Uni-Mogs

[Time Waster]

That went back to Atkinson Vos, for servicing, it's mentioned in their 'News'

Why did you mention AV's news. I've just spent time reading it instead of
working. Good job I'm a world champion mouse mover so work thinks I'm working! I WFH with Skype reply everyone when I'm not active on my computer so I jiggle the mouse every 5 or 10 minutes. Prefer to read about the moss though!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 21st

U900?
Small-holding/log-sellers
I think l know the woman who owns this land, if it’s who l think it is, we were in the same class through Junior School

 

[Time Waster]

This summer we were in the Loch Ness area and there was a unimog style of campervan but a bit bigger and dare in say more hard-core! It had a large accommodation box on it with ladders to get into it. There were bikes and kayaks attached to it all over. The cab was big with blocked off holes in the roof, I assume for gun placements of some kind in the military version. But they put a roof tent on the top of the cab instead. Accessible from between the cab and the accommodation box with a fixed ladder. All dark green in colour.

The family were German but iirc it was a Finnish flag on the bumper. Anyone know what it could have been? Like a bigger unimog.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Time Waster

Not a MAN??
https://ljacksonandco.com/product/man-kat-a1-4x4-5t-lhd-cargo-truck/

https://www.motorcraftadventuredevelopments.com/vehicles

 

[Time Waster]

Not close. Its like there's a cab then a gap, between the cab and accommodation box, that is big enough to easily stand in it also had a bit more of a bonnet.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Time Waster

Not a DAF?
Or, reopen the Motor Craft Adventure pages, it wasn’t the IVECO?

The gap would depend on what was requested during the initial build?
Did the customer want a separate ‘pod’, or access from the cab?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 29th

Spotted at Pelican Engineering
Altofts Lane
Whitwood
(close to jct31/M62)

U630?

 

[siadwell]

South African Buffel Armoured Personnel Carrier. Designed and manufactured in South Africa on a U416-162 Unimog chassis. This one was at Capel military vehicle show this summer.

 

[DRM]

If you go to visit Mount Vesuvius, you are first collected from various pick up points in a small bus, when you get to the outskirts of Vesuvius you transfer to a Unimog converted to a bus that takes you as far as it can, until the tracks are simply dirt paths, then it's shanks pony to the crater, it's quite funny seeing women in high heels, or other fancy glittery shoes trying to negotiate a pumice ash path, wobbling all over, then finding their shoes utterly wrecked afterwards, but the Unimog was perfect for doing what it did, no fuss, no dramas off it went, unstoppable

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@DRM

Why go that far?
You can ride in a 'UniBus' at Spurn Point

https://www.ywt.org.uk/events?tags=252

 

[DRM]

@DRM

Why go that far?
You can ride in a 'UniBus' at Spurn Point

https://www.ywt.org.uk/events?tags=252

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It's not every day you get a ride in a Unimog, and get to look into the crater of a live volcano that's liable to blow it's top at any time

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

It's not every day you get a ride in a Unimog, and get to look into the crater of a live volcano that's liable to blow it's top at any time

If you put it like that..........
Amanda, one of the Sisters, & a good friend, went to Iceland a couple of years ago for her 50th
Whilst she was there, a minor eruption took place

She wasn't sure if it was in celebration for her birthday, or to warn her off?

 

[DRM]

If you put it like that..........
Amanda, one of the Sisters, & a good friend, went to Iceland a couple of years ago for her 50th
Whilst she was there, a minor eruption took place

She wasn't sure if it was in celebration for her birthday, or to warn her off?

Norse Gods leaving a message?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Norse Gods leaving a message?

Maybe?

 

[BrumJim]

It's not every day you get a ride in a Unimog, and get to look into the crater of a live volcano that's liable to blow it's top at any time

I think we took a Unimog up to near the top of Etna a good few years ago. Which blew its top less than a fortnight later.

Etna, not the Unimog.