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I am not sure the Transcontinental was a very big seller. Seem to remember it was very heavy for 32 ton max UK artics at the time. It was also a complete Bitsa with almost everything bought in by Ford and many subcontract built by Foden for UK market. When they first came out two Wimpey Low loader d...

Merry Christmas all and many thanks to jeremy and Holger for keeping this site going..
Craig

Some nice ads from 1964 of Leyland competing with ....itself!

Two Hydrocons, two Whitlocks, one Ford 13/6 spotted in last few pages , great stuff
Craig

hair bear wrote:Don't see tippers that big on 4 axles, never mind 3.

The red Leyland Reiver 6 down , agree it is enormous, maybe some photo edit trickery but nothing else looks stretched and why ?

Craig

As Pete says this design was for 'fast tow'. Most of the mixer makers had a ' Fast Tow 'model in their range. Benford , Winget , Parker spring to mind. I do not think they were that popular as they would soon get caked in mortar. But as the small Bell type barrow mixers did not exist it was a major ...

The Fordson Major still reigns supreme in Redcar and Marske !
Around 50 still working I would guess .

Assume 2S restorers have seen the brochure pages on Bitish Dumper thread p.8 and 10-
British Dumper

This is just one page of it , they seem very proud of their axle !

This neat little crane of 1996 vintage turned up near me to lift some steel beams in for a loft conversion. ( Lots of steel seems to go into any roof alteration work these days , assume building reg.s have changed. ) Reminded me of smaller Hydrocons. To add to the flavour the street is full of 70 ye...

Three years later.
That Road Machines 'Whelp' is in fantastic condition..
Obviously goldfish do a lot less damage than bricks !
Whelp what a strange model name .

Craig