This fictional image was inspired by the Scammell Townsman preserved at the Irish National Transport Museum at Howth (different registration). CIE remained faithful to the Mechanical Horse concept until its demise due to changes in braking regulation in 1968. Around 30,000 Mechanical Horses of all types were produced over a 35-year production life, of which only 30 original Mechanical Horses, 60 Scarabs and 30 Townsman models are known to survive (11-Jan-20).
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The locally-assembled Hino ZM was popular with Irish operators, including the Irish Civil Defence Corps. The regimental markings on this fictional ZM tipper may be incorrect as I have little knowledge of Irish military vehicles. The vehicle in the base image was photograhed in Cyprus twenty years ago, when it already seemed well past its prime (06-Sep-20).
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I've never seen a picture of a UTA lorry so this image is open to correction. Presumably some form of fleet number would have been carried. From what I've read, UTA is not remembered with a great deal of affection, particularly within railway circles. Nevertheless it is a pity that only a couple of buses and no lorries appear to have been preserved in its dark green livery. This fictional Leyland Comet carries the earlier UTA logo (26-Dec-13).
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Lough Swilly Freight is a descendent of the London & Lough Swilly Railway Company, which last operated trains in 1954, thereafter continuing as a road transport company. Its bus and freight operations were spit in 1982, the former closing in 2014 and the latter continuing as Lough Swilly Freight (commonly shortened to Swilly Freight). This Volvo F10 is an approximate representation of several similar vehicles owned in the late 1980s (DUI 2755 - later 88 DL 5063 - operated from 1988 to 2002). The white livery replaced the previous red and cream scheme, which had been common across the bus and freight fleets. Thanks to Martin Vonk for the base image (12-Jul-18)
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Coras Iompair Eireann (literally Ireland's Transport System) assumed a virtually monopoly of rail and passenger road transport in the Republic of Ireland in 1945. Like the situation then existing in the UK, it had a 'common carrier' responsibility to convey whatever goods to wherever they were required. In order to do this it operated a large fleet of supporting road vehicles, some very specialised and others more mundane.
Although based on a preserved vehicle in the UK, I hope that this digitally modified view conveys something of the charm of rural Ireland in an era where milk was still transported in traditional churns by roads and by rail. The Fordson Thames 7V flatbed lorry was typical of the immediate post-war era. Compact by comparison with normal control-types, the protruding engine must have created a very cramped cab, although the young passengers do not seem to be greatly inconvenienced here.
I'm grateful to Shane Conway for advising that there were left and right-handed versions of the 'flying wheel logo' logo - the rationale being that, on the sides of buses and trucks, the top bars always pointed forward (updated 24-Jan-10).
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