Thank you Geordielad, Leyland600 and Valkerie for variously answering my quieries over the last couple of pages! 
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Buzzer:
Wednesdays wonders, Buzzer
From the streamlined to the not so. That Tatra looks built for speed but the way it is sitting down on its haunches I would think hoping for not too many steep hills. 
And what was the Australian Atkinson doing in Britain? Not much thought given to airflow there. 
Just a quick question, and no idea where it should be posted. But seeing all these Seddons made me wonder, did Seddon ever make a bus/coach chassis. If not, any idea why not?
A mate of mine gave me this photo years ago so maybe they sent some busses over seas.
EDIT. Click on the camera on the right hand column.
And what was the Australian Atkinson doing in Britain? Not much thought given to airflow there.
Hi Spardo.
The Oz Atkinson is actually a UK Borderer chassis and got renovated with a " skippy" cab as the original was rotten and a cab was available so it is still around on the classic scene. It has been documented on here before but R Hansons did have an 8 wheeler tipper with the cab which was a one off from Atkinson, it had been shown at the Commercial Motor show at Earls Court one year, there are pictures of it around, this was badly damaged in an accident and was recabbed with a standard Atkinson cab.
I posted this on FB a day or two ago, so far 316 likes and 31 comments including some history info the full pic with credit to Steve Glover for the photo.
Oily
Dipster:
Just a quick question, and no idea where it should be posted. But seeing all these Seddons made me wonder, did Seddon ever make a bus/coach chassis. If not, any idea why not?
Yes they did the Pennine was one I am aware of.
Oily
Thanks to VALKYRIE for all the detailed info, brilliant also Buzzer and mushroomman for the photos
Two variations of OZ Atkinsons from Evan Richards, I wrote to him in 2010 and he kindly sent me links to his collection of photos. One or two more when I get them sorted.
Oily
Dipster:
Just a quick question, and no idea where it should be posted. But seeing all these Seddons made me wonder, did Seddon ever make a bus/coach chassis. If not, any idea why not?
They supplied a total of 1263 chassis between 1968 and 1982. Chassis names were Pennine 4, Pennine 7 and Pennine RU. Quite a few of these chassis were built as pantechnicons as opposed to buses/coaches. The most popular chassis - in terms of volume - with total sales of 527 was the Pennine 7. However, apart from 12 chassis, all of these were built for Eastern Scottish and Western SMT between 1974 and 1982.
jshepguis:
And what was the Australian Atkinson doing in Britain? Not much thought given to airflow there.Hi Spardo.
The Oz Atkinson is actually a UK Borderer chassis and got renovated with a " skippy" cab as the original was rotten and a cab was available so it is still around on the classic scene. It has been documented on here before but R Hansons did have an 8 wheeler tipper with the cab which was a one off from Atkinson, it had been shown at the Commercial Motor show at Earls Court one year, there are pictures of it around, this was badly damaged in an accident and was recabbed with a standard Atkinson cab.
Thank you, I have just noticed an interesting feature on the Beckett’s Atki. The radiator appears to be a Mk 2 plastic one but with a Mk 1 filler cap on top. The Mk 2s were normally topped up by means of a header tank on the back of the cab.
Dennis Javelin:
Dipster:
Just a quick question, and no idea where it should be posted. But seeing all these Seddons made me wonder, did Seddon ever make a bus/coach chassis. If not, any idea why not?They supplied a total of 1263 chassis between 1968 and 1980. Chassis names were Pennine 4, Pennine 7 and Pennine RU. Quite a few of these chassis were built as pantechnicons as opposed to buses/coaches.
An interesting aside re bus/lorry chassis was the first Albion 4 wheeler flat I drove with an LAD cab had an extremely long platform, much the same as the Octopus we had at Shaw’s at the time. When my brakes failed in Herefordshire one day they had trouble at Prails in finding the correct seal and the answer came that it was a bus chassis. The long rear overhang could make the steering very light in some circumstances.
OZ Atki from the Richard Evans collection with Evan’s quote “Early 80s International Atkinson 3800 from Sydney it runs an 8V92 Detroit. The Atkinson 3800 series actually had fibreglass cabs and are known as the plastic Atkinsons”
Oily
Buzzer’s pic at the docks 1955ish Ford Prefects and Major tractors wonder where they were heading. I was the proud owner of a 1954 Ford Poplar in times gone by( 1957).
Oily
oiltreader:
Buzzer’s pic at the docks 1955ish Ford Prefects and Major tractors wonder where they were heading. I was the proud owner of a 1954 Ford Poplar in times gone by( 1957).
Oily
When I was selling cars with a mate though the newspaper ads while Bristol night trunking for Stirlands, the Prefects and Populars along with Moggie Minors were our ‘bread and butter’ sales. When posher things came into our hands like my superb Super Snipe automatic, we kept them for ourselves.
oiltreader:
Buzzer’s pic at the docks 1955ish Ford Prefects and Major tractors wonder where they were heading. I was the proud owner of a 1954 Ford Poplar in times gone by( 1957).
Oily
A chap who was in the same caravan club as myself earned money delivering new Rootes Group cars from Coventry to the London docks for export. This was when he was demobbed following WW2 service and wanted to train as a school teacher and the money was good for car delivering but dangerous. The cars were mainly LHD and they were expected to do two runs daily to the docks and find their own way back to Coventry to collect the next vehicle and they had to drive them ‘flat out’ and risk overtaking slower vehicles on the A5 etc as they had no vision of what was coming the other way. He said that fatilities were not unusual. Back then there was a several year waiting list for a new car in Britain as most of the production was exported to help the economy following the war. He is in his late 90’s now so survived WW2, car delivering and teaching intact!
Pete.
oiltreader:
Thanks to VALKYRIE for all the detailed info, brilliantTwo variations of OZ Atkinsons from Evan Richards, I wrote to him in 2010 and he kindly sent me links to his collection of photos. One or two more when I get them sorted.
Oily
That Atkinson with the single piece windscreen is of the type that were International Harvester back in the 60’s and 70’s, known as Acco’s. I drove an eight wheeled one with a joey box. Loads of fun. The boss let me borrow it when we moved house. Our little bit of stuff looked pretty pathetic stuck up at the headboard.
