Roads

tommyd49 · Post by **tommyd49** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:01 pm

Is anyone interested in roads like me on this site?

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:31 am

Yes am into Road haulage as well as railways (sounds like a conterdiction I suposed to hate right

) I also have a great interest in Aviation. As far as Im consered if its got wheels I like it (Apart from shopping trolleys that is).

50A · Post by **50A** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:39 pm

Hi.
Like many other railway modellers, my interest in roads is centred around selecting appropriate vehicles for the peroid of the model. This is something that seems to only get the occasional mention in modelling press.

Andy

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:52 pm

Good point but there are model road vehicle specialist mags out there but the hole area of vehicles adds to the interest of a railway and I have a strong interest in the larger companies still around in the 1960s (Wynns, Pickfords and BRS) Pickfords being my favorite. Theres something about a huge scammel in dark blue and I find the trackside releases are great for them. I am currently dilerberating whether to buy the Heavy pickfords heavy haulage trucks (2, one in 1950s livery one in 1965 livery I think) perfect of my modelling era but its just the size of the thing it will meen finding somewhere else for my pair of smaller scammel ballest boxes (1 with BR crest on the door and one in standard pickfords) I also find vehicle good for getting realy good at inrecate painting and things like that. I also have a large collection of modern image locos and I find painting the cheep 1:82 scale german trucks into Yulls and Dodds livery quite a challenge

Post by **richard** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:31 pm

My first 'car' was older than myself, and here's an extract from its User Handbook:

http://www.winwaed.com/landy/mil/manual.shtml

Yes, it had quite a bit of history! Rolled off the Land Rover production line on the 29th or 20th December 1972 - forget the exact date but it was just enough to qualify for "Historic Vehicle" road tax, delivered to the British Army Ashchurch Depot on 17 Jan 1973. Passed around the regiments during the 1970s including a 12 month stint in Northern Ireland. Then it stayed with the Gurkhas during most of the 1980s until being demobbed in the late 1980s.

I learnt a lot about how cars work owning that vehicle. And there was a lot of space to work on it (unlike the dinky little sedan I have now) - I could even sit up underneath the rear when I was working on the rear propshaft!

I have some Landy pages up here:

http://www.winwaed.com/landy/landies.shtml

As the vehicle was a 24v radio wagon, it had some unusual electrical parts, so I've kept a lot of the circuit diagrams online incase they will be of use to other people.
The last I heard, it was still running, somewhere in Cambridgeshire...

Richard