Classic Trucks, Wagons

[dan_bo]

Our kid's Econoline
View: https://youtu.be/tt19LUmGrag?si=IQJCWodhXM5F80kK

 

[Jenkins]

This weekend Ipswich Transport Museum is holding a display of Ransomes steam engines that were manufactured in the town and as part of it they held a run down to the waterfront area for a static display today.

This was also on show

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This was also on show
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Bedford J-Type
Still made for export (to Africa) until the Bedford factory closed in 1985/86

 

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[Richard A Thackeray]

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The Boxer is possibly the rarest featured, as most will have been rigids, or worked to death/rotted away

 

[tyred]

The Boxer is possibly the rarest featured, as most will have been rigids, or worked to death/rotted away

You really don't see many with that cab at all. I don't even remember that many of them around either. The remains of a Reiver 6-wheeler did lie in our yard for many years until the scrapman got it, and I do know someone who used to drive for the same firm as my Dad had a 6-wheeler that bust into flames going along the road in the early 1990s. He could smell smoke and then seen flames everywhere up the back of the cab, so he stopped and abandoned ship. The cab ended up gutted and it melted the front of the aluminium bulk grain body.

 

[ren531]

Back in the 80's/early 90's, Phil Llewellyn, the renown motoring journalist, wrote a travelogue most months for Truck magazine, & spent a fair amount of time in Kenworths/Peterbilts/White/etc.... that were geared to cruise, loaded, at 90-100MPH

Another truckers tale I heard a few times early 80s was a driver from a certain Glasgow company doing 100mph over Erskine bridge in a Scania 142

 

[DRM]

It’s also well known that many races occurred from and to the Stranraer ferry.

 

[Drago]

Many of us will be old enough to remember lorries blasting down the motorway at 70 or 80 MPH. Scary.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

It’s also well known that many races occurred from and to the Stranraer ferry.

Yes, along the A74

Many of us will be old enough to remember lorries blasting down the motorway at 70 or 80 MPH. Scary.

LIkewise National Express coaches, at 85+

 

[Jameshow]

Yes, along the A74

LIkewise National Express coaches, at 85+

Without stability controls either!

 

[DRM]

Yes, along the A74

LIkewise National Express coaches, at 85+

You couldn’t beat a Leyland Leopard, literally

 

[DRM]

Spotted on the M62 Wednesday, an elderly Mercedes Sprinter Recovery truck, on the back of the cab was a sticker of the Khanda, a symbol of Sikhism, but below that was the sentence " You've Tried The Cowboys-Now Try The Indian" made me laugh!