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Still maintaining an excellent selection Deanb,would the the Autocar be french registration?
Wouldn’t be to many of those over your way I would have thought there was a few here in West Aus but not as popular as KW and Mack.
Cheers Dig
These great period shots, best viewed at full size by clicking on the picture, were taken in 1967 and shows Edward Beck’s S20 Foden heavy haulage 6x4 ballast tractor Reg No ODB 793 hauling a 100 foot long crane gantry section heading east down the B1308 Monks Road in Lincoln.
One of a total of eight sections destined for Scunthorpe steelworks this route was taken due to tight turns and narrow roads in and around Lincoln and required a figure eight route through the city to get on to the northbound A15.
Both photographs were taken by the late John Charles Walker who sadly passed away in 2005.
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Very interesting indeed, cheers for posting Leyland AshAny idea what make the trailer is? Looks purpose build with such a wide loading bed.
At first I thought this was a conscripted civilian low loader, but the more I’m looking at it I think it’s also a prototype, namely for the standard IDF low loader, made locally by Netzer Sireni. The above as well as the Contractor were all a part of the plan to replace the IDF’s old Sherman, Centurion and M47/48 tanks with the Chieftain. After the 1967 war however the UK government stupidly preferred to succumb to Arab pressure and cancelled the deal. Had it gone through, the IDF would have ultimately ordered thousands of tanks and most likely replaced the Chieftain - when the time came - with the Challenger. Work out how much money UK firms lost. The joke was that in the end relatively very few Chieftains were sold to the Arabs. As a result of not being to obtain the Chieftains, the Israelis had no choice but to develop their own MBT - the Merkava, and will most likely never buy any tanks abroad. However, the Contractor + trailer was not a part of the embargo and became the IDF’s standard tank transporter until replaced by Mack’s DM800.
Cheers for the info mate 
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Impressive Econofreight wagon, but I find the rear of the trailer the most intriguing part… Who knows more about it?The trailer might be this Wynns King trailer I photographed in the late seventies on the back of a Scammell Crusader.
Cheers LR Man! Does look very similar doesn’t it…?
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Aye, big old Willeme, was discussed a wee while ago on the Saviem thread Coomsey.
Dirty Dan:
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Danne might know a bit more about this wagonYes if do! Infact i know the man who built that one and one more just like that. It was the last two 3-series ever built. And im working with him today
he just have one truck these days a Volvo 750 4axl and a swedish made PK trailer also 4 axl. He is a really really good bloke and a werry good friend
Danne
Small world then once again eh Danne Tidy looking unit he’s got! And interesting trailer…PK…never heard of it before…
Speaking of which, how’s your new VANG coming along?
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Courtesy of Len Rogers, posted before but not on this thread.
Oily
Cheers Oily
Isn’t this one now part of the preservation scene…? Does look familiar with that small-ish second axle…?
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1These great period shots, best viewed at full size by clicking on the picture, were taken in 1967 and shows Edward Beck’s S20 Foden heavy haulage 6x4 ballast tractor Reg No ODB 793 hauling a 100 foot long crane gantry section heading east down the B1308 Monks Road in Lincoln.One of a total of eight sections destined for Scunthorpe steelworks this route was taken due to tight turns and narrow roads in and around Lincoln and required a figure eight route through the city to get on to the northbound A15.
Both photographs were taken by the late John Charles Walker who sadly passed away in 2005.
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Cracking shots moomooland, cheers for posting mate
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Cheers Dean Where did you find those Gruwez pic’s? Cracking stuff that is mate!
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Hello to you all,been very interested in all the heavy haulage photos ,you all seem to be very knowledgeable ,however i did read on page 26 DIGi assume is aussie by the name he asked ,whats wrong with a picture Dean posted of a Faun heavy,as enquires and a bit of knowledge it appears that the engine fan on the ■■■■■■■■ K19would appear that the fan is mounted wrong!the fans were gear driven, and rotated the opposite way…
ill get my coat then…no one answered .Well done PDB I was beginning to think all you poms didn’t know that ,I owned one of these engines in a KW and when it developed a cooling problem the workshop who were investigating it told me the fan is mounted backwards and thats the problem so I had to ask them to see which way it was turning,there was an embarrassed silence,Its the only engine I know fitted into trucks that the fan rotates the opposite way to the crankshaft.
Once again well spotted peggydeckboy.
Cheers DigBugger… completely missed that PDB and DIG… so if there’s one who should get his coat, it’s me then eh…
Bit odd though, that those fan’s were mounted like that, never heard of such thing before…Never mind Patrick the pics you keep coming up with gives you an automatic pass LOL
Dig
Cheers DIG, that’s me on the safe side then eh
Was in Norway last week to pic up my new trailer,what a lovely trailer. Well ofcourse it is i told the norwiegan how it should look and they said ok no problem
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Was in Norway last week to pic up my new trailer,what a lovely trailer. Well ofcourse it is i told the norwiegan how it should look and they said ok no problem
Impressive trailer Danne! Hope it suits your needs One question though, that 1st axle on the trailer, does that steer as well?
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