Atkinson

In this months Just Trucks is advertised an Atki with a Willenhall cab. unfortunately without the Gardner. Willenhall cabs were all steel and usually seen on 7 ton BMCs of the late 50's but were an option for the Atki.

BP Oil Company Atkinson-possibly a T746 model with 112 h.p. Gardner 6LW engine. The cab was built by Autolifts and Engineering Company of Blackburn, England. This firm's cabs were also fitted to some 1950s Albions.

Autoloifts did build some steel cabs for Atkinson (Blackburn is only 10 miles from Preston), but I thought this was a Motor Panels cab?

I'm pretty sure this is an Autolifts cab, 240 Gardner, Peter Davies used a picture of a Mayne Nickless Atkinson with a cab, which I thought was the same as this, which he described as an Autolifts cab.

I know the Mayne Nickless machine you mean, but it

http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac104/0198grandad/bth_280_zpsb4185064.jpg?t=1371764860

wonder if this will work..........
this Atkinson brochure mentions a steel cab

In this months Just Trucks is advertised an Atki with a Willenhall cab. unfortunately without the Gardner. Willenhall cabs were all steel and usually seen on 7 ton BMCs of the late 50's but were an option for the Atki.

I have never seen any pictures of Atkinsons with Willenhall cabs-anybody got any photos?

Just found this picture of an Atkinson with a Willenhall cab contracted to cart Rocla pipes.

Not brilliant pictures, but I think both of these have Autolifts steel cabs.

think this one has the Autolifts cab as well

think this one has the Autolifts cab as well

I think you're right Grandad, TVW-Transport Vehicles Warrington, I think, built by North Cheshire Motors of Warrington using Sentinel chassis and parts after Sentinel stopped manufacturing trucks in 1957.

Here's another one for you, this is what I used to drive in the late 60s and early 70s. Cummins 250 engine, ZF 6-speed constant mesh gearbox, NZ designed and built Taylor-Hull cab. Mobil had a big fleet of these as well as some with the Australian RP cab.

http://i842.photobucket.com/albums/zz350/vicandval/Atkinson_zps4f1dfbbb.jpg?t=1371784373

The Rocla is the one in Just Trucks and the vendor has used that picture, so no telling what it looks like now.

This is a BMC with the Willenhall cab - different wings and front infill panel.

This is the same cab as fitted to export Albions.

Two Albions - the nearest has the pressed steel Autolifts cab and the far one has the earlier pre 1950 cab