confirm about the scania cab,s
Hey, A small pic but better as nothing about the longnose Bé Gé cabs.
Cheers Eric,
tiptop495:
Hey, A small pic but better as nothing about the longnose Bé Gé cabs.
Cheers Eric,
Hi Tiptop. Do you know anything about those extra-long LB76 cabs mentioned earlier in the thread? Did they have them in Belgium? Were they made in Meppel, or elsewhere?
so it seems no done in sweeden
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anorak:tiptop495:
Hey, A small pic but better as nothing about the longnose Bé Gé cabs.
Cheers Eric,Hi Tiptop. Do you know anything about those extra-long LB76 cabs mentioned earlier in the thread? Did they have them in Belgium? Were they made in Meppel, or elsewhere?
Hey Anorak, I don’t much about them but they were offered on the German market to compete with the German Pullman cabs,but never seen one here maybe some had been,because we had lots of secondhand Germans. But maybe as long distance drawbar lorry sold complete to countries as Greece,I have never seen them in Greece too. The LB 76 was not much sold in Germany so can’t much exported. Maybe the future will learns us more.
The best markets for the LB were the Netherlands,GB and (Scandinavia??),of course they were sold in every country,but never on big scales.
Greetings Eric,
Hey, The Floby cab a bit looking like the Bé Gé was also mounted on the Scania’s,was delivered in different longs as well.
Cheers Eric,
tiptop495:
Hey, An LV75.Bye Eric,
Hi Tiptop. I’ve never seen that one before. Where did you find it? Are there any more? It looks a bit like a Kubische Mercedes but, given that the Merc was launched at about the same time that L75 chassis production stopped, I doubt that its designers copied the Germans. Can it be dated by the number plate FH-25-37?
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anorak:tiptop495:
Hey, An LV75.Bye Eric,
Hi Tiptop. I’ve never seen that one before. Where did you find it? Are there any more? It looks a bit like a Kubische Mercedes but, given that the Merc was launched at about the same time that L75 chassis production stopped, I doubt that its designers copied the Germans. Can it be dated by the number plate FH-25-37?
It’s a pic of my colection, but can’t remember were I got it, the numberplate is correct so some can find out in the Nederlands when it was built,the reg number stays with the wagon here it is of the owner, so selling the old one is putting the number on my new one.
We hadn’t much converted ones some Volvo’s by Jonckheere coachbuilders were converted,we stayed long loyal to bonneted.
Still in the '70’s we pulled 40ft long steel bars but used old trailers of 33ft which were extendible at the rear and were so legal. Even long before the 45ft was legal we put 46ft load units on extendible skeletal chassis which were on MOT allowed and so became an indivisible load even pallet loaded. Very useable on light vegetable hauling,you could carry 34 pallets with an artic,which was better as buying an drawbar which wasn’t so flexible.
For us here the best sold cabovers were the AEC’s and the very loved DAF DO ( which was here seen as a wonderful appearance despite of lack of power). If it had been fitted with AEC or ■■■■■■■ engines and Fuller it would had been a hard competitor for the Sweeds.
Cheers Eric,
tiptop495:
Hey, The Floby cab a bit looking like the Bé Gé was also mounted on the Scania’s,was delivered in different longs as well.Cheers Eric,
floby was the one of 3 big swedish cab makers that was independent and did cabs until scanias t series killed them of ,waspopular on volvo and scanias ,specialluty was even narrow cabs for transportin long freight 12m on lorrys,cheers benkku
The milestone on the first container in Rotterdam shows quite some LV’s now fifty years ago.
Luc
