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Paul Grimshaw
Joined: 15 Mar 2010
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 Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:19 pm Post subject: Atkinson lorry |
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Hi, thought I'd try out the forum by posting a bit about my old lorry. It's a 1974 Atkinson Defender which carries my 1932 Speedway fairground ride.
Are there any other Atki owners on the forum?
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Rick
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
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Location: UK
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k_rustyforum
Joined: 08 Mar 2008
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Ironhead
Joined: 28 Mar 2010
Posts: 458
Location: Leicestershire
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| when i win the lottery i will treat myself to an atki borderer! |
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Roger-hatchy
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
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Location: Tiptree, Essex
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Used to drive an Atkinson artic for Welches transport.
Had a Gardner 180 with a DB 6 speed box
Fully frieghted out of Avonmouth north up the M5 onto the M4 couldn't get it over 30 MPH till off that climb and on the M4 |
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Ironhead
Joined: 28 Mar 2010
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Location: Leicestershire
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| hello roger.when i started driving,i drove a seddon-atki 400 with a 180 and david brown splitter,for carryfast.seemed an awesome bit of kit for a young driver then! |
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Paul Grimshaw
Joined: 15 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Ironhead wrote: | | hello roger.when i started driving,i drove a seddon-atki 400 with a 180 and david brown splitter,for carryfast.seemed an awesome bit of kit for a young driver then! |
This ones got a Cummins 220 and a Fuller 10 speed box. Slow on the hilss when fully loaded.  |
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Ironhead
Joined: 28 Mar 2010
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Location: Leicestershire
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| do you know it's history paul? |
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Paul Grimshaw
Joined: 15 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:22 am Post subject: |
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| Ironhead wrote: | | do you know it's history paul? |
It was new to Moffats Haulage of Cornhill-on-Tweed, Coldstream in Sept 1974. It was supplied as a flatbed with a body length of about 24ft. The cab colour was Mid Brunswick Green with red rad and top bumper. I've got a few photos of the lorry as it was when with Moffats. There is also a copy of a painting showing the lorry with a livestock box sitting on the flatbed. The other pics show the lorry with a sheeted load of bagged potatoes.
I don't know what it did from leaving Moffats to being rebuilt.
The rebuild was done by Gary and John Pearce from Cornwall in 2007. |
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Swampthing
Joined: 02 Feb 2010
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Location: Market town of Melton Mowbray
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Definatly an outfit to be proud of that! , one of my first artic,s that I drove was a 401 with a eaton box, used to shunt between Lutterworth and Blaby in leicester, 9 1/2 miles each way carrying disposable butchers hats etc, got that board after 4 months I even counted the white lines and lamp-posts.
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Ironhead
Joined: 28 Mar 2010
Posts: 458
Location: Leicestershire
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| Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:27 am Post subject: |
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| what company did you work for at lutterworth? i used to work for carryfast at north kilworth. |
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woodstock
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