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Poor Joyce. She’s better-looking than that Albion. So is the bus. All, IMO, are trumped by that mobile crane, the name of which I can’t remember. It has a fibreglass cab, which looks a bit like an LAD, but with various weird shapes sticking out of it. I think that might have been Scottish, too.
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You’re probably thinking of Hydrocon who were a Scottish company. There was a thread about them here
Good god that’s the Joyce Grenfell of trucks. It must have inspired this monster
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Poor Joyce. She’s better-looking than that Albion. So is the bus. All, IMO, are trumped by that mobile crane, the name of which I can’t remember. It has a fibreglass cab, which looks a bit like an LAD, but with various weird shapes sticking out of it. I think that might have been Scottish, too.
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You’re probably thinking of Hydrocon who were a Scottish company. There was a thread about them here
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Great post. Those are the ones. What were the designers thinking? The two round “sculptures” seemed to be a recurring theme, whichever cab structure sported them. I wonder what they were for? Why did none of the operators think to paint eyes on them?
I take exception to the Joyce Grenfell remark. When she came to popular notice in the 50s on she was in her 40s and whilst no one , least of all herself at a guess, would describe her as a conventionally pretty she had charisma.
essexpete:
I take exception to the Joyce Grenfell remark. When she came to popular notice in the 50s on she was in her 40s and whilst no one , least of all herself at a guess, would describe her as a conventionally pretty she had charisma.
Joyce at 37 Nat Portrait Gallery.
Weren’t me that said it. Him up top’s got the quotes befuddled. She’s in her 60s here, and looks no worse than any TV star. youtube.com/watch?v=XMoSdjAjCrg
Bewick:
For operators similar to myself who had tried to remain loyal to the British marques such as Atkinson and ERF and to a lesser extent Seddon 32/4’s and Guy Big J’s during the early to mid 70’s that commitment was severely tested with the disastrous launch of the Sed Akt although the ERF B Series did acquit itself somewhat better , however how any sensible Operator could have possibly justified acquiring an abortion like the Marathon well words failed me they really did or indeed considering running the other Leyland Group crap i.e. Lynx, Buffalo, Crusader and Roadtrain et al ! I did stay loyal in a small way by running ERF Gardner 8 LXB’s on our trunk operations and also 3 ERF Sleeper cab 8LXC’s on the long distance fleet and I can say that the final two British units I bought in '84 were a pair of Sed Atk 8LXC Sleeper cabs and they did us a great job on the LD fleet but IIRC I did wonder at the time if “The Heart had overruled the Head” regardless of the fact that they were a lump cheaper than a Scania at the time But getting back on the theme I thought that the Marathon was one repulsive unit and never once did one darken our door as a Demo or otherwise ! Others may have an entirely opposite opinion to mine of course but that was my honest and strongly held opinion on the Marathon. Cheers Bewick.
I think the late great Saviem may have disagreed with you there Dennis , he said he made a small fortune out of the TL12 Marathon
But getting back on the theme I thought that the Marathon was one repulsive unit and never once did one darken our door as a Demo or otherwise ! 
Others may have an entirely opposite opinion to mine of course but that was my honest and strongly held opinion on the Marathon. Cheers Bewick.