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essexpete wrote:Was it chip oil? even more environment friendly.

Wouldn't of liked my chips fried in it Pete yes it made me smile somewhat an environmental statement with an oil slick beneath it

Jeremy

Jeremy Rowland wrote:

essexpete wrote:Was it chip oil? even more environment friendly.

Wouldn't of liked my chips fried in it Pete yes it made me smile somewhat an environmental statement with an oil slick beneath it Jeremy/quote]

Zippos come from near Newbury - I've been at the test station at the same time as some of them and it smells like a chip shop in the test hall after they have gone through

Steve

A couple of tippers seen at Basingstoke Transport Festival today
Tim

tim wrote:A couple of tippers seen at Basingstoke Transport Festival today

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Tim

Nice Dodge Tim With that reg number it must have come from Reading Garage - I think H & J also have a D series

Steve

(Glad the weather stayed nice for it)

tim wrote:A couple of tippers seen at Basingstoke Transport Festival today

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the scammell looks nice,wonder how they get around the lez in london

The Routeman has me gagging, I loved em' I used to often pilot 1 of the last 3 Routeman tippers ever sold, the Boss bought all 3, I would make a stab at the year around 1980-1982 ish (might be earlier?), the common power unit in the 8 leggers was the Leyland 680 power plus hooked up to the AEC 6 speed overdrive box, they were a blinding set of wheels in their day, the last of the bunch had 280 Roller's poking stuff through a David Brown box, the proper tipper chassis had the single spring back ends, there was a standard chassis with the 4 spring set up, the C'o I was working for had 23 of em' plus a few left hook Maggies fitted with V10 motors, these were real power house's but the Scammell's used to earn me a good dollar, I used to get paid £3 a load doing between 24 and 28 loads a day, this was some heavy sheckels at the time, the Maggie's had some fare pigs of head bolts, great long fat things with I think ??? 13mm headed hexagons on the top of them,the torque and twist was hellish tight causing plenty of knackered sockets, but the V10 would set those wheels flying, anyhow I real loved to see the square eyed Scammell well done tim for your post

Nice pics Tim both tidy looking preserved examples.

Jeremy

where's the dumper pictures that was there at basingstoke?

Nice Tim (I mean the tippers )

And a few from this years Bakewell Showground Spectacular; the Circus TM looked awesome I would guess ex-military with a 10 litre Cummins in it?
The Boxer with the identity crisis was also nice to see and rare these days as the proverbial rocking horse doo doo.

Jeremy