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....Could be they used a additional axle..?... Interesting - yes it is quite possible, but depends how it fitted - the one shown below (only pic I can find) has the extra axle set further back, but the one in your York advert pics show it quite close to the tractor's axle, just like the recovery pi...

Fred, that's a Constructor or Junior Constructor you have there. I didn't know about this Ryan example, but Siddle C Cook of Consett ran one of these with a demountable ballast body which was also sometimes used as a 5th wheel tractor unit. The tractor in the recovery pic appears to be the much smal...

Snapped in Stockholm harbour. I guess it was deliberate rather than graffiti, there's a giraffe head on the end of the jib but we couldn't get around to the side for a better shot. Oh hang on - its animal , not plant ..... :doh: http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/images/userpix/31728_1O0HD23H1GW2...

That first one, Steve - I've never seen a 6 x 4 Highwayman-type before! A rare truck.
Can you tell from the original who the operator was?
In fact if you have a better resolution image, any chance of getting a copy?

Tony

Edit: No problem - managed to enlarge it. Looks like a tag axle?

The Matador / drawbar trailer was one used by the Airfield Construction Branch of the RAF. They also used Scammell Constructors with a huge steel ballast body (floor was 1 1/2" thick plate!) to pull Crane / Dyson drawbar trailers. Occasionally a Drott was carried in the body of the Scammell. On...

I'd best get the fuel tank repair finished off PDQ before a family of bats moves in and it becomes a listed site!!!!

CHASESIDE shovel application No 42: ROOST!

Sparrows operated Lorain mobile cranes. I reckon this is one - one of the MOTO CRANE models.

An old giant slumbering in the shade;

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That was snapped in the Market Harborough yard of Geoff Rhodes, the Scammell Constructor alongside earning its keep righting drunk tippers and pulling skip lorries and tippers out of local ditches.