Brooky

List of vehicle clubs here

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-vehicle-owner-clubs

Second look and yes probably AA

A side view of the wheel and hub cap would confim

Dad bought two Austin K9's in about 1968-9 from Houseman at Pateley Bridge

One was £100 the other £120 and they were new and unissued. The tools were still in greased paper

Morris MRA1's were £75

Link to a Company that will for a small fee supply a correct Dating letter for your CJ2. What about NOVA too? is the Jeep registered with HMRC onto the NOVA system when it was imported, another DVLA requirement, the same Company can handle that too.

http://www.secondaddress.com/dvlaadvice/

They would have to be on the DVLA list of approved organisations to provide dating letters

1930's Ford model AA truck rear axle. Link to some pics of an AA showing the axle

http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ttalk&th=1084944

Would agree with Ford but could be 7V?

I assume with no MOT the vehicle still has to be road worthy, but how do you prove this with no MOT. can you just buy an old (pre 1960) vehicle and drive it home ?

The vehicle has to be roadworthy, as does any vehicle!! So yes you can buy a pre 1960 vehicle and provided it is roadworthy drive it home

guys does anyone know if this can be done easily, the 220 in the foden really struggles at anything other than gentle inclines and small loads...technically she can haul a full 17 and a half tons, but she struggles with 7 tons...

It wasnt very long ago when hauliers were pulling 32ton with 180hp!!!

I would suggest first thing to do (if you havent already) is a full service and injector overhaul, bet some of those 220 horse have bolted the stable over the years!!

I would have guessed mid 80s too but DVSA have it down as being built in 1941 and registered in 1993. It used to live just outside Newport Pagnell.

Have it in my mind it came from or had something to do with Vass from Ampthill

Always wondered what had happened to it!!

Used to see it regualrly at shows in the 80's and 90's in the Cambridge/Bedford area

Interesting spin in the sales blurb.....................give it a few years with a new owner and it will be the vehicle that Churchill drove ashore on D Day

All interesting stuff

Having one of those "wish I had bought it moments!"

Very interesting!

Think you may be right about the ex showman FWD, it still has the remnants of the bumper

My dad remembers the scrap yard! Long since gone isn't it? Be very interesting to know if they are still around anywhere....did they run do you know? Where did you get the picture from? Cheers

Took the photos myself

Used to visit the guy quite regularly, he did have a knack of finding different stuff!!

Bought a Morris MRA1 from him, he also had a Karrier 3 tonner. He also had a Cletrac (complete with winch and compressor)

Don't know whether they ran but went in bad nick

He was an "interesting" character and quite well known in the area

Was definitely Swavesey,and the yard was down a lane that led of the bottom right hand side of the village green

They were taken into a yard at Swavesey or Over (cant remember which....old age!!!)

The yard was on a lane at the bottom left hand side of the village green.

It was run by a guy called Olby Smith

He also had a Cletrac crawler

Just found these pictures

Taken around 1990 ish. There were two of them

They had just been delivered to a yard in Swavesey (Cambs) for scrapping

They may still be there for all I know!!!

Hi.

Have tried these companies and some say will get back to you about it and hear nothing or the prices are more than my monthly mortgage !.

I like so many supporters of this hobby have to be careful of over spending money on restoration as it can speed up like a runaway train and don't want the choice of 'Me or the lorry'.

Maybe worth having a word with paulbrook on here

There is a special Bedford tool for tightening the head bolts, a bit like a ring spanner but with one end bent right over to get at the bolts under the rocker arm

I suppose the theory was that if a man pulled it as tight as he could that would be OK

Its is more important to pull everything down evenly

According to my info the range 15BE01 to 84BE76 were allocated to Austin Champs1952-54 Contract 6V/5531

I stand to be corrected though!!

My very original MW had a trap door in the body to get to the back axle

Perhaps someone can explain the method of securing the flat rack to the vehicle

When I ran a fleet of demount boxes were told by VOSA (as was then) that the box was the load and therefore had to be secured to the vehicle.

This was achieved through twist locks at each corner, what happens on drops?

Like the Leyland, although I dont think there was ever a tanker version

generally your motor insurance will cover public liability

Worth checking with your insurance company

I told you it was a here we go again moment.

 

the centre of gravity is the static load, ie if you tip a vehicle over to a point where the center of gravity, pointing vertically down, points outside of the width of the base or outside of the wheels of the truck it will tip over, no forward or reverse motion needed, However if you take the same vehicle and drive it around a flat bend with no camber angle at a given speed the reaction to the centripetal force can induce a roll over...the roundabout on the a3.

 

Most people drive the roundabout at a speed that does not induce a roll over...some don't..anyone driving a vehicle around a bend will feel the forces involved. if those forces are great enough to topple the vehicle he is in trouble....the only safe thing to do is not to put yourself at the risk in the first place...ie don't drive so fast, such that the truck will roll over with the forces involved...the sharper the bend the more risk of rollover...

 

just like any truck car bike etc etc...so slow into the bend and drive out of it...don't enter an unknown bend with too much speed, brake well before the bend, etc

 

don't do anything drastic mid bend...etc etc...

 

if you do find your in a bad place turn out of the bend, not into it, remove the speed as gently as you can, if you have a trailer the trailer will go well before you in the tractor unit will...and this is more dangerous that a rigid truck...

 

if your load is high and the CofG consequently high you will need to drive that much slower...simple...

You obviously have all the answers and the driving experience to cope with all situations so crack on and just hope that you keep it pointing the right way up

My mistake!

You will never feel whether its about to fall over, when the centre of gravity steps outside the baseline it tips over. That's physics!

I have been lucky enough to have had experience of roll over awareness training (in a 44tonne truck with outriggers)

There is no warning and we were getting it to roll at speeds as low as 8mph