toshboy:
pete smith:
toshboy:
This Albion was one of eight based at Oxford BRS early 50s initially used solo ,later used with trailers ,and popular with the drivers at that time mainly used
on cased cars deliveries to docks, quite powerful with full air brakes etc.–toshboy
Hi Toshboy, My favourite model of Albion the HD series, now if only i could win that lottery…
Hi Pete,Yes quite a formidable series at that time ,but me being quite young and down the pecking order i did not get many chances to drive them ,any how i was a bit of a loner them days and did not want to be clumbered with a trailer boy -it would have made it difficult to get the dodgys in!
As the artical said they where too heavy for domestic market, the one my Dad used to drive, a HD57 8 legger, was over a ton and a half heavier that the CX 7’s they operated, Cheer’s Pete
pete smith:
Another CX7,bought new by JN Millers,sold to AA Peate near Oswestry and bought back by Millers and burnt up for scrap 
A typically british lorry, just as I like them! But, please, don’t tell me it had to be started every morning on the crank? Weren’t all diesels fitted from the beginnings with an electric starter?
a couple that appear elsewhere
tyneside:
Frankydobo:
A couple of Albions in Newcastle, an older Newcastle Breweries nicely loaded and an LAD cabbed Albion, which the driver of seems to be asking for directions. Franky.
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Think the LAD is one of William Youngs South Shields.
Anybody any idea what happened to Stan Young. He and his Father were regulars at the Tyneside RHA meetings. His father died in the seventies and Stan kept the business going until about 1981 but had been badly affected by the drivers strike and to pack in.I know he started a new business with the foreman fitter doing commercial repairs but then he just seemed to vanish off the scene.
tyneside:
tyneside:
Frankydobo:
A couple of Albions in Newcastle, an older Newcastle Breweries nicely loaded and an LAD cabbed Albion, which the driver of seems to be asking for directions. Franky.
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Think the LAD is one of William Youngs South Shields.
Anybody any idea what happened to Stan Young. He and his Father were regulars at the Tyneside RHA meetings. His father died in the seventies and Stan kept the business going until about 1981 but had been badly affected by the drivers strike and to pack in.I know he started a new business with the foreman fitter doing commercial repairs but then he just seemed to vanish off the scene.
Hi Tyneside, IIRC, He started up a firm called Geordie Exspress, Their depot was at Simmonside , Just along from The Elson Water Tank people, This was in the earley 90s, Regards Larry.
tyneside:
tyneside:
Frankydobo:
A couple of Albions in Newcastle, an older Newcastle Breweries nicely loaded and an LAD cabbed Albion, which the driver of seems to be asking for directions. Franky.
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Think the LAD is one of William Youngs South Shields.
Anybody any idea what happened to Stan Young. He and his Father were regulars at the Tyneside RHA meetings. His father died in the seventies and Stan kept the business going until about 1981 but had been badly affected by the drivers strike and to pack in.I know he started a new business with the foreman fitter doing commercial repairs but then he just seemed to vanish off the scene.
I wonder if he still has the old RR,Car, He used to travel to the RHA Meetings in it , Regards Larry.
A fine Peter Davies shot of a Spillers Milling HD57 that had come to the end of its days with Spillers
gingerfold:
A fine Peter Davies shot of a Spillers Milling HD57 that had come to the end of its days with Spillers
Brilliant! A perfect, classic Peter Davies picture in a contextual setting. Robert
A classic flour milling delivery fleet from the era of bagged deliveries
Hi Graham,
Here are two tired old girls, worked 24 hours a day throughout their 15 yr life, Cheer’s Pete
Albion coal lorry at work? Looks like it, but why hasn’t that modern-looking house behind it got any chimneys? If it’s a preservation job, it’s jolly realistic! An enigmatic picture. Robert
I think that is Sibleys from the Southampton area. It was a working truck right up to the 1980s early 90’s. Also took part in several London Brighton Runs. If its the truck I’m thinking of that would have been a working shot.
A lot of modern built houses don’t have chimney’s Robert, when three new homes were built near us in the late eighties the builder remarked that they were the first houses in many years that he had been asked to put chimney’s on. I remember seeing that Albion somewhere, possibly at a show?
Pete.
The photo is taken in Exeter, Marsh Barton Road, any help, Les.
gingerfold:
A fine Peter Davies shot of a Spillers Milling HD57 that had come to the end of its days with Spillers
End of its life■■?
I don’t know what it’s like mechanically but it’s a fine looking thing and it looks as though there’s plenty of work left in it.
robert1952:
Albion coal lorry at work? Looks like it, but why hasn’t that modern-looking house behind it got any chimneys? If it’s a preservation job, it’s jolly realistic! An enigmatic picture. Robert
It was definitely working for Sibleys well into the 1970s, I used to see it at rallies all over the place, loaded ready for work on Monday morning. It’s a1937 KL127 converted to Albion diesel engine in the mid-50s. Brian Sibley showed me how they had to modify the rear brake rods to get it to pull up square for it’s test (mine’s never had a test, with it’s standard set-up it tends to “twerk” a bit on heavy braking in the wet because of the layout of the rods.) Sibleys were in Rownhams, so the old girl was a good way from home in Exeter. Here’s a picture I took about 1972. At the time Sibleys were also still working a wartime Austin K4.
Bernard
oiltreader:
In an advert and on the road, 1938.
Oily
What a stunning motor - does anyone know what colour it was, or anything about the firm?
robert1952:
Albion coal lorry at work? Looks like it, but why hasn’t that modern-looking house behind it got any chimneys? If it’s a preservation job, it’s jolly realistic! An enigmatic picture. Robert
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This does remind me of the Albion that i had initially for a couple of weeks on joining BRS around 1950 ,those days there was plenty of rubbish lorries taken from the private hauliers on nationalisation .this one had a petrol engine which if got very hot would stop due to vapourisation of the carburetter ,so that meant waiting till it got cooler to restart ,trouble was it had no starter motor but a fixed cranking handle.I often have wondered what model it was but looked very much like in the photo. could anyone tell me ,not that i looked upon it fondly cheers -toshboy
toshboy:
robert1952:
Albion coal lorry at work? Looks like it, but why hasn’t that modern-looking house behind it got any chimneys? If it’s a preservation job, it’s jolly realistic! An enigmatic picture. Robert
This does remind me of the Albion that i had initially for a couple of weeks on joining BRS around 1950 ,those days there was plenty of rubbish lorries taken from the private hauliers on nationalisation .this one had a petrol engine which if got very hot would stop due to vapourisation of the carburetter ,so that meant waiting till it got cooler to restart ,trouble was it had no starter motor but a fixed cranking handle.I often have wondered what model it was but looked very much like in the photo. could anyone tell me ,not that i looked upon it fondly cheers -toshboy
Hi Toshboy,
It could have been a KL 127 like Sibley’s coal lorry or a CH3… Chieftain the model before the FT series,still called a Chieftain!the first pic is an FT 37 and the second is a CH3a? Cheer’s Pete
