Ford Transcontinental

[mercman123]

Hi all nice too see some great pictures and stories about the transcontinental. My dad worked for a man called Dave Koopman they had 2 on test. They were a very good lorry pity they didn’t keep on and may be develop it.A good web site for ford transcontinentals is www.fordtranscontinetal.nl it is a dutch site but it is in english . Tony

[rich12]

picture taken years ago at p/boro.

[r-jacko]

Riverstick:

Heres a few more alive and well!

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Hello Riverstick
Heres a bit of info on A39 GRJ, it was originally on LTS frieght on JCB contract before MO BAKER brought it.The lorry can be seen fourth from the left in this pic

Heres a couple more pics of MO BAKERS Transcons. Photos originally posted by PDW


Regards R-Jacko

[r-jacko]

Before i go heres one from my scrapbook

Regards R-Jacko

[pete_359]

tonyhogi:
found some old ads

here is a photo of lvx 939v,after ford’s had sold her to j&m transport south wales.
regards andrew

[bewick]

pete 359:

tonyhogi:
found some old ads

here is a photo of lvx 939v,after ford’s had sold her to j&m transport south wales.
regards andrew

I was under the impression that you Welsh lads had no “bottle” to go any higher than one trailer Andrew!!! Maybe they were just been stored and weren’t moved!!! Cheers Dennis.

[pete_359]

hi dennis,
sadly in this case ,the reason they were triple decked was the business had been wound up after many hard years and everything was decked,chained and strapped ready to go to the auction,summer 1985.
regards andrew

[bullitt]

Taken at La Jonquera 1981.

[gunnerheskey]

MOC:
We had four Transcons on our small fleet and by far was the best ride, we all loved them Heres some of them.

Superb pics MOC. Especially the 5th pic down of the red transcon and black the F88-290. Were they pulling parker plants ? I’m sure the transcons pulling a stone dryer and the F88 a stone screen.
That was the majority of my Grandads work from Parker Plant of Leicester. I posted a couple of pics on the Leicester bygones thread of my grandad leaving Parkers with a plant idential to the one the F88s pulling.

[moc]

gunnerheskey:

MOC:
We had four Transcons on our small fleet and by far was the best ride, we all loved them Heres some of them.

Superb pics MOC. Especially the 5th pic down of the red transcon and black the F88-290. Were they pulling parker plants ? I’m sure the transcons pulling a stone dryer and the F88 a stone screen.
That was the majority of my Grandads work from Parker Plant of Leicester. I posted a couple of pics on the Leicester bygones thread of my grandad leaving Parkers with a plant idential to the one the F88s pulling.

Hi There gunnerherskey , your dead right there,we done loads of them out of Parker Plant, down to Marseille docks for delivery to NorthAfrica,often there was 3 or 4 machines all had to go down in convoy with ■■■■■■ ,couldnt run on the auto routes because the bridge heights. Used to love them jobs as it was a easy run back solo after just winding the jocky wheels
down.The F88 was mine ,was brown though looks black .Will have a look at that other thread now 8 )cheers

[moc]

Heres another Parker Plant pic gunnerheskey .Also the Stone screen your Grandad was pulling out of there yard is exactly the same type machine behind the Volvo ,Heres another smaller one

[gunnerheskey]

MOC:
Heres another Parker Plant pic gunnerheskey .Also the Stone screen your Grandad was pulling out of there yard is exactly the same type machine behind the Volvo ,Heres another smaller one

Remember those very well, i bet it was a long trip down to Marseille at 40mph… Didn’t they have a habit of blowing tyres…
Must’ve been to every docks in england " and some " pulling allsorts of plants… Happy days…

[robthedog]

Found these two trannys rusting away at rush green motors sadly beyond repair i think. somebody may remember the reg numbers

[pete_359]

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robthedog:

Found these two trannys rusting away at rush green motors sadly beyond repair i think. somebody may remember the reg numbers

hi,
thanks for the pm ec14 .yes sir,i do remember tuh 1s,she only ever had one owner,was bought new from godfrey davies in cardiff by j&m transport from stormy down in south wales.thanks for the picture,i had heard she was in rush green ,did many miles in her when she was new and i was a truck mad kid
regards andrew

[mechanic77]

pete 359:
hi,
thanks for the pm ec14 .yes sir,i do remember tuh 1s,she only ever had one owner,was bought new from godfrey davies in cardiff by j&m transport from stormy down in south wales.thanks for the picture,i had heard she was in rush green ,did many miles in her when she was new and i was a truck mad kid
regards andrew

There you go then Andrew, a nice easy project for you, won’t need a lot doing.

[pete_359]

mechanic77:

pete 359:
hi,
thanks for the pm ec14 .yes sir,i do remember tuh 1s,she only ever had one owner,was bought new from godfrey davies in cardiff by j&m transport from stormy down in south wales.thanks for the picture,i had heard she was in rush green ,did many miles in her when she was new and i was a truck mad kid
regards andrew

There you go then Andrew, a nice easy project for you, won’t need a lot doing.

hi neil,
as it often says in the magazine adverts “needs a bit of tidying” thanks for the pm earlier mate.
regards andrew

[mrken]

Love the number there seemed to be lots of short numbers about then remember Henry Smithers buying a Bseries number WEV1S all these plates worth a fortune in there own right now

[magnum113]

Dutch Transconti with a bricktrailer.

[magnum113]

with highroof.

[magnum113]

Other side.