I have a vague recollection of a colour artwork illustration of that wagon in the 1960s Ladybird Book of Lorries (or similar title) from my youth. That one looks like an 8m job,
Thats going back a bit Ladybird book !
11 metre french one from 1966.
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Well spotted! The 11m metre bit is in small print! Those high drop-sides wouldn’t have done for a short-arse like me: I’d have had to stand on pallets to release the catches. I remember wrestling with old French tilts like that on dock-traction work in the early '80s.
DEANB:
Continental ferry trailer’s from 1960. Dont think they would have delivered that trailer to Moscow ? Reckon it was sent unaccompanied…
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Well done Dean: I was looking for one of those pics of the old Atkis with 8m trailers! Reckon you’re right: the onward journey to Moscow was probably undertaken by a Belgian unit. I think those Atkis went over the water though, as I’m sure I’ve seen fleeting footage of one on Continental soil in one of those British Transport Films.
Not within the length-range but LAG from Bree in Belgium (L.A.G. stands for Lambert & Arnold Geusens)
made the bodywork and trailer for this Belgium Trabant-IFA transports, we say 1969, DAF 1900, nine
Trabi’s were loaded per route
ERF-Continental:
Not within the length-range but LAG from Bree in Belgium (L.A.G. stands for Lambert & Arnold Geusens)
made the bodywork and trailer for this Belgium Trabant-IFA transports, we say 1969, DAF 1900, nine
Trabi’s were loaded per route
Hey,
With DDR number plate I see, Daf in the DDR sold ■■
Never seen, but they were on exhibits in the DDR.
LAG was a very well known and used brand in the DDR.
You could even have a 6m tilt in the '80s, if you had it on twist-locks! I used to pull 12m tilt containers called caissemobiles on Spanish Intervia skellies out of the docks on traction work back in the '80s (see second picture).
