Buzzer:
Heres a picture of the first globetrotter i bought new,at a cost of just over £36 grand in 1986. The other globetrotters behind were purchased second hand and put in our spec. i dont know if this picture has been posted before but i still like the two tone blue and red colour scheme. By the way if any body knows where there is a round headlight F12 globetrotter for sale i would be interested in buying one for preservation.
It’s a shame you weren’t looking for one in the middle of last year as this beauty was for sale in southern France, it’s an ex funfair 385 F12 & if I hadn’t already bought my F16 I’d have snapped this lovely thing up. I had pic’s of the inside and it was a really well kept example throughout & the cab had absolutely no rust whatsoever.
Ross.
Thanks for the info on the globey i guess ille keep lookin and might get lucky, regards Buzzby.
Buzzer:
Heres a picture of the first globetrotter i bought new,at a cost of just over £36 grand in 1986. The other globetrotters behind were purchased second hand and put in our spec. i dont know if this picture has been posted before but i still like the two tone blue and red colour scheme. By the way if any body knows where there is a round headlight F12 globetrotter for sale i would be interested in buying one for preservation.
newmercman:
You can only just see it, well I can anyway, but there’s a pull stop for the engine down by the gearstick, the F16 was the only Volvo at that time that never turned off with the key
The later 500s were EDC I think? So they would’ve stopped and started on the key, hope that pic don’t turn out to be one of those models
The ‘knob’ that you can only just see is the tickover / hand throttle controll, on all Volvo’s the engine stop ‘pull cable’ was below the hand throttle & to the best of my knowledge, all F16’s turn off on the key, I could be wrong as it’s been 25 years since I drove the original F16 demo but my 500 definately turns off on the key.
Ross.
My F plate 470 had a pull stop, wasn’t sure about the later ones so I put the bit in about the 500s
I didn´t find any thread for superstructures any place on the forum, so I put my picture and question in this thread instead of making a new one since it´s an F12 on the picture. How common was/is this system of “containers” in GB? (is the term in English “swap bodies”)? Each “container” is 7,15 meters, and the total length of the vehicle is 24 meters. Sweden was alone in Europe to take three of them at the same time, but two 7,15 meters made 18 meters in other European countries.
Evening Gentlemen, Stellan, those Eurotrotters, my old friends at Transports Martin, in Nice,ran a number of F12 Eurotrotters, to pull their 33pallet Fridges. All were universally disliked because of the short BBC measurement, and everyone complained about the ride, (like a DonkeyI was told)! Cheerio for now.
We had a Eurotrotter 6x2 lorry on the company where I started my career as a driver, but none of us that drove it were specifically disappointed about the handling compared to a “normal” F12. It was the lack of space that caused most complaining… none of the other eleven lorries had a short cab, so it was always the newest driver that had to drive the Eurotrotter
I´m still a bit curious about what I call “swap boddies”, how common was that system in the UK?
3300John:
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Hiya "CRAIG D"Can you remember the reg on the London Rubber Volvo■■?..I think London Rubber had 6 all registered one after another.
A pal of mine goes to rallys around cheshire with 2 Ex London Rubber trucks which will be sister trucks to yours I’ll get photo’s in two weeks
and post them.
John
Stagetruck had one/some ex LRC Globetrotters. Always looked tidy, but then Stagetruck’s motors usually do. Have a look at Rockn Roller’s avatar - it may be one of them.
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one of my mates is ex stagetruck…I think it may be 12 on the reg
John
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stage truck had L11LRC, L12LRC, L14LRC, i’m an ex ST driver.
Autotransit:
I´m still a bit curious about what I call “swap boddies”, how common was that system in the UK?
/Stellan
Hi Stellan, yes, demountable bodies were/are popular in UK, but usually on drawbars and rigids. How does that artic work? Do the trailer axles steer, or is there some sort of joint between the rear part and the semi-trailer?
My vocabulary is not good enough to explain it, but a picture says more than thousand words. Maybe someone could help me with the technical words? What do you call the second unit in this vehicle?
James Lynch have just taken best foreign truck award today at Sandbach Transport Festival, and that was an 08 plate with Livingstones Euro 4 requirement!!! We are dead chuffed. !!
Autotransit:
My vocabulary is not good enough to explain it, but a picture says more than thousand words. Maybe someone could help me with the technical words? What do you call the second unit in this vehicle?
/Stellan
Hi Stellan. The second part is a normal semi-trailer. The last part would be a drawbar trailer, if there was anything resembling a drawbar connecting it to the rest of the vehicle! It looks like the designer got a geometry set for Christmas, then went mad with a welder and a ton of box-section. Do you have any experience of these outfits? Were they reliable/durable?
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anorak:
Do you have any experience of these outfits? Were they reliable/durable?
I did never get the opportunity to test this vehicle, but a similar one where the drawbar not was possible to dismantle. The one I drove was like a worm on the road, and I guess that the yellow one behaved the same. Since we have very long distances to haul everything in Sweden it is better to use train when transporting containers trough the country, so using this kind of vehicle on a shorter distance meant too much work.
This spring Volvo and Schenker are trying out a 32 meter vehicle using a trailer tractor, two semitrailers and a dolly between the trailers. But it´s only allowed driving Gothenburg — Malmoe. If the conclusion of this test is good, we might get 32 meter vehicles in Sweden when the rest of Europe gets 25,25 meter in the future
