Bewick:
A weekend shot down in the old yard in Milnthorpe,the car was a new 2:1D Opel Rekord diesel I bought which came from Ireland via a dealer pal,you couldn’t buy the diesel version in the UK at that time,you should have seen the crowd that gathered round it at Bradys garage on Duke St. in Barrow when I took it for it’s first service,young John Brady (well he was young then in '76 ) was nearly frothing at the mouth,he couldn’t get over the “power bulge” on the bonnet ! i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii28 … ck_ERF.jpg
An Opel Rekord 2.1 diesel…I haven’t seen one of those for years. You were ahead of your time in 1976 Dennis…diesel cars were very rare in the UK at that stage. ‘Power Bulge’ was a little optimistic?
The next two Opel Rekords I bought was a “T” reg Estate,same colour as the first and a “V” (I think) reg saloon,both these two had the uprated 2:3D engine and were a bit livelier than the 2:1 Cheers Bewick.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Any haulier/engineer worth his salt would have had the thing in the workshop at the weekend and piped a spare Scania turbocharger into it.
You ROF have what I can only call “a fertile imagination” Bewick.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Any haulier/engineer worth his salt would have had the thing in the workshop at the weekend and piped a spare Scania turbocharger into it.
You ROF have what I can only call “a fertile imagination” Bewick.
One would have thought that any “proper” haulier would have relished the chance to get his hands dirty at th’weekend after the usual 30-ish hours of propping up a desk.
It’s OK, lads- I happened to open the atlas at the Leatherhead page and what’s left of the old brain suddenly went a bit fuzzy! I’ll be alright now I’ve closed the map and got a reasonably huge glass of firewater in my hand.
Retired Old ■■■■:
It’s OK, lads- I happened to open the atlas at the Leatherhead page and what’s left of the old brain suddenly went a bit fuzzy! I’ll be alright now I’ve closed the map and got a reasonably huge glass of firewater in my hand.
A Bewick Mk1 Atky standing at Smith Brothers factory site in Whitehaven waiting to unload sixty foot long roof sections from IBIS Structral Engineers Kendal,sometime in the early 70’s.
starrman:
hi bewick; bet that old tandem trombone had some bounce to it with that load on
Same trailer “starrman” standing at Belaside,Milnthorpe, loaded with 20ton of 60ft lengths of flat bar for the Shipyard in Barrow,fair old bow on the trailer but it was a Crane Fruehauf so no worries Cheers Bewick.
shirtbox2003:
you don’t see much steel going up to shipyard these days bewick.probably make them subs out of carbon fibre.lol.
I don’t suppose they use the same ammount of steel they used to “shirtbox” as they no longer build surface ships,only Submarines,but I recall that years ago in the early 70’s we used to do the odd loads for a Lead manufacturer and we did a few loads of plastic covered lead bricks for ballasting the Subs.Now they were very low on the trailers,you had to look twice to see if they were actually loaded Cheers Bewick.
starrman:
hi bewick; bet that old tandem trombone had some bounce to it with that load on
Same trailer “starrman” standing at Belaside,Milnthorpe, loaded with 20ton of 60ft lengths of flat bar for the Shipyard in Barrow,fair old bow on the trailer but it was a Crane Fruehauf so no worries Cheers Bewick.
we had one similar at starr roadways; had short air lines that connected at diffrent points on the chassis always getting ripped off by careless drivers when closing trailer
Evening Dennis,i have just watched (i have no idea why) Eddie Stobarts whatever they call it on c5,i just wondered if you could have picked up some tips on road transport when you were in business if they had shown this series then. Maybe giving each of your lorries girls names may have brought in more profit or employing jolly drivers may have been an advantage over the competion , btw the picture of the F registered Atki is pure nostalgia ,brilliant
) was nearly frothing at the mouth,he couldn’t get over the “power bulge” on the bonnet !
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Cheers Bewick. 
Cheers Bewick.
