harry_gill:
hiya, well hello norm out of date carlsberg is great for putting on the lawn it comes up half cut
How about this for a bit of cabotage in the desert Norm.
Looked for an elephant for a trunk run for you but couldnāt get one.
hiya, chris i hope thats not my next la mode transportes have pig-a-backed the odd scammell in my time but thats ridiculous, today iāve been introduced to oxen and camels you guys trying to tell me something, i knew a guy who used to be a long distance camel driver but thats another story and as old as the hills to boot ,so i wonāt inflict it on you other than to say he worked for egyptian desert services a subsidary of british road services offering a faster service than we at home could offer, now if anybody shows me any donkey pictures iāll get the HUMP and COWer in the corner. thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya, chris i hope thats not my next la mode transportes have pig-a-backed the odd scammell in my time but thats ridiculous, today iāve been introduced to oxen and camels you guys trying to tell me something, i knew a guy who used to be a long distance camel driver but thats another story and as old as the hills to boot ,so i wonāt inflict it on you other than to say he worked for egyptian desert services a subsidary of british road services offering a faster service than we at home could offer, now if anybody shows me any donkey pictures iāll get the HUMP and COWer in the corner. thanks harry long retired.
Camels,aye.Getting up at 0300 so you didnāt get an ugly one (Old RAF joke).
hiya, as an ex-army man chris and you talking about the RAF yourāe really giving me the hump. thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya, as an ex-army man chris and you talking about the RAF yourāe really giving me the hump. thanks harry long retired.
I were in when they needed 'em not feeded 'em,Harry.Worked with the army in Singapore,thatās where I got my bad habits from.
hiya, chris did a bit in singapore myself in 1955 before going up country to the cameron highlands, spent a week or two in nee soon when we got pulled out of kure japan after serving in korea for a few months very happy days nearly as good as being an old red and ruster.used to drive from nee soon to RAF changi for the regiments mail, only a four wheeled bedford QL then but drove an AEC matador pulling a gun in malaya only 18 and a wagon and drag driver, good or what.thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya, chris did a bit in singapore myself in 1955 before going up country to the cameron highlands, spent a week or two in nee soon when we got pulled out of kure japan after serving in korea for a few months very happy days nearly as good as being an old red and ruster.used to drive from nee soon to RAF changi for the regiments mail, only a four wheeled bedford QL then but drove an AEC matador pulling a gun in malaya only 18 and a wagon and drag driver, good or what.thanks harry long retired.
Eyup Harry,I was at Changi but a few years after you,1963-66.Took my RAF test there in a QL Bedford.Nice and cool up in the Camerons,made a change from that humidity.Did you get dowm Bugis Street and if so are you still itching? 
That Matador and gun trailer was parked up in Changi village,did you forget to take it back? There were some rough old civvie wagons in Singapore,a lot leading timber,Iāve got a few pics somewhere and will put them on if I can find 'em.
hiya, chris didnāt get down bugis st but knew of it being in transit in nee soon the village was our limit for recreation, the mat and trailer was nothing to do with me my memory used to work in those days and would hardly forget a lump like that, do forget where iāve parked my car nowadays, went out in it the other day and used the bus pass to get home used the bus pass again to to go and retrieve it, shouldnāt be allowed out without a carer, it was one hell of a climate up in the cameron highlands we wore greatcoats at night got a bit cool then but great for getting your kip, big difference down at ipoh where i used to go for ammunition it was just about sea level and always red hot, put any pics on chris might jog the old grey matter, even in the forces i wasnāt much cop with a camera so just like during my driving career never took any pictures, wish i could turn clock back. thanks harry long retired.
I took a few in germany, but I never seem to have time to do those things,and it has not changed now at almost 72 years old, I really do not know how I found time to go to work, because now the days fly by. That truck with the camel, looks like a old American army vehicle, if I am not mistaken Chris, the camel is most likely a friend of Harryās, I am sure he got his famous army great coat, from one of them, its the same colourā ā ?. Sandman Norman
hiya, leave my greatcoat out of it norm, just because you havenāt got one, i can supply the address of a good army & navy stores if yourāe jealous and they are available with or without hump just in case you ever decide to go back sand wobbling i believe the desert gets cold at night, thanks harry long retired.
Harry, do you ever think, what people think, when they read this thread, " Those old codgers" must be a little mental, son do not be a lorry driver,see what it doeās after 45 years on the road, be a MP and get more money, and be just as mad, but get a better pension. I think if I had been a MP, I would have been a young handsome, dashing Tony Blair type, Harry who do you think would have been your role model?. Sandman Norman
hiya, norm iām totally aware iām crackers, itās all those years driving those old red and rust boneshakers, rattled my brains down to the area where i sit, and as for what other people think of me iāve never cared less with me friend what you seeās is what you gets, now as for me being a parliamentarian i would have to be old enoch powell, now theres a man who was a straight talker and if people had took notice of what he said in his heyday this country would be a better place to live now, iām equally as ugly as well. thanks harry long retired.
This old bugger would shake you about a bit,all loaded and ready to go,maybe London or Liverpool docks.Just waiting for the trailer lad kissing his mum goodbye and we can crack on.
Go and fetch delivery notes from tāoffice and away,20mph but maybe a bit of āout of cogā now and then.
Looks like a Shropshire motor with the āAWā reg.Two wipers and a spot,lucky driver.
hiya, thats a good un chris cut my teeth on one of them when i was old enough to drive as a civilian after doing national sevice, had to wait a year after demob before i could start to drive proper motors, and after a couple of weeks on a four wheeler straight onto night trunk driving an old octopus and drag london one night back home the next night and it took a full shift to do it, but have actually driven an older rig than that a 1939 maudslay eight legger but i only did local day jobs with that, didnāt stick that very long nearly killed me, it woulnāt go and good job had a trailer mate or youād never get it stopped but all in the learning curve i guess. thanks harry long retired.
Hi Guys
From the mighty AECs etc to the mighty Scammel Scarab . My first artic , a Seddon had a scammel coupling , it was about 6 months before they let me loose on a Lorry with a fifth wheel . Nice pic Chris thatd give Bus pass Harry a tear in his eye , not quite ready for mine yet , got another year to go but wouldnt do me any good as there`s no buses here anyway .
Regards Frenchy
Thought this might interest someone.
hiya, frenchy funnyily i learned myself to drive a scammell coupled bedford s type at fearings of burnley iād done a bit with the old octopus and drawbar prior to that so it was no problem to me and was able to reverse them after a couple of attempts there was a lot less to contend with as well, plus a lot lighter on the handlebars got my class 1 qualifying period on the BRS but had to come off the wag and drag and drive an artic for six months to do it, never drove a wag and drag again apart from shunting them round the depot if required, the end of an era, here come the tears. thanks harry long retired.
Hi Frenchy
A Scarab was the very first vehicle I ever drove. My uncle was a foreman fitter for BR at Ayr, where they must have had 50 of those. We used to go down there on a Sunday to shoot the pigeons in the shed with an air-rifle (my uncle, my cousin and me). Then weād get to drive the scarabs around the yard. Think I was 11 or 12. A different era indeed.
And the first artics I ever drove (legally) were NCL Bedfords with scammel couplingsā¦
hiya, the scarabs they say could spin round in the space it took a horse drawn cart (which i remember) i must be older than i thought, i suppose they was brought in to replace the horses, i always fancied having a go in one, you know just to see if i could, bet you had to be quick checking the steering with them short trailers, thanks harry long retired.
The Isle of Man Steam Packet used summat like the Scarab years ago,Iām not sure what make this is though.
I always fancied a go with one as well Harry .
Thatās a great picture of Coventry BRS Dieseldog by the way. 
