"Huw" <hedydd[nospam]@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Mark Gardiner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> I've mentioned in here before that Lyn Softley who runs Surrey Breakdown
>> in
>> Purley, has an UMM which replaced a Cournil as a small tow-truck.
>> (Background -
>> Cournil are French, went bust, UMM are Portugese - bought the rights and
>> the
>> drawings )They are a bit crude, but built like the proverbial out-house,
>> with
>> 2mm thick panels and a very substantial chassis. If you are looking at
>> one with
>> the nice Peugeot diesel, then it's worth more to you than £250 if you
>> need
>> something as heavy as an UMM.
>>
>
>
> It may well be worth more than £250 to *him* for whatever reason. Fact is,
> he will most probably be the only game in town who will even give a penny
> for it, so if he is not desperate he can offer what he likes on a 'take it
> or leave it' basis. But if he really, really must have it..............
>
> Huw
My 'instinct' on this before reading the other 2 posts was "Offer £250 and
don't go over £400" no matter how good it seems. Following up from the
'background', was it known as a 'Transcat' at some time in it's history?
ISTR the Cournil, then a UMM Transcat followed by a UMM Alter. However, my
memory is not what it used to be...
Should make a good tug / barge, though ;-)
The Pug lump might be tempting, but it didn't do much for the Mahindra from
about the same time! Mind you, those SWB Mahindras were just asking for a
Rover V8 transplant...
And some decent brakes... And decent steering... etc, etc, etc ;-)
Simon H
