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OK, I take it all back, those sleeper pods don't look too bad at all. Just take a look at what these poor sods had to put up with back in 1928. They are over-nighting in a Sentinel DG6 'sleeper' steam wagon - which means no mattress, not curtains and no windows either. However what they did get was plenty of heat off that giant boiler. That's all very well in the winter months, but can you imagine what it would be like summer? ![Blogsleeper[1].jpg](http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/Blogsleeper%5B1%5D.jpg)
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Comments (7)
Given that there was no glass in the doors and the bolier would have cooled down after a few hours I would imagine that it could get quite chilly even in Summer.Having said that they were probably up at four to take on water and build up steam for a nice early get away.
Posted by Richard Stanier | July 10, 2008 4:57 PM
Posted on July 10, 2008 16:57
It's still better than todays Scania Midliner !!! Where can I get 1 ???
Posted by Keith Revell | July 10, 2008 5:55 PM
Posted on July 10, 2008 17:55
And a lot better than the R-model Mack I had to sleep in occasionally. You try fitting yourself in between the 2 gear levers on the floor in a cab that is only about 4 feet wide!
Posted by Vic Hungerford | July 10, 2008 7:44 PM
Posted on July 10, 2008 19:44
But Vic you were not supposed to be sleeping in your truck.............GPS is following you
Posted by rod simmonds | July 11, 2008 9:43 AM
Posted on July 11, 2008 09:43
1928 and a proper fold down bed, which the manufacturers had further developed into a board across the seats by the 1970s. Amazing the speed at which technology races ahead isn't it?
Posted by Roy Larkin | July 11, 2008 10:38 AM
Posted on July 11, 2008 10:38
It was'nt that long ago that i used to do 2/3 nights away from home in a Bedford TK and loved every minute of it.You drivers must be getting soft!
Posted by Andrew Field | July 11, 2008 6:45 PM
Posted on July 11, 2008 18:45
No GPS in the twin-stick R-models, Rod. I doubt if satellites had been invented when I was driving those! We sold our last R-model a couple of weeks ago, which was a bit sad, but that certainly wasn't a twin-stick model.
Did you get a board across the seats in the 70s, Roy? By then I had just graduated from a Preston-cabbed Atkinson to a NZ-cabbed one and you couldn't fit a board across the seats in either of those with that Cummins engine in the way. At least in the Preston one there was plenty of ventilation through all the cracks and splits in the cab!
Posted by Vic Hungerford | July 11, 2008 7:45 PM
Posted on July 11, 2008 19:45