Mack Snow Plough

[Pete Ashby]

Originally posted by David_Hayward

They were sprighlty but horrible to drive and no where for your feet to go with that front wheel in its housing. Full marks though for a niche market, and use of GRP early on for lightweight bodies and 60 mpg.

I'm amused you’ve not seen one before Geoff, as Gordon and David note they were very popular in the fifties and sixties over here, in fact I passed one on the M4 going west only 3 weeks ago it was making a steady 50mph while skidding around on the tram line ruts of the 30 toners’ in the slow lane.

Bloody awful things and dangerous too, the first dead body I ever came across was in one of those things one foggy night. The guy had missed a bend and climbed a tree in it.
It was common knowledge in the emergency services that if they got called to an RTA with a three wheeler involved you took a dustpan and brush for the car and a body bag for the driver !!
They are known as resin rockets over here

Nice Mack though David
there were 4 of them all ex Wiltshire council gritter ploughs in the same yard that my son David got his WK60 from.

Pete