"Heavy Haulage through the years"

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pv83:

DIG:
A couple of Europeans on the 170ton gross operation ,regret I saw no Scanias ,and a mixture of yank tanks KW Mack and Western Star,these trucks and theres quite a few travel around 20 to 30 mins apart both ways on these jobs.

Dig

Is that a 10 wheeler tractor unit DIG■■? That Mack looks smart

Volvo FH16 tri drive twin steer rated 175 tons 700hp,length 53 metres .
I understand the bonneted yanks are single steer and rated to 170tons.
If you google [ Volvo trucks line haul Woodie Woodie mine] there is an article about a lady truck driver doing that job.
Dig

Double click.

[pv83]

DIG:

pv83:

DIG:
A couple of Europeans on the 170ton gross operation ,regret I saw no Scanias ,and a mixture of yank tanks KW Mack and Western Star,these trucks and theres quite a few travel around 20 to 30 mins apart both ways on these jobs.

Dig

Is that a 10 wheeler tractor unit DIG■■? That Mack looks smart

Volvo FH16 tri drive twin steer rated 175 tons 700hp,length 53 metres .
I understand the bonneted yanks are single steer and rated to 170tons.
If you google [ Volvo trucks line haul Woodie Woodie mine] there is an article about a lady truck driver doing that job.
Dig

Double click.

volvotrucks.com/en-la/news/ … train.html

Here’s the link, with as extra bonus a nice article and clip about a driver working for Mammoet Canada

[deanb]

pv83:

5thwheel:

moomooland:
How about this one then from 1955 with a 72 ton load on four axles, solid tyres and 2 mph…

3Pictured here in September 1955 Pickfords Scammell 100-Ton Motive Unit Reg No BLH 21 makes it’s way slowly up the long climb on the A62 Manchester Road just West of Marsden.

Originally it was powered by a Scammell 4-cylinder 86 bhp 7094 cc petrol engine, which only returned 0.75 mpg but by the time this picture was taken it had long been fitted with a Gardner 6LW diesel engine which increased the power to 105 bhp and the fuel consumption to 4 mpg.

It is hauling a 72 ton Metropolitan Vickers diesel electric locomotive which had been collected from Stockton on Tees for loading onto the ship SS Hurunui at Liverpool Docks on the 16th of September 1955.

2Seen here taking a break on the A62 at Delph Station before the long climb to Scouthead then the decent into Oldham.

1Heading through Liverpool towards the docks.

0Unfortunately today Reg No BLH 21 resides at Rush Green in a derelict state.

Moo moo,were those prime movers still chain driven?

David

Cheers Moomooland

Those 100 tonners were chain driven, just imagine one of the chains snapping on a hill whilst pulling that weight…

• 1 Not many made as i remember. Posted an article about them not long ago on here.

[deanb]

pv83:

DIG:

pv83:

DIG:
A couple of Europeans on the 170ton gross operation ,regret I saw no Scanias ,and a mixture of yank tanks KW Mack and Western Star,these trucks and theres quite a few travel around 20 to 30 mins apart both ways on these jobs.

Dig

Is that a 10 wheeler tractor unit DIG■■? That Mack looks smart

Volvo FH16 tri drive twin steer rated 175 tons 700hp,length 53 metres .
I understand the bonneted yanks are single steer and rated to 170tons.
If you google [ Volvo trucks line haul Woodie Woodie mine] there is an article about a lady truck driver doing that job.
Dig

Double click.

volvotrucks.com/en-la/news/ … train.html

Here’s the link, with as extra bonus a nice article and clip about a driver working for Mammoet Canada

Volvo as far as i know are still the second most sold truck in Australia after Kenworth. The tri-drives are becoming much more popular especially on
mining operations where they are pulling 5/6 trailers. Nice pic Dig.

[deanb]

Heres an old one.

Paris 1889.

[erf-ngc-european]

DEANB:
Heres an old one.

Paris 1889.

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At least she managed to keep the ice-cream intact when the kiosk fell on her . Robert

[spardo]

ERF-NGC-European:

DEANB:
Heres an old one.

Paris 1889.

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At least she managed to keep the ice-cream intact when the kiosk fell on her . Robert

If that is the original, and the date seems about right, there seems to be some discrepancy, because I think with the plinth, later built in N.York, she was 150 odd feet high. That picture would seem to be a lot less than that. I know the head and torch was paraded round France before the rest of her was finished, but that seems to be the whole thing. Hmm.

[5thwheel]

DEANB:
Heres an old one.

Paris 1889.

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Looks as though she is being pulled by an Aveling Barford steamer.

David

[coomsey]

[erf-ngc-european]

Spardo:

ERF-NGC-European:

DEANB:
Heres an old one.

Paris 1889.

0

At least she managed to keep the ice-cream intact when the kiosk fell on her . Robert

If that is the original, and the date seems about right, there seems to be some discrepancy, because I think with the plinth, later built in N.York, she was 150 odd feet high. That picture would seem to be a lot less than that. I know the head and torch was paraded round France before the rest of her was finished, but that seems to be the whole thing. Hmm.

She may actually still have been ‘The Light of Asia’ then; which is what she was originally called, as she’d been commissioned by the Egyptian government to stand guard over the newly constructed Suez canal. However, they ran out of money to pay for her (allegedly because the British were controlling cotton exports too tightly and siphoning them to our dark satanic mills), so the French sold her to USA instead, as the Statue of Liberty. Robert

[moomooland]

Spardo:
If that is the original, and the date seems about right, there seems to be some discrepancy, because I think with the plinth, later built in N.York, she was 150 odd feet high. That picture would seem to be a lot less than that. I know the head and torch was paraded round France before the rest of her was finished, but that seems to be the whole thing. Hmm.

The one in the picture is just a scale model the one on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is 93 metres high and weighs 225 tons.

[erf-ngc-european]

moomooland:

Spardo:
If that is the original, and the date seems about right, there seems to be some discrepancy, because I think with the plinth, later built in N.York, she was 150 odd feet high. That picture would seem to be a lot less than that. I know the head and torch was paraded round France before the rest of her was finished, but that seems to be the whole thing. Hmm.

The one in the picture is just a scale model the one on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is 93 metres high and weighs 225 tons.

Also, the steam-roller is too modern to have been around when the canal was dug. Robert

[pv83]

ERF-NGC-European:

moomooland:

Spardo:
If that is the original, and the date seems about right, there seems to be some discrepancy, because I think with the plinth, later built in N.York, she was 150 odd feet high. That picture would seem to be a lot less than that. I know the head and torch was paraded round France before the rest of her was finished, but that seems to be the whole thing. Hmm.

The one in the picture is just a scale model the one on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is 93 metres high and weighs 225 tons.

Also, the steam-roller is too modern to have been around when the canal was dug. Robert

Already thought there was something wrong with it… nothing a big healthy true American “diet” can’t fix…

[pv83]

coomsey:
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Now, this is truly sommat I’ve never seen before!! What a whacky design this is!

Do you happen to know anymore about it Coomsey?

[valkyrie]

ERF-NGC-European:

Moomooland:

Spardo:
If that is the original, and the date seems about right, there seems to be some discrepancy, because I think with the plinth, later built in N.York, she was 150 odd feet high. That picture would seem to be a lot less than that. I know the head and torch was paraded round France before the rest of her was finished, but that seems to be the whole thing. Hmm.

The one in the picture is just a scale model the one on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is 93 metres high and weighs 225 tons.

Also, the steam-roller is too modern to have been around when the canal was dug. Robert

5thwheel:

DEANB:
Heres an old one.

Paris 1889.

Looks as though she is being pulled by an Aveling Barford steamer.

David

TruckNetUK . Old Time Lorries . Heavy Haulage Through The Years . Page 121 . Aveling & Porter Steam Road Rollers . Tuesday,20th August,2019 .

VALKYRIE.

The construction of the Suez Canal was completed in 1859,Aveling & Porter’s first steam road roller was built in 1865 and basically looked like
a traction engine,but with ultra-wide,large diameter and smooth wheels,which were in fact rollers.Its steering wheel and driver’s platform
were placed in front of the smoke box. In the 1870s Aveling & Porter developed the conventional 3-point steam road roller and was gradually improved over the coming decades until the end of production in 1948-1950,but its basic design and appearance remained largely unchanged
from the 1870s to the 1950s! …as you will see in the photographs below
Aveling & Porter produced more steam road rollers than any other British manufacturer,and exported their steam road rollers,traction engines,
road locomotives,etc, all over the world,including to France.
Aveling & Porter was based in Rochester,Kent,merged with Barford in 1932,becoming Aveling-Barford in 1933 and moved to Grantham in the same
year.

Aveling & Porter Steam Road Roller of the 1870s or 1880s pulling a large scale model of the Statue Of Liberty in Paris in 1889. DeanB.

Aveling & Porter Steam Road Roller of 1879,complete with Invicta badge.The basic design and appearance of conventional 3-point steam road rollers from the 1870s to the 1940s were basically the same.

Aveling-Barford W,Sp,6HP,10-Ton Steam Road Roller,Engine No.AH162,JXH 174,OMEGA,London February 1948. One of the last steam road rollers of any marque made. SteamScenes.1#

VALKYRIE

[coomsey]

pv83:

coomsey:

Now, this is truly sommat I’ve never seen before!! What a whacky design this is!

Do you happen to know anymore about it Coomsey?

Sorry no pv83. I was thinking Lansing Bagnall design but as the picture shows they had more sense! Cheers Coomsey
It’s called an Alligator trailer

[windrush]

The now long gone Budgie Toys made a diecast version of the Pitt Alligator trailer with a Seddon prime mover. Budgie (actually Morris and Stone) produced many of the more unusual commercials, I still have a few but not this one alas…

Pete.

[pv83]

VALKYRIE:

ERF-NGC-European:

Moomooland:

Spardo:
If that is the original, and the date seems about right, there seems to be some discrepancy, because I think with the plinth, later built in N.York, she was 150 odd feet high. That picture would seem to be a lot less than that. I know the head and torch was paraded round France before the rest of her was finished, but that seems to be the whole thing. Hmm.

The one in the picture is just a scale model the one on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is 93 metres high and weighs 225 tons.

Also, the steam-roller is too modern to have been around when the canal was dug. Robert

5thwheel:

DEANB:
Heres an old one.

Paris 1889.

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Looks as though she is being pulled by an Aveling Barford steamer.

David

TruckNetUK . Old Time Lorries . Heavy Haulage Through The Years . Page 121 . Aveling & Porter Steam Road Rollers . Tuesday,20th August,2019 .

VALKYRIE.

The construction of the Suez Canal was completed in 1859,Aveling & Porter’s first steam road roller was built in 1865 and basically looked like
a traction engine,but with ultra-wide,large diameter and smooth wheels,which were in fact rollers.Its steering wheel and driver’s platform
were placed in front of the smoke box. In the 1870s Aveling & Porter developed the conventional 3-point steam road roller and was gradually improved over the coming decades until the end of production in 1948-1950,but its basic design and appearance remained largely unchanged
from the 1870s to the 1950s! …as you will see in the photographs below
Aveling & Porter produced more steam road rollers than any other British manufacturer,and exported their steam road rollers,traction engines,
road locomotives,etc, all over the world,including to France.
Aveling & Porter was based in Rochester,Kent,merged with Barford in 1932,becoming Aveling-Barford in 1933 and moved to Grantham in the same
year.

Aveling & Porter Steam Road Roller of the 1870s or 1880s pulling a large scale model of the Statue Of Liberty in Paris in 1889. DeanB.
2

Aveling & Porter Steam Road Roller of 1879,complete with Invicta badge.The basic design and appearance of conventional 3-point steam road rollers from the 1870s to the 1940s were basically the same.
1

Aveling-Barford W,Sp,6HP,10-Ton Steam Road Roller,Engine No.AH162,JXH 174,OMEGA,London February 1948. One of the last steam road rollers of any marque made. SteamScenes.1#
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VALKYRIE

Cheers for the info Valkyrie

[pv83]

coomsey:
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pv83:

coomsey:
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Now, this is truly sommat I’ve never seen before!! What a whacky design this is!

Do you happen to know anymore about it Coomsey?

Sorry no pv83. I was thinking Lansing Bagnall design but as the picture shows they had more sense! Cheers Coomsey
It’s called an Alligator trailer

windrush:
The now long gone Budgie Toys made a diecast version of the Pitt Alligator trailer with a Seddon prime mover. Budgie (actually Morris and Stone) produced many of the more unusual commercials, I still have a few but not this one alas…

0

Pete.

Hopefully it was a one-off… can’t imagine that would have worked properly…

I’ll bet that Budgie toys model is worth a fortune now!

Cheers, Patrick

[pv83]

Spotted this one in France the other day, Centre Routiers Roye to be more precise, the trailer was of a make I’ve never heard of before, the Renault proves the link to Volvo, as it’s got a Volvo hub reduction.