What a nice job you made of that Atki.
altitude:
What a nice job you made of that Atki.
Thank you - my speciality was making the tea for the blokes who knew what they were doing 
It took us 7 years, working on-and-off on Sundays - an hour at the start to clear a space in the workshop, unsheet the wagon, find a motor to shunt it round to the garage and then reverse the whole process at the end of the day. We were quite relieved to get it finished!
240 Gardner:
altitude:
What a nice job you made of that Atki.Thank you - my speciality was making the tea for the blokes who knew what they were doing
It took us 7 years, working on-and-off on Sundays - an hour at the start to clear a space in the workshop, unsheet the wagon, find a motor to shunt it round to the garage and then reverse the whole process at the end of the day. We were quite relieved to get it finished!
Well worth the effort she’s a credit to all that worked on her, the paint job really looks the business.
240 Gardner:
altitude:
What a nice job you made of that Atki.Thank you - my speciality was making the tea for the blokes who knew what they were doing
It took us 7 years, working on-and-off on Sundays - an hour at the start to clear a space in the workshop, unsheet the wagon, find a motor to shunt it round to the garage and then reverse the whole process at the end of the day. We were quite relieved to get it finished!
Well worth the effort she’s a credit to all that worked on her, the paint job really looks the business.
dont know if this is of any interest but its in reverse
this is how this atki was
and this is how it is now (well of a couple of years ago)
as far as i know, it still sits there, looking sad and lonely 
That would make a great project for someone, she’s in a bad way there! I like the use of the wheel to reach the cab.
Chopsticks:
That would make a great project for someone, she’s in a bad way there! I like the use of the wheel to reach the cab.
sadly the guy who has it is one who has dozens of ‘projects’ and wont sell anything thinking they will have time to do something with it one day, sadly it (and many others he has) i think are going to literally rot into the ground 
altitude:
240 Gardner:
altitude:
What a nice job you made of that Atki.Thank you - my speciality was making the tea for the blokes who knew what they were doing
It took us 7 years, working on-and-off on Sundays - an hour at the start to clear a space in the workshop, unsheet the wagon, find a motor to shunt it round to the garage and then reverse the whole process at the end of the day. We were quite relieved to get it finished!
Well worth the effort she’s a credit to all that worked on her, the paint job really looks the business.
Ah, the paint job was professional - that bit just has to be right! Mind you, it was delayed a couple of years as we had to spend the paint money on an engine rebuild - it dropped a chunk of liner into the sump not long after we got it on the road. That’s when we learned that 12 litre ■■■■■■■ bits were hard to come by and a LOT more expensive than for the 14 litre
Well worth the wait for a job like that, looks great in a photo so she must be stunning in real life.
altitude:
Well worth the wait for a job like that, looks great in a photo so she must be stunning in real life.
yep, and it’s a lovely easy motor to drive too.
Anyway, here’s another:
The grotty offside rear of a ‘Viewline’ cab, taken in 1987:
The same view a few days later - there’s not a lot left, is there? Most of it was swept up into a bag…
And then again early in 1991:
A front view this time, the day after it came out of the paint shop in August 1991:
Now with some “patina” and about 18 tons of concrete blocks, seen at Kirkby Lonsdale around 1994:
And finally, here’s what that good ol’ offside rear view looked like last month!!
Yeah very nice again, a lot of work there mate but what a result.
altitude:
Yeah very nice again, a lot of work there mate but what a result.
I loved it to bits - the sort of motor you could just jump into and drive the length of the country without a second thought. Sadly, I had to sell it in 2003, after 19 happy years’ ownership. Good to see it a pic of it on the link, though, taken only last month, and still wearing the paint I paid for in 1991!
I just don’t have the money, or space to do this, but there are hundreds of trucks sat in hauliers yards that will probably just get scrapped although they all have the intention of restoring them when they retire. Very Sad
A recent story about Arthur Shirley sending some old trucks to scrap or Peter Harrisons collection just gathering dust
A great way of preserving some history is on show at the National Motorcycle Museum or the Wheatcroft Collection where there are millions of pounds worth of machines on display for the next generation. The fire in 2003 devastated this collection but they did manage to save or rebuild many.
nationalmotorcyclemuseum.co.uk/museum/
My friends father has lent both museums some of his bikes as he is getting too old to care for them but still keeps an interest and his machine was destroyed in the fire, luckily he had enough spare parts in his garage to rebuild it.
I realise that the premises would be much more expensive to maintain and room would be a premium, but we need to preserve our heritage better. Van Den Bosch and De Rijke have an amazing collection of old timers in Holland. I worry ours are all going to china as squashed ingots or refurbished as bean cans. There are a few companies around who supply film companies with vehicles but a working museum like the National Railway Museum would be a money spinner and I for one would volunteer as staff
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