if they had pictures on the wall… what I do remember is that they served a proper brekkie
No, I wasn’t part of the group you’ve spotted, haven’t been “home” for quite some time now…
Lads went up to Dundee, with windmill sections, apparently there’s more to come this year in the whole of the UK, so I just might come over in the nearby future…
Cheers, Patrick
Bit of history then (again), this time about Poclain, there’s enough footage about Poclain diggers being transported on low loaders, but who here knows a bit more about Poclain itself?
Only thing I know is that it was founded by Georges Bataille in 1927, and that the first digger was build in 1948, based upon a Dodge 4x4 rigid…
The most iconic of them all was the TY45 digger, with a 3 wheeled undercarriage, the first one I ever saw was in the Czech Republic, although I never found out if that was indeed a Poclain or some EE replica…
In 1974 CASE stepped in, and took charge in 1987…only thing that’s still left of Poclain is the hydraulic division… actually a case of back at square one for them…
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