Ray Smyth:
These pictures of Morris Carriers Leyland Beaver were captured off the television last night
by a friend of mine. The television series is “Endeavour”, Inspector Morse when he was a
young Detective Sergaent in 1969. I am told that the Leyland Beaver was one of a fleet of
Mobile X-Ray Units of the National Health Service, and its registration number is MUM 289.
From memory, I seem to remember that they pulled a drawbar trailer X-Ray unit as well.
Perhaps there are pictures of this Leyland somewhere on Trucknet that I have not seen,
Ray Smyth.
Cheers for the pic Ray that is Merton Street in Oxford
Oily
Hi John, seeing one of them always brings to mind a sad occasion. Heading along Brighton front to tip at Hove and there was one parked up, my young mate (wagon and drag) who was in his late 20s " could you stop a minute I want to have a check up" pulled up and waited, he came back said " my mum told if I ever see one of them on our travels to make sure I have a check up" it turned out that he had early symptoms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, two years later he had passed away, leaving a wife and two young children. He was a pleasure to have as a mate, no problems with early starts and along the way we had some great laughs.
Oily
Ray Smyth:
These pictures of Morris Carriers Leyland Beaver were captured off the television last night
by a friend of mine. The television series is “Endeavour”, Inspector Morse when he was a
young Detective Sergaent in 1969. I am told that the Leyland Beaver was one of a fleet of
Mobile X-Ray Units of the National Health Service, and its registration number is MUM 289.
From memory, I seem to remember that they pulled a drawbar trailer X-Ray unit as well.
Perhaps there are pictures of this Leyland somewhere on Trucknet that I have not seen,
Queens Drive/Rice Lane flyover being built in 1969. The queue of traffic coming down Breeze Hill from
the top include an Atkinson, a Bedford TK, a BMC, and an Ergocabbed AEC or Leyland. The Austin A35
van and the Commer are at the start of Rice Lane (A59). The Vauxhall Victor 101 is at the start of the
Queens Drive Ring Road, and the cars on the left are at the end of County Road.
Picture from Bootle History Forum. Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth:
Queens Drive/Rice Lane flyover being built in 1969. The queue of traffic coming down Breeze Hill from
the top include an Atkinson, a Bedford TK, a BMC, and an Ergocabbed AEC or Leyland. The Austin A35
van and the Commer are at the start of Rice Lane (A59). The Vauxhall Victor 101 is at the start of the
Queens Drive Ring Road, and the cars on the left are at the end of County Road.
Picture from Bootle History Forum. Ray Smyth.
Thanks for that pic’ Ray. Does anyone else think that the Ergo’s got a 4 in line trailer? I’ve never pulled one but my old dad said they were a bit of a handful.
Ray Smyth:
Queens Drive/Rice Lane flyover being built in 1969. The queue of traffic coming down Breeze Hill from
the top include an Atkinson, a Bedford TK, a BMC, and an Ergocabbed AEC or Leyland. The Austin A35
van and the Commer are at the start of Rice Lane (A59). The Vauxhall Victor 101 is at the start of the
Queens Drive Ring Road, and the cars on the left are at the end of County Road.
Picture from Bootle History Forum. Ray Smyth.
Thanks for that pic’ Ray. Does anyone else think that the Ergo’s got a 4 in line trailer? I’ve never pulled one but my old dad said they were a bit of a handful.
Peter, Yes, it looks very much like a 4 in line trailer. I cant recall ever having a 4 in line trailer, but I believe they
could be a bit unsteady, particularly if they had a high load on. If one of the outer wheels dropped into a large
deep pothole, I expect a high loaded 4 in line would lean badly. Also, I wouldn’t like to attempt having to change
an inner wheel that had a puncture. Ray.
Ray Smyth:
Queens Drive/Rice Lane flyover being built in 1969. The queue of traffic coming down Breeze Hill from
the top include an Atkinson, a Bedford TK, a BMC, and an Ergocabbed AEC or Leyland. The Austin A35
van and the Commer are at the start of Rice Lane (A59). The Vauxhall Victor 101 is at the start of the
Queens Drive Ring Road, and the cars on the left are at the end of County Road.
Picture from Bootle History Forum. Ray Smyth.
Thanks for that pic’ Ray. Does anyone else think that the Ergo’s got a 4 in line trailer? I’ve never pulled one but my old dad said they were a bit of a handful.
Peter, Yes, it looks very much like a 4 in line trailer. I cant recall ever having a 4 in line trailer, but I believe they
could be a bit unsteady, particularly if they had a high load on. If one of the outer wheels dropped into a large
deep pothole, I expect a high loaded 4 in line would lean badly. Also, I wouldn’t like to attempt having to change
an inner wheel that had a puncture. Ray.
Must be what he was talking about. I wouldn’t fancy the inner wheel change job either. We just know it’s be dark and raining.
Ray Smyth:
Queens Drive/Rice Lane flyover being built in 1969. The queue of traffic coming down Breeze Hill from
the top include an Atkinson, a Bedford TK, a BMC, and an Ergocabbed AEC or Leyland. The Austin A35
van and the Commer are at the start of Rice Lane (A59). The Vauxhall Victor 101 is at the start of the
Queens Drive Ring Road, and the cars on the left are at the end of County Road.
Picture from Bootle History Forum. Ray Smyth.
Thanks for that pic’ Ray. Does anyone else think that the Ergo’s got a 4 in line trailer? I’ve never pulled one but my old dad said they were a bit of a handful.
Peter, Yes, it looks very much like a 4 in line trailer. I cant recall ever having a 4 in line trailer, but I believe they
could be a bit unsteady, particularly if they had a high load on. If one of the outer wheels dropped into a large
deep pothole, I expect a high loaded 4 in line would lean badly. Also, I wouldn’t like to attempt having to change
an inner wheel that had a puncture. Ray.
Must be what he was talking about. I wouldn’t fancy the inner wheel change job either. We just know it’s be dark and raining.
Sadly, I did have one, if you got the tyre pressures even a bit different it could throw it all over the place. I once came down Symonds Yat at speed and it started to sway, daren’t touch the brakes just kept as light a touch on the wheel as possible, and survived, but it was scary.
The wheels were a bit larger than normal tandems and were attached to 2 seperate short axles which were suspended from the chassis. The official term for them was oscillating bogies, and that it just what they did, oscillate.
The attraction from a haulier’s point of view was that, according to what I was told at the time, they were classed in the same weight carrying capacity as tandems, but with only 4 wheels and tyres instead of 8.
I never met a driver who liked them though. Thankfully I never had to change a wheel, it would have been complcated as presumably you had to jack the axle, which of course with one tyre flat, wouid have been at an angle.
Peter, Yes, it looks very much like a 4 in line trailer. I cant recall ever having a 4 in line trailer, but I believe they
could be a bit unsteady, particularly if they had a high load on. If one of the outer wheels dropped into a large
deep pothole, I expect a high loaded 4 in line would lean badly. Also, I wouldn’t like to attempt having to change
an inner wheel that had a puncture. Ray.
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Must be what he was talking about. I wouldn’t fancy the inner wheel change job either. We just know it’s be dark and raining.
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Sadly, I did have one, if you got the tyre pressures even a bit different it could throw it all over the place. I once came down Symonds Yat at speed and it started to sway, daren’t touch the brakes just kept as light a touch on the wheel as possible, and survived, but it was scary.
The wheels were a bit larger than normal tandems and were attached to 2 seperate short axles which were suspended from the chassis. The official term for them was oscillating bogies, and that it just what they did, oscillate.
The attraction from a haulier’s point of view was that, according to what I was told at the time, they were classed in the same weight carrying capacity as tandems, but with only 4 wheels and tyres instead of 8.
I never met a driver who liked them though. Thankfully I never had to change a wheel, it would have been complcated as presumably you had to jack the axle, which of course with one tyre flat, wouid have been at an angle.
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Did you manage to stop it before Monmouth
I’d already passed Monmouth, northbound with timber from Cardiff docks.
There used to be a transport motel, one of a very few new developements on the old digs, in those days and I brought her to a halt opposite that. After several minutes trying to calm the heartrate, I walked across the road and had a cup of tea.
Good evening all.
I am now in need of any pictures of the Cadbury tanker/tippers that were ran during the 90s im sure they were Volvo fl10/12s, ive searched high and low and cant find any. I know all the info from of there duties just need the pictures. Thanks
Ray that is Merton Street in Oxford
Ray.
