Muckaway:
I remember seeing Constructors, Freighters and Roadtrains. The odd Marathon and Super Comet but the only Octopus Iaway from rallies was on the funfair.
I think when they brought the original Ergomatic cabbed Octopus out in the mid to late 60’s they after a while ceased production of the 8x4 chassis then relaunched it in the mid 70’s along with the revamped Lynx Bison and Buffalo models. My father was as a tanker driver with BOC Gases and at one time their rigid tanker fleet was Lynx & Bison models. I seem to recall the 16 ton gross Lynx’s being absolute flying machines especially after the Albion Clydesdales they replaced
X reg Constructor 8 (TL11) new in 1981 or 82 and two Constructor 6 (both TL11) new in 1983/84 on A plates.
The last Bison with the 502/Fuller we had was new in about 78/79 on a V plate. The TL11 Bison2 we had was new in 1980 on a W plate.
Good thread and some great old school pictures but I’m not sure about the specs given.
I might be wrong but weren’t these old work horses mostly paid on how many loads they shifted? In my experience they did about 110 mph and had no brakes!
So typical that just when there were some decent British built lorries of the modern era like the Foden Alpha and the ERF EC (not the ECX by the way or Sudden Accidents), the marques are axed.
it just seemed to me done out of spite, a bit like closing AEC and letting BL waste the savings.
