Airport Ladder/baggage ramp baced on a transit mk3!!

[Vandalism]

This is an interesting and rare use for a transit mk3 chassis, it is either a airport lader used to get people on and off planes or a baggage ramp, it now is at the Brooklands Race Circit Museum. I only realised this after i got home and looked at the picture and could tell by the wheels it was baced on a transit mk3. this is a prety rare transit if you can call it a transit as there isnt much transit, does anyone know what company made it - would it have been a ford svo vehicle?

on another note, when i went to france a few years ago i saw a similar vehicle baced on a transit mk2 at Charles De Gaul airport, and again i know it was transit mk2 baced because of the wheels so there are some interesing transit baced vehicles out there - any one got some interesting pics?

[oldyellar]

some1 should etis the reg lol

[TIMO]

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[MR BigBeefy LDV Guru]

looks like its land rover to me

[Vandalism]

definatly transit baced, it has transit mk3 swb heavey duty axels on it - also why would it have a reg on it if it was used in an airport, not as if its going to drive on the road

[bigmastif]

its a Vialift Baggage Carrier its on brooklands website,
dvla dont have it as a vialift or a ford based vehicle

it would have had a plate if it had to cross main roads but some of the bigger airports have a by law road system airside so all vehicles even plane tugs would be road registered

[Luke]

looks like its land rover to me

landys arnt 6 stud are they

[madbri]

definatly transit baced, it has transit mk3 swb heavey duty axels on it - also why would it have a reg on it if it was used in an airport, not as if its going to drive on the road

they need 2 b road legal4 when u borrow it to clean ure windows at home

[AndyG]

Well I've had a look and decided it's "LWB" MK3 chassis
Defo not a Landy

[Terry]

Its a 'rocket', it WAS used for loading passenger baggage into the underfloor baggage holds on aircraft.
Nowadays all the baggage is loaded into containers 'bins' and driven out to the aircraft.



The funny boxes with the bottom corners cut off ,on the back of the flatbed ! You can just see the modern replacement leading to the aircraft's belly door.
Have fun
Terry

[ake]

looks like its land rover to me

landys arnt 6 stud are they

Landys are 5 stud

Well I've had a look and decided it's "LWB" MK3 chassis
Defo not a Landy

I agree, like a MK3 100L Transit

[Vandalism]

this is the modern day version - only the transit mk6/7 wheels give its bace vehicle away

its called a - self propelled belt conveyor

[Vandalism]

eddie stobart has some now

[transitandy]