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1946 Guy Vixen Tower Wagon - Liverpool Corporation Body

1946 Guy Vixen in The Clouded Yellow, Movie, 1950

Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin:

1946 Guy Vixen Tower Wagon - Liverpool Corporation Body

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stronghold ◊ 2007-07-11 10:41	-- Last edit: 2007-07-12 06:25:24
Sunbar ◊ 2007-07-11 11:24	Guy Otter or Vixen? Is an access tower truck or breakdown truck used by bus companies?
Ddey65 ◊ 2007-07-11 13:29	Sunbar wrote Guy Otter or Vixen? Is an access tower truck or breakdown truck used by bus companies? This looks like something more accustomed for Mass Transit systems with elevated lines.
Gag Halfrunt ◊ 2007-07-11 13:45	My guess would be that it's for repairing tram or trolleybus wires. -- Last edit: 2007-07-13 01:07:35
2491tj ◊ 2007-07-11 21:27	later when the trollbus was withdrawn, these types of vehicles were kept on for tree lopping purposes..then refitted as tow trucks. originally, the vehicle would have been a bus, then converted to a mobile platform when withdrawn from service.
Ddey65 ◊ 2007-07-11 22:20	2491tj wrote later when the trollbus was withdrawn, these types of vehicles were kept on for tree lopping purposes..then refitted as tow trucks. originally, the vehicle would have been a bus, then converted to a mobile platform when withdrawn from service. In the USA what they would do is get heavy-duty trucks and add customized utility bodies with the kinds of vertical lifts that you see on this one, combined with towing booms in the back for buses. Chicago Transit Authority apparently has a bunch of these, but there are other systems with trucks like that as well. Here's a book with a few of them: Link to "www.amazon.com"
nzcarnerd ◊ 2007-07-11 23:19	I wonder what is towing the heavy haulage trailer.
Alexander ◊ 2007-07-12 00:21	nzcarnerd wrote I wonder what is towing the heavy haulage trailer. Most likely a smaller Scammell, like a this 45CD from 1945: It was powerful enough to pull the empty low-loader. Loaded the hauliers probably still used road locomotives, one or more, depending on the load's weight:
Sunbar ◊ 2016-06-17 12:34	Edit(3): 1946 Guy Vixen Tower Wagon Liverpool Corporation source: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/346847608781677343/ The earlier Guy Wolf chassis as determined by Liverpool's probable filming loctation. The tower wagon is different in some details but the diagonally placed ladders look the same so possibly later than 1939. Guy Wolf Tower Wagon Loverpool Corporation "A new and original type of tower wagon, having a Guy Wolf chassis as its basis, formed a recent delivery to Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport Department. Designed and constructed at the corporation's Edge Lane works" The Guy 'Vixen' tower wagon Because Guy Motors was a major manufacturer of trolley buses, it must have been almost inevitable for the company to produce a vehicle to assist in the maintenance of overhead wires, and street lights. The 3-stage hydraulically operated tower wagon was designed to give an extended working platform height of 25 feet, and a minimum closed height of approximately 13 feet. -- Last edit: 2016-06-17 13:16:14

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