Any of you London boys recognise her?
rob baileys old steed
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hey LB76
i would be rite proud to have driven that mate, lovelly motor.
you got some well good pictures, can we have some more please 
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cheers
gaz
flamin eck that was quick 
Never bored with pics and tales from you guys! Whatever happened to Bob Poggiani (sp)? So, whats the tale of the newspaper report? Keep 'em coming GS.
Regards,
Mark.
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Hi Mark
I havn’t heard anything about Bob Poggiani since he sold his Scammell. That was in the early nineties !! I did hear that he had a bar somewhere in Spain for a while and that he went back to the Black Country where he was from.
Regarding the Hungarian newspaper article, there were five of us running through Hungary during the blockades, which were started by the taxi drivers who not long after the fall of communism were protesting against the high price of diesel ( the price of freedom !! ). They would park there taxis across all the major junctions at the entry and exit points to most towns. The funny thing was that they would let Hungarocamion trucks pass. All the transit trucks were parked up in two or three lanes wide for as far as the eye could see but the oncoming side of the road had one lane plus the dirt free to drive on. After two or three days of this, we had had enough ,so I headed up the oncoming lane with my buddies behind me until we came head to head with some oncoming Hungarocamion trucks !
I stayed where I was and Black Neville and Bill Hall and two others who were behind me in their White Road Commanders pulled up on the dirt so that nothing at all could pass.
The Hungarian traffic Cop in the photo asked me in HungaroGerman “Wass ist loss” and I told him that if there was to be “blokieren” then there should be “alles blokieren” !! So he just shrugged and walked off !! So that was that until later in the day when all of a sudden after some shuffling about, we were escorted forward by a taxi driver and a motorbike cop and drove non-stop with our ■■■■■■ to Tompa !! leaving the rest of the trucks still parked up.
GS
adr:
Any of you London boys recognise her?
Micky Young had one that colour, but his was a four wheeler, do I get a consolation prize
adr:
Any of you London boys recognise her?
My dad drove for a firm for a couple of months in the mid 80s who had some Irish registered 141s they was based round lewisham or deptford il ask him the name when I speak to him.
newmercman:
adr:
Any of you London boys recognise her?Micky Young had one that colour, but his was a four wheeler, do I get a consolation prize
Rear axle looks like a lift-up-tag so it might be an add on, so you could be on the money!
GS OVERLAND:
Never bored with pics and tales from you guys! Whatever happened to Bob Poggiani (sp)? So, whats the tale of the newspaper report? Keep 'em coming GS.Regards,
Mark.
Hi Mark
I havn’t heard anything about Bob Poggiani since he sold his Scammell. That was in the early nineties !! I did hear that he had a bar somewhere in Spain for a while and that he went back to the Black Country where he was from.
Regarding the Hungarian newspaper article, there were five of us running through Hungary during the blockades, which were started by the taxi drivers who not long after the fall of communism were protesting against the high price of diesel ( the price of freedom !! ). They would park there taxis across all the major junctions at the entry and exit points to most towns. The funny thing was that they would let Hungarocamion trucks pass. All the transit trucks were parked up in two or three lanes wide for as far as the eye could see but the oncoming side of the road had one lane plus the dirt free to drive on. After two or three days of this, we had had enough ,so I headed up the oncoming lane with my buddies behind me until we came head to head with some oncoming Hungarocamion trucks !
I stayed where I was and Black Neville and Bill Hall and two others who were behind me in their White Road Commanders pulled up on the dirt so that nothing at all could pass.
The Hungarian traffic Cop in the photo asked me in HungaroGerman “Wass ist loss” and I told him that if there was to be “blokieren” then there should be “alles blokieren” !! So he just shrugged and walked off !! So that was that until later in the day when all of a sudden after some shuffling about, we were escorted forward by a taxi driver and a motorbike cop and drove non-stop with our ■■■■■■ to Tompa !! leaving the rest of the trucks still parked up.
GS
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Bloody hell Gavin, that was a brave move!! Still, at least it got you mobile! Not quite as dramatic and in reverse circumstances, but I remember dodging a blokade in France in '91 ish, I had managed to get as far as near Chalon Sur Saone without getting caught up by using some (very) small roads and even a bloody farm track! Feeling very clever with myself I tried to head east doing the same towards the 'Blanc but got stopped by Gendarme. They forced me to follow and they stuck me on a National right in the blockade, b@stards. 4 days wasted sitting there, although I did get past another at a later date coming home, so that evened the score…
Sorry for the deviation off-thread guys!
Regards,
Mark.
Hi Jamie, great pic of the 141at Glasgow fruit market. You are correct this motor will have been a Dutch import and certainly was a rigid cut down to a tractor unit. You may be familiar with my 141 in Astran livery, what is more interesting are the photographs of it when I bought it, take note of the colours almost identical to your photo I guess that these two vehicles were operated by the same company. I am lead to believe that my 141 was imported by Gilders of Cheltenham. The maroon and white livery is the same as the livery on their livestock fleet. My 141 is also a cut down rigid with the vertical air tanks. My 141 is a “Beers” Scania, I believe Beers was an agent for Scania and assembled them under license in Holland. It appears that these two motors were perhaps imported at the same time and maybe operated by Gilders before being sold on. Any info would be of help. Check out the photos below.
Hi Carl, you are nearly right mate the lorry in question was new to van daalen transport from naaldwijk near the hoek of holland and was subsequently bought by Geoff Gilbert transport of swineshead nr boston who ran it for some time after importing registering it and the drawbar trailer into the uk then it was sold to john gotobed from pinchbeck west then sold on again to where i do not know but by this time had accumulated a lot of workhours as you can imagine. it was driven by geoff rush when it first came to england. hope this clear thing up
cheers
Bill
Hi Bill.
Thanks very much for your input, I had not noticed that the Geoff GIlbert motor was the same one that Jamie had pictured at Glasgow Market, obviously the vehicle had been cut down to a tractor unit at this point. The question is, who cut it down to a tractor unit and operated it and painted it in the same livery as mine? I think, as I said in my previous post, it could have been Gilders of Cheltenham! Two vehicles, both cut down rigids, both the same colour, awesome. Any more help from anyone, please?!
Carl.
Hi all, taken at the Retro Truck Show this month must be one of the cleanest 140’s about awesome !!!
Regards Jimski
This was a subby called John Smith on for Sea Route Ferry Ltd Heywood Manchester
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Bill,stick a 20 foot ISO container on its back and “Hey Presto”…instant Astrans 
Cheers Bubbs, 