Maybe Mr Jarman would lend it to me for a bit, I could do a couple of trips and get it all messy for him, it’s a win win really, I could earn a few quid doing a LDD, as well as making it look better, it would also add to the value of the motor as it would then be authentic Astran and it’s bloody freezing up here now and I could do with a bit of nice weather 
Either that or I’ll pop down and cancel a few weeks with Gavin 
I think the photo of this mighty Swedish TIR equipage show a Lorry with the old number plate as is N1240 which mean the Lorry and trailer had their home anywhere in the county of Halland. These old plates was changed Mars 7 1973 so this truck perhaps was relatively new during the beginning of the seventies. The 140 models come out 1969.
The new system was a back step because we no longer get to know from which county the Lorry come from. It was a joy when our family was on the road and we children use to write down the letter. My county Västerbotten had AC and Norrbotten/Lappland BD. Today all Lorries is anonymous whish is boring.
Lars-Gunnar 
I could not agree more Lars-Gunnar , we had a system in the UK where most counties had a unique set of letters ,but now they have changed it and you must learn all the code again!
Our plates is as this FNA 004 or SIL 129 and so on. How will we learn this when all cars and Lorries had 3 different signs and 3 different numerals as was made with running a computer as had millions of combinations. I don’t have a computer-head. 
If I look at FNA 004 it is totally anonymous. I can´tell if it the Lorry is from Stockholm or Malmö or Sundsvall.
I’m talking about how we had it in Sweden not in England.
Lars-Gunnar
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anorak:
Why were they fitted? They seemed popular in Italy and Switzerland. I can only think that it made replacement of the tyre and tube easier on the road, with no (in theory) need for levers/hammers. I wonder if they were appreciated by the fitters who worked on this tipper?0
To your point Anorak on Switzerland’s love for Trilex:
Until well into the eighties, the Swiss had a net width restriction at 2.30m instead of the modern 2.55 spec (or even 2.60 for reefers) nowadays. This to accomodate the often narrow roads up in the hills out here. Swiss-spec trilex rims were designed so as to allow this reduced axle weight.
Hence some oddities such as Volvo’s specific Swiss model CH230, essentially an F88/F89 with narrower-than-usual mudguards, I believe the cab was actually the standard European model.
Here is a nice one olafs-fotoseite.de/0509192.html
Cheers
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probably a predesessor to this
LB76:
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I Think the Sties 141 is ex Europe Flyer, it was damaged in a fire when Europe Flyer owned it and then refurbed into Sties livery .
I found these pics on the net, i will gladly remove if i have offended anyone who owns pics
This Swedish 140 looks a bit different
philberg182:
This Swedish 140 looks a bit different
photochop?
harry:
philberg182:
This Swedish 140 looks a bit different
photochop?
Not at all,this type of truck is still used in Scandinavia today…
…it allows it to pull a 13.6m trailer and have space behind the cab for extra pallets.
It is also common in Sweden to see a six or eight wheel rigid with a hydraulic 5th wheel that comes up from within the chassis,it is then able to be used as a tractor unit or to carry a 20’ container and a trailer behind on a dolly.
A word I have heard such truck is called is “Droms” Martin Pippard has a page about these unused Lorry’s because they is not common. I lived in the North of Sweden and have not seen any. Perhaps they run between Stockholm and Malmö
Lars-Gunnar
