Past Present and in Between in Pictures

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[Ray Smyth]

Found online so not sure where this was taken. Ouistreham perhaps? I do remember those Norby Trailer Savoyade tilts (bottom right). I used to pull them out of Dover docks on traction work - mostly triaxle ones. Being a short-arse I wasn't so keen on those high drop-sides.

It shouldn't be too difficult to date this image, as the period will be somewhere between the beginning of series 2 Scanias and the beginning of Ferrymasters trailers bearing the P&0 logo.

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It looks very much like the extension that was built at Ouistreham for Brittany Ferries not all that long ago.
I sailed into and out of Ouistreham many times from 1992, some times in a 16 ton Volvo, some times in my
Mercedes van, and a couple of times by car, doing a few important parcel deliveries, and back to Portsmouth
on the night sailing, In those days the ships were " Duke de Normandie " and the new " Normandie ".


Cheers, Ray.

[Isobella Ferreria]

The photo looks very much like Ouistreham but I am not too sure as the west of the trailer parking area there is a beach and no grassland as depicted in the photo, directly north is the sea, to the east is another beach that’s further away and no grassland?

[Froggy55]

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Can anyone tell me more about the numberplate of this truck? Moreover, it bears an unusual axle display.
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Hi Froggy, The number plate is from Downpatrick in Northern Ireland. Cheers, Ray.

Thanks!

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[Lawrence Dunbar]

[Ray Smyth]

Found online so not sure where this was taken. Ouistreham perhaps? I do remember those Norby Trailer Savoyade tilts (bottom right). I used to pull them out of Dover docks on traction work - mostly triaxle ones. Being a short-arse I wasn't so keen on those high drop-sides.

It shouldn't be too difficult to date this image, as the period will be somewhere between the beginning of series 2 Scanias and the beginning of Ferrymasters trailers bearing the P&0 logo.

gettyimages-986530972-1024x1024.jpg

It looks very much like the extension that was built at Ouistreham for Brittany Ferries not all that long ago.
I sailed into and out of Ouistreham many times from 1992, some times in a 16 ton Volvo, some times in my
Mercedes van, and a couple of times by car, doing a few important parcel deliveries, and back to Portsmouth
on the night sailing, In those days the ships were " Duke de Normandie " and the new " Normandie ".


Cheers, Ray.

I am not fully certain that the photo is Ouistreham, If it is, It will be from 20 or 30 years ago
before the outward extension was created. Cheers, Ray.

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[Dennis Javelin]

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Is this built on a bus chassis?

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Is this built on a bus chassis?

Yes it is Leyland Tiger cub, only two ever done started life for Portsmouth corporation, Buzzer

[Dennis Javelin]

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Is this built on a bus chassis?

Yes it is Leyland Tiger cub, only two ever done started life for Portsmouth corporation, Buzzer

Thanks

[Spardo]

Which reminds me of my first road haulage wagon. It was an Albion with no model name and the overhang was enormous but over the back axle rather than the front. Made it very easy to steer with a bit of extra weight over the tail. We only discovered its origins when the brakes failed on a hill in Herefordshire. I managed to stop it on the handbrake and it was rescued into the local dealer, Prialls, I think was the name. They couldn't find the right part to replace the faulty one and eventually solved the mystery, it was a coach chassis.

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[Leyland600]

Your Albion with a long rear overhang would be a Victor the regular model name for Albion bus chassis.
Cheers, Leyland 600

[Spardo]

Your Albion with a long rear overhang would be a Victor the regular model name for Albion bus chassis.
Cheers, Leyland 600

Thanks Leyland, I am sure you are right, though that is not a name I have heard before. I remember the terrifying descent though, I had the handbrake pulled back and locked as hard as I could, legs locked straight and back against the back of the cab. There was a sharp corner at the bottom where it levelled off and I arrived stationary at a set of traffic lights. Pulled gingerly across the road and parked before setting off to find a phone.

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[ERF-NGC-European]

[windrush]

The Morris Z van is local to me but I haven't seen it recently. Back in the mid sixties I used to get a lift home from a club weekly in one from a husband and wife, however one day the wife (who was having an affair with a much younger lad who I also knew) picked the lads girfriend up from work one lunchtime in the van and battered her to death in the road behind our house. She had asked her teenage son to dig a large trench in their garden "to plant trees" but actually it was to bury the girls body. Luckily her husband came home early and caught her.

Pete.

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Tyneside

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[oiltreader]

Thanks to lurpak, Kempston, Buzzer, ERF-NGC-European, Froggy55, Lawrence Dunbar, Isobella Ferreria and Tyneside for the photos
Oily

[oiltreader]

Livestock wagons credit to Richard Says for the photos.
Oily

[cav551]

Tyneside

Looks like they had a load of pre war bus rear wings left over for that Vaux AEC Mercury

[Spardo]

That bus/rail accident brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'integrated transport'.

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[Ray Smyth]

A Liverpool Corporation tram at its terminus at Seaforth near Liverpool.
Not far beyond the railway bridge is the docks and the River Mersey.
Picture from Bootle History Forum.

Ray.

[OldishJoda]

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Is that a 1965 Zodiac ? Or a Zephyr 6 ?

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[Dennis Javelin]

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Is that a 1965 Zodiac ? Or a Zephyr 6 ?

It's a Zodiac. If you enlarge the pic you can read the lettering on the bonnet.