Jim, what do you know about this truck? It sure is an odd looking rig. Was it bought like this, or was it a custom job?
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
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Jim, what do you know about this truck? It sure is an odd looking rig. Was it bought like this, or was it a custom job?
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Chipperfields used mostly retired WW2 military vehicles
from Jim Stockley: Exactly what Anonymous said .... " Chipperfields used mostly retired WW2 military vehicles". There were a lot of ex-military vehicles around in 1947/48 when the circus boom hit England. This looks like one of the FWD SuCo tractors, the show also had the Macks (as per the Corgi models). These "showman's tractors" would pull 3 x 30ft trailers each. By using tractors (which carried no load except maybe a generator for weight or some living accommodation for tentmen)they were exempt from a lot of taxes and licensing requirements ;-)
Jim,
"By using tractors (which carried no load except maybe a generator for weight or some living accommodation for tentmen)they were exempt from a lot of taxes and licensing requirements" is classic "show biz.: :) I heard a good one the other day, don't know if it is true or not, maybe Aldo can elaborate. I was noting how almost all structures, including homes in Mexico looked like they were either new structures being built, or structures that were half done and never completed. Almost all have rebar rods sticking out of the top wall, or rubble and bricks piled in the front. I was told that no takes have to be paid until a building is completed, so the gaff is to extend rebar out the top giving the impression you are going to be adding another story at some point, or the bricks and rubble to build another wing/room at a later date. Who ever quoted "laws were made to be broken" is as nutty as the one's now trying to tell the world what they can and can not have.
Wade
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