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The Tilbury picture must be the first historically recorded use of hi-viz.

Welcome along.
Bolinder engines are popular in older canal boats here so if it's engine manuals you need, you may find some help on canal boat sites.
Good luck with your quest, any photos of your project?

Well done, now get out there and play!

Hi Dan, It's nearly 40 years since I had much to do with a 275 so memories are somewhat fuzzy, but I think there is a hand wheel under the seat to the rhs of the gearbox marked 'higher - lower'. If the links seem to stop at the same place try going up, then wind the wheel towards lower. Let the arms...

The pic of the cement works is so crisp it could almost be a model.

Interesting way of getting in-and out of the cab... :think: Yes it made me smile when I saw it. :) Jeremy For slim drivers only for sure! ;) I'm surprised that it isn't a British truck or company as that is the sort of idea we would have come up with. :lol: Jeremy Thompson Autotanker springs to mind.

catalogue
https://tsauction.co.uk/wp-content/uplo ... EDUCED.pdf

The colour scheme is definitely Collins, do you fancy a 4x4 Teleshift to go with it???

Link...
https://tsauction.co.uk/auction/vintage ... artefacts/

Hmm.., Ford skid, seems odd to have all those levers yet the standard hand throttle is missing. Is it adapted for a disabled driver?