Scrapbook Memories

[Lawrence Dunbar]

[Lawrence Dunbar]

[Lawrence Dunbar]

[Lawrence Dunbar]

[Frankydobo]

That 1 Tonne Landrover would have been part of my old Artillery unit back in the late 70's in Aldershot Larry, the reg of my Gun Tower was 74 FL 58. The Rover V8 petrol engine meant they were great machines across country and could shift on the motorways but they were a bit short on space with a full Gun crew of six and all the kit we had loaded on. Eighteen Guns in the Regiment with two One Tonny's to each Gun Sub unit, one to tow the Gun and the other as a Limber to carry ammo and other kit, with a few more in the MT sections. The British Army had just over 2,000 of these. This one would look much better back in military livery though! Franky.

[Lawrence Dunbar]

Hi Franky, I took this picture at Redrow AKA Reedrar, , Im pleased that you have some great info on it, Not many people do if you know what I mean, Red Row was a very good show, I used to take My MGB GT There, But of course its all in limbo until this Virus [zb] is sorted out then we can all get back to normal God willing of course,,Stay safe, Regards Larry.

[Buzzer]

Remember these on my early International travels, Buzzer

[Froggy55]

A good-looking Italian truck, as they use to make them in the sixties.

[Wheel Nut]

I'm sure it was the Foundry Chris it's a sunbed place now but like you say it's a long time ago.Trying to remember who else used it i remember Ibbotsons,Carbrook Transport and Myatt part of Mason Bros Rotherham I'm sure there were others.Another of Humbers was Harold? nickname wingnut went on to do Europe with Cave Wood.

Would that be the same Harold aka Wingnut who went to Bowkers?

[Singo55]

I'm sure it was the Foundry Chris it's a sunbed place now but like you say it's a long time ago.Trying to remember who else used it i remember Ibbotsons,Carbrook Transport and Myatt part of Mason Bros Rotherham I'm sure there were others.Another of Humbers was Harold? nickname wingnut went on to do Europe with Cave Wood.

Would that be the same Harold aka Wingnut who went to Bowkers?

Don't know where he went after Cave Wood lost touch.Not very tall and never stopped talking if that rings any bells but a decent bloke.

[Wheel Nut]

That sounds very much like him, he was an unlikely bloke to be doing continental work but he loved it and spent weeks working out of Zeebrugge, he always preferred flat trailers and sheeting steel to doing tilts


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[Singo55]

Can't fault him for that tilts were hard work especially full strip downs when loading steel out of some of the antiquated firms in Sheffield John Bedfords springs to mind for one.

[Spardo]

Can't fault him for that tilts were hard work especially full strip downs when loading steel out of some of the antiquated firms in Sheffield John Bedfords springs to mind for one.

I'll go along with that, on Cheverall's of Luton we had a regular run from South Wales to Neuf Brisach near Mulhouse with giant lumps of aluminium, 3 per load.

It was a tortuous strip out to tip until one day I spotted that they had one of those giant fork lifts on site. No-one had to strip anything but the sides out after that.

[justino]

I think this is a very old thread but….The Alltransport 110 Super Left hooker was my dads, Chris Owen. Here it is!

[240 Gardner]

Would that be the same Harold aka Wingnut who went to Bowkers?

No it wouldn't be. Harold Monk worked on Bowker's U.K. haulage for many years before going on to one of the closed circuit European round trips. I think he did go on to general European work eventually. Prior to Bowker, I think he worked for Gilbraith Transport in Accrington, where he lived. I think I heard that he went to Woodside after I left Bowker in 2001.

[Buzzer]

A few oldies, Buzzer

[Lawrence Dunbar]

[Lawrence Dunbar]

[Lawrence Dunbar]

[fodenway]

A few oldies, Buzzer

A couple of real belters there Buzzer, the Cheshire Lines Fordson, never seen a photo of a CLC lorry before. The Hewland ERF tipper - that would be Trevor Hewland from Wakefield - looks like him sat on the cab roof. He used to pull for us (Rawsons) in the nineties, we had one of his old DAF units off him as a yard shunter.

[essexpete]

The photo with the Big J, Comet an Octopus shows the rapid style change. Have I got the models right?
Would the ERF SWB bulker be a conversion? I guess that would have been duck out of water on anything but hard surfaces or would the mid axle lift slightly?

[ERF-NGC-European]

The photo with the Big J, Comet an Octopus shows the rapid style change. Have I got the models right?
Would the ERF SWB bulker be a conversion? I guess that would have been duck out of water on anything but hard surfaces or would the mid axle lift slightly?

The 'Octopus' is actually a Bristol HA, though it may well have had the same engine as went in the Leyland Octopus (0.600). Bristols were only ever built new exclusively for the nationalised BRS after 1948. Nationalised bus companies were also allowed Bristol buses and coaches.

EDIT to say: They appear only to have been supplied with Leyland 0.600 (and later 0.680) engines or Gardner 6LW (and later 6LX) straight-six engines. Though somewhere I'm sure there was one with an AEC in it - a transplant perhaps!

[Buzzer]

Another batch, Buzzer

[Kempston]

Great selection today buzzer, thanks for posting.

[Lawrence Dunbar]

[stargazer148]

Hi Larry Kawasaki z650? Cheers Ray

[Buzzer]

Saturday selection, Buzzer

[Spardo]

Saturday selection, Buzzer

Like the Bedford tipping into the spreader, a clever trick. And also the mention of Sam Longson, Cloughie's nemesis at Derby County.

And even the busty Sabrina ERF.

Isn't that Hawlet's Dodge a still from a film with lots of stars of the future in it? The name has gone, remind me.

Hell Drivers?

[Star down under.]

Hello again,heres today stuff starting with the real old wagons then up to a bit more modern motors,Cheers Bubbs,

I wonder if that Maudsley model at no.2 is the origin of the name of the LAD cabbed AEC Mustang I saw in Australia in the 60s. Dig kindly dug out a picture some years back and put it on TN.

The LAD AEC Mustang was a 'one-off' built by AEC Australia using a Leyland Super Comet chassis and cab but with AEC AV470 engine and Thornycroft D197 gearbox. Very few were built probably fewer than double figures. The AEC built Chinese-six Mustang was a derivative of the 2GM4 Mercury and some 350 AEC Mustangs were built from 1960 to 1963. They were built in the former Maudslay plant at Great Alne, Alcester. the model name Mustang was taken from Maudslay, as was the Marathon name, which was originally a coach.

Maudslay was originally at Parkside Works Coventry; Great Alne was its WW2 Shadow Factory. Parkside was closed when ACV was formed with the amalgamation of AEC, Maudslay, Crossley, and Park Royal Vehicles.

Thanks Gingerfold, I was almost sure there was a connection there. Also your mention of Crossley, another Australian connection that I mentioned in the Heavy Haulage thread the other day. When I worked in the Queensland back country I used to travel to work on a Crossley railmotor, a Crossley coach body re-mounted on railway running gear. Exactly the same as a bus but the driver had no steering wheel. I have never managed to find a photo though, even on an Australian railway forum.

Where abouts were you working? I'll try to track down the gen on it, if not a photo. Do you recall the fleet number, RM?? ?

[ParkRoyal2100]

A few oldies, Buzzer

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Later Parker Knoll D-series, I'm racking my brain cell trying to figure out where.