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Assuming it is 24V, 14 litre V8 would be a walk in the park of a pair of these: Plus you'll wipe the smirks of your mates' faces when you stroll up to the truck swinging one from each hand (they have a strap), pop them on and crank it over!

I'm even beginning to wonder if it might be a bowser chassis retrofitted with a non-military flat body - this might explain the chassis extensions at the front (although this was a feature on some later trailers for storage of drop sides).

Thanks, Chris (and others) - pictures in that fuel bowser thread clearly show the same type of drawbar :thumbsup:. So might this be a WW2 GS trailer, or is it more likely to be postwar?

The drawbar looks odd - maybe altered for farm use? This one is available - but it is on the south coast in Hampshire. Tyres are shot (yes that is an O, but an I would indicate a similar state).

Got a picture now!

A sprung 4 wheel drawbar trailer,10.50 x 13 tyres with mudguards, front of chassis rails extended by around 18" (to hold detachable sides?). Around 14 - 16ft long. Plate 1 reads: M.O.S. TRAILER No. NV31751 Plate 2 reads: J B & Co Ltd 623064 I think it might be a 1950s trailer but can anyone confirm?

Terry, that is the ultimate heavy truck accessory - the SIRENDOG. Much more fun than a Sirenlight. The big ones as seen below are great on big WLF wreckers and the like, maybe the occasional GMC, but definitely over-the-top on a Jeep. I think the one Howard has put on this GMC is actually the smaller Jeep version. As with the SIRENLIGHTS they come in 6, 12 and 24 volts - here's one that looks to be the wrong voltage for the truck:

Am I right in thinking that the pink fish are a variety of SOLDIERFISH? Now wouldn't that be appropriate! (sorry - all those images of Morris trucks triggered a bout of Attention Deficit Disorder)

I think the key is the support bracket for the central windscreen pillar seen on the Retriever. Using the same cab front panel as the Retriever by the look of it, the Hippo was very much a latecomer in the war - what date did the Thistlegorm sink?

Could this be the match for your unidentified truck in post 19, Alex - a Leyland Retriever? And here's one HMVF's Pete Ashby is restoring: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?33907-Leyland-Retriever&highlight=leyland+retriever

With the shoal of fish present in most, these are simply stunning photographs - keep posting please!

Not wishing to detract in any way from the historical and human significance of this anniversary, but it is an interesting coincidence that Steve McQueen would have been 84 on this very same day!

From where to Devon? Looks like you might need to look for an operator with a 24 tonne step frame plant trailer with outriggers and greedy boards - have you got a friendly local plant operator?

Great bit of detective work, Goncalo! :thumbsup:

According to the caption, it as a DT980 5th wheel tractor - all the vehicles being Canadian orders and about to be delivered by Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps staff (there is another pic with the drivers posing). Me? I'm not so sure…..

Yep - page 44 of AFTER THE WAR WAS WON. A convoy waiting to be delivered from near the factory in May 1942. The building is Windsor Sugar Mills on Oliver Street :angel:

I think it is from the PEARSONS of LIVERPOOL book - they were assemblers of CKD MVs and generated a vast quantity of valuable surplus timber sheet material from all those packing crates

The EU rules do however provide for exemption for historic vehicles, defined by the historic rules of each member state - it is just the post-historic vehicles that cannot be exempted. Edit: Allegedly

Having looked through that document in more detail, I cannot see any indication of an exemption or derogation for a non-historic vehicle over 7.5 tonnes, and since this category clearly sits within the scope of EU rules (even though the non-commercial carriage of goods is not specifically mentioned - unlike that clause in UK domestic rules) then the EU rules will apply - not the UK domestic rules.

Here is a promising-looking extract from the document referred to in this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rules-on-drivers-hours-and-tachographs-goods-vehicles-in-gb Note there is a nice disclaimer though meaning you can't be 100% certain it is legally correct!!!): GB domestic rules The GB domestic rules, as contained in the Transport Act 1968, apply to most goods vehicles that areexempt from the EU rules. Separate rules apply to Northern Ireland. Domestic rules exemptions The following groups are exempt from the domestic drivers’ hours rules: u drivers of vehicles used by the Armed Forces, the police and fire brigade; u drivers who always drive off the public road system; and u private driving, i.e. not in connection with a job or in any way to earn a living . Note also the distinction between EU rules and GB domestic rules - trouble is I can't see where the EU rules also allow exemption for the blanket clause shown in red, and I have no idea if EU rules trump GB domestic rules :nut: In fact the EU rules only seem to allow exemption for vehicles over 25 years old. There is also a possible distinction between rules requiring a vehicle to be fitted with a tacho and the exemptions which apply, and rules requiring drivers to maintain records and the exemptions which apply. One imagines these rules would tie up - but you never know! The document referred to above does however make the point that even if a vehicle is fitted with a tacho, it does not necessarily have to be used if the driver is exempt from keeping records. I must admit the more I read the less I understand!

Sorry John but I agree with Mike - the second trailer definitely looks like the shorter 20T (DYSON?) drawbar trailer with dolly, so it would be a 20 ton ballast tractor. Tony p.s. great picture by the way, and Sean Mc C - if you have any pictures of your service rigs they'd be most welcome on here :thumbsup: (just saved you a post, Andy ).

KGM seem to have the best policy - I think they were in at the beginning when the company whose name I've forgotten who became part of Roadsure was founded by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. edit: It was of course AC MILES, who was a champion of motor enthusiasts policies.

Do we know who underwrites this company's policies?

The conversion from L to R has been done before using chain / sprocket drive to link old and new steering columns.

I can't place the cab - something a bit TKish about it but the windscreen rake is too big?