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Can anyone identify the type of aircraft being carried ?

 

Blimey Bodger ! I nearly burst with envy just looking at the 'photos. You've accomplished a really superb restoration of an exceptionally handsome bike. That's a really nice machine and a credit to your skills.

if antars where as cheep as jeeps to run

and would fit in a lock up garage.

What a wonderful exhibit this would make at any show complete with a class of long legged schoolgirls. (Obviously, they'd have to be over the age of consent)

Tasker semi-trailer, 8 ton, drop frame, Tasker coupling.

Hanno apologies you were correct semi trailer 3 or 5 ton long low loader is correct the nomenclature was revised post WW2 to become low platform Sorry

TED

This refers to "supporting aircraft main planes in transit" and "well type body" so I think we can assume it is a description of the "Queen Mary" type. The length of this 3 ton trailer is given as 40' which is the same length as the 5 ton version. (?) I always understood the 3 tonner was a bit shorter. And it is, just remembered the 5 ton QM has a body length of 40' ....45' overall. (I think).

PS. Lot of the stuff I'm currently posting is still 'Restricted' so don't go flashing it around down at your local Tescos.

Post war Bedford 'S' type tractor with Spitfire on board.

And with Hawker Hurricane.

Tractive unit is a long-nosed Commer (Q2?).

Cheers,

Hanno

The three tractor units most closely associated with the Tasker "Queen Mary" trailer during WW11 were these.

See Catweasle's post No.21 on this thread for a photograph of this type of Bedford.

no one was injured at all this time :yay:

 

Oh good. I actually feel very safe out on the road but when I'm stationary for hours in a queue, often at 03:30 in the morning on the M25, while the emergency services and someone like you, doing the recovery, sorts out the mess I sit there in the dark and think about some copper having to tell somebody's mum that......well you know, it's all very sad.

Two for Snapper.

Tasker 7 ton drop frame photographic trailer.

Tasker 8 ton photographic trailer.

Lancaster "T for Tilly" being dismantled after crash landing in 1943.

N/S (!) wing being loaded onto a Queen Mary.

The entire aircraft being transported by a convoy of Queen Mary trailers drawn by a Bedford OXC in the foreground and Commer Q2's following.

Being repaired at it's home aerodrome.

Back in service.

I read that as the car driver having drowned:confused:

Just read it again, yes, it was the car driver but that hasn't cheered me up.

Were the Queen Mary trailers ever built as or converted to anything else? Internally this one looked to have a fairly professional conversion, and since it still lives in the corner of a ww2 bomber station, I suspect it's never had a civilian owner?

 

Chris

Some while ago a came across what, if I remember rightly, was an aviation forum where the QM you illustrate in your post was discussed. I seem to think it was said there were two such trailers at the same site and a few 'photos of the interior had been posted. If I can find the website again I'll post a link on here.

In answer to your enquiry "were the QM trailers ever built or converted to anything else ?" here's a Mass Radiography unit built on the 3 ton version of Tasker Queen Mary.

Front view.

Rear View.

The not-so-pleasant side of recovery work :-(

Or lorry driving.

Tacr2man, got any more pix where the driver doesn't come such a cropper ? Quite a few of us on here are lorry drivers who see

more than our share of death and injury on the roads every day. Any 'photos of your wonderful Martian attending breakdowns where the lorry driver ended up making loads of overtime rather than ending up dead ? Thanks.

Tom, if you mean the ex-Pickfords trailer TM 413 it is rated at 200 tons.

Thanks Mike, yes, I did mean that trailer.....200 tons. That's what you BIG.

Yes we all know this one....

But do we know where it is now and whether it is being repaired/restored or broken for spares ?

In all seriousness, 6x6, I imagine the trailer will have survived very well underneath that lot - the last couple I've seen have been a bit on the 'tender' side.

Still available..........could be delivered. Dry stored since 1947. 5 tonner as in Catweazle's 'photo above.

But where are you going to live, then?

Well, I'd assumed I come with it as the lodger.

Priceless pictures, thanks!

Not just pictures mate. I own this ****ing thing. It may be for sale and would look very good towed behind your Constructor. Think about it. Open to offers.

TRAILERS, not TEA ROOMS.....

Fancy a cuppa ?

Great stuff guys,

 

but how about some pics of the Queen Mother Of All Trailers, the Queen Mary?

 

Thanks,

Hanno

Here's one to be going on with........

What a mess. From what you say this incident could from been much worst if you had not been able able to alert the railways that masonry from the bridge had fallen onto the track.

It's impressive that the Leyland was able the drag an artic with locked brakes and that the Bedford was man enough to recover the rigid. If you were able to deal with this situation with this pair I should think they'd cope with almost anything. Thank you very much for posting these photographs.

Ted Gowen owned this one, when it was pushing the Back end of the Pickford's Trailer TM413 at GDSF.

Ted owned YSV 865 for about twelve years having bought it from a showman and, with Steve Guest, converted it into a snow plough powered by a Gardner 150. Ted has many amusing stories relating to his experiences while clearing the local main roads with this Constructor. What with blinding snow blowing horizontally across the windscreen and the flashing orange light giving a sort of strobe effect Ted said it was hard to sense where up and down was never mind left and right.

A rear view of the same lorry after Ted sold it and it had been returned to being more military looking. At this stage the lorry still had the special towing bracket, fabricated by Steve Guest, that allowed Ted to hitch up to the big (100 ton ?) trailer one sees at GDSF. This towing bracket has now been removed and replaced the correct type very kindly given to the owner by that incorrigible Scammell enthusiast and all round nice bloke, yep, Steve Guest.

YSV 865 as it looks today.

Can anyone identify these two trailers ?

'Photo A.

'Photo B.

20 ton low loading trailer by Crane. Ex Royal engineers.

Not a very clear view of the trailer but shown here with a Scammell Constructor.