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V8 Nutter
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The first time I went to Malta, over 30 years ago, those ex army Canadian Dodge trucks were fairly common. At that time there used to be lots of buses on a similar chassis. The last Dodge bus I saw was just after the turn of the century, it had a Leyland 410 engine |
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Penman
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| Rick wrote: | We stumbled across this fantastic pickup at an Austin Ten Drivers' Club rally a few years ago, great signwriting.
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What lens did you use to get a perspective that makes a Ten look bigger than a Defender? 
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Rick
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BigJohn
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Some things that took my fancy at Scorton Steam Fair last weekend.
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colwyn500
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| Penman wrote: | Hi
| Rick wrote: | We stumbled across this fantastic pickup at an Austin Ten Drivers' Club rally a few years ago, great signwriting.
RJ |
What lens did you use to get a perspective that makes a Ten look bigger than a Defender? |
I think I remember that pickup. It might look bigger because I think it's a 12 or even a 14. If it's the one I think it belongs to Bob Glenister who runs a specialist Austin 10 workshop and parts supplier. He really appreciates originality and has had this for a long time. |
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Rick
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BigJohn
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| Rick, I had to have a picture of it. My late father told me that he had one as a recovery unit in the 50's. One of his tankers went into a ditch late at night in winter and so he got the apprentice out of bed to help, and learn. The first job was to wire 2 large tins of London Grill to the exhaust, this was the apprentices job. As they got to the tanker there was an almighty bang and the bonnet sides flew up, no one had told the apprentice to pierce the tins. My old man said the lad was not a happy bunny the next day, as he had to clean and polish a Diamond T engine and bay that was covered in burnt baked beans, sausage and bacon . |
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Rick
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| BigJohn wrote: | | Rick, I had to have a picture of it. My late father told me that he had one as a recovery unit in the 50's. One of his tankers went into a ditch late at night in winter and so he got the apprentice out of bed to help, and learn. The first job was to wire 2 large tins of London Grill to the exhaust, this was the apprentices job. As they got to the tanker there was an almighty bang and the bonnet sides flew up, no one had told the apprentice to pierce the tins. My old man said the lad was not a happy bunny the next day, as he had to clean and polish a Diamond T engine and bay that was covered in burnt baked beans, sausage and bacon . |
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V8 Nutter
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Before the M5 was built and we still had industry in the midlands, heavy loads with 2 Diamond T's one pulling and one pushing would often be seen negotiating the narrow city streets. They were usually owned by Wynns from south Wales.
Someone I used to work with told me the following tale. Just after WWII he was in the army and he used to drive a Diamond T heavy wrecker. In slow moving traffic an Austin 7 tourer tried to nip in front of him. With a 10 foot bonnet and L.H.D. he didn't know the Austin was there until the Diamond T gave a slight lurch, It had run over the front of the Austin and flattened it |
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buzzy bee
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| BigJohn wrote: | Some things that took my fancy at Scorton Steam Fair last weekend.
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I was there, we could have met up.. Did you get any pics of the engines? |
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Roger-hatchy
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V8nutter
That tale of the Diamond T and the A7 reminds me of am incident in Germany in the 1960's
We had Leyland Martians as gun towers, RHD and long bonnets.
It was in Dortmund and a Gogomobile tried to cut us up from the left, we didn't see him, anyway he got caught and lifted by the knobbly tyres, the knobbly were about the size of a closed fist, they picked the car up off the ground and trapped it between the wheel and the front wing we thought it was the tram lines at first till people started running out into the road in front of us.
The poor driver was very white and a little shaken up, and the inside of the car had a bit of a smell. |
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RotaryBri
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| Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:51 pm Post subject: The other Vulcan not the flying kind |
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I cannot remember the last time that I saw a Vulcan lorry. This nice one turned up at Gaydon in May for the CSMA 90th birthday event.
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Rootes75
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| That Vulcan is very nice. Not many about at all, we don't see any survivors down here in the westcountry. With the Perkins it would be a great little truck. |
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Penman
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Hi
Found this little collection near Bacup today.
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no phototrickery though!
