Early Plastic Cab Atkinsons

Detective, I found this lovely thing using Mr Google in Big Lorry Blogg and the caption reads Regular contributor Richard Stanier has sent me these two pictures and the following comment: "With regard to the excellent Australian Atkinson on yesterday's blog, I wondered if you may be interested in the attached scans from my collection." Err...I think that's a question demanding the answer yes! A "skippy cabbed" Atkinson Roadtrain

so does Skippy Cab refer to "Australian" or is there something else that makes this truck different?
and what a great picture.

/me

...yeah, i guess Sarge that the ''skippy cab'' moniker would have to apply to all of our Mk's 1, 2 and 3, as well as the 3800 and 4800 series....

...also that lovely pic shows a Russ bullbar....who no longer make bullbars unfortunately :'( :'(

That picture is also the cover of 'Big Rigs Down Under', a book by Jim Johnson, released sometime in the '80s from memory.

Far be it from me to question Swischenmeisters integrity and impartiality, but I noted his comment about "slugs"
RE : Pommy lorry
Always was n always will B
More like a slug try n to move

I wonder why it is that these AUSTRALIAN built trucks were chosen to do the real big work and the yankee stuff kept was on the bitumen with light loads.... or did I misunderstand something...

/me

...to me it was horses for courses....i s'pose back in the sixties it was an Atkinson for the heavy moves and a Kenny or Pete for the highway stuff.....

.....of course the lines eventually got blurred!

Far be it from me to question Swischenmeisters integrity and impartiality, but I noted his comment about "slugs"
RE : Pommy lorry
Always was n always will B
More like a slug try n to move

I wonder why it is that these AUSTRALIAN built trucks were chosen to do the real big work and the yankee stuff kept was on the bitumen with light loads.... or did I misunderstand something...

/me

It all comes down to gearing- Yankee iron was geared to do 100 MPH to get there yesterday and the Pommy stuff was geared for driving Miss Daisy around the countryside of a Sunday arvo...

...and the Macks back then have to get a mention when it came to the big shifts as well ...

....jeeez .. the ''need for speed'' really made a hash of things for a few good truck manufacturing companies having to re invent the wheel trying to keep pace with the changing times .....

Yup
Comparin slugs to Yanky Iron

Yanky........................Slugs
Race Horse.................Draught Horse
Race Seat...................Arm Chair
Corvette.....................Morris Minor
Get up n go................Wait n to get up
max n out...................Slug n it out
Speed Boat.................Row Boat
a Quick Day................Very Slo day

Yanky Trucks have extreme weather like Australia wiff Many miles /Kilometers to get from A - B wiff wide open spaces

Pommy Lorries travel in mainly a colder climate than Oz n only have to go a few hours travel n U B there wiff cramped road conditions

Guess n all D a bove

Butt
Az Always
EyeDoSt&2BCorrected

cya

...c'mon Swishy .. the Yankee trucks have only ever been an extension of a mad cowboy on a crazy stallion eh mate?

...'scuse me for the topic drift ...it's all Sarge's fault!

RE : mad cowboy on a crazy stallion

Hay


Eye represent th@



LOL

cya