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AEC Mandator - Harp Lager - Ireland
Information supplied by our friend GZL 307.....
Commercial Road Vehicles(CRV)Ltd. of Dundalk assembled AEC TG4R Mandator with CRV built flatbed body hauling a CRV built drawbar trailer in the Harp Lager fleet.XZI 346 is a June 1966 Dublin registration number which makes this an early Irish tiltcab Mandator.CRV mounted the mirror arms to the front of the doors to lessen the amount of spray coming up from the front wheels in wet conditions, which in Ireland's climate means almost every day!If you study the photo close enough you can see that 3/8th UNF bolts have been used to fill the holes in the doors for the factory position of early Ergomatic cab mirror bracket locations!The location is at St.Stephen's Green in Dublin on the ocasion of the 1968 annual St.Patrick's Day Parade held on the 17th of March each year.Harp Lager is a subsidary of Guinness and was a very popular lager in both the UK and Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s but with the introduction of foreign brands it no longer enjoys the market share that it once had.Guinness's own fleet was predominantly of Leyland models in the heavier weiht category but Harp's fleet consisted more of AECs.The tanks on both the lorry and trailer could carry 504 gallons of product,they weighed 10cwt when empty and 3tons when full.The tanks were developed by Guinness engineers and were used to transport Guinness,Harp and Irish Ale Breweries products to Bottlers around Ireland and Northern Ireland as well as transporting beer to Liverpool and Manchester by the Guinness ships.These transportable tanks came in to use in the late 1950s with over 2000 being in use and were superseded by the use of ISO tanks from the early 1970s.
AEC Mandator - Harp Lager - Ireland
Information supplied by our friend GZL 307.....
Commercial Road Vehicles(CRV)Ltd. of Dundalk assembled AEC TG4R Mandator with CRV built flatbed body hauling a CRV built drawbar trailer in the Harp Lager fleet.XZI 346 is a June 1966 Dublin registration number which makes this an early Irish tiltcab Mandator.CRV mounted the mirror arms to the front of the doors to lessen the amount of spray coming up from the front wheels in wet conditions, which in Ireland's climate means almost every day!If you study the photo close enough you can see that 3/8th UNF bolts have been used to fill the holes in the doors for the factory position of early Ergomatic cab mirror bracket locations!The location is at St.Stephen's Green in Dublin on the ocasion of the 1968 annual St.Patrick's Day Parade held on the 17th of March each year.Harp Lager is a subsidary of Guinness and was a very popular lager in both the UK and Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s but with the introduction of foreign brands it no longer enjoys the market share that it once had.Guinness's own fleet was predominantly of Leyland models in the heavier weiht category but Harp's fleet consisted more of AECs.The tanks on both the lorry and trailer could carry 504 gallons of product,they weighed 10cwt when empty and 3tons when full.The tanks were developed by Guinness engineers and were used to transport Guinness,Harp and Irish Ale Breweries products to Bottlers around Ireland and Northern Ireland as well as transporting beer to Liverpool and Manchester by the Guinness ships.These transportable tanks came in to use in the late 1950s with over 2000 being in use and were superseded by the use of ISO tanks from the early 1970s.