Saviem's fan club (Part 1)

A couple for ■■■■■■■ Anorak :wink:

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Interesting trailer… for military purposes…?

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A few old heavies…

pv83:
A couple for [zb] Anorak :wink:

Wow. Ta very much. The second one down is a V70 or a V71- I do not know which. If anyone has any knowledge of these pre-LV75 Fronstuur Vabis’, please spill the beans. The first one looks like an attempt to make the dustcart look like an F2600. Poeze, as far as I can remember, is the only operator to have had cabs like that on its Volvos- I wonder if they built them in-house?

Where did you find the pics? Was there any text accompanying them?


This postcard was issued in 1954, and the picture taken in Cosne (central France), close to where I live, in front of the town hall where my parents married in 1954. The style of this coach is definitely not French. Could it be British (or eventually Dutch) and then would any of you identify it?

Froggy55:
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This postcard was issued in 1954, and the picture taken in Cosne (central France), close to where I live, in front of the town hall where my parents married in 1954. The style of this coach is definitely not French. Could it be British (or eventually Dutch) and then would any of you identify it?

Use to get taken to school on a coach very similar to that, they ran a mixed fleet including Leylands, which I think that is, possible a Leopard ■■? …it will take a coach enthusiast to be sure of the make and model…but what a great picture, and with that personal touch for you Froggy…

Froggy55:
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This postcard was issued in 1954, and the picture taken in Cosne (central France), close to where I live, in front of the town hall where my parents married in 1954. The style of this coach is definitely not French. Could it be British (or eventually Dutch) and then would any of you identify it?

If my teenage memory serves me right, that’s a Burlingham ‘Seagull’ body - probably on a Leyland PS1U (underfloor) chassis or an AEC Reliance. :wink: Someone’ll soon put me right if I’m wrong! Robert

Talking of coaches…when I posted this pic last week I intended to make a comment but forgot…

It’'s unusual for sure, what appears to be a standard coach, running on tracks, pulling a rail carriage…By the look of it the coach is the drive unit as its got it’s bonnets open, presumably as it’s not travelling that fast and needs more air to help keep it cool…or, is the rail car motorised and pushing the coach…

I’m guessing this would be in the mid '30’s ? Whether a trial to see if it worked. or whether it actually did scheduled runs would be interesting, I’ve never heard of it in the UK…Any coach enthusiasts on here, if they don’t know the answer, could perhaps post it on a coach forum and see what they make of it…intriguing init… :wink:

Froggy55:
This postcard was issued in 1954, and the picture taken in Cosne (central France), close to where I live, in front of the town hall where my parents married in 1954. The style of this coach is definitely not French. Could it be British (or eventually Dutch) and then would any of you identify it?

Nice story Froggy55 this one a Leyland of the same fleet.
Oily

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Not really in to coaches, but here a few oldies…

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Old village and town scenes, there should be either a lorry, van, or bus in all of them …

Fergie47:
Talking of coaches…when I posted this pic last week I intended to make a comment but forgot…

It’'s unusual for sure, what appears to be a standard coach, running on tracks, pulling a rail carriage…By the look of it the coach is the drive unit as its got it’s bonnets open, presumably as it’s not travelling that fast and needs more air to help keep it cool…or, is the rail car motorised and pushing the coach…

I’m guessing this would be in the mid '30’s ? Whether a trial to see if it worked. or whether it actually did scheduled runs would be interesting, I’ve never heard of it in the UK…Any coach enthusiasts on here, if they don’t know the answer, could perhaps post it on a coach forum and see what they make of it…intriguing init… :wink:

I’ve launched a search on a French Railway Forum, and will keep you informed. The type of track and the catenary tells me it must be in southern France.

oiltreader:

Froggy55:
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This postcard was issued in 1954, and the picture taken in Cosne (central France), close to where I live, in front of the town hall where my parents married in 1954. The style of this coach is definitely not French. Could it be British (or eventually Dutch) and then would any of you identify it?

Nice story Froggy55 this one a Leyland of the same fleet.
Oily

Thanks a lot to all of you!

Fergie47:
Not really in to coaches, but here a few oldies…

Fisrt pic is a 1929 Berliet Railcar, on display at the “Fondation Berliet” close to Lyon.


Id did drive a Chausson coach much similar to the one on the rignt. Fitted with a 100 bhp Panhard engine and a ghastly 5-speed gearbox cable-operated using a stick coming out of the dashboard nicknamed “queue de rat” (rat’s tail). The coach on the left is a Berliet PCK 7 W of the late 1940s.

Froggy55:

Fergie47:
Talking of coaches…when I posted this pic last week I intended to make a comment but forgot…

It’'s unusual for sure, what appears to be a standard coach, running on tracks, pulling a rail carriage…By the look of it the coach is the drive unit as its got it’s bonnets open, presumably as it’s not travelling that fast and needs more air to help keep it cool…or, is the rail car motorised and pushing the coach…

I’m guessing this would be in the mid '30’s ? Whether a trial to see if it worked. or whether it actually did scheduled runs would be interesting, I’ve never heard of it in the UK…Any coach enthusiasts on here, if they don’t know the answer, could perhaps post it on a coach forum and see what they make of it…intriguing init… :wink:

I’ve launched a search on a French Railway Forum, and will keep you informed. The type of track and the catenary tells me it must be in southern France.

Froggy…Possibly in Carcassone …

For the benefit of the very stupid of the parish, like what I am, what on earth does Catenary mean?

David

overhead wires I think

tonyj105:
overhead wires I think

That’s it.

Fergie47:
Froggy…Possibly in Carcassone …

Not possibly, but certainly in Carcassonne! You should be granted French Citizenship for your knowledge, far ahead most French People!

Everything (in French, of course) about the rail-road coach operated on the Carcassonne-Quillan railway line here:
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For the very few folks who do not understand French, the coach is probably a gas operated Laffly (Saurers have a different radiator grille) the axles of which rest on two “diplorries”. Only the trailer (a 1939 Decauville railcar trailer) in braked, using a very basic hand-operated screw system, totally unefficient in case of emergency but, during WW II, there were very few cars on the roads.