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This outstanding cross-country vehicle is designed and built in ... Romania!:  GHE-O Motors Rescue 4x4/2 vehicle (Siku model)    GHE-O Motors video showing their Rescue vehicle in operation: https://www.ghe-o.com/rescue---utility.htmlLink to the manufacturer website: https://www.ghe-o.com/ghe-o-home.htmlRegards. Guy
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Looks great! Love the zero front overhang - looks like it could climb a vertical cliff
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The 3 recent models built by Jean-Francois in Nicoletti livery (for pictures purposes, the SAVIEM/MAN tractor "inherited" Jean-Jacques' Nicolas 2-line tank transport lowboy, waiting for JF to complete its ACTM 3-line low bed semi-trailer):    Regards. Guy
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  Reo M35 6x6/2 truck (Corgi model) carrying 16 wooden crates (Corgi load)   The "civilized" Texaco Reo 6x6 was normally sold with a Diesel tank and a small genset, both developed by Corgi for that sole model:  Regards. Guy
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The Ghe-O is an amazing model! I love the functional suspension, as well as the stretcher that is removable when you open the rear door. The removable tires are a great feature as well when you want to pose it being transported on a trailer. Thanks so much for sharing.
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Production, from Solido/Verem models, of a French geophysics company fleet, built in AMG premises (St Gaudens - France) from demobilized WW2 vehicles (should be added to the CGG fleet a Failing drilling unit on a 6x6 GMC truck and a 4x4 Dodge light truck):   - left: Dodge/AMG T223-WC62 6x6/2 truck fitted with a water tank (modified Verem model), - center: Chevrolet/AMG G7113 4x4/2 dropside truck fitted with a Lot 7 lifting gear (modified Verem model) carrying 6 explosives transport boxes (homemade), - right: General Motors Co/AMG CCKW 353 6x6/2 workshop truck (modified Verem vehicle and Corgi box models). To be continued. Guy
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The water tank normally assisting the Failing/GMC unit, used for drilling of shallow wells required for subsurface explosions:   To be continued. Guy
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Transport of down hole explosives, used for seismic interpretation (the sole method used then for oil and gas reservoirs geophysics exploration, superseded today by surface vibration methods, less disruptive):   To be continued. Guy
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The geophysics trucks fleet maintenance and repair vehicle:   Regards. Guy
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In France, we have a say "Rien ne se perd, tout se transforme", which could be translated by "Nothing gets lost, everything can get modified". Fitting in progress of Conrad elements on Cursor vehicles:   - left: Magirus-Deutz 256 M 26 AK 6x6/2 truck with Meiller tipper (modified Cursor model and Conrad tipping unit), - right: Magirus-Deutz 256 D 26 AK 6x6/2 truck with Liebherr HTM 602 cement mixer (modified Cursor model and Conrad mixing drum). To be continued. Guy
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The tipper truck:   The mixing drum carrier:   To be continued. Guy
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Other Cursor model (modification in progress):   IVECO 330-30 ANW 6x6/2 truck fitted with a Meiller heavy duty tipping unit (Cursor model being modified). Regards. Guy
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Early 80s, two long-distance Dutch transport combinations:  - left: DAF FAT 2800 DKSE 6x4/2 sheeted dropside truck and DAF NTW 16.24 1+2-axle sheeted dropside drawbar trailer (modified Lion Car combination), - right: DAF FAD 3325 DKZ 8x4/4 sheeted dropside truck and Groenewegen 1+2-axle sheeted dropside drawbar trailer (modification of Lion Car combination in progress). To be continued. Guy
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The combination, then trucking all over Europe in IPEC livery, a worldwide logistics company since relocated in Australasia:    To be continued. Guy
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A 4-axle truck, while authorized in several European countries was still prohibited in France till late 90s (its GVW was then limited to 26 tonnes, equal to the one of a 3-axle truck):    Regards. Guy
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In Holland still, but late seventies, at a period when the Dutch manufacturer was not only producing trucks, but also tankers, drawbar trailers and semi-trailers:   - left: DAF FAT 2800 DHT 6x4/2 truck fitted with a DAF hydrocarbons tank body (modified Lion Car model), - right: DAF FT 2800 DKSE 4x2/2 tractor and DAF 2-axle hydrocarbons tank semi-trailer (Lion Car models being modified).. To be continued. Guy
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Last (but not least) Dutch road transport:    Scania LB141 4x2/2 tractor (modified Tekno model) and Van Hool SZ 303 3-axle low-slung 20ft or 30ft container carrier chassis (homemade from an ex-Tekno semi-trailer), carrying a Dowell 20ft oilwell servicing chemicals container (homemade with 2 ex-Solido tanks) Regards. Guy
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