1951 Thornycroft Mighty Antar

1951 Thornycroft Mighty Antar in Heights of Danger, Movie, 1953 Ep. Extra1

Class: Trucks, Trailer truck (tractor) — Model origin:

Seen only in an extra DVD contents

Author	Message
dsl ◊ 2015-05-01 03:09	On display outside the Festival in 1951. Thornycroft Antar??? (vague memory of Dinky tank transporter trucks - too expensive for me when I were a lad, but I wanted one. Instead I got a Corgi James Bond DB5, which was probably a better outcome. Did anyone else discover the trick that if you opened the roof ejector normally, then pressed the seat back down, put the baddie in and fired the ejector - it then went much higher and further than normal??).
jcb ◊ 2015-05-01 11:15	Certainly Thornycroft and very probably Antar . A few other models shared this front end but Antar was king of the hill !
Sunbar ◊ 2015-05-01 12:36	Thornycroft Mighty Antar as listed here Road Transport and the Festival Commercial Motor 4th & 25th May 1951. "A home-market version of the Thornycroft Mighty Antar will be exhibited at the Festival of Britain from May 28 to June 21. The export machine is 10 ft. 3 ins, wide, whilst the model to be shown is 9 ft. 6 ins. wide. It is equipped for towing a semi-trailer, and its weight, including a light-alloy three-man cab designed to provide maximum visibility and ventilation, is approximately 14¾ tons." -- Last edit: 2015-05-01 12:43:30
dsl ◊ 2015-05-01 13:13	in all its mighty glory - screengrab from https://www.flickr.com/photos/39624596@N02/16914708187 . With MG EX-135 on display in the window above. And a trafficlight for rjluna.