It was a compact show I visited last April, yet with a wide range of modern and heavy on-road vehicles on display. Plus a good number of European and American classics. Let’s explore the well-kept brick yard.
2017 Scania R450 tractor with a 2018 Knapen moving (aka walking) floor semi-trailer.
Piet Knapen’s demo video shows how it all works.
Delivering animal feed in style, a 2021 DAF XF 480 FT tractor with a 2021 Welgro dry bulk tanker semi-trailer.
I wouldn’t dare.
A similar combination, a 2008 Welgro semi-trailer, coupled to a 2019 DAF CF 450 FT. You can read much more about this type of dedicated semis right here.
1977 Mack Cruise-Liner 6×4 tractor. Based on its registered displacement, maximum power output and number of cylinders, I came to the conclusion that it must be powered by a Mack ETAZ 673A engine, also known as the “300-Plus”. That’s a 315 hp, 673 cu.in., inline-six turbodiesel with intercooling.
The Cruise-Liner was parked next to a 1993 Renault R340ti Major 4×2 tractor. In the not-so-distant past, Renault V.I. owned Mack. And then along came Volvo Trucks.
Now about the tilt cab on that Renault. It’s fully based on a design that was originally introduced in 1971. But not by Renault.
In said year, Berliet, an esteemed French truck maker of yore, unveiled their new GR/TR-series of heavy trucks and tractors. Pictured above a 1974 Berliet TR 280 (as in 280 hp). Just look how fresh and modern that cab is still looking! It has aged really well, as they say.
In 1974, Berliet was sold to Renault and the GR/TR became the Renault R-series later on. After several updates, Berliet’s authentic cab design lasted till 1996.
Besides Renault, Ford also thought the Berliet cab was a fine idea. Meet the high-rise, 1975-1984 Ford Transcontinental for the European market.
Now back on track with another ol’ Mack.
An imposing 1943 Mack LMSW 53 wrecker. In its earliest form, this series of gasoline powered, military wreckers worked for the Canadian Army. At some point, the brute got a diesel engine under its hood.
2022 DAF XG 480 FT, powered by the MX-13 engine. DAF’s new generation of heavy vehicles in the top segment is an instant commercial success. The XG is sitting in the middle of the series, as the latest XF is shorter and lower (cab-wise) and the XG+ is even taller.
2021 Renault Master 2.3 dCi full-size panel van. The letters LMB stand for landbouwmechanisatiebedrijf. That’s an agriculturemechanizationbusiness.
1965 Volvo L475 flatbed truck.
1975 Bedford TK flatbed truck. Apart from the UK, the TK -introduced in 1959- also sold really well in Belgium and the Netherlands. The same applied to the comparable 1965-1981 Ford D-series. They were both great all-rounders.
2016 DAF XF 460 FT tractor with a temperature controlled semi-trailer.
2018 Mercedes-Benz Atego recovery truck. The Atego is the next step up from the Sprinter, GVWR from 6.5 to 16 metric tons.
2014 Scania R410 6×2/4 tractor.
1984 DAF FA 900 truck with the Club of Four tilt cab.
2016 Iveco Daily 50C17 car transporter, truck bed and body built by the Tijhof company.
The Iveco has plenty of grunt to tow this 2020 Tijhof tandem axle trailer, VAG-freight included.
Any old Scania with a V8 has become a popular collectible. Like this 1978 Scania LBS 141 (LB = forward control, S = 6×2 chassis). Orange Pete is featured in part two, together with many others.
I was a little surprised to see that the Mack engine is intercooled, I had always thought that Volvo pretty much pioneered that in big trucks with the F7, which wasn’t introduced until late ’78 from what I can tell. Mack really isn’t who I would have thought would have that even earlier, very interesting.
It also struck me that covering a truck show is a little different from a car show, as to take three pictures (front 3/4, rear 3/4, and side) you have to do a LOT more walking that with a car!
What’s the VW/Audi on the front part of the hauler (ahead of the Touareg?), it looks like an Accord Crosstour which now seems to have been a decade ahead of its time.
I’m also curious about the car, though I don’t think it’s a Crosstour, it certainly doesn’t look like any VW I can think of. As for intercooling, I think Detroit Diesel introduced it on the 6V and 8V Series in the early seventies though I couldn’t find a reference.
I meant the style is like that of a Crosstour (raised sedan with liftback), not that it is one, sorry to confuse.
My first thought was Audi A7 Sportback, but it’s not. I’m not good on keeping up with all these anymore. They all look the same to me. 🙂
In 1973, DAF introduced turbo-intercooling on their 2800-series. Volvo had turbocharged truck diesels in the fifties, soon followed by DAF.
The VW/Audi? No idea (yet), no picture of its plate, otherwise I could have checked.
Alright then, 2020 Audi e-tron 50 Sportback.
As per website of the Iveco Daily owner:
https://www.autoknijn.nl/occasions-kopen/29844296-audi-e-tron-50-sportback-ex-audi-ag-auto-quattro-s-edition-71-kwh
Oh, interesting, thanks! There’s such a wide(r?) variety of EVs over there…
Plenty of EV-models available, indeed.
https://www.anwb.nl/auto/elektrisch-rijden/elektrische-autos
A nice sampling of old and new, mostly absent from the US truck market, though come to think of it I suspect that Lesley sold a lot of Matchbox Bedford TK’s here. That white bull bar on the Bedford doesn’t do much for the TK’s characteristic frown.
Beautiful old Mack wrecker. But the tires; they’re either huge, or the wheels are undersized. I wonder what it’s like to buy replacements.
Looks like the old Mack wrecker has the venerable Holmes Twin-Boom hoist that was omnipresent in the days before hydraulic cranes and rollback carriers. If it is the real Holmes, it probably has stabilizer legs that telescope down on either side in line with the headframe of the hoist so that the truck could be used with one of the booms swung out to the side for retrieval use. Sometimes, the other boom, swung out on the opposite side, was anchored to a deadman (a tree, guardrail post, or the like) to further steady the truck for a side pull. These were very versatile wreckers, for vehicles that can be towed with a sling (fewer and fewer with each passing year.)
Garwood? At least, that’s what I find when googling the Mack LMSW 53.
Great selection, as usual!
Incidentally, I saw a (very) large piece of Dutch equipment earlier this month being transported on a Virginia highway. It’s a Dutch Army Boxer armored fighting vehicle… just what it was doing in Fairfax County, Virginia is a bit of a mystery.
Regardless, it was impressive seeing it hauled along, and the driver had quite a challenge since it was in a construction zone with narrower-than-usual lanes:
Now that’s something special! Never heard of these before, I didn’t know of their existence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(armoured_fighting_vehicle)
Definitely an unexpected thing to come across. I had to do some research to figure out just what it was, and what country’s armed forces it belonged to.
Since I saw this on a highway leading to Washington, DC, I’m guessing that it was being shown to the US military. However, I saw it shortly before the rededication of the Netherlands Carillon (a 127-ft. tall bell tower given to the US government by the Netherlands in 1960, and just recently restored)… and that dedication occurred on Liberation Day. So I figured a Dutch military theme would fit in with that, but I never saw any mention of a military show that week.
Oh well, it was still neat to see. I doubt I’ll see another Boxer any time soon.
The Bedford is partially visible in the background of the ’65 Volvo & I initially thought it was a C series Ford. It had never occurred to me how similar the doors are on two otherwise distinctive trucks.
One can say that the 1965-1981 UK-Ford D series was the US-C series’ counterpart. As mentioned, it was a major Bedford TK competitor.
The Ford D tractor below is powered by a Cummins V8.