Classic Trucks, Wagons

[Richard A Thackeray]

'Back In The Day'.............

Those FAUNs are huge, that's full size (of the day) MAN sleeper cab on there
I've seen a 6x6 'Koloss' at a show (ex-ALE)
500BHP is mentioned,. that dates it!!, as some drivers wouldn't get out of their bunk for less than 580BHP, in their tractor-unit


View: https://youtu.be/6FRmUwreldI?si=oNtauiiES-SJIlVs

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 7th

Volvo FH500
I think it’s an 8x2, with a ‘tag steer’

Pinderfields General Hospital
Wakefield

The delivery of a new MRI scanner

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2761649

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 9th

Just been out with wife, & during a slight detour on the way home, there was an Albion parked up near a local (independant) Land-Rover garage

I didn't have my phone with me, but I think it was a 1950's Chieftain, like this
I might have a trip out that way, tomorrow morning, to see if it's still there

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 13th

Just a few
Looking at aerial ‘mapping’, there’s at least 40 vans of all sizes/manufacturers in there!

I've known about this collection for a long time, but never thought about photographing it

 

[Jameshow]

'Back In The Day'.............

Those FAUNs are huge, that's full size (of the day) MAN sleeper cab on there
I've seen a 6x6 'Koloss' at a show (ex-ALE)
500BHP is mentioned,. that dates it!!, as some drivers wouldn't get out of their bunk for less than 580BHP, in their tractor-unit


View: https://youtu.be/6FRmUwreldI?si=oNtauiiES-SJIlVs

Have seen the USA truck before todmorden?

It's lit up like a Christmas tree ATM.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Have seen the USA truck before todmorden?

It's lit up like a Christmas tree ATM.

Steve Murtys garage??
A yellow (bonneted) Peterbilt?

It can be seen, in this ‘vlog’
I’ve seen the jet-truck in action (& the ‘Bandag Bullet’, when he drove that)

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@53.733341,-2.045572,173.89h,-3.21p,1z,roF6_t6kTrhjAMc1G2KPQA


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjNMgFaqiNM

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 13th

(on the shelves on publication date, for a change!)

New edition
Gulf petrol station
Saville Road
Castleford

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Jameshow
@wiggydiggy

This was one of Steve Murtys previous trucks

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 13th

(on the shelves on publication date, for a change!)

New edition
Gulf petrol station
Saville Road
Castleford

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My dear wife & daughter, had to admit they'd bought me a subscription for 2025 when another copy of the January issue arrived in the post
https://www.truckanddriver.co.uk/

Plus, a parcel arrived a couple of days afterwards, with the free (coolbag/'organiser') gift for subscribing!
I had a look, & they're £39.99!!
https://www.myxplorer.com/collections/all

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

That Kenworth tractor-unit must be the length of many 7.5 tonners that are on our roads!!
It's a 13 foot sleeper!


View: https://youtu.be/d8fbeBeZLtc?si=mVQMv42bknIVhhnn

 

[Jenkins]

Whilst not a classic - let alone road legal - truck, I came across this pic I took from 10 years ago while looking for something else

 

[Gunk]

Saturday 7th

Volvo FH500
I think it’s an 8x2, with a ‘tag steer’

Pinderfields General Hospital
Wakefield

The delivery of a new MRI scanner

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https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2761649

Probably built down the road from me in Eynsham by Siemens, formally Oxford Magnets

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Probably built down the road from me in Eynsham by Siemens, formally Oxford Magnets

Yes, it's a Siemens

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

How about excavators?

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All the above at the Threlkeld mining and excavator museum in Cumbria. Whilst it's more an excavator graveyard as yet, some are starting to be done up. At least they've not been broken up, and have after all lived outside in rough conditions all their working lived

I know there used to be a 'cabled' excavator, up at the 'Sovereign Crossroads', where the A629 (Huddersfield - Barnsley) & A635 (Barnsley - Holmfirth) intersect
I drove past the quarry, with daughter yesterday, & to my surprise it's still there, but traffic precluded stopping

Having looked, it's part of PMW Quarries, whose bigger yard is to the weat side of the crossroads, on the road to New Mills/Holmfirth

Seen here; https://www.instantstreetview.com/@53.574867,-1.704769,182.2h,-3.11p,0.45z,ptpx8lhu32cHpHO1esUWbg
https://pmwquarries.co.uk/pmw-quarries-feature-in-latest-bulk-tipper-magazine/
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1275002

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 1st

Scania T-Cab (‘tag lift’)
T124
470BHP?

Outskirts of Wakefield
Close to the M1

It’s lived there for quite a few years!

Plus an ex-Hansons Atkinson to the rear
This is probably a 8x4 tipper (or was)



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I passed this yesterday, whilst out with daughter (she'd been told to take me out), there's another Scania there now, a 'P' series?
Plus, the T-Cab has a white bonnet at the moment (new, or just being painted?)