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12 years 9 months ago #75576 by knighty
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and a couple more.... i liked the versatile, twas in really good nick for a old machine.

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think the m'c grath has a couple a ton on it

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never seen a hook up like this one

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....jk...
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12 years 9 months ago #75577 by hayseed
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Knighty, Mate. That's a Scammel coupling on the Bedstead.
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12 years 9 months ago #75578 by knighty
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"please explain" H seed, does that mean 'pommy' and what vintage would it be....jk.
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12 years 9 months ago #75579 by hayseed
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Yeah, Knighty. Pommy, & 'bout the same vintage as the Beddy.

Oak Dairy at Hexham had a Fleet of trailers with those couplings ,as did Dairy Farmers at (I think) Penrith...

Mammoth'd be the Man to set this thing straight.......
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12 years 9 months ago #75580 by knighty
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there ya go seed, thought the coupling woulda been a lot older than the beddy seein' i've never seen one ,,,,jk.
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12 years 9 months ago - 12 years 9 months ago #75581 by hayseed
Replied by hayseed on topic Re: Truckin about the district
I think It was developed just prior to WW2,

This'll tell you about it ;)

www.mechanical-horse-club.co.uk/Automatic%20coupling.htm

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12 years 9 months ago #75582 by BK
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ICI Brisbane also had a fleet of those trailers.
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12 years 9 months ago #75583 by olddon
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Metro-Ice in Melbourne had them in the late 40's.I used to watch them hooking up at their depot across the road from my school in Errol St Nth Melbourne in about 1948-49.

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12 years 9 months ago #75584 by waynestr
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Yeah, Knighty. Pommy, & 'bout the same vintage as the Beddy.

Oak Dairy at Hexham had a Fleet of trailers with those couplings ,as did Dairy Farmers at (I think) Penrith...

Mammoth'd be the Man to set this thing straight.......


Dairy Farmers Sydney also had them. They had a depot on the Cnr. of Grose and McCarthur Sts Parramatta. I served my apprenticeship opposite their depot. 1963 to 1968. They where on bonneted Bedfords

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12 years 9 months ago #75585 by fageol100
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Notice how short the TK with the Scammell coupling is, I think KFA/KGA/KHA tractor units were 96" wheelbase. The S model with Scammell coupling was even shorter-SA-86" w.b.

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