birds vabis showed and looked after by my friend mick and his daughter
micks truck with the vabis i took this pic at donnington truck race/show 2010
Carl:
birds vabis showed and looked after by my friend mick and his daughter
micks truck with the vabis i took this pic at donnington truck race/show 2010
When new that was maroon and red in colour and belonged to Pensnett steel haulier Stokes and Downing, driven by Geoff Stokes himself, a giant of a man, always had a park drive on the go in the corner of his mouth !
He always kept it immaculate, I always remember him giving me a hard time about the batteries failing at 5 yrs old 
in middle of 30,es first and for long time only NOT BONNETED scannie
bma.finland:
in middle of 30,es first and for long time only NOT BONNETED scannie
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Finally bma.you’ve plucked up the courage (probably out of a bottle hic! hic" Skol !) to put a photo on the thread of the motor you drive for your work every day !!! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
bma.finland:
in middle of 30,es first and for long time only NOT BONNETED scannie
img]http://s19.postimage.org/gjkolcs0z/004.jpg[/img]Finally bma.you’ve plucked up the courage (probably out of a bottle hic! hic" Skol !) to put a photo on the thread of the motor you drive for your work every day !!! Cheers Dennis.
and a fine motor it is indeed ,warm in winters v-8 petrolengine not more then a1-2 mpg 5tn,s load, but santa pay,s well(if he have time) and drinking is much better then driving 
, but not at same time ,cheers benkku 
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anorak:
The biggest cab, prior to the LB110, seems to have been the 1963 Mercedes LP, although this is just an impression I get from photographs- I do not have the dimensions. How did the LB76 compare on interior space, bunk width etc. with those other lorries?
Is it this model of Mercedes you mean? It´s one of 40 old lorries visiting Sweden in 2007. I have no data about it, but it looks like it would be from the sixties. If this cab is original, it must have been one of the biggest and most comfortable at that time
/Stellan
think the newer LP was lanced in1963,the one before sk biggest in 70,s whit V 10 320 , it was modern thought "cold " like germans usually are 
lp1418 1620 lps 2022?
Hello all, Trev H , Geoff Stokes, Stokes and Dowding), he loved that LB, do you remember their new" yard, on the hill up towards the BSR, out of Old Hill, with the beautiful brick work, and the magnificent Pigeon Loft, (for BMA, and Autotransit, the area known as the Black Country, in the centre of England,and once our manufacturing heart, was the centre for Pigeon rearing, and racing, the real love of every working man)!!! I spent many a “non productive”, but really enjoyable hour in that yard with Gerry and Geoff, and handled some beautiful birds, and never earned a penny, but do not regret even one minute of it!! Ive asked Jonathan Bradburn to look out any records he still retains of the early sales that B&W made of LB76s, as they were the leading Scania Importer in the 60s, and if he can find them I will list them here, they should be interesting reading. The plans are made for the repatriation of my French LB76, so if on a far off D route you see a British registered John Deere, @ 40kph, with a geriatric “pilot”, give me a wave! Adieu mes braves, Cheerio for now.
Hello all, Trev H , Geoff Stokes, Stokes and Dowding), he loved that LB, do you remember their new" yard, on the hill up towards the BSR, out of Old Hill, with the beautiful brick work, and the magnificent Pigeon Loft, (for BMA, and Autotransit, the area known as the Black Country, in the centre of England,and once our manufacturing heart, was the centre for Pigeon rearing, and racing, the real love of every working man)!!! I spent many a “non productive”, but really enjoyable hour in that yard with Gerry and Geoff, and handled some beautiful birds, and never earned a penny, but do not regret even one minute of it!! Ive asked Jonathan Bradburn to look out any records he still retains of the early sales that B&W made of LB76s, as they were the leading Scania Importer in the 60s, and if he can find them I will list them here, they should be interesting reading. The plans are made for the repatriation of my French LB76, so if on a far off D route you see a British registered John Deere, @ 40kph, with a geriatric “pilot”, give me a wave! Adieu mes braves, Cheerio for now.
Old, useless, geriatric, just cannot get the hang of this technology,sorry!!
Autotransit:
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anorak:
The biggest cab, prior to the LB110, seems to have been the 1963 Mercedes LP, although this is just an impression I get from photographs- I do not have the dimensions. How did the LB76 compare on interior space, bunk width etc. with those other lorries?Is it this model of Mercedes you mean? It´s one of 40 old lorries visiting Sweden in 2007. I have no data about it, but it looks like it would be from the sixties. If this cab is original, it must have been one of the biggest and most comfortable at that time
/Stellan
Hi Stellan. The Merc cab you posted was launched much earlier- 1955. If my dodgy research is correct, it was a coachbuilt cab (by Wackenhut), but the vehicles were actually built in Mercedes’ own factory. Some time later (1959 or ’61- I don’t know), the cabs changed to pressed steel. I agree that it was probably one of the biggest/ most comfortable cabs of the time. There are photographs of the interior of that lorry on the internet (I would post some here, but I am reluctant to put another “foreigner” on the LB76 thread!), and it is more like a first-class rail carriage than a lorry.
Its story is similar is similar to that of the LV75/LB76, although the Germans did it earlier. In the ‘50s, Scania Vabis was in a similar position to the British manufacturers- on the “edge” of Europe, playing catch-up with the central Europeans. The difference is, the Swedes understood that the object of the game was not to catch up- it was to lead, which is what they did, eventually.
bma.finland:
think the newer LP was lanced in1963,the one before sk biggest in 70,s whit V 10 320 , it was modern thought "cold " like germans usually are
lp1418 1620 lps 2022?
Hi bma- yes, that’s the one I meant, launched in the same year as the LB76- how would the two compare, from the driver’s viewpoint?
Anorak…can you post the link for the interior pictures of that Mercedes so we can go look…thanks
toomanybikes:
Anorak…can you post the link for the interior pictures of that Mercedes so we can go look…thanks
Errr… it was a long time ago, so I’ve forgotten where I got them. 
However, they may be here:
trucksplanet.com/catalog/model.php?id=783 (Round cabs 1955-1963)
baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … adid=12407 (Round cabs)
baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … eadid=2519 (Square cabs 1963-1975)
baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/ … boardid=93 (All oldies, including GB!)
media.daimler.com/dcmedia/0-921- … 4916956640 (Official Merc trucks history site- if you find what you want here, you are a better man than me. Unfortunately, I think this is where I found the square cab interior shots!)
Here’s some random ones I found:
seriouswheels.com/cars/1950- … -Truck.htm
media.daimler.com/dcmedia/0-921- … 4917909421 (some square cab interior pics here)
Here’s a Vabis one, :
v8power.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2083
I believe that the Lb76 was more comfortable and had a more silence cab then the Mercedes. The Scania had more fabric in the cab, a seat with spring and better adjustment… but that´s only my guess.
Two pictures from the instruction book for S-V LB76
/Stellan
I think in space of the cab maybe the mersy where in front but otherways? the lb was the first scanny to take driver in a new age and for score the really drivers motor in europe was 1series the first really confortable cab ,untill volvo matched whit F 10/12 
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Most likely it is, looks like it´s taken in Finland, even has finnish temporary plates on it.