Comm’on Harry, be honest, a good young woman would send you to a early grave, like me, you would like to think you can do what you did ten or twelve years ago, now this moment I have turned 72, I wish I was like I was, years ago, pole vault out of my bed, with excitement, any of you lads ever done a Grand National, from friday morning to monday morning, this consists of 30 jumps in that time, without falling off ha ha ha. Sandman Norman
hiya,
Norman, Norman, Norman yes it would see me off no doubt, but can you say hand on heart it would’nt be a cracking way to go as for me and your Grand National well of course i’ve done it, but it did take me six months, come to think of it i might have another go try and get the time down a bit, but no doubt the old lady would do her Nora Batty act and belt me with the brush.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry & Norman,
Hope ypu fella’s have had good trips today,also earned Chris a bit of profit. He might reward you with a bonus when he comes back from his adventures. Hope the moters are running well and you are kicking the tyre’s and puting a bit of grease around the king pins.Catch you later.
Cheers Dave. 
hiya,
Chris is bound to make a fuss of us when he returns all the graft we’ve got through, and if Keith was’nt more into abnormal indivisable stuff we could have worked him as well don’t know whether he’d get out of bed to subbie for the old red and rust though, suppose he could always wear a cap and dark glasses being a privateer i’d have to give him his notes outside the depot could’nt have him coming onto hallowed ground.
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A bit of red undercoat woul camouflage the lorry Harry, if you found Keith a flat cap and a long coat he would be ok. Otherwise a good old type boiler suit.
Cheers Dave.
Hi boys
I’ve already got some overalls but they have got those silly reflective strips on them, don’t think they would be any good for your jobs they make me stand out to much.No good for dodges 
Regards Keith.
hiya,
Dave don’t forget the braces and belt the BRSers was always double secure, and Keiths paint job, it would spoil an already decent livery we could always lend him one of Chris’s motors you know the saying when the cats away, if he gives me his head measurement i’ll by buy him a cap, the wife took me to buy a cap the other day the guy measured my head and declared i was 6 and 7/8" i told him not to be stupid, told him my collar size was 18" and i was sure my head was bigger than my than my neck, sorry about that.
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Keith, are you sure it has not got ← <- these on, and you kept them, when you escaped from the chain gang in Turkey, and this is the main reason, you only did three trips ?, you can tell us, no one else will know, no one else reads this thread ■■?, ha ha ha, you can sing to me, “Hit the road Jack”. Yes I know Keith, you do not have to be mad to come on this thread, but it helps. Sandman Norman Ps anyone want to help me with this decoratiing?
Keith, are you sure it has not got ← <- these on, and you kept them, when you escaped from the chain gang in Turkey, and this is the main reason, you only did three trips ?, you can tell us, no one else will know, no one else reads this thread ■■?, ha ha ha, you can sing to me, “Hit the road Jack”. Yes I know Keith, you do not have to be mad to come on this thread, but it helps. Sandman Norman Ps anyone want to help me with this decoratiing?
hiya,
Norm, see your suffering doublepostitis again.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Fella’s,
Hope you have made a bit more dosh for Chris on your Tramping,haven’t heard if Keith has sighted you Norm on his travels,kept an eye out for Harry,but he must of slipped by when I wasn’t looking. Will let you get some weekend recreation now,so you are refreshed for next week.
Cheers Dave.
Lads one of my best pick ups was at JCB’s, a load for Glasgow, then at BRS depot, they sent me to pick up a load for London docks, from a whiskey firm, it was in small furkins, when the customer got the delivery abroad, he sent a letter to the glasgow depot, saying they had created a record, not one drop was missing ha ha ha, one of the drivers called me a pillock, is that good? Sandman Norman
hiya,
Norm did quite a lot of export whiskey usually cased bottles though, loaded from all over Scotland if there was a BRS depot there i’ve hauled the golden brew, but Norm i always managed to get a wee dram for myself, but always got a clear signature which said the whole load was present and correct i wonder how, there was always a bottle on the sideboard and a drop spare in hiding, love the stuff.
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Must be honest harry, I don’t drink it, but do not mind it, when my wife makes Irish coffee’s, mostly when I catch a cold. Sandman Norman
hiya,
Norm, my old lady reckons i’m too slow to catch a cold so my little whiskey tot i regard as preventative medication, i think i’ll have a couple before i go to bed so i won’t catch a cold tomoorow, you can’t be too careful.
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Harry, you must remember loading whisky at the Forth Caledonian depot, Possil Park, Glasgow, when on BRS.
The first time I went there, the lads asked if I wanted a cup of tea, I replied, yes, thanks, and they pointed to a very large kettle on top of the stove they used in the winter to keep warm. I poured a small cup, asked for milk and they said they don’t have any. so I drank it without and then very quickly realised as my throat took the shock that it was not tea but whisky. They just cracked up with laughter at having caught me out.
hiya,
yes Colonel had a dram or two in there, we was the same colour right down to the F on the door at one time, but had been forewarned about the tea offer, did’nt stop me having a sample or two though maybe an odd one more than i should sometimes, i think the BRS and it’s many companies were the only people who could stand the insurance for the transport of the stuff, did you ever notice although it was bottled, boxed up and roped and sheeted you could still smell it on the trailer a bit of a giveaway to a prospective thief, thank goodness for the many secure depots en-route for overnight parking, your old depot was the place i used a couple of times when weekended in London being at Tufnell Park it was handy for the train home, but for backloading and fuel we used Hampstead, i’ve died waiting in there and they hated letting you park you was usually greeted with you can’t park here even before got to the traffic office and if you had to park up on security they made you wait about and tried to make it appear they were doing you a favour you would’nt have thought we was all the same outfit, but there was good digs just along from the yard and in the main st opposite the Underground station.
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I thought you would have been there, Harry.
Tufnell Park was not my home depot, mine was Spring St.Bristol, but because I was a Londoner,Chris on the desk used to get me to tip the odd trailer for him when I was up there.
You will have seen the photo of my Leyland Comet in Tufnell Park Depot on my website.
hiya,
Colonel can you remember the the guy in Spring St, was office bound but he was at Cheetham or Greenheys prior to Bristol it was the mid 60s so the grey matter ain’t what it used to be, he used to get me something down to Cornwall to get me china clay back to Lancashire he knew i had family in Truro so he made it a pleasant trip for me, hated your carbon black though always got handball somebody must have mentioned i used to be a coalminer and enjoyed being black never did get the stuff when it became palletised and shrink wrapped though.
thanks harry long retired.PS had’nt spotted the RA on the cab losing my powers of observation.
Ah! the china clay, that takes me back, Harry, i used to load the Guiness in large round containers, three on the bed of flat and take them to a brewery inTruro( Cannot remember then name now) and then off to “Par” or St Blazey for the china clay. Sometimes loading direct from the boat sitting on the sand once the tide had gone out.
Funnily enough I then loaded China clay from St. Austell and delivered to Corfu a few times when I was on Anglo Greek.
When I first moved to the Avonmouth depot to worke solely on the Philblack I had a Black painted Bristol which did exactly 43 miles an hour flat out. Later we got the new ergonomic AEC Mercury tractors and the job was a lot better. Don’t forget we used to get sixpence a ton on and off and I used to give that to the unloaders at, Dunlops, Erdington, Goodyear, Woverhampton, Michelin, Stoke-on-trent, Tiger Tyres, Abbotsinch, Glasgow and not forgetting Avon Tyres at Melksham.