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Max Thunder wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:32 pm 8-) Hi
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MLOR wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2020 2:03 pm Anyone able to identify what make/model of van this is?
Possibly a British built Chevrolet/Bedford, going by the body length and general styling.
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8-) Hi
Having returned back to Northamptonshire to visit our parents etc I decided to take the dogs for a walk. . Next to the lane were I walk the dogs an industrial estate has been built on what was previously a farm.
The problem is that the Sat Nav's direct lorries down this lane passed the entrance to the estate (which is clearly sign posted )

It's a well known problem and companies on the estate are reportedly telling delivery drivers not to follow there Sat Navs but follow the signs .
However a few still miss the estate and have to turn around in local roads which gets the curtains/Facebook twitching etc
Still with me. Trust me it's gonna be worth it .
Yesterday while I was walking back up I was saw this in the distance a driver had driven past the houses and down the lane
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Not only had he driven into the lane but quite a way down it before realising his mistake and reversing out which I thought he was doing .

But no he was being assisted out and as I got close I glimpsed the colour orange my loins began to turtle and what was doing the assisting .

Ladies and Gentlemen one of Mr David Crouch's finest ,a Scammell S24 no less
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Not only that Mr David Crouch was in attendance himself
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It (she) sounded as good as it looked
When I asked Mr Crouch if it was ok to take photos he did comment why the driver had not stopped at the gate .Well words to that effect anyway
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That Scammell is a beauty.
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Can’t see the word Scammell without thinking about wheelnuts. I know 10yrs old.
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A lass started a thread about that issue on a FB biker page recently. It nearly reads like a thread here at times!
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Bangernomics wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2020 6:25 pm Can’t see the word Scammell without thinking about wheelnuts. I know 10yrs old.
I have posted a picture in the WTC car and girls thread in response to this. Your welcome :lol:
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8-) Hi
Some what I saw at Classic in the Streets thing Raunds Northamptonshire

Not sure if the Fairground Scammell has any working Showland history but the owner has. Actually if I hadn't been in a shity mood that day I could have read the board and I would have known. :roll:
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Can't speak for the entire life of that Scammell Highwayman but I think those numberplates (BGO series) were commonly used by Shell-BP on their tanker fleet and many of those tractor units have indeed ended up with ballast or similar conversions for use by Showmen - either latter-day or indeed as they came off the road fleets.
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