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Some well-known ones, some unknown ones, some really cheesey ones!! Nice find :thumbsup:

Good news for Damyns Hall. Mind you, it wouldn't have cost too big a bomb to have hired a big low loader for a few days and have it loading up on the highway just outside the zone and shuttling stuff into the site - Plod would soon get hacked off with the traffic chaos and wave the environmentally obnoxious entrants (by that I mean the vehicles....) straight on in :cool2::cool2::cool2:

Fair comment, Mike. In my experience the most unreliable part of a car and trailer is the trailer plug / socket - even soldering up wires to terminals doesn't make it that much better. I guess from that angle it should be one of the most imortant lighting safety tests in an MOT, but at the same time it would probably be one of the most pointless tests in an MOT as within minutes it could well be malfunctionoing again!!! My initial and somewhat cynical stance in this thread - that that it is all getting too complicated - still stands. If all these gizmos will need testing then ultimately it becomes for some unaffordable. We are already at the stage, according to a recently distgruntled neighbour, where a perfectly sound Toyata Aygo might as well be be scrapped instead of paying out over £800 because the alternator needed replacement, or in my case a diesel engine with 100,000 miles needed a set of injectors. This is not a serious issue for those who can afford it, but what about the ever-increasing group of those who can't? No, it's all becoming complete b**ll*cks as far as I'm concerned. Who me? Grumpy?

I'm guessing Guest?

It'll be a week or so but will get some pics. It's currently keeping a chassis load of mechanicals nice and dry but I could be persuaded to part with it.... What low loader would that be?

Psst! Anyone looking for a totally straight steel ballast body for a 20T Constructor? Well - the rear fold-down ladder is a bit bent.....

Proof (in case you didn't already know) that Jack Beckett is in fact a HMVF Heavy Industries Domestic Robot, and in this shot is in attendance to someone fast asleep on that vehicle.

I wonder if now might be a good time to perhaps re-invent the motor car? You know, something basic and easily to work on / repair. Perhaps a Ford Cortina or Austin Mini? No fancy gizmos or sneaky things like starter motors which have to be coded by the dealer to the computer in order to get to work, you get the genral drift. I really think we're in danger of outsmarting ourselves before long - in fact I think we're already there! :whistle:

Removing a stain off the seat?

And could the last one (which we know is not a Scania ) be one of those rebuilt (in early 50's?) using White 666 front end cab / components? I saw one in UK before Christmas being restored, but can't recall the front wing arrangement.

Pretty certain that is Germany some time post war.

Mmm. I'm begining to understand why you didn't bother going for a factory exchange rebuild engine - somehow I doubt you'd get that accepted as a core unit return......:cool2:

Oh heck, that's a new one, Magpie! Looks like an early, maybe 1965, transfer - we were aware of transfers from 1966 onwards. I have, thanks to some research carried out by an ex ACB chap, a list of 8 which were allocatd army reg. numbers, together with transfer/disposal dates. There is no evidence that all were transferred and/or received new reg. numbers. Some would have been abroad at the time of transfer into army stock (and we know some were ultimately disposed of abroad still in RAF livery - Cyprus being an example), which might help explain the out-of-sequence army registration / transfer dates. In three cases of the 8 the RAF number is not recorded. The numbers of the 7 known transfered between March 1966 and August 1967 are all 21BTXX, the one known transfer in 1968 receiving 24BT37. There are also 7 Cranes trailers known to have received army numbers, again 6 transferred 1968 with 21BTXX and one in 1968 again with 24BTXX number. Matching the 20 chassis numbers (10571 - 10590) with RAF reg. numbers (the ones we have fall within 60AN34 and 60AN51) is a bit problematical, one has to make an assumption that they were applied sequentially and we need more confirmed links to be certain. Best guess is 10571 = 60AN32, through to 10590 = 60AN51. Army numbers were allocated at transfer date so there is no correlation between these and the RAF numbering sequence. If anyone can provide more info or evidence of chassis no / RAF reg links I'd be pleased to hear from you. OMG who woke me up? Thanks, Andy..... :saluting:

From an 'Alternative History' website: "The Kaiser's mobile MULTIPLE HAND GRENADE LAUNCHER proved unsuccessful, and it was not until the 1950s that the concept was revived in a peacetime role".

Looks like a BBQ sidecar with a full rack of hot dogs. Hang on there - it IS one!!!

Scammell Adoption Department Patron: 6x6 Chairman: Gritineye Regional Director North: Croc Regional Director South: AndyFowler Dear Plantters, Further to your application for an additional fostering licence, I am pleased to advise that the SAD Board have determined you be an ideal candidate to foster an ex. RAF Constructor. Your tireless and admirable work with wayward Scammells to date certainly impressed the Board and was instrumental in persuading them of your suitablility to care for yet another vehicle. Of course the final decision will remain between yourself and Mr. Crouch at the Scammell Rescue Centre - and we acknowledge the enormity of the decision facing you. Fortuantely, Constructors have proved themselves to be adaptable and friendly toward others of the marque, so you should not experience any compatibility issues with your existing fleet. Do please let us know should you proceed with the adoption. Yours sincerely, N.O.S. Clerk to SAD

Could it have been this one? Seems it had quite a fan club :-) http://www.concretebarge.co.uk

"Two 99s please"

That's brilliant, thanks for the information and especially for the photos. A great example of simple ingenuity in the face of material shortages. Another interesting topic is that of the concrete sea forts in the Thames, designed by Guy Maunsell - who I think was the son of the Southern Railway's locomotive engineer. Some info at http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/maunsell_towers.htm I hope soon to borrow a book on the subject.

Here is a link to an image of some abandoned barges at Rainham on the Thames estuary. Other pictures can be found on the web (e.g. urban75 website). http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2575627 Anyone know much about these barges? Are any still in use or preserved?

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Wow - I mean WOW. Those rear wheel centres with the big and small holes are pretty funky - a nice piece of functional design which just looks right (something which we're often not so good at these days).

Still waiting. Apparently the chevron-endowed escort van for Santa's sleigh never showed up, so we missed the slot.......:-(

:thumbsup: That looks a nice clean build, now I would really love to have that in my zoo!! I feel you mised a photo opportunity there, Bernard - could have had Rugged posed underneath between the wheels :shocked:

Check out this refrigerated transport unit in WW2 Europe http://portraitsofwar.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/wwii-refrigeration-truck-unit-photos-the-penguin-fleet/