Bewick:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Great photos, PV. Wonderful collection of classics.And I believe you would fit right in there with your soap box ROF.
Just can’t resist taking the p*** out of your elders & betters, can you? You’d have a different perspective on things if you’d had to get up at 2.00 in the morning to clean out the fire box and get a head of steam up. 
Aye “when I were a lad” ROF I worked for my great Granddad and I had to get up at 2am to fire the Foden up !Retired Old ■■■■:
Bewick:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Great photos, PV. Wonderful collection of classics.And I believe you would fit right in there with your soap box ROF.
Just can’t resist taking the p*** out of your elders & betters, can you? You’d have a different perspective on things if you’d had to get up at 2.00 in the morning to clean out the fire box and get a head of steam up.
Bewick:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Bewick:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Great photos, PV. Wonderful collection of classics.And I believe you would fit right in there with your soap box ROF.
Just can’t resist taking the p*** out of your elders & betters, can you? You’d have a different perspective on things if you’d had to get up at 2.00 in the morning to clean out the fire box and get a head of steam up.
0Aye “when I were a lad” ROF I worked for my great Granddad and I had to get up at 2am to fire the Foden up !
I like an early start, but certainly not at 2 bloody am…Good thing though that they’ve invented the electric starter then eh…
I will shut it now, before someone else comes on here and starts calling me “young whippersnapper” again…
Lord above! Now there is a glimpse of a time when men were men and sheep were nervous.
David
Froggy55:
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To stay with steam trucks, who said early sleeper cabs were’nt comfortable? This one has a generously-sized heating!
Great picture Froggy. We have it a tad easier these days.[emoji5]
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When I started at Rank Hovis McDougall in 1968 (just a young lad in those days) quite a few of the drivers had driven the steamers and they had some interesting experiences to relate. The main problem was running low on boiler water and they had several ingenious solutions, apart from tapping into fire hydrants and such like. In rural areas a farmers field with a cattle water trough was a good source for the suction pipe, except if the farmer saw them taking water he would come and chase them away.
A friend lent me a fantastic book about a lad who bought an ex military lorry after the first world war. What a read, incredible how they managed, un-tarmaced roads, oil lights, driving all over the UK day and night, at less than 20 mph, canvas front to the lorry, bed board across the bonnet, etc etc…when men were men, and whimps drove Volvo’s …
Fergie47:
A friend lent me a fantastic book about a lad who bought an ex military lorry after the first world war. What a read, incredible how they managed, un-tarmaced roads, oil lights, driving all over the UK day and night, at less than 20 mph, canvas front to the lorry, bed board across the bonnet, etc etc…when men were men, and whimps drove Volvo’s …
Oi! I didn’t really had a choice, it was either the Volvo, or that thing pictured below… The latter would have been sufficient enough for Fergie’s LTD no doubt…
pv83:
Fergie47:
A friend lent me a fantastic book about a lad who bought an ex military lorry after the first world war. What a read, incredible how they managed, un-tarmaced roads, oil lights, driving all over the UK day and night, at less than 20 mph, canvas front to the lorry, bed board across the bonnet, etc etc…when men were men, and whimps drove Volvo’s …Oi! I didn’t really had a choice, it was either the Volvo, or that thing pictured below… The latter would have been sufficient enough for Fergie’s LTD no doubt…
I wasn’t thinking about you whippersnapper, ( liar 
) but, if the nappy , whoops sorry, 
if the cap fits…
…Dunno why they want to use a big tractor like that on a such a little load, my old ride-on, would do the job !!!..might have to adjust the belt brakes a tad…
The truth will come out…eventually
Don’t worry about the brakes though, in some cases there isn’t a need for those…all you need is a big heart…or maybe just big balls…
Cheers, The whippersnapper…with a new nappy…
4th pic…Cracking looking rigid…is it fitted with some sort of tyre pressure system on the rear axles…?
pv83:
4th pic…Cracking looking rigid…is it fitted with some sort of tyre pressure system on the rear axles…?
They’re those pesky tyre inflater things, Michel posted a close up pic a couple of pages back…I’ll talk to my mate in the village with the old Saviems and get the info on them…
pv83:
Don’t worry about the brakes though, in some cases there isn’t a need for those…all you need is a big heart…or maybe just big balls…
Cheers, The whippersnapper…with a new nappy…
Half loaded …never make a profit…
pv83:
4th pic…Cracking looking rigid…is it fitted with some sort of tyre pressure system on the rear axles…?
Elsewhere on this thread, there is some discussion of similar items on similar French lorries. I forget what the outcome was. Regarding the looks of the vehicle- agree 100%. All of them are works of art, as well as engineering. This weekend’s task is to try to identify all of the coachbuilders…
Trailer showing the rack for stowage of the tilt when drawn back.
Some people are born ugly, thats not their fault, but there’s no excuse for designing something this bad…pics 2/3/4/5
When you can have something as beautiful as this…pic 6
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anorak:
. Regarding the looks of the vehicle- agree 100%. All of them are works of art, as well as engineering. This weekend’s task is to try to identify all of the coachbuilders.…[/quoteGood luck with that then David…
