BC Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Yes Nigel most likely off a Class Matador that was broken up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Look what I found on a farm while we were silaging . ... . A REAL Britains Livestock/Tanker/Cement/Skip truck!! Never seen one before, this one was badged Fiat. She looks like she may have seen better days than this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Nice find Tris but looks too far gone for a restoration project ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 There was also a not to far gone Triumph Vitesse convertible. Looked like a binned restoration project. We had a 13/60 1600 I think it was, not a convertible though. Dad took too long restoring it and ended up on a rush job just to get it gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 I remember those Triumph's Tris. You don't see many of these even on teh rally showfields these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 I've enquired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughmaster Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Look what I found on a farm while we were silaging . ... . A REAL Britains Livestock/Tanker/Cement/Skip truck!! Never seen one before, this one was badged Fiat. She looks like she may have seen better days than this! Nearly, but that's the Fiat version - the Britains one was based on the Magirus Deutz (http://www.magirusdeutz.co.uk/images/256320.jpg). That one has certainly seen better days (and a lot of worse ones too!) I think they were basically the same cab, with different grille and the Fiat using a Fiat engine and the Magirus using a Deutz. IVECO (Industrial Vehicle Corporation) was formed in 1975 from Magirus Deutz, Unic, Fiat Trucks, OM and Lancia Special Vehicles. The brands were amalgamated under the IVECO name in the mid 80's, and Iveco merged with Ford Trucks (UK) in 1986. A farm I worked on 20 years ago had the 'Magical' Deutz version with a pig box on it, but sadly I don't have a pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 It's a good enough version for me considering Britains tried to fool us with a Ford Cargo with this cab aswell as a Mercedes! I thought there was a Fiat Britains one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 theres an iveco one, a merc one and a ford one from memory tris, dont remember a fiat ,well persoanlly that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughmaster Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 I thought there was a Fiat Britains one The toy was based on the Magirus Deutz 168M-16FL, and yes, there was a Fiat version - an IVECO FIAT (which has the same grille/front panel as the Magirus Deutz which is different from the earlier FIAT shown in the nettles). The full list of Britains variants was: Magirus Deutz IVECO IVECO FIAT Mercedes (cement mixer) Volvo (fuel tanker) Leyland (MMB milk tanker) Ford (skip lorry and later versions of the cattle truck) The later milk tankers, including the US issue 'Real Inc' milk tanker and the last version of the cattle lorry had no manufacturers badging at all. Of those, only the two Iveco versions were correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Ah, I knew that much at least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 Look what I found on a farm while we were silaging . ... . A REAL Britains Livestock/Tanker/Cement/Skip truck!! Never seen one before, this one was badged Fiat. She looks like she may have seen better days than this! i'm surprised really tris , living down the road from frome ! these magi deutz & iveco trucks were popular 8wheeler tipper chassis - cab combo's in their day , but must admit the larger artic iveco turbostars were quite popular too. the smaller variant 7.5 tonner iveco-fiat were also popular for cattle box / horse box bodies, know a haulier who ran turbostars, really reliable engines & drivelines , shame they rusted out else he'd still be buying them , still kept buying iveco, after the turbostars he had the ford iveco eurotechs & eurostars, now just runs iveco eurostar, soon run stralis i expect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 We'd be talking before I'd noticed the trucks I expect though mate. I remember Daf 2/3000, Volvo FL10, Merc (SK?) and Leyland Constructors but never an Iveco before seeing a Turbostar. Same block (V8) as a marine variant used in tugboats I am told by Mums partner who used to drive one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH885XLMAN Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 I wonder if those britains lorrys could be converted to look like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted June 14, 2009 Author Share Posted June 14, 2009 looky see what i been finding ! couple of usefull trailers a nice Kidd direct cut forager to fill them with & for some fert spreading the use of either a taskers land drive or an amazone now please excuse my ignorance about the taskers land drive but i've never seen one fitted with the top hopper , so i'm asuming that it was a way of loading 100cwt bags into it from trailer or floor level ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eurodeere Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Great pics and a great idea of topic, well done. The taskers hopper is for loading 50kg/100cwt bags from ground level when bags were all handled manually. Lorries arrive loaded with Nitram, unload by hand with the drivers into low cart sheds. Then remove into the hopper and empty into the spreader. Wouldn't have mattered if the sheds were accessable, we didn't have a loader tractor! Vicon had a similar system for the Multispreader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted June 14, 2009 Author Share Posted June 14, 2009 ah thanks ED thought it might have been , have only once used a taskers land drive & seen many working , but thats the first one i've seen fitted with the loading hopper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Will add mine later Marcus from the 80's museum farm we were chopping at yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL FORD Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Parmiter folding chain harrows too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Will add mine later Marcus from the 80's museum farm we were chopping at yesterday. whats wrong with 80's stuff then tris :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Nothing, it was great. The farmer hardly sells a thing when he upgrades and always buys second hand. So say he has over ten trailed foragers dotted about the farm and three self propelleds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 hope you get some pics then mate, should be some very intresting stuff in that lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Got a few but I want to go back for more, loads I didn't see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James T Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Ransomes Unitrac Major Plough near Kippen, Stirlingshire: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashmach Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 Nothing, it was great. The farmer hardly sells a thing when he upgrades and always buys second hand. So say he has over ten trailed foragers dotted about the farm and three self propelleds! Sounds like a guy near us :D Come on Trissle we are waiting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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