Unipower Register

[edd]

Having finally tracked down a Unipower and now waiting impatiently for delivery I thought it might be a nice idea to have a register of surviving Unipowers. As most of them were timber tractors I thought here would an ideal place to start asking for information. If anyone has a Unipower would they mind sending me details to help fill it in. The headings I have so far are:

 

Model; Chassis Number; Engine Number, Year; Registration; Present Owner; Timber Tractor?; Winch; Spades; Crane; Other; History; Location and Condition

 

For Present owner I am only putting surnames and for Location just the county rather than anything more specific. Let me know if anyone can think of any other useful columns. Could anyone who can help either reply to this thread or e-mail me at eddnewman at yahoo.co.uk. Ideally a photo of each Unipower would also be helpful.

 

Thanks

Ed

[Treewolf]

Congratulations on finding one, how about posting a photo?

 

I have been (half-heartedly) looking for years, though I am not sure how to explain it to OH if I got one.

 

I have over the years been compiling a list of various preserved or scrapped Unipowers and would be interested in a register if you did get one off the ground.

 

Good luck with the restoration - I am assuming that it does need restoring, of course!

[edd]

I'm just waiting for the Unipower to arrive home, should be here in 2 weeks time. As soon as it is I'll put a pic up. It's mechanically very good and the cab is pretty good. But it will need new rear body and lots of tidying.

 

So far I've got a list of 30 Unipowers and comprehensive details on 4 of those. Hopefully with a bit of help from everybody we should be able to create a good list of the Unipowers that still survive. I would be very interested in seeing the list you have.

 

Thanks

Ed

[WorcsWuss]

Have you seen this...?

 

Unipower - Tractor & Construction Plant Wiki - The classic vehicle and machinery wiki

[edd]

Thanks. Yes I have seen that one. Has helped fill a couple of the gaps I've got but still a lot more to go!

 

Thanks

Ed

[nptimber]

we have two unipowers a 1951 unipower hannibal timber tractor and a 1971 unipower invader 4x4 road site artic tractor unit

[Pasty Muncher]

Another for your register - a one off built for a tender to replace the Scammel Commander. Now being run with a different engine and gearbox by ALE as a ballast tractor

[kernowstu]

Cornish Cough on here has a little beauty,was his fathers (new i think) he tracked it down and is back where it belongs.Sure he will post

[brownoak]

more unipowers

[Treewolf]

more unipowers

 

You don't happen to know the reg on that last one by any chance?

 

It's not one I recognise and would be interesting to know.