old girl probably only got 120 bhp. And designed to gross at 24 tons lol. Must be well over 30 with that lot its pulling 😂 no wounder she couldn't set back off
Remember the skid back in the 90's. I remember it being much faster than that. Strange how you see things again after 30 years. This one looks and sounds like it's from the 60's! 😆
Used to love watching the vehicles pulling on at our local fair in the 50s.My favourites were a couple of ex WD AEC Matadors.Both of these were owned by the same family.Both had large boards on the cab roof "CAUTION PULLING THREE TRAILERS"Great vehicles and great days.Many thanks.
When i was a kid in the early 60's i used to love looking at all the old English show wagons Guy Scammel ect most have gone now sadly and been replaced with Volvo's and such like as we have no British wagons anymore.
I don't know whether you still get on uchoob as this footage is 10 years old!!!. BUT I LOVE IT!! If you have any more PLEASE PLEASE get it uploaded, anyhow thanks andy. Liverpool UK
Fair enough i understand, but to guard against stalling and give the old girl enough power to crest the steep hill, i still have that cut down 6x4 ERF LV Genny Wagon coupled on the front with a solid bar for extra power and traction. I live at Forest Green Nailsworth at the top of a very steep hill used by heavy lorries, and steeper than the one the Atkii stalled on,. Several years ago a 6x4 ERF B Series Artic owned by a traveling fair like yours stalled on the steepest narrowest part of Spring Hill. and a danger spot, 350 of Clessie Cummins Best Ponies and the Fuller Roadranger in Grandma(Crawler) failed to move her coupled to a tri- axle trailer loaded with some sort of ride . Luckily another Lorry, a C Series ERF 8x4 Genny Wagon owned by the same travelling fair had gone up earlier towing a large living van. She was uncoupled from the van then carefully reversed down the narrow road, a bar coupled on and with the combined power of an L10-250 and NTE-350 Cummins the B Series Crested the hill with no further problem .
I agree with Billalbion, that poor L Series Atki 8 wheeler had her work cut out dragging the three axle trailer up that steep hill on a straight five speed David Brown box , there is only so much abuse a 6LW Gardner will take before one hundred twelve overworked Patricroft Ponies scream out enough is enough!!! . First gear is too tall, so iid guessed when new to her original owner the wagon was put on semi fast trunk work with a flat bed body, and specified with taller gearing. it is all down to bad planning , by Anderson&Rowland staff, they shouted have known this part of the route taken by the Atki, would be difficult and challenging. Me i would have collared that nice 6x4ERF A series Genny Wagon with the short stroke 250 iron lung Cummins, hitched her to the Atki with a solid bar, not a bit of your mother,s washing line, then attempt to climb that steep hill.
The Atki has navigated that hill many many times over the years - what you dont see on the video is that it had to stop on the hill as the driver of the lorry in front stalled their lorry. At that point on that part of the hill there was no way the Atki was going to pull away again.
the first gear is like 8mph, if thats still too tall then that engine is seriously underpowered, what a massive embarrassment these trucks are to Britain. Gutless shite
@@wharris302 you know that this is how it started this is the history of your transport industry, and as the saying goes wait until you walk a mile in another mans shies before you make comment
@@terrancebubbatrucks Presumably being used to go down hill and that's it? As clearly the small task of a small incline is too much to ask for this raft.
@@wharris302 that doesn’t make no sense but not really a small incline as the roundabout leaves you with no run up it would be interesting to see something like a p270 Scania with the same weight in its back towing the set up how that would cope I get there not powerful but there not embarrassing, when trucks of today can’t make it to 10 year old, trucks now are JUNK!
@@wharris302 fair point but if you watch the video it does sound like the driver lifts off the pedal before it runs out of steam I understand it’s slowing down but you can hear it Reving faster than idle then it stops and foots on the break but my point is there not embarrassing it’s impressive it must be 30 years old in the video it’s done it’s work then been retired then it’s been put to work on the fair it’s prolly running overloaded there impressive trucks, this modern shite won’t be running at 30 years old they will of been made into Heinz bean cans and toyotas... well the chassis at least there all plastic now
That model of Atkinson with the wider radiator like this one , would have had a Gardner 6LX 150 or an AEC 11,3 150BHP if he had this in bottom gear it should still climb that hill.
@@billalbion no. They're just awfully underpowered no matter what gearing it has. All old british heavy vehicles are. Trucks, buses, all beyond underpowered. However they will get you where you're going. Albeit very slowly and make sure there are no hills.
@@wharris302 what nonsense, how can you eliminate hills. Gearing allows low powered heavy motors the ability to climb hills. Foden 4 speed box had a extra crawler 1st and two reverse gears, high and low. If the Atki had a 2 to 1 drop box it would go up almost any hill.
@@billalbion if it just had a proper engine that wasn't underpowered as hell it wouldn't need special gearing for ROAD use. It obviously cannot climb hills as proven by this video! It's 1st gear is 5mph or so, if that's too tall, then it's hopeless anyway.
