hiya
have done a mile or two in the Cookies old Volvo she was at the end of her life when I got her and she wasn’t very reliable also painted in Tayforth colours.
thanks harry long retired.
That Volvo looks a bit out of place with that single axled trailer Harry,should have at least two axles to make it more “balanced”,not as though it matters as long as t’money is the same.
hiya,
Chris the trailer does have two axles a la a four in line trailer both sets of wheels being removable seperately and the trailer was plenty big enough on a Monday morning when turning out full of booze from a Sunday session,but that wouldn’t have been me of course, bit like you everything by the book.
thanks harry long retired.
The trailer looks like a “Scammell” trailer all steel deck and would be around 25 ton payload but 30/33 ton was not uncommon then. Harry that was one thing you did not want first thing on monday morning taking the back wheels out
cheers Johnnie
hiya
have done a mile or two in the Cookies old Volvo she was at the end of her life when I got her and she wasn’t very reliable also painted in Tayforth colours.
thanks harry long retired.
That Volvo looks a bit out of place with that single axled trailer Harry,should have at least two axles to make it more “balanced”,not as though it matters as long as t’money is the same.
hiya,
Chris the trailer does have two axles a la a four in line trailer both sets of wheels being removable seperately and the trailer was plenty big enough on a Monday morning when turning out full of booze from a Sunday session,but that wouldn’t have been me of course, bit like you everything by the book.
thanks harry long retired.
The trailer looks like a “Scammell” trailer all steel deck and would be around 25 ton payload but 30/33 ton was not uncommon then. Harry that was one thing you did not want first thing on monday morning taking the back wheels out
cheers Johnnie
hiya,
Johnnie I wonder if the old ratchet style “toe” jacks needed to lift the trailer would still be accepted by H & S. dangerous things even when in everyday use had a couple slip when doing the job of taking the backend out but luckily the wheel set-up was still in situ Johnnie think the old trailer was a Scammell did drag it about a bit usually on local work inside the Consett steel works but have moved the odd machine around with it, come to think of it it was equally as hard on a Friday as it was on Monday, hydraulics, they don’t know they’re born if I’d had hydraulics i wouldn’t have been knackered enough to sleep at night.
thanks harry long retired.
Anyone know anything about military lorries.This used to work in a quarry at Chipping Sodbury.I was told it was a GMC Armadillo with a replaced back axle. I have never seen a military lorry with an armoured cab like this one has .
The Blue Volvo F12 8 legger was from Eskmeals Gun Range near Bootle in ■■■■■■■ just down the road from BNFL, it’s 8 wheel drive and I think it was automatic as well, and would have been a good buy for somebody as it did very little work and only moved large gun barrels for warship around the large site which was mainly sand dunes and beaches. I used to always see it parked up under cover as I regulary took the AS90 Howitzer field guns (tanks) for test firing out into the Irish sea which were from Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering (now BAE) Barrow in Furness.
The Forresters Foden would make a lovely restoration project, I wonder where it is now!
My Dad made a restoration project out of a brand new Triumph Stag with a Foden just like this one, it was in Andover and he braked for a red light and it lurched to the right and gave the poor bloke in the Stag a large portion of Chinese 6 wheel nuts up the side of his motor, he was a little miffed to say the least
Chris Webb:
What’s the history of that Volvo F12 8-legger with the Carlisle reg,I can’t remember seeing one before although I probably have,just disappeared in the mists of time…
Hi Chris,
Possibly the Volvo worked within or around British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield.
Another possible owner could have been the M. U. ( no, NOT Mothers` Union ! ) in ■■■■■■■■
Maybe someone will know.
Cheers, cattle wagon man.
Thanks for that,I wondered what that apparatus on the front was,looks like a coupling,and what’s that on the roof,aircon unit?If it was owt to do with BNFL would it have a local Carlisle reg though,instead of a London reg.By MU I take it you mean 14 MU of the RAF in Carlisle? Just a thought,'appen I’d better shut up.
The 8 legger F12 was from the gun range at Eskmeals near Waberthwaite just above Bootle not far from Sellafield. I think one of my dads relations drove IIRC and it ended up on fairground duties.
