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two new Leyland tippers started work in pristine condition, Scottish operator McIntosh Plant sent a low-loader down to Peterborough to pick up the vehicles from body builder PPG fabri cations. Makes sense as it saved on drivers' wages, tyre wear and fuel. But for the new tippers the cushy life will soon be over when they begin what McIntosh intends to be a long and fruitful working life in Aberdeen.
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your cake and eat it, ev though it's so heautiftl you might not want to, wa Scania marketing man Day' Burke who turned 40 recently.
The cake, iced in Scania primrose yellow. was baked b David's wife Anna who reasoi* that as her husband "live. dreams, and sleeps Scanias, can jolly well eat one too."
The cake carried a full load of currants, raisins, sultanas and orange peel and if the newly mature Mr Burke succeeded in scoffing the lot. I'd say he was in danger of an overloading offence.
ilk ire drawbars and low-height wheels, summoning up that extra capacity on a trailer took a certain amount oi ingenuity, especially during wartime in Sweden. This ingenious, if somewhat wobbly, solution was spotted on a 1937 Clwvvy at a recent historic truck event. The telescopic carrier, hinged to the rear of the fixed body and supported on a single road wheel, is reputed to have given its Scandinavian owner an additional 250kg of payload on a vehicle fuelled by a front-mounted generator gas unit. You see? We had to make our own entertainment in those days.
10 1 a recent reunion of York Railer personnel, from the original regime of founder Fred Davies, some of the company's astute marketing strategies were revealed. If you bought a York Freightmaster semi-trailer van in the 1960s.
11 were offered a choice of 16 or 18-gauge panelling There was a 1200 premium .416-gauge which was deemed irresistible by 95% of ..ostorners, enhancing York's ! potation of giving value for money and helping to fight oft" competition from Crane Fruehauf Vanguard The Hawk can now reveal that the 5% who opted for the cheaper panelling got a real bargain. Ex-York sales manager Alan le Marquand confessed at the dinner it was too costly, in inventory terms, to stock two thicknesses of aluminium sheet. As a result, all Freightmasters had the I6-gauge!