Albion 4 Wheel Drop Side Tipper Lorry
Commercial Vehicles
A 1936 Albion tipper lorry, petrol engine, in original owners name.
Handle start and pedal controls from left to right, clutch, accelerator, brake.
Aveling Barford Barford Calf Dozer Tractor
Tractors
Here's something a little different, a Calddozer.
Made by Aveling Barford of Grantham.
A Calfdozer because it is smaller than a Bulldozer.
Single Cylinder Armstrong Siddeley Diesel Engine.
If ever a machine justified a seat belt, this would be it.
Blackstone Large Spring Injection Oil Engine
Engines
Spring Injection Blackstone Engine as acquired.
The frame could at best be described as inadequate.
Blue Slate Hole Punch
Memorabilia
Adjustable blue slate nail hole punch, which would offer uniformity in the position of the holes and help to deliver straight lines on the roof.
All you have to do is insert the slate against the stop and wind the threaded punch.
Bristol Crawler Jowett Engine Tractor
Tractors
Bristol 10 Crawler tractor with a flat 4, side valve Jowett engine. This tractor is from the 1930's. Later machines were fitted with Austin 10 engines, of which there was an ample post war supply.
The Front driven sprockets made these machines a safe option for working on inclines.
Castrol Oil Drum
Memorabilia
A 5 Gallon Castrol Oil Drum.
This is not painted but the steel was embossed before the drum was formed.
Crossley HD14 99Hp
Engines
99 Horsepower Crossley engine, made in Manchester.
A nice exhibit, complete with it's original starting bar, fuel tank, air receiver, starting compressor and exhaust assembly.
Diamond 1943 T M20-981
Military Vehicles
Diamond T model M20 - 981
Provided in large numbers (about 5,000) by the US in WWII, not only to the UK but to all Allied Forces.
This is a beast of a machine , it's 14.7 litre Hercules Diesel engine and 12 speed transmission does make it something special.
Designed to pull the Rodgers M9 trailer carrying a 50 ton payload on it's 24 wheels.
Has to be driven to be appreciated.
Fordson E27N Petrol – Paraffin Roadless
Tractors
Fordson E27N Petrol / Paraffin with Roadless half track conversion.
Picture taken above Blackmoorfoot Reservoir, Huddersfield.
Newly restored at the time waiting for the Aluminium Grill.
Fordson Standard N Tractor
Tractors
Fordson Standard at Marsden Carnival in the 1990's.
You can almost smell the TVO fuel
The Fordson E27N partially in view is also in the collection.
Fordson Standard N Tractor
Tractors
No punctures with these wheels, but strictly for off road use.
Where and when this picture was taken isn't known, although the black hair would suggest it was many years ago.
Lister and Fowler Engines
Engines
A few old favourites, by Lister and Fowler
Operation Market Garden – Netherlands
Military Vehicles
Full Steam ahead, on board the Harwich - Hook of Holland Ferry, September 2019
Destination "A Bridge Too Far", XXX Corps 75th commemoration
Ransomes MG40
Tractors
Ransomes MG40 Horticultural Tractor.
The last of the MG models, having been preceded by models, 2, 5 ,and 6.
Fitted with the Sachs Diesel Engine
Cost in 1960 was about £450.00
Scammell 45t Drawbar Tractor
Commercial Vehicles
A 1931 Scammell tug with the engine, gearbox and drive axle close coupled and linked to the rear wheels by chain drives, this gave an option for different gear ratios by changing the sprocket size.
Featuring Scammell's own 4 cylinder petrol engine with a full width in cab petrol tank!
Scammell Highwayman at Ness
Commercial Vehicles
You can't get much further north than this, the lighthouse at Ness (Nis), the Butt of the Isle of Lewis.
526 miles from base and a ferry trip from Isle of Skye to Harris and Lewis.
At a leisurely pace a 2 week round trip!
Scammell Highwayman at Standedge
Commercial Vehicles
Scammell Highwayman with Machinery Carrier trailer pulling up the A62 at Standedge, above Marsden. A main Yorkshire - Lancashire route prior to the opening of the M62. Like so many trucks of it's time powered by the Gardner 6LW.
Geared to give a top speed of less than 30MPH hills aren't a problem.
Scammell New Type K20 Rigid 6 at Lockwood Viaduct
Commercial Vehicles
Scammell Rigid 6 photographed next to Lockwood viaduct in Huddersfield.
An impressive stone structure,120 ft high, the viaduct was built in 4 years and completed in 1850.
Over the years a challenge to throw a cricket ball over it has been successfully achieved on several occasions.
Scammell Pioneer Ballast Tractor
Military Vehicles
A unique truck taking a well earned rest at The Carriage House, having climbed the long pull up Standedge on the A62 west of Huddersfield.
At 8 / 10 MPH she made steady progress but got there in the end.
Thorneycroft Mighty Antar
Military Vehicles
Thorneycroft , known as the "Mighty Antar"
Made in 1964 in Basingstoke
Widely adopted for military use, with 3 and half inch pin 5th wheel coupling for tank transporter trailer.
16 Litre supercharges Rolls Royce engine, designed for a gross trai weight of 100 tonnes+.
10ft 9 inches wide!
Mighty in every sense of the word!
United Dairies – Scammell MU
Commercial Vehicles
Registered 1951, Being prior to 1960 and unladened, this combination can be driven with no restrictions by a category B (car) licence holder.
Warsop Road / Concrete / Rock Breaker
Memorabilia
A Pre 1960 Warsop Road/ Concrete/ Rock Breaker with integral 2 stroke engine.
Note the geared starting handle.
It was advertised as being light to use, it all depends what it is being compared to!