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ramone · 10 February 2012 18:00

LB76:
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Thanks for those,i can only imagine how noisey they were and cold in winter and hot in summer.You definitely earned your wages driving 1 of those to Italy.Superb pics though keep `em coming

ramone · 10 February 2012 18:03

Stanfield:
0Photo courtesy of BonkeyDollocks

I think if you take the number plate off the give away are the more modern wheels another great picture though

ramone · 10 February 2012 18:04

Lawrence Dunbar:
0Smiles for miles depot Blucher, [Courtesey of Diane Smiles].

Another nice shot LD

3300john · 10 February 2012 19:01

ramone:

LB76:
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Thanks for those,i can only imagine how noisey they were and cold in winter and hot in summer.You definitely earned your wages driving 1 of those to Italy.Superb pics though keep `em coming
Hiya bob paul of asian transport was doing the middle east in a shortened mm8 with a sleeper cab in 1966 now that was hard work
in my book
John

ramone · 10 February 2012 19:14

3300John:

ramone:

LB76:
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Thanks for those,i can only imagine how noisey they were and cold in winter and hot in summer.You definitely earned your wages driving 1 of those to Italy.Superb pics though keep `em coming
Hiya bob paul of asian transport was doing the middle east in a shortened mm8 with a sleeper cab in 1966 now that was hard work
in my book
John

I just cant begin to imagine going to Dover never mind the Middle East in something that was designed to trundle at low speeds around the A roads of Britain.These men were made of something special ,are there any pictures of his trips John ?, Bills put plenty on of his trips into Europe with the Wyatts AECs .Setting off to work this morning at 4.15 and getting into a pre warmed cab (i left the night heater on overnight) as the snow came down seems like cheating now

3300john · 10 February 2012 19:40

hiya ramone…you must buy truckerask’s book LONG HAUL PIONEERS…£18 from amazon it tells how asian transport(astran)
come to do the M/e work. the first trip was in a guy warrior with a 180 ■■■■■■■ then a special chassed AEC mm8 cut down
to a mm6 pulling a 20ft drag. the book is a must, no crap, a really good read. i don’t read usually, a sat all christmas
(last year) reading the book… go for it mate. if you go to AEC 100 this year you can have a drive of my MM6 you’ll die
at the level of comfort
John

ramone · 10 February 2012 20:49

3300John:
hiya ramone…you must buy truckerask’s book LONG HAUL PIONEERS…£18 from amazon it tells how asian transport(astran)
come to do the M/e work. the first trip was in a guy warrior with a 180 ■■■■■■■ then a special chassed AEC mm8 cut down
to a mm6 pulling a 20ft drag. the book is a must, no crap, a really good read. i don’t read usually, a sat all christmas
(last year) reading the book… go for it mate. if you go to AEC 100 this year you can have a drive of my MM6 you’ll die
at the level of comfort
John

I will buy the book John and be carefull i was at Newark last year i took my dad i may just turn up and hold you to it my dad drove 1 for years

lb76 · 10 February 2012 21:15

lb76 · 11 February 2012 22:34

3300john · 12 February 2012 17:34

Hiya it was a good find LB76 the front panel round the headlights spot on…have you welded the bottom of the front panel…
How bad was the front panel please…have you a photo…all the front on my rts cab is glass fibre but needs some strenght
as it flaps about as theres nothing to fasten to below the floor level.
John

lb76 · 12 February 2012 19:33

Hello John, i am in the process of putting all the photo’s of the restoration up on here i was trying to do it in chronological order,but that seems to have slid!here are a couple more of when we collected it.

lb76 · 12 February 2012 19:42

ramone · 12 February 2012 21:04

All it needed when you picked it up was a m.o.t and tax and by the look of it ,it could have gone back to work ,i`ve seen the finished article and what an excellent job you made of it and what a solid motor it was in the first place