Production in progress - from basic Solido and Verem models - of an EDF-GDF "team" in charge of erecting mid-power electrical lines on the French countryside during the sixties.

The first combination, made of a General Motors Co CCKW 352 6x6/2 cargo truck (modified Verem model), carrying a SNCF-Saintes type a2 524779 railway 10ft container, turned into a mobile store/workshop (modified Dinky Toys model) and towing an Ateliers de Construction de Roanne type ARE Mle F1 2-axle sheeted box trailer (modified Solido model):





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Guy

The combination tasked with the delivery of concrete electrical poles through French roads and dirt tracks:



Reo M275 6x6/2 tractor (modified Solido model) and its Fruehauf-France 1-axle flatbed semi-trailer fitted with 2 poles handling devices (modified Matchbox model with ASAM handling elements)



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Guy

The cable-winching unit used for pull electrical cables on their poles, built from a demobilized US Army WW2 half-track vehicle:





Modified White M3 armored half-track (modified Verem model) equipped with a Cemet Agrip CA15 electrical lines winching device (homemade construction in progress).

Should be added to the EDF-GDF "team" in a foreseeable future, an Unic VIRD 4x4/2 flatbed truck carrying a Renault genset, a Kaiser-Jeep M34 6x6/2 truck equipped with a McCabe Powers drilling and lifting device, in charge of moving and installing concrete electrical poles on their final location, towing a Trailor 1-axle pole carrier trailer and a GMC CCKW 353 6x6/2 truck fitted with an Egi B14.5 boom lift:



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Guy

Berliet GLC 19R 4x2/2 truck fitted with a Magirus-Berliet EH 30 "EPA" (EPA stands for "Echelle Pivotante Automatique", French acronym used for this type of fire-fighting emergency ladder) (Corgi model)



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Guy

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There is an XPO depot in the town I live in,Gloucester.I passed it every day to,and from work.It was a Christian Salvesen,(Only ever seen a matchbox superking model)before it was N.D.Always loads of different types of 'box' trailers,tri-axle,double-deck.Large volume,curtainsides,Short,two axle,etc.Usually with whatever companies livery that contracted them to do the haulage.Still loads of trailers,by the fence.With all the tractors lined up,in front of the warehouse.

Late part of last century, 2 German beer transport combinations (modifications in progress):





- left: MAN 19-321 FLS 4x2/2 tractor and Schmitz 2-axle box semi-trailer (modified Conrad models),
- right: DAF FT 95-380 ATI 4x2/2 tractor (modified Tekno model) and Barré 2-axle reefer semi-trailer (modified Conrad model).

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Guy

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Somewhere in the US in the 50s, delivery of some farming equipment:







White WC 22 4x2/2 skate bed truck (SpecCast model) loaded with 7 Goodyear 480/80R42 farm tractor tires (Conrad elements)



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Guy