Tankers
Fergie47:
Mixed bunch
The Maussire removal truck is built on a Berliet PLR 10 coach chassis. A nice bodywork with a spacious cab for its time.
tiptop495:
Hey Frogyy 55I '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.Eric,
Froggy55:
pv83:
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.
Merci pour les informations 
TROOPER2:
MOL - (ERM537K) - J P Whitter (Water Well Engineering) Ltd:
0I 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).
Interesting, I can’t think of many UK operators that would have used a MOL, does anyone know more about it?
Froggy55:
Buzzer:
Just a few I found, Buzzer.Interesting! freom top to bottom:
-Berliet TLM 15
- maybe a Dutch Kromhout. It is followed by a VW type 3, launched in 1979, thus putting this picture after that date.
- Mercedes 1924 with an unusual sleeper cab (wonder where the picture was taken)
- Citroën 45
Certainly looks like a Kromhout Paul!
Froggy55:
Willème L 10 TB fitted with a Douzet cab; c. 1950.0The same cab was also available on big 6x4s such as this K 115TP 8.
You’d rather drive the TV cabbed Bernard instead of this beast Senior…? Maybe it’s time to descripe a higher dose of your medicine…
I bumped into this advertisement, it’s a rebadged Bedford TM, now called a Opel Bedford Blitz, as both Bedford and Opel were part of GM, I can’t imagine that this would have sold greatly on the German market though, not with the likes of MAN and Mercedes as main competitors. I can’t find much more info about it, maybe Michel, Paul or Dean know more about it?
I must confess I never heard about it until this morning! The opel Blitz was a very small truck, probably not over 6 ton gross weight, and I can’t understand why that name was put on a big tractor. Anyway, the German market was certainly of no future for Bedford!
The canal barge, owned by the Rev. David Long from Wigan, was being lowered into the River Loire at Angers,
having been transported there from the River Seine near Paris. For many years, the towns of Angers and Wigan
have been " Twin Towns "
Also in Angers, in 1999, is a picture of my 7 seater Mitsubishi Spacewagon. My wife and I had been invited to the
wedding of our close friends daughter who was to be married to a French chap from Saumur in the Loire Valley.
We had travelled there having sailed overnight on " Normandie " of Brittany Ferries from Portsmouth to Ouistreham.
My Mitsubishi became became a wedding limousine, carrying the mother of the bride and 4 bridesmaids.
The last picture is on the return journey, driving up the long ramp to reach the upper deck on " Normandie " for
the night sailing back to Portsmouth, then the 250 miles to arrive back home in Wigan about 2pm the next day.
Ray Smyth.
Froggy55:
I must confess I never heard about it until this morning! The opel Blitz was a very small truck, probably not over 6 ton gross weight, and I can’t understand why that name was put on a big tractor. Anyway, the German market was certainly of no future for Bedford!
Well, if you say it out loud in german, it does sound impressive Paul ahum… I’ll get me coat…
Any idea who the haulier was?
Cheers, Patrick
The one on the right is a K 302; in fact an AEC fitted with a Cottard cab and an AEC grille. Powered by an AEC AV 470 engine, and 36 were produced between 1965 and 1969.
This one, despite its Berliet cab, is a Willème JP 50S. Two were built c. 1975 by PRP, who had taken over Willème after its collapse in 1971. Fitted with a 320 bhp two-stroke GM 8V 71N. Charge-utile magazine special issue n°90.
Froggy55:
The one on the right is a K 302; in fact an AEC fitted with a Cottard cab and an AEC grille. Powered by an AEC AV 470 engine, and 36 were produced between 1965 and 1969.
Thanks for that Froggy!
Froggy55:
0This one, despite its Berliet cab, is a Willème JP 50S. Two were built c. 1975 by PRP, who had taken over Willème after its collapse in 1971. Fitted with a 320 bhp two-stroke GM 8V 71N. Charge-utile magazine special issue n°90.
Coo! I didn’t know there were Willeme lorries with Berliet cabs.
