Great photos Dennis, Your not David Bailey in disguise by any chance Eh, Just joking Dennis, I wish I had been able to photograph all the old motors that I had the pleasure & experience of driving along with my long gone mentors, Have a nice night me old mucker A great haulage man in my book although Ive never had the pleasure of your company which Im sure will happen one of these fine days, & We can sample a few malts, & Have a god crack about the good old days Eh, Regards Larry.
Bewick:
Equitran:
Hi Denis, great thread, really enjoying reading it, the 113 360 to my mind was the best truck ever made, I retired mine last year (reluctantly) same age as yours J854EHS and still pulling like a train doing Spain and Portugal regularly and out pulling everything over the mountains on the N1Hiya Equitran,thanks for the kind comments I’m pleased the Bewick thread is of interest,do I detect something connected with horses in your “handle”? Yes the 112/113 360’s were great motors of which we ran many at Bewick Transport,but having said that, all the various models of Scanias gave us good service over the years from the 81’s through to the couple of 4x2 470’s we ran,these were two fairly new secondhand motors I bought,which were somewhat of an indulgence at the time,but the “price was right” at the time so I relented.Cheers Dennis.
Evening Denis, You’re spot on, move horses all around the world but the long haul trucking is where my heart lies and can’t seem to quit as I’m almost finished rebuilding another old girl to head to Spain with, though this time it’s a Mack engined Magnum, bit more comfort for the drivers!!
Hiya “Equitran”,sounds like you’ve got a fair project on the go there,a Magnum with Mack engine,not my idea of a motor though 
Anyway,heres a shot of the last horse box I ran,lift off Houghton Parkhouse container which I had kitted out to carry 6 in “herring bone” or alternatively 4 facing forward but I only ever carried two at most and most of the times only one which I just had in cross-ties behind a breast bar ! Used to get some critisism about the steep side door( it had rear ramp as well) but I never had any problems either fetching one out or loading them.Cheers Dennis.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Great photos Dennis, Your not David Bailey in disguise by any chance Eh, Just joking Dennis, I wish I had been able to photograph all the old motors that I had the pleasure & experience of driving along with my long gone mentors, Have a nice night me old mucker A great haulage man in my book although Ive never had the pleasure of your company which Im sure will happen one of these fine days, & We can sample a few malts, & Have a god crack about the good old days Eh, Regards Larry.
“Point and shoot” Larry,thats all I ever did,however me old marra I will come across you one day but I divent na’ about keeping up with you “proffessional drinkers” especially on the Malts eh! I’ll have a gay good go though,and the “crack” would help to camoflage the quantity we would put away,and the loads would get heavier,the sheeting and roping would get better and the diesel fumes would get ever thicker 
Now where we stopping for breakfast and who is getting the teas in,great.Cheers Dennis.
Arl get the the teas in Dennis, & You can get the fry ups in Eh, I look forward to the day when this happens, Regards Larry. PS Mind you finding a good venue to suit us old haulage men might be a problem.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Arl get the the teas in Dennis, & You can get the fry ups in Eh, I look forward to the day when this happens, Regards Larry. PS Mind you finding a good venue to suit us old haulage men might be a problem.
Aye! so I get the “thin end” of the wedge again eh!,well I suppose us “young un’s” have to pay to gain experience eh! 
Cheers Dennis.
Aye Dennis as ive said many times before I learned that hard way in the 50s But might I add it was the proper way , anyway there was no otherway in those days, You either did it or you didn’t have a job in the old haulage game as I was told by lots of drivers a lot older than myself, So one stood to attention and did as one was told, The good old days Eh. & Im still here drinking my malts, plus fine Rioja that washes down the nosh, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye Dennis as ive said many times before I learned that hard way in the 50s But might I add it was the proper way , anyway there was no otherway in those days, You either did it or you didn’t have a job in the old haulage game as I was told by lots of drivers a lot older than myself, So one stood to attention and did as one was told, The good old days Eh. & Im still here drinking my malts, plus fine Rioja that washes down the nosh, Regards Larry.
Anne and I prefer our wines from the Southern hemisphere Larry,particularly Chilean and New Zealand Merlots and Chardenays,we don’t seem too keen on the Aussie and South African wines though.Have you got a Majestic Wine store up your way,they have some very decent deals on at times 
Cheers Dennis.
I shall have a look on line on Sat Dennis, Thank You Regards Larry.
A couple of K.Fell Scanias parked in the Milnthorpe depot circa '78,with just a glimpes of a new chassis poking into the shot,we bought Fells out in mid '76 and over the following couple of years I renewed their fleet and added to it as well,they mainly ran out of the Libby food factory next to the depot but were never short of work when the factory went quiet occaisionally as we were able to keep them busy operating within the Bewick fleet on our paper traffic.Prior to our takeover of Fells they had just stood parked up for a few days waiting for loads to come available out of the factory 
Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
Howay Bonny lad,I employed about 130 odd drivers and shunters that would all disagree with you as to which was the best “curtainsider”,to use the generic term,but it was,of course,the Bo-Alloy Tautliner by a country mile eh!
Nothing could beat a Bo-Alloy!!!.Hey Dennis hows things?.
scaniaontheroad:
Bewick:
Howay Bonny lad,I employed about 130 odd drivers and shunters that would all disagree with you as to which was the best “curtainsider”,to use the generic term,but it was,of course,the Bo-Alloy Tautliner by a country mile eh!Nothing could beat a Bo-Alloy!!!.Hey Dennis hows things?.
Aye OK SOTR,how you keeping mate?,I’m getting a bit of stick at the moment about my coments regarding the RTITB levy that we had “inflicted” on us for a few years,but I was one of the poor suckers that had to pay without the remotest chance of getting 'owt back,even if we could have spared the time to go through all the masses of BS to get nothing more than “a few £” back,what a “rip off” the RTITB was believe me,at least ■■■■ Turpin wore a mask eh! 
And yes,there was nothing to touch Bo-Alloy Tautliners IIRC we ran about 120+ of them and a number of “other curtainsiders” as well,but it’s funny it was always the Bo-Alloys that went out of the trailer ranks first,the other makes only as a last resort now I wonder why ? 
Cheers Dennis.
Euro night to-night,this is a shot of the “left ■■■■■■” we ran stood in the depot at Milnthorpe.I reasoned that if we were going to run a motor in mainland Europe for 5 or 6 weeks at a time it made sense to put the driver in the same side of the cab as the rest of the European drivers.So I bought this R380 off Keltruck,nice motor,and trouble free,we just kept him fed with unaccompanied trailers and the driver, Roger, was as happy as a “sand boy”.Cheers Bewick.
Great photos Dennis, Keep them rolling, Mind you initials resemble those of the famous David Bailley But don’t worry Dennis you were famous long before him, & He never had the pleasure of photographing your fine fleet of motors. Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Great photos Dennis, Keep them rolling, Mind you initials resemble those of the famous David Bailley But don’t worry Dennis you were famous long before him, & He never had the pleasure of photographing your fine fleet of motors. Regards Larry.
Larry my friend,you are an “auld flarch” 
But your kind coments are most welcome and much appreciated all the same and there’s plenty more from where that shot came from Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Great photos Dennis, Keep them rolling, Mind you initials resemble those of the famous David Bailley But don’t worry Dennis you were famous long before him, & He never had the pleasure of photographing your fine fleet of motors. Regards Larry.Larry my friend,you are an “auld flarch”
Well Dennis I look forward to seeing then as Im sure many many more on this thread will too, Regards Larry.
Hi Dennis, I must agree with Larry great photo’s. Thanks for your time posting them.
Regards Paul.
Last one to-night,either shot on a Saturday afternoon or a Sunday morning in the old depot down in Milnthorpe,these were two hard worked double shifters they did between 3000 and 3500 miles,each,and believe it or not the Seddon was a far better motor than that,particular, Atkinson.
Paul John:
Hi Dennis, I must agree with Larry great photo’s. Thanks for your time posting them.
Regards Paul.
Thank you Sir 
Cheers Dennis.
Great shot of the euro Scania , Dennis are any of your old clients still trading ? , who do they use now ?