Old lorries working for a living…
pv83:
One for Johnny
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Johnny
Fergie47:
Old lorries working for a living…
All these truck look at the very end of their lives! Once upon a time, old trucks were used in quarries, but now they use heavy loaders, much more efficient.
Fergie47:
Old lorries working for a living…
It’s got a nice Poclain theme to it, cheers Senior 
Fergie47:
Old lorry / Trailer outfits
The top one, Johs Hansen from Aabenraa still going but absorbed into Thermo Transit of Padborg these days.
short walk:
Fergie47:
Old lorry / Trailer outfitsThe top one, Johs Hansen from Aabenraa still going but absorbed into Thermo Transit of Padborg these days.
Short walk…thanks for the information,…do you have any photos of old Danish lorries ? They were always so smart looking, with lights everywhere, and drivers that spoke English too…had some good days and nights out with them…
The tall one has me puzzled.
It appears to have Magirus wheelarches, and that looks like a fan behind the grille. The cab looks a bit like a Faun one, but… The cars look Italian, but the lorry appears to be German.
The cab… I can only think that the vehicle was a tug in a steelworks or similar- the driver would need a good view of the other end of a beam (possibly with another, similar, vehicle attached to it!), but would need to place his wheels accurately with all the junk lying around.
The pic looks “coloured in” to me, so who knows what colour it was originally.
Where did the file come from?
Italian companies as S.A.M.E. and Cometto were specialist in chassis for tailer-made solutions.
Herewith an example from a Cometto type ELL based on FIAT-components
Clever solution, just as the Italian like them!
Panhard with sleeper-cab.
Unusual for these trucks which were mainly used on short-distance traffic!
FAR with a seldom cab.
Michel apparently some of these 3 wheelers could carry up to 7 tons and were fairly quick. I remember John (Saviem) saying they were used in the big cities and watching then flying around use to frighten him to death …Here’s a few more
You’re right, Dave, about the three-wheel tractors. I remember them in Paris when I was a small child (early’60s); their main operator was the Sernam, a subsidiary of the SNCF (French Railway Board), but the wine merchant Nicolas, Calberson and a few others used them too. The last models were fitted with a Saviem SG cab.
The fleet of a small dairy factory probably just after WW II. From left to right:
- Berliet VDCG, running on charcoal gas (generator just behing the cab)
- Berliet GDR 7
- Citroën 23 RU
- mystery truck, maybe an ex-army truck nicely re-cabbed and fitted with a proper bonnet. Specialists will maybe tell if it’s an Austin or a Ford/Chevroletr Canada. Started with a crank.
- Citroën 45
Froggy55:
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The fleet of a small dairy factory probably just after WW II. From left to right:
- Berliet VDCG, running on charcoal gas (generator just behing the cab)
- Berliet GDR 7
- Citroën 23 RU
- mystery truck, maybe an ex-army truck nicely re-cabbed and fitted with a proper bonnet. Specialists will maybe tell if it’s an Austin or a Ford/Chevroletr Canada. Started with a crank.
- Citroën 45
much modified Morris CS8 is my guess, it is RHD though
tony
RHD, then an ex-British Army truck. Thanks for the suggestion!