Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 2)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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How did those pockets of hops not fall off, Buzzer

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I’m guessing that the 3rd and 4th layers down are roped individual directly to the back of the trailer. I think I can see the central ropes.

A clever trick how they hold them in place while the ropes are placed and tightened though.

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What’s a TAM when it’s at home?

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(Photo by Alain Mugica)

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I’d think more than twice before I hit the brakes hard. What sort of coupling is it and what’s the lorry?

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TAM = Tovarna Automobilov Maribor. They were Czech Pragas made in Yugoslavia under licence. :wink:

There is a (probably apocriphal) tale about a Yugoslavian traffic cop admonishing a Brit driver who wasn’t transiting Yugo using the nominated entry and exit borders as he should, with the memorable line: ‘If you Yugo, you go Yugo all the way!’

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Bale hooks. A piece of round steel bar about 1 ft long with both ends bent at 90 degrees and sharpened to a point. Common practice when loading bales of wool, rags, etc

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Same to you too :wink:

Silly quips aside, that’s the answer.

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1149

I’m guessing Bedford.
A trick with wool bales was a length of barbed wire on each bale.

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Ta. So what is/ was a Praga?

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I used to live nearby (Huddersfield), I wouldn’t class Bradistan as anything like any other city/town. I don’t know if it still holds the title but at one time it was the “uninsured driver’s capital of the UK”, not so much of a worry if you’re in a works truck, but a real concern if you’re in your own car.

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A truck built in Prague by the Czech manufacturer, Praga.

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Folloowed this in Bristol last week
Ade

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Very nice, but wasted, being, according to the greased 5th wheel, normally hidden by a trailer.
Or was it, loads normally low and long? :thinking:

Now, somebody tell us what the lorry pictured is. :smile:

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2021 Scania S650, apparently.

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No, the lorry pictured behind the sailing ship on the back of the cab. :rofl:

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It’s a bus, you old fool. Put yer glasses on! :grin:

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Bloody hell you’re right, what I thought was the cab is picked out a bit darker and what I now see as the double deck I thought was a row of buildings behind it. :rofl:

So what is the bus, Bristol? AEC? Surely not a famous Crossley.? :rofl:

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All that mural on trucks sh does not do a lot for me tbh.
Some that you see look ok, in a less is more context, but a lot go just too far with it all to the point of crossing the taste border to be left with a garish display of embarrasing bad taste.

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I put my inspectacles on and I think it’s a Lodekka. Then again the pic is too small, even if you blow it up (the photo that is, not the bus or the Scania).

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Does nothing for me neither, but to each their own. I suppose.