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anorak:
Good find but, like the ones I found, I don’t think it gets us closer to the answer. The mystery vehicle had a long front overhang, and a sloping bonnet. Neither the OM or the IF vehicles had that. I’m tending towards the idea that it’s an OM or IF cab on top of an ex-WW2 tractor- the same tractors used by Loheac and others. MoL, Ginaf, maybe.
We’ll get there in the end- the journey is as pleasurable as the destination!
Most important question though… was it powered by a TL12?
There were a lot of little firms and blacksmiths, most of them long gone now, that did conversions to ex-WW2 material, could be a needle in a haystack?!
I think I’ve seen that high, tapered bonnet before. Even if the lorry is a one-off, I bet we could find out where the cab and bonnet came from.
I have forwarded the request to Jean-François Colombet, chief-editor of Charge-Utile Magazine, but he’s presently overwhelmed with work to to a computer failure and still 3000 mails to read. So it should take a little time.
pv83:
Any thoughts about the make of this one? Going by the shape of the bonnet I would say Mack B series, but I’m not sure.
A quick perusal of Google Images shows all B series Macks to have the familiar full wings, with flush headlamps. The camion in your pic also has a chrome srip down the middle of the bonnet, and some sort of moulding above the grille.
pv83:
Any thoughts about the make of this one? Going by the shape of the bonnet I would say Mack B series, but I’m not sure.
A quick perusal of Google Images shows all B series Macks to have the familiar full wings, with flush headlamps. The camion in your pic also has a chrome srip down the middle of the bonnet, and some sort of moulding above the grille.
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I thought it might be an LS71 Regent, but the axles look the same, so it is probably double drive. The wings are the wrong shape for an S-V, too. The sun visor has a Spanish look to it, the signwriting below the door looks like the stuff that Spanish wagons had, with the gross weight etc.
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anorak:
I thought it might be an LS71 Regent, but the axles look the same, so it is probably double drive. The wings are the wrong shape for an S-V, too. The sun visor has a Spanish look to it, the signwriting below the door looks like the stuff that Spanish wagons had, with the gross weight etc.
Fergie47:
Anorak et froggy…somewhere on this thread, John (Saviem) did a great write up of the Bernard 8 wheeler…in the early '60’s it was an advanced lorry, with air suspension and disc brakes, alas French legislation put an end to it…also on here, I posted up a model a guy had done of it, it was superb considering it was done from scratch….as for the rust problem I put a couple of pics off one that had been abandoned in afield somewhere, only recognisable by the port hole window, it had completely disintegrated… if i come across the articles, I’ll repost them…
Fergie
