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Re: Classic pictures Update 19/09/2017
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 10:26 pm
by Osgood
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?
Re: Classic pictures Update 19/09/2017
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 10:29 pm
by Jeremy Rowland
A couple of Jones KL44 cranes on the Volvo low-loader in the second photo
Jeremy
Re: Classic pictures Update 19/09/2017
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:33 pm
by Neversweat
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Osgood wrote: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?
image.jpeg
Re: Classic pictures Update 19/09/2017
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:56 pm
by pv83
Neversweat wrote:image.jpeg
Osgood wrote: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?
image.jpeg
Very interesting indeed! Does look like a tag axle, must have been a in-house conversion then..? Can't make out the name on the door though, does anyone have a clue about who owned it?
Cheers, Patrick
Re: Classic pictures Update 19/09/2017
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:46 pm
by FOWLER MAN
Here you go.
This Scammell was local to me and was double drive.
Fred
Re: Classic pictures Update 19/09/2017
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 8:11 pm
by Osgood
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 smaller Highwayman tractor with a tag axle added.
Harrison's of Sheffield ran a few with mid-mounted tag axles, but this is the first evidence I've seen of a rear axle added.
Tony
Re: Classic pictures Update 19/09/2017
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 8:56 pm
by essexpete
The Scammell in the recovery photo looks like a shorter wheelbase than Fred's photo. I know nought about Scammells.
Re: Classic pictures Update 19/09/2017
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 9:46 pm
by FOWLER MAN
Re: Classic pictures Update 19/09/2017
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 10:28 am
by Mrsmackpaul
In the bottom photo Fred I gather thats a trailed scraper on the float, what controls the front wheels from wondering all over the road when loaded like that ??
Do they spin the drawbar around and hook it on the rear of the float ?
Paul
Re: Classic pictures Update 19/09/2017
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 6:52 pm
by pv83
Neversweat wrote:image.jpeg
Osgood wrote: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?
Could be they used a additional axle..?
image.jpeg
