greek:
That Bedford looks a rarity not see many like that pulling a Tilt needs posting on ancient Brits going east MOC
Hiya that bedford has a v6 detriot engine. you can tell by the double bumper bar, beresfords at stoke had one, after they sold it i think it went on
the middle east job.
John
Hi John,yea your right it did have the V6 71 detroit 2 stroke in them,plated for 32 ton, we had three at one time,but thats the only one that done europe
in 1975/6 and never went that far east greek
well it have the same BEGE sleeper as the most of vabises, thats why ,if i found show the differens to nyströms version that i don,t find so cool cheers benkku
Here´s an FB88 from 1971, total weight 52, 5 tons and a load capacity of 31, 5 tons. On this image it´s loading raw material for the paint company Nordsjö in Malmoe. My first big lorry with was an FB88 with a four wheel drawbar from 1971, driving for Autotransit between Malmoe and Norway… and of course it was full winter when I drove my first trip to Norway.
It’s sad to see all these F88’s going to rot and rust, there’s a guy where I live and he’s got an F88 290 with a crane mounted for a wrecker, he has a fleet of 150 coaches, but the F88 is stood rotting away, he told me I could recon it for him if I wanted, but I’m too old and knackered myself these days let alone rebuild an F88 290, but it’s very tempting, F88’s bring back memories for me, I did many miles most of my life all over Europe East and West, and they were the most reliable lorry I’d had, the first ones we had were really 1970s, untill about 1976/7 when the 290s came out, but the early ones had air wipers which were crap, then they put electric ones on the 290s and all was forgiven.
Posted this on other 88 post might as well put them here first pic rounabout 1976/7 second pic of same wagon would be about 20yr on still being used as a shunter Melinate Jarrow, It had a new cab about 1982 (tin worm) looking like it needs another
No coments about singing tents & where I got my Handle Please, next pic is a resto
& another 2
This old 89 lying on the 2nd Lorry deck of the Zenobia slooowy rotting away can still see who she belonged to, Hungarocamion Budapest, been there since 1980 !!
