Identification

[Charawacky]

Here is a early engine from what?

[Zero-Five-Two]

Looks like it might have been from the last train, you could run this one as a caption competition :D

[lynx42 Rick Cove]

Definately an Albion from WW1. The squarish box near the rear of the engine is the dry sump lubricator. The propeller shaft goes from the clutch to the 3 speed gearboxand diff assembly set back from the engine.

 

Wouldn't mind it for spares for my 1916 Albion A10 3 tonner.

[Charawacky]

More Detail,

The driver was killed and his remains are still at the scene,.

It was thought the brakes failed, the other four solders travelling in the truck escaped injury.

[Ivor Ramsden]

Definately an Albion from WW1.

 

Awesome identification! :bow::bow:

[Great War truck]

yes, well identified indeed. How did you come across these photos?

 

In M Youngs ASC book he refers to another lorry getting hit by a train and the driver later found to be sitting on the engines buffers several hundred yards down the track. No such luck for this poor chap. RIP.

[Charawacky]

Found them on an Estonian website

http://www.eag.unicweb.ee/ewarmee.html

 

Tom

[Great War truck]

Found them on an Estonian website

 

 

That would explain the unusual uniforms and willingness to photograph the mangled remains of the driver.

 

Fascinating website. I particularly like the enclosed Nash Quad and the AEC still showing the WD on the side. What route did these ex British lorrys come from? British expeditionary force to Russia, then passed on to the Whites before going to the Baltic states i imagine, or was there another way?

 

Tim

[rog8811]

I see it now, the truck engine was shunted way down the track after the accident, I wondered how it all fitted after just the first couple of photo's.

[Zero-Five-Two]

Not so funny when you see the rest of the pictures, what a mess, pity the poor driver.

[Charawacky]

Same crossing many, many years later, the train came off worse!