European Powered Truck Trailer 1970s Spain?

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This has bugged me for fifty years. I haven't been able to find anything on this topic despite having Internet access for 109 years.

Holidaying in Spain 1976 and I spotted a large truck hauling hundreds of refillable LPG 15kgish gas bottles.

Exciting?

I was about thirteen, so you bet it was Exciting :-)

Towing a 10-foot long trailer with orange warning flags, the coach driver explained that it was an engine-powered device.
It contained an auxiliary motor to help power the truck up the steepest of hills.

I am 91% sure it wasn't a false memory. If anyone has any links to anything about powered trailers (photos, rumours, or anything) I would be ecstatic.

So happy, I will change the oil & filter on my Nissan K12 1.2 and do my first C&P.

It has been doing its job for just over 20k miles.
Really.
A Bosch oil filter, it actually started to leak after 2k miles. An extra tighten and all was fine.
Definitely tight on installation.
I am ashamed to admit this appalling abuse of my dad's last ever car. It has needed just 1-litre of oil in those 20k miles. Amazing.

The car has 80k miles on it now. He bought it from new.
Other than consumables, not a single issue with it.
Nothing.

Endless health issues ect, ect have got in the way of me changing the oil and filter.

What do you predict?
Holes in the paper, a large amount of crude?

I'll put the word "Crud" at the end of the title so one can find it.

Gawd, I'm boring
:)

Have a wonderful day folks x
 
It might have been an Ebro truck and trailer. They were very common then in the '70s when I lived in Galicia.

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It might have been an Ebro truck and trailer. They were very common then in the '70s when I lived in Galicia.

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Thank you. I will have a search on Ebro.

Coincidentally, I did a service on a Nissan Ebro in the early eighties. It was a diesel and the parts department gave me an M20 threaded oil filter, rather than the correct 3/4" one.
It tightened just fine, yet leaked oil after a few miles...
My right index finger is a snug 3/4" fit, but M20 is too loose.
A useful "tool".

Thank you.
 
Do you remember cabin design? In 76 it could be new 70's or 60-50s spaniard or european.
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