Fergie47:
Froggy55:
Fergie47:
Various olds in B/W0This removal truck is in fact built on a Berliet PLR 10 bus chassis, thus offering a very spacious cab, for the driver and crew. A beautiful bodywork!
What year and h.p. Froggy, certainly beautiful body work, as we’re a lot of that type of vehicle a few years back…
The PLR 10 was introduced in 1954, and replaced in 1959 by the PH 10. Powered by a 150 bhp 9.6 litre Berliet 6-in line diesel, fitted vertically at the front, like a truck.
Froggy55:
Fergie47:
Various olds in B/W0This removal truck is in fact built on a Berliet PLR 10 bus chassis, thus offering a very spacious cab, for the driver and crew. A beautiful bodywork!
Nice bodywork indeed Froggy55. Must have been quite a machine in it’s day.
jsutherland:
Froggy55:
Fergie47:
Various olds in B/W0This removal truck is in fact built on a Berliet PLR 10 bus chassis, thus offering a very spacious cab, for the driver and crew. A beautiful bodywork!
Nice bodywork indeed Froggy55. Must have been quite a machine in it’s day.
And I imagine the drivers of those vehicles must have considered themselves lucky to be in the driver’s seat! Quite a cut above the other drivers. No doubt the bodywork must have been quite pricey so I would think only the elite drivers were entrusted with them.
You’re certainly both right! They were spacious, comfortable and also fast with a top speed of 88 kph (55 mph).
Froggy55:
ERF-NGC-European:
nmp - might have been a Mack, judging by the ambiguous captionAt that time, Bernard belonged to Mack, and was slowly dying away. I think this cab was also fitted on a handful of Leyland trucks.
Bernard/ Mack TD214
Credit: Alain Mugica
Nice bit of Anglo-French nostalgia here, curtesy of Pathe News:
ParkRoyal2100:
Froggy55:
ERF-NGC-European:
nmp - might have been a Mack, judging by the ambiguous caption1
At that time, Bernard belonged to Mack, and was slowly dying away. I think this cab was also fitted on a handful of Leyland trucks.
Bernard/ Mack TD214
0Credit: Alain Mugica
Bernard TDA 211.35 (1964-65), fitted with a 211 bhp Mack engine.
ERF-NGC-European:
Nice bit of Anglo-French nostalgia here, curtesy of Pathe News:
As you say. Exactly the atmosphere of the times when I lived in London, with only British-made cars and trucks on the tarmac; some of them almost-wrecks.
Nevertheless, it looks strange that a MB 1319 could me coupled to a maxi-size trailor; at least in France when the gross weight of such an outfit was 38 tonnes.
Froggy55:
ParkRoyal2100:
Bernard/ Mack TD214
0Credit: Alain Mugica
Bernard TDA 211.35 (1964-65), fitted with a 211 bhp Mack engine.
Merci Froggy.
Froggy55:
ERF-NGC-European:
Nice bit of Anglo-French nostalgia here, curtesy of Pathe News:As you say. Exactly the atmosphere of the times when I lived in London, with only British-made cars and trucks on the tarmac; some of them almost-wrecks.
Nevertheless, it looks strange that a MB 1319 could me coupled to a maxi-size trailor; at least in France when the gross weight of such an outfit was 38 tonnes.
When we upped from 32 to 38 tonnes here in '83, I often used to drive Merc NG 1619 units with fully-freighted fridge trailers. Fine on the flat and downhill but very slow on the long climbs!
ERF-NGC-European:
Froggy55:
ERF-NGC-European:
Nice bit of Anglo-French nostalgia here, curtesy of Pathe News:As you say. Exactly the atmosphere of the times when I lived in London, with only British-made cars and trucks on the tarmac; some of them almost-wrecks.
Nevertheless, it looks strange that a MB 1319 could me coupled to a maxi-size trailor; at least in France when the gross weight of such an outfit was 38 tonnes.
When we upped from 32 to 38 tonnes here in '83, I often used to drive Merc NG 1619 units with fully-freighted fridge trailers. Fine on the flat and downhill but very slow on the long climbs!
we had 1619 mercs at ferrymasters , when they went into europe the dutch told the drivers that they ‘didn’t work on mickey mouse trucks’
tonyj105:
ERF-NGC-European:
Froggy55:
ERF-NGC-European:
Nice bit of Anglo-French nostalgia here, curtesy of Pathe News:As you say. Exactly the atmosphere of the times when I lived in London, with only British-made cars and trucks on the tarmac; some of them almost-wrecks.
Nevertheless, it looks strange that a MB 1319 could me coupled to a maxi-size trailor; at least in France when the gross weight of such an outfit was 38 tonnes.
When we upped from 32 to 38 tonnes here in '83, I often used to drive Merc NG 1619 units with fully-freighted fridge trailers. Fine on the flat and downhill but very slow on the long climbs!
we had 1619 mercs at ferrymasters , when they went into europe the dutch told the drivers that they ‘didn’t work on mickey mouse trucks’
The best Merc NGs were, I reckon, the 1633s. To me, they were the last good Merc lorries because they performed well and still had manual 'boxes (and proper steering wheels 
). I didn’t like any Merc after that, with their EPS and Telligent nonsense.
Margnat was an dreadful low cost red wine. That kind of wine was familiarly called “gros rouge qui tache”, meaning “coarse red wine that stains”. Quite early sold in plastic bottles, il was a blend of French, Italian, Spanish and North-African wines.
I think I already posted pictures of this truck, but here’s a new one.
1935 Marmon-Herrington operating on the Damas-Baghdad passenger line run by Nairn. Coupled to a lond semi-trailer, and powered by a 150 bhp engine, it could do over 50 mph in the desert.
Froggy55:
Margnat was an dreadful low cost red wine. That kind of wine was familiarly called “gros rouge qui tache”, meaning “coarse red wine that stains”. Quite early sold in plastic bottles, il was a blend of French, Italian, Spanish and North-African wines.
I have never heard of it. Not being a wine drinker (despite my 15 years in France and having a house next door to a Chateau occupied by a vigneron) that is perhaps not surprising. But I would have thought perhaps the name might have caught my eye. Any idea what years was it sold? I don’t imagine it still is, surely.
Bernard with a Frappa cab from Sabaton fleet hauling fruit juice .
Dipster:
Froggy55:
Margnat was an dreadful low cost red wine. That kind of wine was familiarly called “gros rouge qui tache”, meaning “coarse red wine that stains”. Quite early sold in plastic bottles, il was a blend of French, Italian, Spanish and North-African wines.I have never heard of it. Not being a wine drinker (despite my 15 years in France and having a house next door to a Chateau occupied by a vigneron) that is perhaps not surprising. But I would have thought perhaps the name might have caught my eye. Any idea what years was it sold? I don’t imagine it still is, surely.
I guess you speak fluent French, so here’s Wikipedia’s page about Margnat, but it doesn’t mention until when it was commercialised under that name:
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vins_Margnat
They still have their own website:
vinsmargnat.com/hier-1895-2014/
After a long break, the brand made its come-back in 2011:
vinsmargnat.com/notre-gamme- … lanc-rose/
A consommer avec modération.
