Crane Fruehauf / Boden advert from 1968.
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10 or 11 metre trailer by the look of it:
British Trailer Company advert 1960.
A surprising piece of historical evidence posted on Oily’s thread by Buzzer this morning:
Yes, a 10m tri-axle tilt on singles! Just shows dunnit: there’s nothing new under the sun 
ERF-NGC-European:
A Bristol and Roadferry tilt.0
Always had loads of missing elastic straps & hooks, I picked up a few of them with a TK Bedford in Paris South and returned them to a place in Bow, East London.
Regards
Andy
Wow! That’d look superb behind a preserved Scania Vabis, or even a 140. I hope it goes to good home.
ERF-NGC
Interesting picture here. 10m tilt by the look of it, pulled by a travel-stained Leyland complete with ocean-going sunvisor!
I’m trying to work out how the greedy boards work on that stripped tilt. Are they an integral part of the drop-sides, or have they been slotted in afterwards? Looks like a lot of extra fiddly work to me. Perhaps it was a regular specialist load. [see note below pic]
EDIT to say: I reckon they just slotted in just the same as the bottom wooden boards would. It’s their metalness that threw me 
Look to me like they are part of the dropsides-the locator catches are on the ‘greedy boards’ not the dropsides,so reckon they are just extra tall dropsides for some reason. Must have been a pain trying to lock them out!
‘Thinks’ might have been on a high value/attractive load regular job so higher dropsides made it more difficult for the tealeaves!
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They’ll be mighty close to the deck when they’re dropped down I reckon, but “justo, justo”.
An inch is as good as a mile, or whatever.
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