The Classic Machinery Network

Seconded great pics. The old Scammell Pioneer has a big job on getting that excavator out of the mud. I know by winching very very slowy with snatch blocks they could achieve amazing feats. The white 4x4 with the Scammell is interesting it is a Portugese UMM. There were a lot of weird and wonderful...

Billy26F5 wrote:Nice JCB brochures there, not many of the later 2D's around, and I suspect few were used as intended.
Sandy

We used to drop off the MF 220 from the MF 203 and that worked but the JCB would be a numb old lump I reckon.

Will you put up some photos if possible?

I've gone the other way even further, my 3c3 with a 4/98 had liner issues and I had no time to dig right into it, and I got a really wrecked 3c2 with a 38dt in it. Its now in my 3c3 currently and I have the 4/98 stashed swearing to rebuild it properly one day and run it up on a dyno for a few heat ...

Staggering how those Bedford tiipers got around in the sh1t.
The photo of the AEC Marshall and the Wetherill 62B so typical of the era.

Norm, if you could find a joiner to link the first pipe in to the last one, bypassing the clamps, you might see what happens with the clamps?

Norm, if it is like the older 3C, then the lever is little more than an on off valve. I have not looked into it, but there must be a non return valve in the supply to the clamps. The line to the clamps is pressurised when other services are operated, particularly to dead end. The clamps may graduall...

I am sure the late Fred (Folwer fame) wrote some info here on CMN? Not sure how to find it.

What happened to the top rail?