Froggy55:
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A Renault tipper of the 1910s. No useless comment, the pictures says enough about the job in those days!
No chance of a puncture with these tyres… open-air cab… tough lads.
Tough lads indeed.
When I think of what our ancestors, relatively recent and ancient, achieved with the limited means available during their lives I sometimes wonder if our generation could match them. I am thinking of buildings (cathedrals etc), farming, industry-indeed so many (all?) areas.
All those tasks involved much more workers than they do today, and productivity was much lower. Time was not a problem either. Nevertheless, talking of farming for example, cleaning the ground and removing stumps must have been harssing jobs! When I started driving trucks 43 years ago, fertilisers were still delivered in some farms in 50 kg plastic sacks we had to take on our shoulder. Palettes and telescopic elevators were certainly welcome!
Froggy55:
All those tasks involved much more workers than they do today, and productivity was much lower. Time was not a problem either. Nevertheless, talking of farming for example, cleaning the ground and removing stumps must have been harssing jobs! When I started driving trucks 43 years ago, fertilisers were still delivered in some farms in 50 kg plastic sacks we had to take on our shoulder. Palettes and telescopic elevators were certainly welcome!
Indeed an as a 14 year old I used to work after school bagging up and carrying hundredweight (112 pound/50.9 kilos) sacks of coal for pocket money. I understand sacks are rarely more than 25 kilos now. Apparently carrying weight was bad for us.
A few years ago I was on the dockside at Manaus in Brazil and was watching skinny 16/17 year olds carrying 70 kilos piles of 10 kilo sacks on their backs up narrow gang planks on to vessels. It was very hot and humid (Manaus is in the Amazon). I watched some sadistic driver put 80 kilos on one lad he had apparently taken a dislike to. The lad managed a few steps before crumbling, poor sod.
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A few years ago I was on the dockside at Manaus in Brazil and was watching skinny 16/17 year olds carrying 70 kilos piles of 10 kilo sacks on their backs up narrow gang planks on to vessels. It was very hot and humid (Manaus is in the Amazon). I watched some sadistic driver put 80 kilos on one lad he had apparently taken a dislike to. The lad managed a few steps before crumbling, poor sod.
That’s probably how GMO ingredients intended for crap processed food, or maybe even “fair trading” products, for Europe are loaded in Brazil and Africa.
I had a toy Berliet exactly the same as this when I was a very young child-is this a TLM?
I remember being impressed that it had proper dual wheels on the drive and trailer axles lol
I never saw this scale model before but, yes, it is almost certainly a TLM. The cab is rather well featured! Just a pity that unrealistic wheels, as so often, somewhat ruin its look.
This is a good scale model of a Berliet GBO 15 rescue truck used by the firemen of Versailles, fitted with its proper wheels. Unfortunately, I never drove such a truck, and have to do with the model.
Froggy55:
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This is a good scale model of a Berliet GBO 15 rescue truck used by the firemen of Versailles, fitted with its proper wheels. Unfortunately, I never drove such a truck, and have to do with the model.
That looks great! On the odd occasion I build 1/24 scale models as commissions for friends and family etc-that Berliet fire engine looks like it’s been hand made-excellent model!!
