Hej , Stellan, a friend of mine sent me a photo of the Evensen garage when he went to Norway last year, have you seen the dvd of Evevnsen’s going to the gulf? it is very good although in Norwegian but who wants to listen when there are trucks to look at ?
here is on in a remembering drive to the "petsamo rally(untill the midle of 40,s finland had a harbor in petsamo up in the arctic sea,and it was used even of the swedich,and swedish motors run in finland hauling cargo from there) will remember this is 1934 model 
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LB76:
Hej , Stellan, a friend of mine sent me a photo of the Evensen garage when he went to Norway last year, have you seen the dvd of Evevnsen’s going to the gulf? it is very good although in Norwegian but who wants to listen when there are trucks to look at ?
I´ve not seen the dvd, but I have the book about those trips
/Stellan
bma.finland:
LB76:
0very very nice pic,s lb hope you have meny meny more
memorying on morning ferry
bma, congratulations, that drawing encapsulates totally how we all probably felt as small boys!! It is superb, remember, you can take the man out of the lorry, but never ever take the lorry out of the man!!! Thank you, Cheerio for now.
That was a strange looking trailer, is it some kind of special vehicle for Ro-Ro traffic? It looks a bit short to have “normal” length, or is it a container? I would appreciate if you had any more information about it, it reminds me of road/rail traffic the Swedish state railways tried out at the time LB76 were used. Here´s a photo from a Swedish colleague
Could it be a riddle in the right lower corner of the Road ferry “container”… what´s the square root of 14334-9? 
/Stellan
I think Stellan that is the carriers licence number for Belgium, i dont think it is anything to do with mathematics mate.
LB76:
I think Stellan that is the carriers licence number for Belgium, i dont think it is anything to do with mathematics mate.
Bang on the money there Bill, the Belgies always had those numbers marked on the sides of their motors, I think the V prefix denotes international, which is plausible if you think about the Flemish language
Here you have a real Scania-Vabis fleet. Owner Göran Nyholm Korsholm Finland.
This picture is from last summer.
Thanks Jontii nice trucks.
One thing I remember about the LB76 is that there wasn’t many of them about, even in the early 70s, as well as all the older British stuff, I remember seeing lots of 80s and 110s and of course 86s and 88s, but the LB76 was quite a rare sight, I know they never sold in great numbers, but it still strikes me as rather odd, was this a case of Scania buying them all back and shipping them out so that the newer 80s and 110s could sell better, or was I going around with my eyes closed 
The 2600 Daf was the same, never saw many of them around either 
newmercman:
One thing I remember about the LB76 is that there wasn’t many of them about, even in the early 70s, as well as all the older British stuff, I remember seeing lots of 80s and 110s and of course 86s and 88s, but the LB76 was quite a rare sight, I know they never sold in great numbers, but it still strikes me as rather odd, was this a case of Scania buying them all back and shipping them out so that the newer 80s and 110s could sell better, or was I going around with my eyes closedThe 2600 Daf was the same, never saw many of them around either
It was just a steady build up as far as Scania were concerned,you’ve got to remember that the old established British haulier was very wary of anything completely new and ,of course,the major British manufactures still had a firm hold in the 60’s so it was a difficult job for the foreign imports to make inroads especially when they had to create a completely new( and unproven) dealer network from scratch ! Cheers Dennis.
Yes it was strange to get “pulled” one night in birmingham and i though i was in for it (a tad over my hours) and all the copper wanted to do was look at the lorry - yes of course officer help your self do you want to look in the cab ? turned out he had never seen one before!
I hear what you’re saying Dennis, but they sold a few thousand of them, which IIRC was similar to the number of Atki Borderer’s sold, yet you never used to see many on the road, a very rare beast indeed
newmercman:
I hear what you’re saying Dennis, but they sold a few thousand of them, which IIRC was similar to the number of Atki Borderer’s sold, yet you never used to see many on the road, a very rare beast indeed
Well were did they all go and who mainly ran them NMM ? I can never recall seeing many LB76’s up and down the road,have you got the actual numbers that entered the UK ? Interesting though,to say the least Cheers Dennis.