Tilt Trailers.

we have about 30 of them i think they all have s sliding roof but some are a little on the stiff side. Dont get them often but once is enough

Full stripouts were a regular thing 30 odd years ago when delivering to the middle east.

This was the Exide battery factory in Baghdad,a regular drop for us.

This was tipping a step frame tilt of Pro Motors at a Teheran Trade Fair.

Trev_H:
Tilt is an old Anglo Saxon word for canvas, It got applied to anything with a canvas top (plastic in later years), covered wagons, boats, army trucks, land rovers and continental trailers .

Yep, the cover of a funfair ride such as a Waltzer is known as a tilt. "“Tilt” started life as a nautical word.

TILTS we still do alot of tilts for a dutch customer,they load them full of trees and we still open the roof on um ARH we get all the good jobs :imp: :imp: :imp:

The ones with rear doors could catch you out now and again. We had a few with doors, trouble is, I got into a rather bad habit of walking backwards down the centre bar, (that was quite wide on our french made ‘Trailor’ trailers) while rolling the tilt back over after a strip out.

One particular time I walked right off the back of the ■■■■ trailer while still rolling. On this trip I had a rear flap not rear doors… and the rear flap was all that was left!.
I came to in a German hospital, in a white room, with blonde haired blue eyed ‘angel’ standing over me. I’m dead I thought… until she spoke :slight_smile: I fell 4 metres and never broke a thing, concussion yes, ached like hell for a few days!

I used a tilt for Spain and Italy, but I was lucky and got to keep the same one all the time. This may sound a bit sad but after stripping and rebuilding I got a sense of satisfaction, you know a job well done that kind of thing.
I also found that at most places FLT or crane drivers were more willing to help you by lifting you up on the forks or layering the sheet at the front.
A very versatile bit of kit in thier day,but compared to euroliners now, Im afraid they are Betamax.