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Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Remember when going scotch (if from the south), or going down to the smoke (if from the north), was long distance?
When Middle East work was readily available?.
When driving a 111 or F89 meant you were truly the king of the road?
Recall those companies long gone, where every day was an adventure?

What ever happened to those drivers you spent hours with.. where did they go? and recollect on those characters in the industry sadly no longer with us.
This forum is for us all to indulge in a little nostalgia and remember with rose coloured glasses how much better it was in the olden days

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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby oiltreader » Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:14 pm

Thanks to Kempston, servo88 and pyewacket947v for the photos :D :D :D and Froggy55 for the link tho' same one posted further up the page :D
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From Essex north to Lincs and one from Derbys operators credit to Michael Trolove for the photos.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby oiltreader » Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:35 pm

Inverness October 2021.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby pyewacket947v » Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:41 pm

ERF-NGC-European wrote:
pyewacket947v wrote:5 June 1986
Cardiff
Cym

'Coyote'
BWD 848T
Embellished Volvo F88 that wants to be a F89.
operated by STS.
Over done? Maybe, but apart from the flags in the screen, i like it.!


Yes, over-blinged for my personal taste. Mind you, I did used to put flags up though I wouldn't now as I don't like anything in the windscreen these days. I notice it says 'Fuller for Professionals' above the windscreens. Can't fault the sentiment, but I'll bet that Volvo didn't have one!


Flags across the screen, all the rage at one time, also illegal.. I used to have a sun strip if the motor did not have a visor, like my MB in the background.
You will be right about the gearbox. though a Twin Splitter would have done it for me, long ago!
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby pyewacket947v » Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:55 pm

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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby servo88 » Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:12 pm

Annandale & Scott's 018.JPG
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby servo88 » Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:14 pm

Annandale & Scott's 028.JPG
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby servo88 » Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:17 pm

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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby servo88 » Sun Jan 16, 2022 11:03 pm

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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby oiltreader » Mon Jan 17, 2022 6:34 pm

Thanks to pyewacket947v and servo88 for the photos :D :D
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Cornwall credit to Graham Richardson for the photos.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby oiltreader » Mon Jan 17, 2022 6:43 pm

Cumbria wagons, credit to Richard Says for the photos.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby oiltreader » Mon Jan 17, 2022 6:57 pm

!965 floods at Ambergate Derbys., all credit to Claire Sutton for the photo.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby oiltreader » Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:02 pm

A long way from Devon at Juba, South Sudan.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby windrush » Mon Jan 17, 2022 8:57 pm

oiltreader wrote:!965 floods at Ambergate Derbys., all credit to Claire Sutton for the photo.
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At first I thought that was one of Dean's but I can't make out the name on the door. The station, one of the few triangular ones in Britain, doesn't look like that now though!

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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby Chris Webb » Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:32 pm

windrush wrote:
oiltreader wrote:!965 floods at Ambergate Derbys., all credit to Claire Sutton for the photo.
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At first I thought that was one of Dean's but I can't make out the name on the door. The station, one of the few triangular ones in Britain, doesn't look like that now though!

Pete.


Hi Pete, I remember Dean Haulage,in big white letters on wagon doors,they were blue IIRC.There's summat written on front of that Commer as well but I can't make it out.
Ambergate triangular station was a great place for trainspotting,I went once or twice from Bakewell station when I were a kid.You got the traffic from St Pancras to Sheffield and the north and traffic from St Pancras to Manchester via Miller's Dale,plus cross country stuff from South West to North East,like Bristol - Newcastle. :D
Them were t'days when we were on neets.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby Spardo » Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:38 am

oiltreader wrote:!965 floods at Ambergate Derbys., all credit to Claire Sutton for the photo.
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I don't recognise that scene, but I wonder if those were the same floods that I got caught up in in Matlock around that time. I was heading with my LAD Dodge artic (Shaw's of Stapleford) to one of the quarries to collect asphalt blocks when I came across the flood. I tried to drive through it and was doing alright until I hit a lump of debris under the surface and came to a complete halt. I escaped from the cab and stepped back first onto the trailer and then to a low garden wall. A little further along I escaped the flood and made my way to a phone box. The boss said walk into town and then up the bank to a mate of mine (the boss was Kerry Spencer, later of the RHA, who lived in Matlock) who has just bought a big American reccer. However he refused, he didn't want to risk his new toy so I trekked back to the wagon only to find that a council front end loader had used its bucket against the cab and pushed the whole thing aside and out of the way. :shock:

It was driveable, but badly damaged. And not the only time I was affected by floods. Later experiences involved both NSW and QLD (tail end of another thread :roll: )
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby coomsey » Tue Jan 18, 2022 2:03 pm

"just pop her onto the bay" good length on her ! NMP off FB
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby oiltreader » Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:02 pm

Thanks to coomsey for the photo :D
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1961 Thames Trader in France credit to Dave Fawcett for the photo.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby pyewacket947v » Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:11 pm

11 June 1986
Christian Salvesen Depot
Droitwich Spa
Worcs,
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SFV 591X
1980 built Dennison 4x2 + Tandem curtainsider.
Operated by John Marsh.
These tractors assembled in Ireland with Finnish Sisu cabs, some with RR engines, where a fairly regular sight at
Droitwich for a while. Also seen in Blackpool Van Transport livery.
This one last taxed in 1988.. Not sure about that odd shape to the front of the trailer.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby ERF-NGC-European » Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:41 pm

pyewacket947v wrote:11 June 1986
Christian Salvesen Depot
Droitwich Spa
Worcs,
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SFV 591X
1980 built Dennison 4x2 + Tandem curtainsider.
Operated by John Marsh.
These tractors assembled in Ireland with Finnish Sisu cabs, some with RR engines, where a fairly regular sight at
Droitwich for a while. Also seen in Blackpool Van Transport livery.
This one last taxed in 1988.. Not sure about that odd shape to the front of the trailer.


I think most of them had the Rolls 265 with the Fuller RT 9509c 'box (wider ratios). But you could have the Rolls 220, 265 or 290. You could also have the Gardner 180 or the 240; or even a Cummins 290 - all with 9-sp Fullers. The axle was an Eaton 2500 range.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby Kempston » Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:24 am

Think the odd shape to the front of the trailer is just a wind deflector fitted.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby Froggy55 » Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:09 pm

coomsey wrote:"just pop her onto the bay" good length on her ! NMP off FB
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I always wondered why American semi-trailors have their axles at the far end. Certainly not the best for weight distribution.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby ERF-NGC-European » Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:21 pm

Froggy55 wrote:
coomsey wrote:"just pop her onto the bay" good length on her ! NMP off FB
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I always wondered why American semi-trailors have their axles at the far end. Certainly not the best for weight distribution.


Nor for ease of reversing.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby Spardo » Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:46 pm

ERF-NGC-European wrote:
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coomsey wrote:"just pop her onto the bay" good length on her ! NMP off FB
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I always wondered why American semi-trailors have their axles at the far end. Certainly not the best for weight distribution.


Nor for ease of reversing.


But less likely to whack someone on the tail outswing at the traffic lights. :wink: :lol:
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby oiltreader » Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:50 pm

Thanks to pyewackets947v for the photo :D and the craic's going well :D
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby oiltreader » Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:22 pm

Couple with credit to Ken Brown for the photos.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby pyewacket947v » Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:12 pm

Spardo wrote:
ERF-NGC-European wrote:
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coomsey wrote:"just pop her onto the bay" good length on her ! NMP off FB
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I always wondered why American semi-trailors have their axles at the far end. Certainly not the best for weight distribution.


Nor for ease of reversing.


But less likely to whack someone on the tail outswing at the traffic lights. :wink: :lol:[/quote

Something to do with spreading the weight i guess, same at the front end, putting the steering axle as far
forward as possible, downside of that was the bone jarring ride in many cab forward motors..
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby pyewacket947v » Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:14 pm

ERF-NGC-European wrote:
pyewacket947v wrote:11 June 1986
Christian Salvesen Depot
Droitwich Spa
Worcs,
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SFV 591X
1980 built Dennison 4x2 + Tandem curtainsider.
Operated by John Marsh.
These tractors assembled in Ireland with Finnish Sisu cabs, some with RR engines, where a fairly regular sight at
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This one last taxed in 1988.. Not sure about that odd shape to the front of the trailer.


I think most of them had the Rolls 265 with the Fuller RT 9509c 'box (wider ratios). But you could have the Rolls 220, 265 or 290. You could also have the Gardner 180 or the 240; or even a Cummins 290 - all with 9-sp Fullers. The axle was an Eaton 2500 range.


Yes, i recall seeing one with a Gardner emblem somewhere..
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby pyewacket947v » Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:20 pm

24 June 1986
M6
Southwaite
Cumbria
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AEC Matador 4x4
In service with a bus operator as a recovery vehicle.
I believe this is in Eastern Scottish livery.
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Re: Past Present and in Between in Pictures

Postby whisperingsmith » Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:11 pm

Froggy55 wrote:I always wondered why American semi-trailors have their axles at the far end. Certainly not the best for weight distribution.


Having my first drive in a Kenworth 6x4 conventional in Rush Hour traffic in Jeddah I can see why - USA trucks aren't designed to go round corners
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Postby tyneside » Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:40 pm

Few from the NE
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