Antar Delivery_0001.wmv

This Thornycroft "Mighty Antar" (MK3 is destined to be restored and take pride of place at the gate of the Defence School of Transport (known as a Gate Guardian).
Here it is being delivered to Appleby in Westmorland on a wet October Monday morning.

[@karlk6860]

I do not know what folks in England think about US military trucks, and I am not completely sure what most of of the collecters in the US think about this Antar, but I think this is one of those incredible and beautiful old pieces of history that I will never be able to own in the US!!! This truck has literally a world of potential in it, THANK YOU for saving it!!

[@paulbrook1099]

Thanks Karl!

[@user-rh5cb1yw3s]

Интересные колеса у этого грузовика !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@johncook3817]

Magnificent!
I bet she will be a real beast once restored.
Thankfully there are a few mad people about who are will to take on such a huge task. It would be a real shame to lose things like this!!

[@brianjamestaylor8760]

My Dad and brother worked at Thorneys (Thorneycroft) in the 50s and 60s before it got swallowed up by Leyland and Scammell. All us kids wanted to be a test driver because they flew around the roads of Basingstoke and North Hampshire in open cabs and the chassis of these mighty beasts. Huge concrete blocks on the back. We used to walk along Worting Road and down Deep Lane to Brook St Junior school 'smelling' the factory or along the old Basingstoke to Alton railway track that went through the middle of the factory on our way to the West Ham open air swimming baths. Last time I went up to 'Stoke there wasn't much left of the factory. Superstore and business units on the old cricket and football grounds. My old school is now flats and the swimming baths are under a massive roundabout. Progress? I think not.

[@eyeballpaul3276]

+Brian James Taylor Ye rite there the torys made sure we have fuck all left in this country

[@frankwilkinson6328]

Everywhere you look, doom and decay. We used to supply the world with superb engineering, now the army run around in German trucks!! Why did we bother?

[@fivecylinderperfection5060]

My brother-in-law worked there in the 60's & 70's, my parents used to live in Brook Street and then moved to the Clarke Estate on the edge of Winklebury. I remember the West Ham Lido, went there a few times before it was closed and demolished. I moved away from Basingstoke in 1996 and recently started to look back to see what has happened to the buildings of my past. So shocked to find very little of anything left. Park Prewitt Hospital grounds and the surrounding corn fields I played in as a kid are gone, Fort Hill School demolished, BETA where I did my apprentice training, gone, ITT Cannon at Viables where I worked has gone. Masses of housing estates sprouted up everywhere and a glitzy town centre. It made me sad to find any evidence of my past in Basingstoke seems to have been erased.

[@bigegg7170]

my old man used to recover tanks in Germany with these beasts..

[@robinhinson606]

Bloody hell, multi coloured swop shop!!! Not even a wide load and the van escort what a performance, definitely wants to be noticed as a prat

[@paulbrook1099]

The van was simply a local lad who saw the low loader and decided to go in front of it through the little town of Appleby. As it happens the Crouch driver was extremely professional and courteous. Thank you for watching though.

[@user-rh5cb1yw3s]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@MrWiggo91]

Such a shame it got in that state in the first thing. A thing of beauty that truck

[@buzx1313]

what a project!!
when i was an apprentice we used to carry out electrical work in a building that repaired these antars along with stalwarts..
it was called fazakerly engineering in liverpool..
i had a piston from one and used it as an ash tray..
anyway how is the restoration going??

[@123sheepdip]

It's very quiet!!!???

[@johnrostron3804]

Why all the flashing lights and escorts nothing abnormal about it

[@kenmcfarland4287]

Wider than normal load so is required by law methinks.

[@mattthomas2836]

Why all the lights? its not long or wide .

[@steffiebee5224]

Wheres the sodding engine gone???

[@scopex2749]

Good old Crouchy to the rescue. I found one of these all complete in Wales but was told they are too wide to be allowed on the road??? So how did they move tanks around! I was told these used to do ONE MPG!!! Im glad I never bought mine!

[@paulbrook1099]

Crown Exemption

[@paulpaul5606]

I’ve got a Bonnet for one of those

[@rustytrucksdotcom]

Yes please! Contact details are on the website www.rustytruck.com

[@chrisison2095]

Carmel

[@keithbrown3854]

I'm ex RCT and im crying

[@joe19488]

bit of a over kill

[@johnmarsh2150]

ex 3 sqn