SCANIA - VABIS

LB76:
0A lot of people tried to improve the circulation on the 76’s anything was better than the “sommer Scania” freeflow hot air lol!

seems the 110 get the frontdesingn from your old motor :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: cheers benkku

i,ll remember once we my pal and my where in a fisch route from our ireland,s to home when the chair go to the floor couse it was rotten down, for some seconds it was a compleat shoch in the cockpit befor we could stop the motor and take a long breaht, the tree floor was changed to a plywood and on it went (a63 scania vabis 56 )in midle of 70,tees,cheers benkku

This “summer Scania” is from a place called Grua, 130 km´s north east of Oslo. The text in the light box is the name of the factory they hauled for, it´s an abbreviation of the place and what the factory produced…”spon(plater)” which is the Norwegian word for chip board. :smiley:

/Stellan

The poor quality makes it look more authentic, and better, in my book :wink:

LB76:
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could it be a kiitoliikenne from finland,used lot of scanias from late 50 to 88 when it was bougt by speditor now db schenker,and polar express is gone to,hej benkku

Heres a photo of a tipicle british motor doing the continent in the 1960s with a standard length trailer for the UKat the time , about 34 feet long and at 32 ton. The british government really did hold UK haulage back .but not if you worked at fridge freight ,do you agree Bill?

561226_3138944795380_1317690723_32419198_636258029_n.jpgI dont know about “hold back” they nearly wrecked it with petty rules and restrictions, doing away with the second man on drawbars was a giant step for mankind as far as they were concerned !

Not being allowed to sleep in yhe cab,but we all did not having sleeper cabs short trailers small engines the only thing on the wool job was they never bothered you about the height unless you got stuck under a bridge or tipped over, i wonder how much infuence the unions had on the job ?

It would be too much, however much !

LB76:
0It would be too much, however much !

Can’t say for certain if this is the motor I drove, but most certainly one the motors I drove when I worked for Woods, lovely motor to drive and still a looker.

Ossie

Hi Bill here,s a photo of a couple of 76s with early cabs but they are sleepers i wonder if they were coach built cabs possibly made in Holland,i think orginally they used the chassis from the bonetted 75 scania and just put an over type cab on them, if you remember they were cramped inside.no room for a telly or microwave ha ha.

Interesting photo scud, the one on the right looks almost LB76 look at the headlight and grille,they are Swedish no. plate too and i recognise the firm SVELAST, if i am wrong Stellan will correct me

They are both Scania-Vabis LV75 developed in Holland, and they were owned by the Swedish state railways. Slab is freely translated “Swedish lorry joint-stock company”. As Bill says, Slab became later Svelast… and today it´s an independent concern named Green Cargo.

Another interesting thing in the photo is that the left one has a plate on the bumper that existed before the TIR-plate

/Stellan

I wonder if the right one not has a cab from Be-Ge, it´s very much alike this Volvo L3851 which I know is a Be-Ge.

/Stellan

LB76:
0It would be too much, however much !

I believe as driven by my very good friend John Ball,Graham, got your message, but due to being a “luddite”, made a ■■■■ up of reply!! We lived next door to your gran, in her old house, and I used to slip Rex the odd biscuit! Hope things are good for you, Cheerio for now.

I never knew that was a volvo the only give away would be the rear axle and the diesel tank.

Autotransit:
I wonder if the right one not has a cab from Be-Ge, it´s very much alike this Volvo L3851 which I know is a Be-Ge.

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