TRUCKING HISTORY LOOKING BACK AT IRISH TRANSPORT,FLEET,AND LORRIES VOL 3
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- TOdays new video is looking back at irish transport and fleets & lorries vol.3 i hope you all injoy watching please comment press the like button and subscribe to the channel and thank you for stopping by and watching the videos and liking the channel.
And a big happy christmas from me.
Memories of growing up in Stillorgan. Believe it or not.
I remember almost all of the fleets shown here from my time as a driver in the 80s and 90s.anyone know what happened to the macks? The lagan valley mack in particular.i saw it loads of times while sitting at the border at dundalk/newry and wonder where is it now.
Surprised to see so many Macks running in those days, why did they not take off, hard to get parts ? Anyone know what happened to Agnew and Lithgow, they were based in Stranraer ?
Mack Trucks were imported by Roadstone Quarry group in ROI, super rare to see then unless you lived around Dublin Shame most of these trucks were NI registrations in video , in the 70s and 80s 90% of trucks in the ROP were Hino , Hino dribbled in England in late 80s and 90s , the original Hinos were virtually all Japanese part sourced trucks. European and Scandinavian brands were for international haulage. Hino in ROI were a result of strikes and unable to get Leyland trucks in 70s. Only Leylands in Ireland when I grew up in ROP in late 70s and 80s were fuel companies or CIE state run trucks. and any Leylands in video here seem to be NI trucks.
@@checker3694 Thanks for that Checker. I remember seeing a new White in the garage of the Foden distributor in Darlington for sale in mid 70s. It was there ages , don't know if they eventually sold it. Hino never took off here, Leyaland became notorious for poor build quality and breakdowns. When Daf, Scania and Man came along Uk manufacturers didn't stand a chance.
@William Boot My father took his Albion 6x4 tipper back to ROI in 1977 when he moved back, it looked like a mini parked next to a mk2 escort, when parked next to a Hino ZM 6x4 tipper. They sold ok in UK as tippers and mixers in late 80s and early 90s in certain parts of the country, by then they had America drivelines the 100% Japanese content had been diluted. I think they were distributed from Liverpool, politics would not allow them to be imported direct from Ireland then I believe.
American trucks were cheap in the 70s/80s because of the exchange rate of the pound to the dollar.once the dollar started to rise in value it made them expensive.same with the hino when the yen went up in value it made hinos too expensive.....see very few new hinos now.
@Paul O'brien Hinos were always kit form from Japan, and final assembly was in Ireland, later years they had Cummings engine and fuller Rockwell drivelines, Cummings engines being sourced from English engine plants, they fell victim in the same way as ERF Foden did, kit trucks were not profitable to build when competing with continentals that manufactured all their own components. US market was similar for Hino they came in kit form from home country, similar to 4x2 18t Renualts and Volvo did in 90s but that was due to US strict import laws on commercials, avoided by importing them unassembled. I am not sure exchange rates was deciding factor as some Japanese model brands to this day come in from Japan to European markets.