Nice one Froggy…so apart from vegetables, fishing, and lots of transport companies, Brittany made some beautiful cabs…That motor would have been something else in its day, what a cab…
OldishJoda:
Don’t get your coat yet… I love all these photo’s they remind me of my first trips to France and Italy in a Thames Trader when I was 15 travelling with my pal Don. Great memories, good drivers, and beautiful countryside…
Regards
Me
Well Joda…that was some trip for a lad of 15, in some motor too…a Trader…maybe a little write up of that trip would be interesting…did you stay in hotels en-route…how long did it take, what load, etc etc…any photo’s ?..bet that’s something that youve never ever forgotten…
robert1952:
@ Professors Frog & Fergie et al: the flow of amazing pictures has continued unabated in recent weeks. It’s all very enjoyable. Cheers, Robert
Thanks Robert…however, I’m just the humble student compared to the likes of the “professors”
and think that Prof Frog should be included in the academy of “those that know”… after all, he found that info PDQ…
It’s the day or never for frogs. It has been drizzling non-stop since yesterday morning here!
Thanks again for the compliments, but I can unfortunately just put online what I find otherwhere. I used to take pictures when I lived in London in the early 70s, but never thought the passing-by trucks would later become a matter of interest. In fact, I just wasn’t aware I would be 60 one day!
Fergie47:
None of the tyre fitters I ever knew looked like this…
Have you any more pictures like that Fergie? There …err for my mate!!
Hi Pete
Hope you are well, don’t be fooled by this picture, it looks like Fergie’s old friend Yvette from the Creperie that he took me to last time I was there,and she doesn’t have a spare tyre but puts Fergie’s pressure up
Regards
Richard
Richard…Yvette’s mum still asks after you…
Hi Dave,
Here’s a pic of Yvette’s mum,just to keep Pete happy
Alright then, just one more girlie pic, especially for Pierre…it’s famous, so if he hasn’t seen it before he’s been living on a different planet to the rest of us…just hope he doesn’t have a cardiac arrest…I’m not giving him the kiss of life, maybe Mrs Smith wont either…
Sometimes we see things here which spark interest but we don’t share them. A remark on another thread about not sharing has made me revert.
A truck called TonTon. Saviem said, casually that it meant uncle and explained why it was so called. My schoolboy French had only embraced ‘Oncle’ - la plume de ma tante…etc.
I suddenly thought of TonTon macoute. The name remembered from years ago, but vaguely and for what reason! When I googled it I was fascinated to find that during Papa Doc Douvalier’s reign on Haiti that was the name of his secret police.
The reason for this being that TonTon meant Uncle and Macoute meant Gunnysack. Apparently the thing to scare your children had always been to tell them that ‘tonton Macoute’ will come for you - in other words, you’ll be put in a sack and taken away! Certainly would have worked with me.
So, they were named after Uncle Gunnysack - and if the ‘TonTon Macoute’ were coming for you…
Fergie47:
Alright then, just one more girlie pic, especially for Pierre…it’s famous, so if he hasn’t seen it before he’s been living on a different planet to the rest of us…just hope he doesn’t have a cardiac arrest…I’m not giving him the kiss of life, maybe Mrs Smith wont either…
Thank You for the pics Fergie, I can assure you that I could give all those ladies the best 20 seconds they have ever had
Nice pic of the Express Maree ‘porteur’ on the previous page. The company is still in existence and while the trucks have changed considerably (now running Scanias) the drivers still look as surly as ever!
Craig 111:
Nice pic of the Express Maree ‘porteur’ on the previous page. The company is still in existence and while the trucks have changed considerably (now running Scanias) the drivers still look as surly as ever!
Dunno about surly, looks more like they’re freezing their nuts off…either just before getting in the wagon cause it’s cold, or just after they’ve got out of it cause the heaters broken… …
oiltreader:
Berlet during M25 construction, thanks to John Wakely.
Oily
Interesting lorry for the UK… No registration plate, and by the state of it, I’d guess it was just used “off road”…it’d be nice to know a bit more about it…
oiltreader:
Berlet during M25 construction, thanks to John Wakely.
Oily
These two trucks remains a mystery! I think I first saw the pictures on BLB, and then started an inquiry about it among my French friends. Definitely a RHD Berliet GBH 260, but it appears they were never produced, neither in Vénissieux, neither in their Nigerian factory.
I never found any information about a Robson Company operating trucks. Considering they’re certainly operating “off-road”, with no plates, thay could have been brought back from some left-hand driving country, but which? Any information welcomed!
oiltreader:
Berlet during M25 construction, thanks to John Wakely.
Oily
These two trucks remains a mystery! I think I first saw the pictures on BLB, and then started an inquiry about it among my French friends. Definitely a RHD Berliet GBH 260, but it appears they were never produced, neither in Vénissieux, neither in their Nigerian factory.
I never found any information about a Robson Company operating trucks. Considering they’re certainly operating “off-road”, with no plates, thay could have been brought back from some left-hand driving country, but which? Any information welcomed!
Driver in the first Berliet photo, also a mention from John Wakely that the wagon was one of a number operated by Dobsons. No other info.
Oily
Here’s a LHD 1972 Berliet GBH 12, very similar to Dobson’s. The front hubs show that it’s probably slightly older. It was sent to Nigeria c. 2000 together with another one I posted on the Berliet Thread. Concerning the Dobson RHD one, Does Mr Wakeley know that driver? Maybe he could be some help.
I watched this team ploughing for a while, it was fascinating!! The skill of the driver! he had the horses walking backwards
as he lined them up for the next furrow. This is the first time I’ve seen this, although Im sure the “sons of the soil” will
not be suprised by this.
kevmac47:
I watched this team ploughing for a while, it was fascinating!! The skill of the driver! he had the horses walking backwards
as he lined them up for the next furrow. This is the first time I’ve seen this, although Im sure the “sons of the soil” will
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Poetry, with two h. p. … two exceptional h.p. at that…
