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Harvey frost crane brochure
- Thread starter DarrenH
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Extreedoc
Big Landy Fan
Thanks for posting this Darren. I used to work at a garage in a village in Rutland and we had a Series 1 with a Harvey Frost crane similar to this one.
The last breakdown wagon we had in the family garage business was a Leyland LD with a derrick type of arrangement in the back onto which we used to hang a block and tackle to do the lifting. A triangle was chained to the front of the motor, the chain from the block and tackle attached to the two chains holding the triangle on at each side and up the car came, then the front of the triangle was hooked onto the back of the wagon. Imagine trying to do that with todays plastic motors.
The last breakdown wagon we had in the family garage business was a Leyland LD with a derrick type of arrangement in the back onto which we used to hang a block and tackle to do the lifting. A triangle was chained to the front of the motor, the chain from the block and tackle attached to the two chains holding the triangle on at each side and up the car came, then the front of the triangle was hooked onto the back of the wagon. Imagine trying to do that with todays plastic motors.
Nice find!
DarrenH said:
And, you could swivel on that too....
mojofilter
Overdrive!
Excellent, there is a garage at Bo’ness that has a 109 with something similar sitting out the front as an ornament.