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[Fons Baerken]

[rosko]

Wow ! Superb vintage lorry !

I tried to identify the tree...Some Japanese one ?

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Nice DAF .... One very rarely sees that brand these days. The small DAF person car enjoyed a brief burst of popularity many decades ago, if memory serves.

I'm intrigued by the colourful tree as well.

[Fons Baerken]

The Daf truck is a model from the early 1960-ies, if correct, and still running,
i think there is some oldtimer club for them
The tree is an ash liberally cheered up,
Thanks for the comments.

[Thomas Stellwag]

i like the DAF, nicely restored, the design is contemporary, it was Hanomag, Faun,  Peugeot, Bedford, all with the similiar front shape.
Only the details were finer on this DAF and its english brothers

[John Geerts]

Nice one's Fons.

The DAF - factories (Cars, Trucks and buses)  were located in the south of the Netherlands (Eindhoven and surroundings) so you see them here regularly. It was quit popular here too although it had a kind of 'seniority - image. A popular TV-show in the seventies (Back-ward racing) diminished the Dutch DAF- Car-inventory so they have become scarce.

The Ash is one of my favourite trees. The night picture in the DxO topic shows one of them in the typical red-glow at the moment.

[Fons Baerken]

Ash, Fraxinus is different from Maple, Acer which is an extensive family of trees , resp. es and esdoorn in dutch, the image shown in the dxo post looks a maple.
The daf 33 variomatic was quite popular being one of the first small cars with automatic transmission.

[John Geerts]

Thanks Fons,

I thought it was an Ash (Fraxinus) as well, but not in the foreground but I think you are right.

[John Geerts]

But the red one must be an Ash (Fraxinus), I think. I know some exotic Ashes have been planted in Tilburg on instructions of Springer, who designed many parks here between 1880 and 1950.

[Fons Baerken]

John see also my post Ash
http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php/topic,1890.0.html