tyneside:
coomsey:
tyneside:
I have seen a You Tube video of a vehicle similar to the Mack. They were used for domestic solid fuel deliveries in some areas of the USA. Some houses had gravity feed anthracite boilers and the tippers could deliver direct into a storage hopper just outside the house which fed direct into the boiler which would probably be in an attached outhouse or cellar.Tyneside
Thanks Tyneside makes sense now. Better than our lot running up the path with bags on their back, hard men!
Happy to help Coomsey! Up until the mid eighties I was one of those running up the path with a bag on my back. 10,000 ton a year at one point, kept you fit if nothing else!!
Tynesde
Bludy hell Tyneside you earned your corn! I knew a few lads on the bags for N C B they loved it, not for me it would have killed an hoss