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
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 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.