RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted March 11, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2015 I've posted a picture on the BR Prototype forum which I need some help with.......lorry type and location. A link to the topic is HERE thanks in advance for the help. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
river ewayon Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Just joined forum so way behind. Location prob west coast main line early 70s pre electrification. Looks like Crawford / Beattock area but you've prob got a better answer since posting. As for the lorry, tried zooming in but definition too poor due to pixilation but might be Bedford TK. However, I have doubts as detail looks wrong. It could be a Mercedes 1960s vintage, maybe a LS333, possibly run by Entress Haulage of Lamsamlet near Morrison, Sth Wales as the colour looks right . If you have found out would love to know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitchinLoco Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Just joined forum so way behind. Location prob west coast main line early 70s pre electrification. Looks like Crawford / Beattock area but you've prob got a better answer since posting. As for the lorry, tried zooming in but definition too poor due to pixilation but might be Bedford TK. However, I have doubts as detail looks wrong. It could be a Mercedes 1960s vintage, maybe a LS333, possibly run by Entress Haulage of Lamsamlet near Morrison, Sth Wales as the colour looks right . If you have found out would love to know. Just joined forum so way behind. Location prob west coast main line early 70s pre electrification. Looks like Crawford / Beattock area but you've prob got a better answer since posting. As for the lorry, tried zooming in but definition too poor due to pixilation but might be Bedford TK. However, I have doubts as detail looks wrong. It could be a Mercedes 1960s vintage, maybe a LS333, possibly run by Entress Haulage of Lamsamlet near Morrison, Sth Wales as the colour looks right . If you have found out would love to know. Hard to make out the truck but could be a Hillmaster or perhaps Ford Thames Ttrader but both the TK and Ford do not have a split screen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Hard to make out the truck but could be a Hillmaster or perhaps Ford Thames Ttrader but both the TK and Ford do not have a split screen. Definitely not a trader, the location of the front axle looks set quite far back. Not sure about a Merc either. It could be a custom built cab on a mainstream chassis, I have never seen anything like it before Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Definitely not a trader, the location of the front axle looks set quite far back. Not sure about a Merc either. It could be a custom built cab on a mainstream chassis, I have never seen anything like it beforeI did wonder about a Magirus-Deutz, who certainly did split-screen, bonneted types until quite late. Not sure about it being an Entress lorry, though. The ones I remember from around Swansea in the 1960s were pretty conventional; Ergomatic-cabbed wagons of various makes, DAF 2800s and such like. Certainly nothing as exotic as a Magirus-Deutz. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Agree, not a Trader or Merc nor a Bedford TK nor a Rowe Hillmaster. I did wonder about Saviem but couldn't find anything to match. As 37114 muses, maybe a custom cab job? It's quite a curvy, stylish, shape and the upper part with those large windscreens make me think of some of the oddball fibreglass jobs that were around in the 1970's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 The location seems to be beyond doubt, it was a familiar spot on my frequent trips up and down the A74 in the 1980s. The truck is a real teaser though. It looks as though it could be a Boalloy cab, the type used by ERF, Thorneycroft, Guy, BMC and numerous others in the early 1960s but the horizontal grille flanked by the headlights doesn't match the style of any of the common users of this cab. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitchinLoco Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 From some colleagues on a tucking site,, very sure it is this attached Albion Caledonian Road Service Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Well spotted, bit more here; http://www.commercialmotor.com/big-lorry-blog/ancient-artic-abion-chieftans Albion chassis' were provided to a number of coach builders and there were a number of unusual cabbed versions in service. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catkins Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 having looked at the original picture from the link in the first post - I was thinking the truck was an Atkinson, as they used some rather stylish cabs with split screens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted January 2, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2, 2016 It may have taken 9 months but thank you all very much for nailing the tractor unit. Brilliant work..........and an unusual type too. I'll get the caption updated shortly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
river ewayon Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Well spotted. I forgot about the Caledonian Albion. Certainly the right colour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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