Evening all,
Well Robert, you may think that you would like a 9509 behind that lazy sounding, (but just like a straight 8 Gardner), very quick across the ground MAN V8, but the Saviem Dealer would rather you have the 10 speed GV350 synchromesh box, (quite a quick change, as good as the Volvo SR boxes, and a splitter), but that 12 speed…well actually its a Saint Nazaire built 13 speed Fuller…and didn’t it make those old girls into "Can Can Dancers…Crazy Horse, here I come!!! Now that`s the one you would have liked…and that Euro Cab…introduced in the 60s, and still good to go in the 80s, (and beyond as the F90 MAN cab), a real comfortable workplace to enjoy the view from!
Anorak, the last one of Fergies pictures is the actual lorry, the other two are a really well built model, obviously a talented builder, and it must have been scratch built. Beautifully balanced design, and back in 62, including Dunlop Discs and suspension......not forgetting the Gardner Licence built engine.........but Charbonneauxs beautiful “Television cab”, built by Pelpel, and such a spacious interior, and so quiet, Auto Express Moderne had several, on 4x2, and 6x4 Tractors, as well as his earlier more curvaceous design. Rene Bastier was always searching for a safe stable vehicle for his hanging meat loads, and that 8x4, unsuccessful as it was in gaining Government acceptance, was not the only Bernard in his fleet with Air suspension…But Groupe Picoty, AEMs eventual owner, had some fairly spectacular Saviems as well…but the real “show stoppers” were Bastiers much earlier Somua integral fridges, on 26 tonne 6x2 chassis, some with single tyred bogies, and sand dispensers infront of the drive axle!
Very interesting operator indeed,
Cheerio for now.
