Merci Monsieur!
This bonneted cab was initially devoloped by Fiat for the Italian home market, but unsuccessful. Then introduced in France.
This month is the 50th anniversary of the completing of Paris’ Périphérique (inner ring road). An interesting video here, with a few trucks.
youtube.com/watch?v=rGNEqHjouJI
Froggy55:
Merci Monsieur!This bonneted cab was initially devoloped by Fiat for the Italian home market, but unsuccessful. Then introduced in France.
This month is the 50th anniversary of the completing of Paris’ Périphérique (inner ring road). An interesting video here, with a few trucks.
youtube.com/watch?v=rGNEqHjouJI
Froggy, You might have mentioned the appearance of Leon Zitrone (the man introducing the video). He was part of French cultural history!
ERF-Continental:
Here the cover of the book with subjects as heavy haulage, cranes, perkins and a variety of represented cars and truck.
Very interesting, I’ll see if I can get my hands on a copy!
Cheers for the info 
Froggy55:
Merci Monsieur!This bonneted cab was initially devoloped by Fiat for the Italian home market, but unsuccessful. Then introduced in France.
This month is the 50th anniversary of the completing of Paris’ Périphérique (inner ring road). An interesting video here, with a few trucks.
youtube.com/watch?v=rGNEqHjouJI
Most interesting clip Paul, merci!
I think my first experience of driving on the Périphérique was when I was a Whippersnapper (not a word Senior!), I was watching a heated argument between a BX driver and (I think) a Renault 5 driver, the latter being the one that had a “touché” with the BX. Both drivers got out in the middle of the lane, and after a lot of shouting, shoulders were slapped, hands were shaken, and off they went again…
pv83:
ERF-Continental:
Here the cover of the book with subjects as heavy haulage, cranes, perkins and a variety of represented cars and truck.Very interesting, I’ll see if I can get my hands on a copy!
Cheers for the info
Publisher and contact is Wim van Loon…he is most attentive!
pv83:
ERF-Continental:
Here the cover of the book with subjects as heavy haulage, cranes, perkins and a variety of represented cars and truck.Very interesting, I’ll see if I can get my hands on a copy!
Cheers for the info
I now recall that Holtrop (Huib Holtrop was in the same school as I was) had some articles on heavy transport with their first FTF’s and Hulo’s
later absorbed in van der Vlist-Holtrop
Dipster:
Froggy55:
Merci Monsieur!This bonneted cab was initially devoloped by Fiat for the Italian home market, but unsuccessful. Then introduced in France.
This month is the 50th anniversary of the completing of Paris’ Périphérique (inner ring road). An interesting video here, with a few trucks.
youtube.com/watch?v=rGNEqHjouJIFroggy, You might have mentioned the appearance of Leon Zitrone (the man introducing the video). He was part of French cultural history!
Indeed! A friend of mine, now retired, who was a railway inspector on the Paris to Marseille line which Zitrone often travelled on, told me that he never washed and ate like a pig, scattering crumbles and other food remains all over the place.
pv83:
Froggy55:
Merci Monsieur!This bonneted cab was initially devoloped by Fiat for the Italian home market, but unsuccessful. Then introduced in France.
This month is the 50th anniversary of the completing of Paris’ Périphérique (inner ring road). An interesting video here, with a few trucks.
youtube.com/watch?v=rGNEqHjouJIMost interesting clip Paul, merci!
I think my first experience of driving on the Périphérique was when I was a Whippersnapper (not a word Senior!), I was watching a heated argument between a BX driver and (I think) a Renault 5 driver, the latter being the one that had a “touché” with the BX. Both drivers got out in the middle of the lane, and after a lot of shouting, shoulders were slapped, hands were shaken, and off they went again…
Whet I was a child in Paris (early '60s), such disagreements often ended in a kickboxing match; and sometimes even started like that, before the very first word.
pv83:
Meanwhile in Senegal…
Probably the first time I see an Unic working as a slave in Africa. They preferred the Berliets, which were known to more reliable and efficient on rough roads.
Froggy55:
Dipster:
Froggy55:
Merci Monsieur!This bonneted cab was initially devoloped by Fiat for the Italian home market, but unsuccessful. Then introduced in France.
This month is the 50th anniversary of the completing of Paris’ Périphérique (inner ring road). An interesting video here, with a few trucks.
youtube.com/watch?v=rGNEqHjouJIFroggy, You might have mentioned the appearance of Leon Zitrone (the man introducing the video). He was part of French cultural history!
Indeed! A friend of mine, now retired, who was a railway inspector on the Paris to Marseille line which Zitrone often travelled on, told me that he never washed and ate like a pig, scattering crumbles and other food remains all over the place.
To paraphrase a man who is part of British cultural heritage “not a lot of French people know that”… And many who followed the “tierce” would not have seen a problem!
Fergie47:
No theme, just some old black and white random pics…
1 Panhard
2 Delahaye
3 ALM
6 Berliet GDR 7
7 Saviem JL 20 V
8 Hanomag
9 Südwerke (Krupp)
Fergie47:
Old village scene…going by the reg number its in the Alpes-de-haute-Provence region
Indeed, and probably a sheep van (moutonnière).
Froggy55:
Fergie47:
No theme, just some old black and white random pics…1 Panhard
2 Delahaye
3 ALM
6 Berliet GDR 7
7 Saviem JL 20 V
8 Hanomag
9 Südwerke (Krupp)
Cheers Froggy… That Saviem JL, what a pretty wagon for the 1960’s, when i think what we had in those same years, they were miles a part…wish I’d been born in France, I could see me driving that…
Fergie47:
Froggy55:
Fergie47:
No theme, just some old black and white random pics…1 Panhard
2 Delahaye
3 ALM
6 Berliet GDR 7
7 Saviem JL 20 V
8 Hanomag
9 Südwerke (Krupp)Cheers Froggy… That Saviem JL, what a pretty wagon for the 1960’s, when i think what we had in those same years, they were miles a part…wish I’d been born in France, I could see me driving that…
Well, the main difference was that 6-wheelers were, and still are, plated at 26 tonnes in France since 1945, when yours had to do with 18 tons.
