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There are two photos on page 27 of Bob Tuck's book 'Move it', the lower one is the trailer in 1958 loaded with a Parsons component and pulled by a Junior UXA 724 with an 80 tonner pushing. The centre photo may be the same trailer but it is not very clear. Date is 1956 and the tractors are a 45 tonner, a 6x6 Constructor and a Mountaineer.

I thought so as there are pictures of it still working in the late '50s pulled by Constructors; Bob Tuck claimed it was a write off after Boroughbridge. Good picture here:

Look familiar Tony: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21437618@N02/7074625149/

Just as well you went to the bank with your buyer, it would have been difficult to prove the forged notes were his. I once lost £5ks worth of audio kit to a credit card scam, the courier delivered the goods to an empty house with two guys polishing a car on the drive who signed for the parcel. I had even rung Streamline the CC processing company as the deal sounded strange but was abruptly told 'the money is in your account, what's the problem?' Two days later the money was clawed back from our account. A contact sold his £20k Range Rover to someone from London who was coming up on the train with a draft and correctly told the buyer that it had to be during banking hours so that he could confirm the draft with the issuing bank. The buyer rang to say his train had been delayed, the deadline passed and greed at being offered the full price took over and the draft was accepted. You know the rest...

There were 54 made for the RE with 14.00x20 tyres and a Rolls C6NFL diesel, I used to own 83BL02.

Just came across these and thought they might be of interest, hope it not a re-post. http://www.commercialmotor.com/big-lorry-blog/classic-military-trucks-on-big

Crossley BGV3??

Not a 'D' type

http://www.bdca.org.uk/stories.html Scroll down the page to read the story of the Derby crane.

Speed limit for LGVs in the UK is still 60mph.

You are not reading the plate correctly, the maximum axle weights add up to 3.4t assuming perfect loading which is nigh on impossible. The undefined weights are most likely a 3.6t trailer and a 6.9t gross train weight.

Bran, those figures cannot be correct, adding the empty axle weights gives an unladen weight of 20,020kg while adding the rack and Saladin only takes the laden up by 7,360kg to 27,380kg. The two rear axles are balanced by a central pivot and would show similar weights except that the leading axle is heavier by virtue of the third diff and a prop hanging off the front flange.

As I have posted before, it cannot be used at 44t: 1 Must have RFS on drive/trailer axles 2 Each vehicle must have at least 3 axles 3 Engine must be Euro 2 or above 4 Drive wheels must be doubles not singles IIRC the original DAF DROPS was submitted for testing with a larger tyre which was rejected due to CoG problems.

No, but there is a get out clause if the tyre has a tread width of 300mm or more which should cover a 14.00x20. However, does an Explorer have a driven front axle, it could be argued that it is only driven on demand? In the case of a truck with two axles, cross-ply tyres must not be fitted to the rear axle if radial-ply tyres are fitted to the front, unless the rear axle is fitted with wide tyres having a tread contact width per tyre greater than 300mm or having twinned-tyre wheel assemblies. It is illegal to mix types of tyre on steerable axles. It is also illegal to fit tyres of different type on two or more driven axles.

That looks like Emmetts, our local fairground operator.

With the radial/crossply tyre combination is that not an immediate 6 points if caught on the road? :police::police:

When a Foden DROPS is just not macho enough: http://www.flanderstechsupply.com/Vehicles.asp scroll to bottom of page:D

And some Explorers:D

Maybe, but are you not confusing it with the one Leanne used to own?

Pat Ware suggests there were 10 prototype FV11041 artillery tractors of which some remained in service during the 1960s. I am very impressed that Bart could forsee 17 years in to the future:cool2:

Certainly is. I'm rather concerned about a 7.2litre 6LW, badly worn pistons perhaps:???

The yellow 'thingy' is most likely to be a choke, a coil of wire wrapped on a ferrite core to block AC while passing DC. The only other device it may be is a wire wound resistor as a simple 24/12v dropper for maintaining the radio memory when the main dropper feed is switched off, a system used on T45 Roadtrain where the yellow radio feed was purely for memory. Do you have an Iveco dealer locally, they should still have info on SA products?

If what has been reported is true, exactly what machinery would have been available capable of digging a trench almost 50ft deep and the size of however many crates they are claiming? At a guestimate we are looking at circa 5000 tons of earth even if if the trenches were dug vertical sided.

That reminds me of Pickfords at Boroughbridge shortly after the war with 2 DTs, girder trailer and roll housing in the river. I wonder how many other incidents there were?

But they were still making Explorers in 1955:??? Are you thinking of when DAF took over Scammell in 1988?They still had mountains of Constructor parts at Unipower in the early 90s when they were making the 8x8 bridging units, no one was prepared to store the parts so they went for scrap.