Paul John:
Bewick:
A late '70’s shot,a mixed line up of new tractor units at Milnthorpe depot ready for the road.Hi Dennis, a nice shot of some decent working motors, including the pair of 81s.
Regards Paul.
Thanks for compliment Paul,the brace of 81’s were LWB Sleeper cabs nice economical,reliable, motors they were too.Cheers Dennis.
Sleeper cabs, Dennis? You’re spoiling those drivers. What happened to the Atki’s nest-boxes? Surely you could have grafted them on to a day-cabbed unit?
I hope Harry isn’t reading this thread Dennis , or you will be getting more abuse about the 81s cheers , Dave to
Retired Old ■■■■:
Sleeper cabs, Dennis? You’re spoiling those drivers. What happened to the Atki’s nest-boxes? Surely you could have grafted them on to a day-cabbed unit?
Hiya ROF, we only had the last two Borderers we got fitted with the Jennings “sleeper pod”,plus an K.Fell ERF we aquired in the takeover had one as well.After this time we did have various day cabbed motors fitted with drop down bunks,which I wasn’t too keen on but the drivers wanted them 
But we then started to re-equip with sleeper cabbed motors during the late '70’s apart from the double shifters which only needed day cabs.Cheers Dennis
Bewick:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Sleeper cabs, Dennis? You’re spoiling those drivers. What happened to the Atki’s nest-boxes? Surely you could have grafted them on to a day-cabbed unit?Hiya ROF, we only had the last two Borderers we got fitted with the Jennings “sleeper pod”,plus an K.Fell ERF we aquired in the takeover had one as well.After this time we did have various day cabbed motors fitted with drop down bunks,which I wasn’t too keen on but the drivers wanted them
Aye double shifting the old motors, The sensible way to make a few extra pennies in the good old days , But of course now that we are retired, If you are like me its double whiskeys Eh, lovely wouldn’t you agree Dennis, Nothing but the best for us old boys, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Bewick:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Sleeper cabs, Dennis? You’re spoiling those drivers. What happened to the Atki’s nest-boxes? Surely you could have grafted them on to a day-cabbed unit?Hiya ROF, we only had the last two Borderers we got fitted with the Jennings “sleeper pod”,plus an K.Fell ERF we aquired in the takeover had one as well.After this time we did have various day cabbed motors fitted with drop down bunks,which I wasn’t too keen on but the drivers wanted them
Aye double shifting the old motors, The sensible way to make a few extra pennies in the good old days , But of course now that we are retired, If you are like me its double whiskeys Eh, lovely wouldn’t you agree Dennis, Nothing but the best for us old boys, Regards Larry.
Snap 
A mid '90’s shot here of two Bewick Interational Mercedes 440’s on the loading bank at Convent Spedition in Emmerich on the Dutch /German border.
Bewick:
A mid '90’s shot here of two Bewick Interational Mercedes 440’s on the loading bank at Convent Spedition in Emmerich on the Dutch /German border.
I like your choice of truck for the International work Dennis…those 1844’s were unburstable. YOu got the livery spot on as well.
daibootsy:
Like this one
Hi, Dai,
That’s a proper graft job! Has it got the optional “de luxe” felt roof?
Riverstick:
Bewick:
A mid '90’s shot here of two Bewick Interational Mercedes 440’s on the loading bank at Convent Spedition in Emmerich on the Dutch /German border.I like your choice of truck for the International work Dennis…those 1844’s were unburstable. YOu got the livery spot on as well.
I agree- the Bewick livery looks really good on the Merc cab.
And IMHO the reason the engine was unburstable is because they were so “softly” tuned. We had a whole fleet of the ■■■■ things at one time (special deal to get their way in) and couldn’t wait to get rid of the Gutless Krauts.
One of the Merc vans we ran.Fleet name"Junior All Star",oh! and its parked next to a Big Rig !
Lawrence Dunbar:
Bewick:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Sleeper cabs, Dennis? You’re spoiling those drivers. What happened to the Atki’s nest-boxes? Surely you could have grafted them on to a day-cabbed unit?Hiya ROF, we only had the last two Borderers we got fitted with the Jennings “sleeper pod”,plus an K.Fell ERF we aquired in the takeover had one as well.After this time we did have various day cabbed motors fitted with drop down bunks,which I wasn’t too keen on but the drivers wanted them
Aye double shifting the old motors, The sensible way to make a few extra pennies in the good old days , But of course now that we are retired, If you are like me its double whiskeys Eh, lovely wouldn’t you agree Dennis, Nothing but the best for us old boys, Regards Larry.
Wrong end of the stick Larry (or glass ) We only ran new day cabbed units on double shift,not old’uns, 
Cheers hic! Dennis.
Only one Hic Dennis you must of had a few more than me, Im on my fourth Speyside 12 year old and havnt had one hic yet. Or is it something that you have eaten Eh ■■?, Ha Ha Regards Larry.
“Proper” Atki for you, Dennis.
This was one of two manufactured & put into service with hauliers as an experimental model. There were a number of two axle tractors produced at around the same time but this one certainly earned it’s keep- over a million miles on heavy haulage.
The windscreens, cab front quarters and roof are all Mk 1 Atki with various examples of the welder/fabricator’s art built on. In my opinion it looks far better than the Scammells that were around at the time but obviously someone in Preston thought the project was a dead duck before it started.
Bewick:
I always thought this was a great B/W shot from early 1970,Saturday at noon,the entire fleet, ready to leave the Mill at Beetham.I know I may get “some stick” from some members on the site when I can honestly say that the graft I did with that D1000 (which I was still driving at this time)enabled me to purchase the goodwill of the “A” licence on the Mastiff as well as put both of them “on the road”,it sure was hard work which I wouldn’t wish to inflict on anyone but one or two on the site will have similar memories I have no doubt
That`s a great period pic Dennis
Ive just been browsing through your thread Dennis and as excellent as it is (some of these pics are superb) i think you could be the haulier that single handedly brought down the British commercial manufacturing industry.Theres not 1 single Big J with a 350 ■■■■■■■ with a 13 speed Fuller ,do you have an explanation for your actions and more importantly do you have any remorse ,if only you could have taken advice from a well know contributor on here things would have been so much different, shame on you
ramone:
Ive just been browsing through your thread Dennis and as excellent as it is (some of these pics are superb) i think you could be the haulier that single handedly brought down the British commercial manufacturing industry.Theres not 1 single Big J with a 350 ■■■■■■■ with a 13 speed Fuller ,do you have an explanation for your actions and more importantly do you have any remorse ,if only you could have taken advice from a well know contributor on here things would have been so much different, shame on you
I thought there was one hidden in the shed a few pages back.
Smashing pictures
Brilliant B&W shot of the fleet. Them was the days, eh?
Soldier z:
ramone:
Ive just been browsing through your thread Dennis and as excellent as it is (some of these pics are superb) i think you could be the haulier that single handedly brought down the British commercial manufacturing industry.Theres not 1 single Big J with a 350 ■■■■■■■ with a 13 speed Fuller ,do you have an explanation for your actions and more importantly do you have any remorse ,if only you could have taken advice from a well know contributor on here things would have been so much different, shame on youI thought there was one hidden in the shed a few pages back.
Smashing pictures
Much to CF’s disgust there were a whole fleet of Gardner 240-engined Big Js hidden away in the backwoods of ■■■■■■■ though Bewick swears blind he’s never seen one.
