Henschel powered Saviem JL20.
Fergie47:
Random… this time in black and white
You are on a roll Fergie47. Quite a selection of pictures.
Had a discussion with PV83 the othe day about heavy tractors, how some look the part while others don’t.
The 2 Willemes looks perfect, everything is right, well balanced, clean lines, the epitome of a good looking heavy haulage wagon.
Whilst the Ford/Renault cabbed one…doesn’t…
I wonder if the UK had done this the railways would have been more popular, taking the rail car to the customer instead of off loading on to a wagon, then off loading the wagon at the customers premises…
Fergie47:
Here’s 10 photos of rather unusual / strange / modified, in one way or another, looking vehicles…
Pic 3: I saw similar vehicles used at Moscow airport back in the 90s for clearing snow and ice from the runways. Those I saw had the jet outlet pointing sideways. The airport staff ran several on the runway at once in a pattern not dissimilar to farmers running combines across fields at harvest time. A very impressive sight,
Fergie47:
I wonder if the UK had done this the railways would have been more popular, taking the rail car to the customer instead of off loading on to a wagon, then off loading the wagon at the customers premises…
Hi Dave,
I hope you and Liz are keeping well ? Must arrange a meet up don’t know where the time goes ! Shame there was no Locomotion this year.
Great pics as usual, here’s the Italian version.
Kind Regards
Richard
The third one down the column Fergie. That green motor sporting what appears to be some species of flame thrower mounted above the cab……That wouldn’t be the one that’s currently out looking for me by any remote chance would it ? 
. Or am I to assume that all has been forgiven ?
It’s just that it gets a bit lonely out here in the Gobi desert, what with constantly having to look over one’s shoulder whilst trying to cook one’s dinner of chicken giblets with black tripe over a smouldering camp fire of camel dung.
Regards. Edouard Le philistine.
Oh!, just one more thing before I get stuck into my gourmet supper followed by fermented yak’s milk.
The black and white shot you posted depicting the peniche tug posing beside the écluse ?….well that one was taken in Le Guétin, How about that for a coincidence ?
Check it out on street view………oh! wait……I suspect you probably have.
Keep well Fergie. Regards. Edouard le Philistine.
Fergie47:
Nostalgic old pic…Possibly a tug for towing canal boats through the locks ?
Indeed a Latil barge tower.
MaggieD:
Fergie47:
I wonder if the UK had done this the railways would have been more popular, taking the rail car to the customer instead of off loading on to a wagon, then off loading the wagon at the customers premises…Hi Dave,
I hope you and Liz are keeping well ? Must arrange a meet up don’t know where the time goes ! Shame there was no Locomotion this year.
Great pics as usual, here’s the Italian version.
Kind Regards
Richard
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That used to be done all over Europe until two decades ago. In Bourges, there was a Berliet TLM 45 tractor in the goods yard of the railway station devoted to that work.
Eddie Heaton:
The third one down the column Fergie. That green motor sporting what appears to be some species of flame thrower mounted above the cab……That wouldn’t be the one that’s currently out looking for me by any remote chance would it ?It’s just that it gets a bit lonely out here in the Gobi desert, what with constantly having to look over one’s shoulder whilst trying to cook one’s dinner of chicken giblets with black tripe over a smouldering camp fire of camel dung.
Regards. Edouard Le philistine.
Hi Eddie,
Nice to read you again! I’ bet that devilish thing was used as an airport defroster in some ex-Soviet country.
Fergie47:
Mix of old black and white pics.
A most interesting batch there!
1- Latil H2
2- Volvo (?)
3- Somua JL 17
4- Alfa-Romeo
5- Latil
6- Magirus-Deutz
7- Belgian Miesse, usually powered by Gardner engines. Built until c. 1970
10- This Citroën U55 T, with its 100 bhp (either petrol or diesel) engine would have been totally unable to move such a semi-trailer if full! It was used by the Fruehauf factory to move them from one site to another during their manufacturing.
Two mighty bonneted Willèmes of c. 1950. Left a R 15 powered by a 13.5 litre straight-6 delivering 150 bhp at 1600 rpm. Right, a R 15-8 with the 8-cylinder version of the same engine (18.05 litres) and an output of 225 bhp.
Froggy55:
0Turkish ad’ for Bernard trucks in the 1950s.
Blimey that address is in the middle of Istanbul. You wouldn’t be allowed to take a lorry that size down there now!