Dave the Renegade:
pete smith:
Dave the Renegade:
In their day those Ergo cabs were way ahead of anything else in this country. I drove a Leyland Comet with an Ergo cab, not the most powerful, but a nice comfortable lorry to drive.
Cheers Dave.
I remember my Dad telling me about this truck,it slid off a farm track in the snow loaded,Dad went up in car with transport manager to bring truck back to yard,anyway recovery firm turned up with scammell explorer put chain round 4th axle[dad advised round spring hanger but was told we know what we doing]started winching and the only thing moved was the 4th axle straight off centre bolts on spring!ta,Pete
We always put the hook around the spring hanger Pete, as your Dad said. On tippers it was easy to get stuck on site. Have been pulled out and pulled others out, no damage.
Cheers Dave.
This truck ended its days at millers used as a shunter between the 2 mills they had,probably only 8 yrs old and ended up parked at donnington wood mill salop,ta,Pete
pete smith:
Dave the Renegade:
pete smith:
Dave the Renegade:
In their day those Ergo cabs were way ahead of anything else in this country. I drove a Leyland Comet with an Ergo cab, not the most powerful, but a nice comfortable lorry to drive.
Cheers Dave.
I remember my Dad telling me about this truck,it slid off a farm track in the snow loaded,Dad went up in car with transport manager to bring truck back to yard,anyway recovery firm turned up with scammell explorer put chain round 4th axle[dad advised round spring hanger but was told we know what we doing]started winching and the only thing moved was the 4th axle straight off centre bolts on spring!ta,Pete
We always put the hook around the spring hanger Pete, as your Dad said. On tippers it was easy to get stuck on site. Have been pulled out and pulled others out, no damage.
Cheers Dave.
This truck ended its days at millers used as a shunter between the 2 mills they had,probably only 8 yrs old and ended up parked at donnington wood mill salop,ta,Pete
Was that one a 26 ton gross, or 28 ton Pete ?
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
pete smith:
Dave the Renegade:
pete smith:
Dave the Renegade:
In their day those Ergo cabs were way ahead of anything else in this country. I drove a Leyland Comet with an Ergo cab, not the most powerful, but a nice comfortable lorry to drive.
Cheers Dave.
I remember my Dad telling me about this truck,it slid off a farm track in the snow loaded,Dad went up in car with transport manager to bring truck back to yard,anyway recovery firm turned up with scammell explorer put chain round 4th axle[dad advised round spring hanger but was told we know what we doing]started winching and the only thing moved was the 4th axle straight off centre bolts on spring!ta,Pete
We always put the hook around the spring hanger Pete, as your Dad said. On tippers it was easy to get stuck on site. Have been pulled out and pulled others out, no damage.
Cheers Dave.
This truck ended its days at millers used as a shunter between the 2 mills they had,probably only 8 yrs old and ended up parked at donnington wood mill salop,ta,Pete
Was that one a 26 ton gross, or 28 ton Pete ?
Cheers Dave.
Think she would be 28t Dave,not that would make much difference as the bisons they operated ran at 28t to 30t,well a lot of the work was “catchweight”!ta,Pete
A roadtrain i drove whilst working for exel at penkridge,staffs,ta,Pete
pete smith:
Dave the Renegade:
pete smith:
Dave the Renegade:
pete smith:
Dave the Renegade:
In their day those Ergo cabs were way ahead of anything else in this country. I drove a Leyland Comet with an Ergo cab, not the most powerful, but a nice comfortable lorry to drive.
Cheers Dave.
I remember my Dad telling me about this truck,it slid off a farm track in the snow loaded,Dad went up in car with transport manager to bring truck back to yard,anyway recovery firm turned up with scammell explorer put chain round 4th axle[dad advised round spring hanger but was told we know what we doing]started winching and the only thing moved was the 4th axle straight off centre bolts on spring!ta,Pete
We always put the hook around the spring hanger Pete, as your Dad said. On tippers it was easy to get stuck on site. Have been pulled out and pulled others out, no damage.
Cheers Dave.
This truck ended its days at millers used as a shunter between the 2 mills they had,probably only 8 yrs old and ended up parked at donnington wood mill salop,ta,Pete
Was that one a 26 ton gross, or 28 ton Pete ?
Cheers Dave.
Think she would be 28t Dave,not that would make much difference as the bisons they operated ran at 28t to 30t,well a lot of the work was “catchweight”!ta,Pete
My Dad was a driver for a corn & seed and animal feed merchant for over forty years Pete,plenty of catch weight in bags and bulk on that job.
Cheers Dave.
Dave,those farmers would’nt let you go till body was full,especially if the price of grain was high,ta,Pete
A tidy old bit of gear, At its new home at Seaton Burn, Regards Larry.
Some interesting old LHD Leyland Beavers. Robert
robert1952:
Some interesting old LHD Leyland Beavers. Robert
IIRC, those LAD-cabbed ones were part of a large order for East Germany. There was some discussion of them on here and, although I took part in that discussion, I’m bggrd if I can remember any of it, or on which thread it was! 
Here’s another Romanian 6x4:
It’s really interesting these exports to east Europe. I would have never believed that the East German State - always short of an Eastmark or two - would have purchased LAB cabbed Leylands.
A similar sale took place when Pegaso managed to sell 100 ‘Square Cab’ tractors fitted with Leyland 600 series engines and boxes made on licence and fridge trailers to Polish State transport in the late 60’s. They sent the Polish driver / fitters down to be trained at the factory in Barcelona and they all set off in convoy. Generalissimo Franco was so pleased with it that he went to the border at La Jonquera to see them off. I have some period photos somewhere - I’ll try to find them.
David
Found it; I was wrong - they were not all fridges. It says in the same article that Pegaso had had to refuse the supply of 50 trucks to South Africa because they did not feel that they could set up a service network in a country so far from home. There’s responsible. 
David
David Miller:
Found it; I was wrong - they were not all fridges. It says in the same article that Pegaso had had to refuse the supply of 50 trucks to South Africa because they did not feel that they could set up a service network in a country so far from home. There’s responsible.
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David
Good engine, that 0.600. Robert 
Yes, but only if you didn’t have to sit alongside it for twelve hours a day!
Retired Old ■■■■:
Yes, but only if you didn’t have to sit alongside it for twelve hours a day!
That’s true. I’m sure my old Titan PD2 robbed me of some of my hearing! Robert 
Hi Robert, You cannot get a better double decker than a PD2 especially a Leyland bodied one !! They were not that bad compared to a number of other makes.
Cheers Leyland 600
So- if you drove a half-cab bus, did you only get half of the engine noise? 
Retired Old ■■■■:
So- if you drove a half-cab bus, did you only get half of the engine noise?
Don’t know about a bus ROF but in a Foden half cab you had plenty of it!
Pete.
Tilcon used them on a night trunk from the Forest of Dean to West Drayton. The forward-thinking transport manager realised that he could save fuel by bringing two empty lorries back for the price of one- he hitched two together by means of an A-frame. Apparently it was a success until he found out that the two drivers were squashing themselves in the one cab in order to prevent freezing to death!
Retired Old ■■■■:
Tilcon used them on a night trunk from the Forest of Dean to West Drayton. The forward-thinking transport manager realised that he could save fuel by bringing two empty lorries back for the price of one- he hitched two together by means of an A-frame. Apparently it was a success until he found out that the two drivers were squashing themselves in the one cab in order to prevent freezing to death!
Tilcon used Foden eight leggers with Gardner 180’s on days and night to West Drayton from the Gore, and some of the day drivers would come back and do a load to Hereford after that.
Cheers Dave.
