pv83:
And may I capture this moment and congratulate everyone who made it possible for this fine thread to reach 300 pages! Well done everyone, and I raise my glass to Monsieur Saviem, who’s input is still missed every day…
300…that’s thanks to ever one who contributes with great photos of mostly French and European lorries, and those that have the knowledge of said lorries and share it with us, it’s the information that makes the photo come alive…after John left us, sadly so early, the thread slowed a bit, glad to say it’s gone from strength to strength and in memory of a nice man…
pv83:
pete smith:
Fergie47:
A French friend who works in central France took these pics, and chatted to the owner who has completely rebuilt the lorry, trailer, and digger… beautiful
What a cracking job Dave,
Froggy55:
Fergie47:
A French friend who works in central France took these pics, and chatted to the owner who has completely rebuilt the lorry, trailer, and digger… beautiful
Never heard of this one here! What a beautiful job!
I concur with Paul and Pete Senior, what a looker that is! Anyone noticed that on the side of the cab there’s a sticker which reads “Telma”… I didn’t knew Telma retarders were already available in the 50s or 60s?
As it happens I’m always really interested in old low loaders or semi low loaders, now I’ve never heard or seen a Masso trailer before, but apparently they’re still making trailers! Click on the link for more information; masso-trailer.com/eng/index.html
Whipersnapper…yes telma have been going fo a long time, Pierre from Scaer has 2 of his collection of Saviems fitted with retarders… I think I’ve got a pic of one of them somewhere…that’d be late 50’s early 60’s… I think they fell out of favour because of the extra weight, some of the European, including Italian and Spanish, had them fitted on the trailers, I think it added a ton to the ulw
MaggieD:
pv83:
And may I capture this moment and congratulate everyone who made it possible for this fine thread to reach 300 pages! Well done everyone, and I raise my glass to Monsieur Saviem, who’s input is still missed every day…
Patrick I join you in raising a glass to M. Saviem what a mine of information he was I only met him once on a Renault factory visit to Lyon but once met never forgotten R.I.P. John.
Hope we will be able to get together soon with you, senior,and the Wulfrunian lad ! Angie sends her love x
Regards
Richard
Seems ages since locomotion Richard, perhaps next year we’ll all meet up again, all being well, maybe froggy and Pierre Smythe could join us next time,
Hope you’re all well back in the sunny U.K. …
I did my homework regarding the Telma retarders Senior, they’ve been around for a while… and it’s French, so fits perfectly on this thread!
Froggy55:
Interesting stuff! I also love the Borderer’s dashboard. Nothing alike was offered on French truck of that time, which sometimes had to do with rectangular speed meters fitted on Citroën Ami 6 cars…
0Here’s the inside of a 1970 Unic P 270; awful!
It doesn’t look that bad, does it?
What’s that red lever next to the seat for? To operate the tipper body?
Froggy55:
Interesting stuff! I also love the Borderer’s dashboard. Nothing alike was offered on French truck of that time, which sometimes had to do with rectangular speed meters fitted on Citroën Ami 6 cars…
0Here’s the inside of a 1970 Unic P 270; awful!
It doesn’t look that bad, does it?
What’s that red lever next to the seat for? To operate the tipper body?
It must be the emergency air braking lever. These Unics had an unsufficient air capacity and very poor standard braking. Fortunately, many were fitted with the Telma electromagnetic brake.
I 'm sure it’s for hydraulic operation, look at the couplings it are oilpipe couplings.
All our pre '80’s tippers with two lines still had the same, the time you had to be carefully that everything was well
done, if not, it could start tipping while you were driving when emty.
I wasn’t sure where to put this photo - MOL is a Belgian Specialist truck manufacturer.
I narrowed the choice down to the Heavy Haulage thread or Saviem’s thread. As the truck in the photo is not
a particularly ‘heavy’ one, I have chosen Saviem’s thread. (MOL is mentioned on the thread a few years ago).
That first photo of the Berliet, wonder what it would have looked like in your colours, I’m not clever enough to take a pic and Photoshop it, but maybe some one is… also, like that trailer, bet you put an extra ton or two on it compared to a UK one of the same year, whole outfit is a bit of a beast
Dave
Froggy55:
Willème L 10 TB fitted with a Douzet cab; c. 1950.
Paul…that us one ugly wagon, I’ve put a few pics of those on here, I’m sure there’s one with a longer bonnet that makes it even uglier…still, for its day it was all about function, not how pretty it looked…
0The same cab was also available on big 6x4s such as this K 115TP 8.
Froggy55:
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Just found this one, which looks like a Citroën type 55 operated as an advertising for a French wine producers’ consortium.
The French were the masters at this sort of advertising, guess it’s too expensive to do it today, I’ve posted quite a few on here over the years, the “tea pot” probably being one of the better ones…
also, like that trailer, bet you put an extra ton or two on it compared to a UK one of the same year, whole outfit is a bit of a beast
