coomsey:
Stylish!
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Well, it is some kind of style, I’ll grant you that. 
coomsey:
Stylish!
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Is that a twin steer or a Chinese 6 ? 
Whatever it is, its fugly
Suedehead:
coomsey:
Stylish!
0Is that a twin steer or a Chinese 6 ?
Whatever it is, its fugly
According to an American forum I found it’s a Kenworth CFE with a Truco Dual-Tire Front Axle
Dennis Javelin:
Suedehead:
coomsey:
Stylish!
0Is that a twin steer or a Chinese 6 ?
Whatever it is, its fuglyAccording to an American forum I found it’s a Kenworth CFE with a Truco Dual-Tire Front Axle
I couldn’t fancy swapping the offside inside front (!!■■) on the side of the motorway . Mind you,toodling down the high st with your left arm resting out of the window might make it worth it. A head turner!!
coomsey:
Dennis Javelin:
Suedehead:
coomsey:
Stylish!
0Is that a twin steer or a Chinese 6 ?
Whatever it is, its fuglyAccording to an American forum I found it’s a Kenworth CFE with a Truco Dual-Tire Front Axle
I couldn’t fancy swapping the offside inside front (!!■■) on the side of the motorway . Mind you,toodling down the high st with your left arm resting out of the window might make it worth it. A head turner!!
More like a stomach turner to me 
Dennis Javelin:
Suedehead:
coomsey:
Stylish!
0Is that a twin steer or a Chinese 6 ?
Whatever it is, its fuglyAccording to an American forum I found it’s a Kenworth CFE with a Truco Dual-Tire Front Axle
Presumably a model that did not catch on. I have never seen such a contraption.
NMP. I think this American Corbitt truck is pretty high on the ugly list. The interesting thing is a company in North Carolina bought some with Gardner engines because the owner liked them but the drivers complained that they couldn’t keep them ‘wound up’.
remy:
0NMP. I think this American Corbitt truck is pretty high on the ugly list. The interesting thing is a company in North Carolina bought some with Gardner engines because the owner liked them but the drivers complained that they couldn’t keep them ‘wound up’.
I suppose this was an early answer to the aerofoil problem, that must have been pretty slippy with a van trailer, but as neither it and the other tall one you pictured, were sleeper cabs, perhaps not long distance motors. Trying to think when sleeper cabs became the norm in N. America, a long way sooner than in the UK, that’s for sure. Any date on that Corbitt Remy?
Spardo:
remy:
0NMP. I think this American Corbitt truck is pretty high on the ugly list. The interesting thing is a company in North Carolina bought some with Gardner engines because the owner liked them but the drivers complained that they couldn’t keep them ‘wound up’.
I suppose this was an early answer to the aerofoil problem, that must have been pretty slippy with a van trailer, but as neither it and the other tall one you pictured, were sleeper cabs, perhaps not long distance motors. Trying to think when sleeper cabs became the norm in N. America, a long way sooner than in the UK, that’s for sure. Any date on that Corbitt Remy?
From Google
hotcars.com/the-highboy-a-l … 600-truck/
The driver is sitting over the sleeper berth! 
Toasty !
Buzzer:
Buzzer
The Shap Granite 8 wheeler is interesting as I reckon I knew the driver who lived in Mint Street at the back of Shap road where I started as an O/D based at my parents home. This was in 1968 and the Shap Granite driver was called Jack Ridley and he wouldn’t have been far off retirement at this time. However the motor he was driving by this time was a dropside 6 wheeler LAD cabbed Dodge which IIRC had a Leyland engine. His regular loads were daily down into Lancashire with Kerbs , flags or concrete pipes . After he had parked up on the Mintsfeet trading estate late afternoon he’d walk home round the street and past where sometimes I was parked and if I was about he would stop for a bit craic and was always interested in what I was " up to" 
But I’d hazzard a guess that he would have been the Driver of that Foden as They only ran an odd motor using contractors for most of their products.
PS They ran and 8 wheel tipper shuttling between the Pink quarry and the plant and it was driven by the Landlord of the Greyhound pub in Shap
village and for a number of years Derek the driver used to bring it down to the MOT station next to our depot and it was always loaded with 10ton or so of blue granite chippings which he tipped in our yard so I asked him one night when we were in the Greyhound with some of the friends we had in Shap if he would bring a load of “pink” this next time which was about 4 times expensive than the Blus ! Leave it to me Derek said and sure enough the next visit to the MOT he brought about 10 ton of beautiful Shap Fell pink granite which I used most of it on the garden paths around our bungalow ! Derek always said I don’t mind coming down the Fell loaded but I’m blowed if I’m gonna drag it back up the Fell ! Derek thought it was great that he could get the 8 wheeler tested then tip the load next door in our depot ! Cheers Dennis.
Franglais:
Spardo:
remy:
0NMP. I think this American Corbitt truck is pretty high on the ugly list. The interesting thing is a company in North Carolina bought some with Gardner engines because the owner liked them but the drivers complained that they couldn’t keep them ‘wound up’.
I suppose this was an early answer to the aerofoil problem, that must have been pretty slippy with a van trailer, but as neither it and the other tall one you pictured, were sleeper cabs, perhaps not long distance motors. Trying to think when sleeper cabs became the norm in N. America, a long way sooner than in the UK, that’s for sure. Any date on that Corbitt Remy?
From Google
hotcars.com/the-highboy-a-l … 600-truck/
The driver is sitting over the sleeper berth!Toasty !
Reckon I’d stay with my rabbit hutch Atki, or even the F86 with a plank across behind the seats.
Thanks to servo88, Buzzer, Star down under, mushroomman, coomsey, remy, and Suedehead for the photos also Franglais for the link
Oily
Magirus Deutz and Tatra, credit to Dave Fawcett.
A bright Sunday morning outside of Florette fruit & vegetable packing at Martland Park, Wigan.
Three artic fridge lorries are from Murcia Province in South East Spain. The 2 pictures of the DAF
lorry artic of the " Argencia Segura " fleet, show it parked on the wide footpath, but is is an
area where there are hardly any pedestrians, there are some dog walkers occasionally.
The MiraTrans lorry is ready to unload at the shaded side of the factory.
Ray Smyth.
