Anyone else like old lorries?

[BruceV8]

ZR1cliff said:

Some old AEC Mammoth Majors working on the M25 in the 80's

They would have been 20 odd years old even then. I wonder what happened to them afterwards? The one in the centre seems to have had its cab front smashed in. I hope they weren't all bought in as sacrificial site hacks.

[BruceV8]

ZR1cliff said:

Some old AEC Mammoth Majors working on the M25 in the 80's

Just checked the link that Cliff posted about these, and they are doubly interesting to me now. The scene is the M40/M25 juntion under construction, which is just down the road from me - I live in Harefield.

As it happens the originally planned route for the M25 would have taken it through J1 of the M40 at the Denham roundabout, as part of the London Ringways scheme. You can still see the extra wide hard shoulders and massive bridge where the slip roads were going to be. The roundabout there is absolutely huge to acomodate the M25 and a spur off to another motorway (Ringway 3) that was never built. (Actually its not a roundabout any more -it was too fast so is now a two lane single carriageway ring).

But I digress. Old lorries - they're ace!

[BruceV8]

Some more of my favourites:

AEC Militant Mk 3 6x6 Recovery vehicle:



Another example in civilian livery.



Funnily enough, both pics show a Scammell Construtor on suspended tow.

[BruceV8]

The AECs were replaced by these Foden 6x6 monsters:



which were developed from the FH70 gun tractors and limbers:



I bloody love things like this!

[BruceV8]

funk odyssey said:

Vipers said:

This is the Bedfored MK I drove in 1974 in the R.N. I took my driving course in an Bedford RL, straight from a motorcyclists, so it gave me a car license for ziltch.




Hi and Lo ratio, and 2 or 4 wheel drive, but the diffs didnt lock, but that was 34 years ago. Small compared to trucks this days, but we enjoyed it, we always wondered if the tyres were street legal.

I won't mention when my pal was driving through Germany, and they got a flat, couldn't move the wheel nuts, so called in the German Army, who straight away knew that one side of the trucks wheels had LEFT handed nuts................... so I won't mention that one.

Oh and being the R.N., we had to polish the bugger, washing wasn't enough............

Edited by Vipers on Sunday 7th December 16:11

and still the British Army depend on these beasts!

You can't beat a smelly old Robert Redford!

[BruceV8]

Vipers said:

BruceV8 said:

You can't beat a smelly old Robert Redford!

Ours always smelt of bloody wax.............. hours of polishing it.

Ours smelt of oil, diesel and paint. Where you a clearance diver then Vipers?

[BruceV8]

williamp said:

Sorry for thread resurrection, but I came across these images I took a few years back in a Belgium car museum. Ever seen anything like it?




apparently used for washing the streets of Paris, and still in use in the late 60s.

Was it left behind by the departing Germans in '44? I know the French army were the last operational users of the Panther tank - also snaffled from the kartenkopfs.

[BruceV8]

Bit of a thread resurrection, but I thought some of you might be interested to see what i've just bought:







Its a 1977 Dennis D Series fire engine, formerly Devon Fire Brigade. A previous owner has replaced the tanks, pumps and upper body with a box body from an old BR crew truck and converted it to living accommodation.

[BruceV8]

I'm going to go exploring in it and use it as a camper. Maybe hang around music festivals, conning hippy chicks into thinking that I care, I really really care.....

[BruceV8]

Father Ted said:

Hello all ...haven't posted here for ages and ages (...since the days of 'kicking in the face' ,oxo towers, arm bands and 'weapons grade cock-ends' !)

just a recent piccie or two of our restoration project.

1971 Carmichael Thornycroft Nubian Major (Airport Major Foam Tender), powered by a Cummins VT903 V8 turbo





We do own a second vehicle that is under long-term restoration.

Hope this of interest to a few of you?

Cheers
Father Ted

I almost had a little sex-wee when I saw those pics! I nearly bought an ex RAF Mk 9 Thornycroft Nubian when I was in Cyprus, but the auctioneer somehow didn't see my mate bidding for me (6'4", 18 stone) and sold it to his Cypriot mate instead. Bah. I'm still annoyed by that now, 8 years later.