Tired of the ruthless domination of Biglorryblog by those Aussie anoraks (just kidding guys) Richard The Brochure King' tells me: "Hi Brian, I didn't manage to make it to the CV show due to some heavy work commitments, but the webcast was good and kept me informed. It seems there was an unprecedented amount of golden oldies at Brum too---which is nice to see."
Meanwhile he goes on to say: "Anyway in a desperate attempt to wrestle the blog back from our Antipodean friends I thought I'd send you this scan of a Dennis Eagle Sport. 'AtkiPete's' one-person operated ACCO refuse truck got me going through the files to find this one, which officially is a Single Person Operated Refuse Truck, equipped with a 'Rotalift' bin retrieval system---very similar to the Aussie system, but I've not seen one in action over here, so they apparently didn't catch on. Cheers! Rich."
Well either way Richard if we were hoping to play down the Aussie connection on BLB I think we might just have shot ourselves in the foot---after all, the Dennis is called by that familiar term beloved by Aussies everywhere..i.e. 'The 'SPORT'!
(PS expect a backlash any moment!)
Thanks for the photo Richard, just be patient and you might see them in service. These trucks, known as "one armed bandits" do the majority of collections over here. Also on 4x2 chassis. Only where there are a lot of parked cars do they have to use the old rear loader type.