JAKEY:
Great shot of the euro Scania , Dennis are any of your old clients still trading ? , who do they use now ?
Some of them are but a few have disappeared along the way,no idea who those customers use now,probably the cheapest at the time as that seems to be where the industry is now,glad I’m not still involved 
Dennis.
Jakey’s query reminds me that I used to load out of John West’s- was it in Workington?- in the early '70s. I believe it was through Barnett & Graham. With all today’s regulations it’s hard to believe that we used to carry all manner of foodstuff on flatbeds with just an ordinary sheet for protection.
Hi Dennis , did any of the other drivers want the euro work ,or was Rodger the man ? also was the Scania the main truck on that work ?
It looked the part .
JAKEY:
Hi Dennis , did any of the other drivers want the euro work ,or was Rodger the man ? also was the Scania the main truck on that work ?It looked the part .
During the later 80’s some of our customers often asked me why we didn’t run into Europe and I always said “we stick to what we know best UK only” but by 1990 I was having second thoughts but I never really rekoned much the Euro work,however I decided to have a “taste” and I bought out a local 2 vehicle 2 trailer firm who were running into Holland and Germany which I had decided were the areas we could serve best plus we had access to more traffic to these countries as well.I didn’t want to run to Spain,Italy or France,much to the relief of our insurers I would add.To cut a long story short,prior to joining the WRM Group our Euro operation was running about 17 units and 30 odd 4 Mtr trailers,they were always fully freighted both ways and were accounting for circa 20/25% of our T/O IIRC.We stuck religiousy to Northern Europe which eventually took in Belgium and a bit of northern France with the odd skirmish into Switzerland and Austria from memory.Roger was just one of a number of our drivers who stayed on the continent for a few weeks at a time and were fed with un-accompanied trailers via the ferry ports.Cheers Dennis.
Thank you Dennis for your answer.
JAKEY:
Two Mercedes 1844’s loading in the Convent Spedition freight terminal at Emmerich on the Rhine near the Dutch/German border.
These two shots are for “Saviem”,I’m sure he will have some sort of coment to make 
This a complete shot of the Scania taken just down the Crooklands road near the depot.
Mr, Bewick , That Seddon unit is a fine looking too we had one the same only with a 240 Gardener 6 speed brown box groupe axle ,Nothing to wright home about but did the job, Ithink it was an ex Woodhouse motor Reg No MXS10 L iffirc bought it from J W Ratcliffe ASHTON IN MAKERFIELD, Cheers BARRY
b.waddy:
Mr, Bewick , That Seddon unit is a fine looking too we had one the same only with a 240 Gardener 6 speed brown box groupe axle ,Nothing to wright home about but did the job, Ithink it was an ex Woodhouse motor Reg No MXS10 L iffirc bought it from J W Ratcliffe ASHTON IN MAKERFIELD, Cheers BARRY
Hiya Bazzer,yes I do recall Malc Woodhouse running an 8LXB Seddon which by the reg no he would have bought secondhand as that isn’t a Lancs No.I don’t think Seddons built many with the 8LXB and I could never understand why they de-rated the 8LXB to 200bhp for the Seddon,maybe because they used the DB 6.600 box as the Atkys we had the misfortune to run,with the 220 ■■■■■■■ engine and Brown 6speed were lucky to get to 100,000 miles before they were knackered and needed a re-build,we never had hardly any trouble when the Brown box was behind the 180LXB,so obviously any more bhp was more than the box could handle.Cheers Mr.Bewick.
I recall that the reason ERF stopped offering Mr Brown’s box was because it was unreliable at more than 200bhp. Unless leylandlover knows different?
hodgeturbo:
this weeks commercial motor
Nowt much gits passed thee “Hodge” eh! So gah tilt top 'ot class ant giv’t pencils 'oot eh! Thanks for the shot Paul,that was a Renault publicity shoot on the A6 Shap Fell coming south out of the dip.Cheers Dennis.
Mr. Bewick- your presence is requested on the “Little and Large” thread.
hi dennis,how long did you run the d series for and did it do substantial mileage,how did it perform,cheers jamie
dennis my dad died 18 months ago of alzhiemers he would have loved this thread, and on sorting out his belongingsi found an original bill of sale from quicks of Manchester for a brand new 3/4 wheelbase trader tipper 6d 4132tj £1800 on the road 1963 ran it for 3 years and scrapped it never even changed the oil!!!cheers jamie
atkiman:
hi dennis,how long did you run the d series for and did it do substantial mileage,how did it perform,cheers jamie
Hiya Jamie,Ah! my D1000 FJM400F,IIRC I ran this motor for about 3 years,and I was it’s only driver during that time 
I suppose it didn’t do a fantastic mileage but I was doing,usually,two round trips a week from Kendal down to London and the Home counties,mainly Kent so I would think I would have “clocked” about 200,000 miles maybe,but they were absolutely trouble free,so considering the reputation that the ■■■■■■■ V8 accrued this must be something of an achievment 
The D1000 enabled me to aquire a second carriers “A” licence and put a new artic in the road in January 1970,so it can’t have done so bad Cheers Dennis.
hi dennis they had a bad rep so you must have nursed it and maintained it ok jamie
atkiman:
dennis my dad died 18 months ago of alzhiemers he would have loved this thread, and on sorting out his belongingsi found an original bill of sale from quicks of Manchester for a brand new 3/4 wheelbase trader tipper 6d 4132tj £1800 on the road 1963 ran it for 3 years and scrapped it never even changed the oil!!!cheers jamie
From memory I think the D1000 cost me circa £3500 in 1968,my first motor,a seconhand 1964 Trader cost me £500 in early '68 which I managed to sell for £500 about 4 months later Cheers Dennis.
I took this shot one Saturday morning in the MOT Test centre adjacent to our depot.
Oh! and those bits of concrete stacked up in the distance were “on weathering test” for bridge and structure materials that the Dept.of the Enviroment conducted in various locations around the UK at that time.
