Having worked the site to secure pictures of the most interesting trucks, we paused at the sight of a World War One era road sweeper. The over one-hundred-year-old Laffly carried a builder’s plate describing its history as having been constructed in 1910 at Billancourt. This was a D3 model powered by an FB22 four-cylinder inline petrol engine on chassis number 3008 with the modification work being completed by Laffly’s Somua business. Although it was a relatively primitive cleaner, the chain-driven, rolling brush worked very well.
It was while photographing the road-sweeper, that an English-accented voice apologised, in good French, for being in the direct line of our pictures. It turned out to be Glenn Harley, one of the guys who we had targeted to find and who was part of the British contingent which had crossed the Channel to be at the La Loco event this year with their 1970s vehicles. Between them, Glenn’s Leyland Super Comet and Volvo TF12 led a
