Some old MACK’s, also posted these on the SAVIEM thread. One has what looks like a crusader cab…
Morning all,
Looks like a good day for those viscious little blighters the Horse Fly…one has enjoyed my blood already!!!
Fergie, you do come up with some interesting pictures!
None more so than those above of Transports Derudder from Tetegham, (Nord), a faithful Bernard user, then Mack, and Mack Bernards, and back, (when Mack pulled out of France), and Soc MABO resumed building Mack vehicles, the rathe strange looking, Hi Motor Panels cab F 715T, shown with its equally odd looking Geeve Cab EFT 35s with the 6 cylinder 11 litre 214 hp Thermodyne engine and 9 speed box…(it should have had 10…but in 10th top velocity would have been …nearly 98mph)!!!
But the odd looking F715T was a well conceived specification, that failed in the market!
35 tonne gtw, Mack END864A V8 of 14.8 litres, 280 bhp, (SAE), @2100 rpm, 10 speed TRD 7225 gearbox, and the 5291 double reduction axle. The Motor Panels hi cab was fitted , at MABOs request , with Fibreglass panels to save weight, but its interior, (described to me by a prominent French Journalist, Roger Roy…as…“very English”…read basic!!!
But what a potential it had, the 3.8 m wb, ready for the road was only 6500 kgs, and had 280 bhp…remember we are back in 1967/68, (when only 10 were sold, and in `69 8, …to be replaced by the US spec F785, and F786, and on to the Ultraliner…and they did sell well!
France, and Mack is an interesting subject,with so many sub plots…and it was the reason that FTF was born in Holland.
Cheerio for now.
Apologies…typing without spectacles…the EFT 35s had cabs built by Geneve…same as the Unic Izoard, and Esterel…blame that B Horse Fly bite…did you know it is only the female who bites? You should just see her teeth!!!
Cheerio for now.
Saviem:
Morning all,Looks like a good day for those viscious little blighters the Horse Fly…one has enjoyed my blood already!!!
Fergie, you do come up with some interesting pictures!
None more so than those above of Transports Derudder from Tetegham, (Nord), a faithful Bernard user, then Mack, and Mack Bernards, and back, (when Mack pulled out of France), and Soc MABO resumed building Mack vehicles, the rathe strange looking, Hi Motor Panels cab F 715T, shown with its equally odd looking Geeve Cab EFT 35s with the 6 cylinder 11 litre 214 hp Thermodyne engine and 9 speed box…(it should have had 10…but in 10th top velocity would have been …nearly 98mph)!!!
But the odd looking F715T was a well conceived specification, that failed in the market!
35 tonne gtw, Mack END864A V8 of 14.8 litres, 280 bhp, (SAE), @2100 rpm, 10 speed TRD 7225 gearbox, and the 5291 double reduction axle. The Motor Panels hi cab was fitted , at MABOs request , with Fibreglass panels to save weight, but its interior, (described to me by a prominent French Journalist, Roger Roy…as…“very English”…read basic!!!
But what a potential it had, the 3.8 m wb, ready for the road was only 6500 kgs, and had 280 bhp…remember we are back in 1967/68, (when only 10 were sold, and in `69 8, …to be replaced by the US spec F785, and F786, and on to the Ultraliner…and they did sell well!
France, and Mack is an interesting subject,with so many sub plots…and it was the reason that FTF was born in Holland.
Cheerio for now.
Thanks John, so imformative, as per usual, your memory is absolutely outstanding, I can’t remember what I had for breakfast !!..
Specifications of that Mack here:
tyldenheritage.com.au/upload … 4/f715.pdf
There are some graphic descriptions of learning to drive a Mack R600 with a two stick quadruplex gearbox in my book “Fifty Shades of Tarmac” which goes on sale on 5th. August .
From Amazon/Waterstones or direct from www.oldpond.com
Long before I retired there was a MAC that I often saw up and down the A66,At least I think it was
a MAC,Anybody out there put any light on this.If I remember once in the Punch Bowl over Brough
Some of the lads that went in there said he called himself Elvis, (True-False). 
GUESTY44.
Good luck with the book Jazzandy!
Here are some pictures of the old twin-stick B75 Mack that used to be in the Flying Eagle yard. A Gold-Dog with Thermodyne engine and 5x3 gearboxes.
Some stills from a film. B-Series Mack was going along without any driver trying to knock a young couples car off the road.
Another picture from the “Where are they now?” folder. I know Budge went on to bigger things, but what about the truck?
B 61 with trailer in Belgium.
Those old B series were incredible with many still running today all round the world. When did they stop making them?
Built like a Mack truck or what?
Speaking for the BeNeLux…many transportcompanies had good experiences with the army surplus Macks
to restart after WW2 and later importers of US-chassis were keen to sell new and improved chassis. When
production of the B61 ended I don’t know, but you could see them still operational in the early eighties.
Terlouw & Van Yperen (the last partner later formed Beers-Van Yperen for Scania Vabis) published
a special manual for the many available NR-series as war surplus. Actually every transport-company
had a Mack or a GMC or White in the post-war fleet.
ChrisArbon:
0Another picture from the “Where are they now?” folder. I know Budge went on to bigger things, but what about the truck?
This old gal VRA284S had a hard life started off with Budge then W.J&D demolition then I think West of Scotland had her but not 100% then to American 3 Ring Circus where I drove her for a while then to Wakefield recovery who built her as a recovery truck then Alpha recovery and think she is in the hands of JD recovery now. Wonder where the sleeper has gone the yanks go mad for that type of sleeper as it was a limited number made
Put the Reg in google images and you will see loads of pictures !
BIGGSAM:
ChrisArbon:
0Another picture from the “Where are they now?” folder. I know Budge went on to bigger things, but what about the truck?
This old gal VRA284S had a hard life started off with Budge then W.J&D demolition then I think West of Scotland had her but not 100% then to American 3 Ring Circus where I drove her for a while then to Wakefield recovery who built her as a recovery truck then Alpha recovery and think she is in the hands of JD recovery now. Wonder where the sleeper has gone the yanks go mad for that type of sleeper as it was a limited number made
Put the Reg in google images and you will see loads of pictures !
Me stood on the front of her 25yrs ago
And the make of sleeper just came to me Able sleepers !
French one NR 14, now in Germany.
Wow Michel…by far the oldest and most impressive chassis…was this pictured in Niederkruchten, Willich or Geilenkirchen?
I often visited those quarries with often the very rare marques like Mack, White, Unic and others
Some more as there were MANY on the continent after WW2
