nice things those ,love to get a drive,bouht are better 
bma
Evening all, well were back, that is me, my John Deere, Wilson plant trailer, and my LB76 sleeper, 1967, 4x2, ex Transports Brucy, Marsailles, then Transports Aras, Robaix, and Transports SBTS Bayonne. from her (comfortable ) resting place in my barn at our little farm just off the D20,near Creon, to the west of Bordeaux, back to Shropshire Staffordshire borders. She looks no different from when we put her into storage back in the 80s, paint is faded, no rot,and she fired up first time with new batteries, (and new liquids)! and took us to the bar, for a celibratory drink, before she was loaded onto the trailer for the journey home! Now she will sit in the company of my T143, in the barn untill October, (when our busy period is over), and I can get her ready for next year, but not to show, oh no, she will work, on hay and straw, and remain a true “French” motor to the eye, I love “working” lorries, not show pieces. Bill, (LB76), my route, in and out, (and remember it was a route of memories revisited, not the quickest)! Calais, Caen, Rennes, Nantes, Niort, l Isle De Espagnac, (Angouleme), Creon, (Bordeaux Ouest). And back, Perigeux, Limoges,(Le Palais), Tours, Chartres, (oh that Rose window in the Cathedral)! Evereux, Rouen, Amiens, Lille, Calais. Bet you know some of the old roads I used, but a lot of the Routiers have gone! 120 hours on the clock, and 4mm off a good set of Trelleborgs! 40/ 45kph comfy, 50kph “scary”!! and about 6/7mpg average, but “white” is cheaper in France. It was the best "holiday I have ever had! and the JD is out tonight on sileage, what a machine!! Some Scania thoughts, (from a “part” Scania man), the foundation of Scania as we know her today, was set by Carl Bertel Nathorst, Managing Director 1940, “look outward” started the export drive, all Scania lorries from 1940 were LHD, even though Sweden was RHD,(also took out the licence to build the US Mack C50, city bus, as the Scania Metropole. First major joint venture was with Vemag in Brazil in 1949, then 1959 in the Argentine with a plant in Tucuman, eventually producing gearboxes, and supplying these to Brazil, and taking engines in exchange! UK, 1967, 150 LB76s sold via B&W Wolverhampton, Reliable Vehicles Scotland,and Ron Smiths Scantruck. but it was really the Swedes membership of the European Free Trade Area , that allowed competitive pricing of a technicaly superior product, over the mainland European, “Common Market” produced products that gave them a “competitive edge” price wise, that the mainlanders could not match untill 1973. . Incidentally, The cab of the 110/111 was designed by Englishman Lionel Sherrow, theStreamliner by Brazilian Bernardo Valierea Mascarenhas, and of course the ugly R series by the Italians!!! Well, I have to go, the Forage Harvesters lights have just come into the office window, andit is my turn now up to 06.30, andI love it! Cheerio for now.
hello saviem, have been wondering how long yourney you did ,happy your at home , and you have a nice peace of the real thing whit you, regards from northeast of europe benkku
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Thats a real beauty, wish that was my daily workplace !
Trev_H:
LB76:
0Thats a real beauty, wish that was my daily workplace !
I agree, lovely looking thing 
Nice to see another Swedish lorry again. This one belonged to Nordisk Transport & Spedition in Helsingborg in the south part of Sweden, NTS as it later became known as started its agency in 1920. Today is what´s left of it a part of DSV ROAD HOLDING A/S in Denmark.
Some more unnecessary knowledge again: Scania is Latin for Skåne, the most southern County of Sweden. 
/Stellan
Bring on the knowledge Stellan , you can never have too much of that!
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tried to emprove the aircirculation whit the new desingned front,did it work ,?
A lot of people tried to improve the circulation on the 76’s anything was better than the “sommer Scania” freeflow hot air lol!
Hi Bill yet another great shot of two classic trucks both good motors but very different ,by the way will you be at the AECdo this weekend also are Fridge Freight having a stand ?Cheers.
Hiya scud, i dont know if Fridged Freight are going this year, last year we had a good display of pictures etc and it was a good couple of day out, but it is down to Chris Wyatt, i will be there anyway