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The Bradley Dodge is something like —959K reg,you can just make out a plate on the o/s of the bumper.I cannot make out any of the three characters and I have blown it up on screen massively. That’s the problem with scanning b/w, many times you get a better picture by scanning a picture from the neg rather than the neg itself.
I seem to recall a Dodge advert showing an 8 wheeler in Factory colours,I don’t know wether it would have been built on the line at Dunstable or some one like Primrose Engineering would have done the conversion.Primrose were the most popular “converters” in the 50’s/60’s era and as well as rear trailing axle jobs they converted many 4 wheelers to “Chines six” twin steers.Sydney Preston,Ernie Moore and W.Kieth of Flookburgh were big users of converted 4 wheelers in our area.IIRC I think that Primrose Engineering were instrumental in creating the Guy Warrior Light 8,I’m not sure wether Guy’s built them on their line or the chassis were sent to Blackburn for modification.TGB Motors were Guy Dealers and a sister Co. of Primrose Engineering.Cheers Bewick.
A few more Dodge pics i was given.
Was this one of the first “hiabs” produced?.Clever way of getting extra reach, not sure on it’s merits though.
Wouldn’t fancy unloading an 8 wheeler full of concrete blocks by hand!
1970 vintage Hiab on Dodge K you can just imagine the V8 starting to purr as the driver powers up
Hi Marc,
Thanks for all the many hours of enjoyment looking at this thread,keep up the good work.
Regards Richard
Piston broke:
Those K series Dodge’s still look the business. Drove a few over a period of time, most with the dot 4 turbo in but mostly a six wheeler with the V8 in…cracking sound but bloody noisy!The last from Wroughton…in the Science Museum now
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Hi Paul,
Here’s one of me taking AKB 320 out for a trip on the London to Brighton HCVC run
Regards
Richard
yanto36:
A few more Dodge pics i was given.Was this one of the first “hiabs” produced?.Clever way of getting extra reach, not sure on it’s merits though.
Wouldn’t fancy unloading an 8 wheeler full of concrete blocks by hand!
1970 vintage Hiab on Dodge K you can just imagine the V8 starting to purr as the driver powers up
Yanto, that pic of the Dodge with the crane/ self off /loader is interesting.
It looks as if it extends from the back of the cab out far enough on the nearside to allow the forks or clamp to stay working within the width of the bed. All un/loading done from one side and looks as if it has a 360 slew as opposed to 180. That out rigger would need to be well dug in on soft ground, or a good rubber pad for hard services, to be standing near it.
Good idea wonder what happened to it.
Regards Paul.
Hello again,Good ERF pics Dai…I took two of them and my pal Ade took the other three 
.nice old Dodge pics too,heres todays cuttings,Cheers Bubbs, 
MaggieD:
Hi Paul,
Here’s one of me taking AKB 320 out for a trip on the London to Brighton HCVC run
Regards
Richard
Hi Richard
Thanks for the pic. She’s a cracking looking motor 
I presume she’s still there - along with all the others?
Did anyone else ever go to Winkleigh Aerodrome when they had their open days? Mostly buses and coaches but there was always a few commercials loitering about… Some visiting for the day but most just sat there waiting for some TLC…
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Nice to see one of David Saunders ERF’s Dai.He still runs some nice motors,but they don’t stand out like the red ones used to.
Cheers Dave.
I cannot remember whether I posted these photos on here, or even if I did put them on the United Carrier thread, but apologies if so.
daibootsy:
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great pics of west wales hauliers do u have any w j belt of pembroke pics or any that used to run from pembroke dock on b and i
