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come on the market. This red and white liveried six-wheel tractor unit was first registered in 1975 and is thought to have been used to pull trailers for the Formula One team Brabham.
When the present owner Trevor Streeter bought it it had been sitting in a field for five years and cost just .C1,000. 1k' Mot set about restoring it at a cost of more than £40,000. Streeter exhibited the truck for more than si,x years and picked up hundreds of awards for best customised truck, he says.
The immaculate truck is plated and, according to Streeter, has a genuine 300,000 miles on the clock. Those interested should contact Trevor Streeter on (0276) 473156.
ur correspondents occasionally venture over the Atlantic to report on US truck shows, but their stories inevitably Focus on the vehicles and equipment. An insight into the way our cousins run such events was given by the IRU Congress in San Diego, which was organised by the American Trucking Associations.
Take the delegates' badges. UK reserve demands a surname and initial; in San Diego everyone was sporting badges with huge first names to encourage that transAtlantic chumminess.
Hacks were less impressed when they were handed the glasses of iced brown liquid awaiting them at dinner. Pimms? Martini? No such luck. The health-conscious hosts plumped for iced tea with never a sign of milk and two sugars, let alone a nice digestive.
mhat does a livestock haulier from north0 west Sweden do for his holidays? He goes off to the Smoke to see Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London—and a haulage yard in Deptford. Weg 15 of them did, as part of an annual trip that this year took in Robson Road Haulage
The Swedes met up with Ted Robson for a ceremony at which the Scania Centurion & Streamline Owners' Club gave .C2,500 to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital fund
The Scandinavian visitors, not wishing to be le out, dipped into their pockets and chipped in with another Z100. Here big Ted (right), founder of the club, stands by as Scartiruck boss Mike Ellithorn hands over the cheque
Robson dray horses Thunder and Lightning resist the temptation to nibble at Mike's suit. ail Freight driver Allan Locke went through a dreadful ordeal last September when he was attacked at Shoreditch, London within yards of the Barclays Bank that was awaiting his cargo: 20 tonnes of 10p coins worth f..300,000.
Locke was moving the coins from the Royal Mint factory at Llantrisant, Mid Glamorgan when he was assaulted, thrown into a van and left for four hours before being released. One hopes that he has recovered enough to share my pleasure at the twist of fate that landed the man behind the attack in the dock. Robert Rogers boasted of his crime to a friend—in an east London house that had been bugged by police investigating another crime.
Happy to kill two jailbirds with one stone, the police duly did their duty and recovered more than half the two-bob bits as well as feeling the collar of the Nagger.
ateliers have to be ready
for anything, so maybe the folk at John G Russell (Rampart) weren't too surprised by a call to more 145 containers from Glasgow to Leith within a week.
OK, so moving containers isn't exactly new for the road/rail transport division of the Scottish Russell Group, but in this case they're being assembled into a 100ft-high base for a sculpture by Scotsman David Mach, On top of Russell's containers Mach's building a Greek-style parthenon out of 8,000 tyres provided by Knit? Fit The sculpture, which will dominate the Leith skyline, is part of Edinburgh's bid to become City of Architecture and Design 1999. No doubt local residents will fret their lives enriched when they glance up at this neo-classical exercise in lyre recycling