Jump to content

Great War Truck

Members
  • Posts

    62
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About Great War Truck

  • Birthday 01/02/1967

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

Great War Truck's Achievements

250+ Points

250+ Points (1/7)

  • Reacting Well
  • Collaborator

Recent Badges

58

Reputation

  1. We are cracking on with the body now. We have had new wings made - awkward shaped things. The first of the drive chains has just gone on. It has been a long road but we are getting close to starting now.
  2. I wouldn't say that it was in good condition. It had been completely buried under china clay waste for about 30 years. After restoration it drove on the London to Brighton run which is about 50 miles. It now lives in a Cornish museum but has not run for years and may not ever run again. We will see. We were recently sent photos of one of our Peerless trucks being recovered from a farm i think around 1980. Shame that all of the original body work was lost. It would have made a good pattern.
  3. Sold at Bonham's auction for £16,600
  4. Thanks guys. That really helps.
  5. This vehicle is said to be a US made Rhodia from 1914 which was converted into an ambulance during WW1. I had not heard of Rhodia before i came across this one. Does anybody know anything about them? Bonhams : c.1914 Rhodia ex-WW1 Ambulance
  6. I suspect the engine is long gone. This Peerless was subject to a Slough rebuild around 1930 which is when the engine was swapped over. I have now made contact with the owner and hopefully will go and see it sometime soon. It is on the market at £22,500 Tim
  7. I had heard rumours of another surviving Peerless truck which was supposedly in a shed just 10 miles away! Turns out the rumour was true. At a show we saw it on a flatbed with a for sale sign on it. The owner had recently died and it has come out of the darkness after 30 years. It is a post war rebuild now fitted with a diesel engine and pneumatics.
  8. Getting closer to starting it up soon. Come over if you can make it Ed. Did i tell you about this one. Back in the UK from South Africa.
  9. A bit of plumbing today and setting up the clutch. All going well.
  10. Hi Al Not yet, but very soon i hope. Still some things to do. Tim
  11. Today's effort. Radiator now on.
  12. Quite a lot of progress to update you on since my last post. Rear wheels now have new tyres and are on the chassis. We had a size issue and had to fit a shim. The rebuilt steering box is back in. New steering wheel. The rebuilt engine is now in the chassis with the ancillaries being added. A lot of progress this week.
  13. Yes, do come over. Come for a ride. Any news on the new Mullins museum in the Cotswolds? I was there a few months ago and it didn't look like they had started building it yet. Cheers Tim
  14. Thanks Ed. Hopefully we will see some real progress this year. The new valves should arrive shortly then we can put the engine back together. But first, we need to get the new tyres on the rear wheels. Using a hand pumped press to do it this will be an exercise and a very long round trip to the press. Cheers Tim
  15. We have taken back the second Peerless wheel today after some repairs. A few of the spokes and felloes needed replacing. Our local wheelwrights were quite excited about the prospect of taking this on and they have done a super job. The steel band had been cut to get the wheel apart, to get it back on they welded it together, put it into a fire to expand it then drop it over the top of the wheel and tap it down. The whole process is shown on this clip:
×
×
  • Create New...