Get away with you Harry, you are a national monument, they will most likely embalm you, to show future lorry drivers, a old timer who drove steam wagons on the road, well mostly on the road when away from Scotland & whisky! 
Norman Ingram:
Get away with you Harry, you are a national monument, they will most likely embalm you, to show future lorry drivers, a old timer who drove steam wagons on the road, well mostly on the road when away from Scotland & whisky!
Norm with all the whisky Harry gets through they won’t have to bother embalming him and lord only knows how much of the north east would disappear from the map if they tried to cremate him 
harry_gill:
hiya,
Can any of you former red and rusters/Pickfords lads ever get weekended whereby you parked up on a Friday at a depot away from home and get a return train ticket from that depot, travel home by train on the Friday afternoon, get a refund on the return part of the ticket and get a lift back on Sunday to your motor in time for a Monday AM start, Saturday night at home with your beer money supplied by the host depot and all legal, well ish. PS forgot to add 10 hours at double travelling back on the Sunday.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry I nether got a train ticket but it happened to me quite regular but I could put up with it I did it for 10/11 weeks on one job coming home Saturday and going back down on Monday morning and on 11 hours a day you seemed to have short changed your self so I would enquire to see if it is possible to claim the money with interest of course as it could be worth a fair bob or two now 
cheers Johnnie
hiya,
Yes Johnnie you got a travel warrant and transport to the railway station the warrant was exchanged for a return ticket got the train home handed the unused part of the ticket in at the destination station all legal, got a refund half the value of the ticket and usually had a return lift organised for a Sunday return to your motor or nearby sometimes change motors at the first cafe to take you right to the door, did it a few times in my early career,but in my time the BRS would only pay ten hours travel by public transport which was always plenty in my case.
thanks harry long retired.
Whats up Harry, have you fell out with me?, no comment on my little dig at your driving and whiskey.
hiya,
Fall out with you Norm, now would i??, have only hung on the back of of steam wagons on the way home from school, that was up the Strand Rd in Bootle, bit limited with the whiskey intake now, back to steamers have transported a few mainline rail locomotive down the road to the graveyard in Barry South Wales, often wondered did any of them ever come out again or was they finished off with the hot spanner, they was generally red and rusty when i got hold of them having stood in sidings for a while, but it was a job and somebody had to do it, but like to think at least one of them had escaped destruction and is chugging up and down some private line somewhere, trouble with me was i never recorded anything and never owned a camera so no pics, and even the memory is rubbish, now where did i park my bloody wagon.
thanks harry long retired.
Different type of steamer,still in use at the local shows Harry.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Sorry Dave thats not a lot of use to me now, “only it’s monetary value” all the pits up here are closed now, the term like taking coal to Newcastle is factual now, never thought i’d see the day.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, what about your nuts at christmas, it would save you a lot of trouble cracking them, nah it would cost you too much in coal, also you have probaly forgotten how to drive them now? 
Hi Harry Norm & Co,
Here’s one for you,not the best,but one I came across in a mag.
Dave a couple of good photo’s.
Norman Ingram:
Dave a couple of good photo’s.
Here’s a good shot of the Viking long ship being launched at Lakeside Windermere ! I reckon I could have got Norman & “H” a berth on board as Cook & Cabin boy !! I don’t know if there would have been much “■■■■■■ and pillaging” but no doubt them two would have found a local flesh pot or two when they got a run ashore for a spot of leave !! ( I think there is a betting shop in Bowness ) Cheers Bewick.
I do not mind driving the crane, but noway am I rowing that bloody boat.
Norman Ingram:
I do not mind driving the crane, but noway am I rowing that bloody boat.
They didn’t row it “Norm” they hoisted the biggest heaviest sail I’ve seen ! and I thought the wind wouldn’t be able to fill it but 5 mins after they were dropped in the lake they were off and 1/2 a mile away !! Whey Hey the lads are coming !!! Drag out your daughters and get the Newcy broon on tap !!! Cheers Bewick.
hiya,
Thats just how i remember the Bristols being delivered always with a new own make trailer attached, just a fleet No to paint on and the No plates to affix and away for a load, on one occasion i remember driving into the depot with an Octopus and drag parking it up going for a cuppa returning to find a new Bristol in the process of having the plates put on and i drove out again in about an hour with a new motor and loading instructions to go and load it, did’nt drive rigids much after that, would have been the mid sixties, missed the wags and drags though the artics was a piece of p""s compared and my old second mate being a non driver got lumbered doing a bit of depot transhipping and sweeping up until he retired a year later.
thanks harry long retired.
Bewick, you cannot con me, all the Viking ships used to have oars incase there was no wind, so give it to Chris, Dave, Keith, me and old Harry are knackered, we have to admitt it we are has beens. 
Norman Ingram:
Bewick, you cannot con me, all the Viking ships used to have oars incase there was no wind, so give it to Chris, Dave, Keith, me and old Harry are knackered, we have to admitt it we are has beens.
Honest “NORM” this sail was the heaviest thickest weave I’ve ever seen !! and I thought the wind (what little there was would never move the ship) but believe me it did! So providing you was going in the same direction as the wind there would be no rowing !! And ,of course , non-combatants,cooks and cabin boys wouldn’t be expected to Row!! ( But would be expected to do their share of Plundering,■■■■■■ & Pillaging of Course!! )Bewick.
hiya,
Howay Norm get on board i’ll fix you up with some ■■■■■■ for when we get a run ashore or jump ship, and there’s still a four pot Gardner down the shed should be big enough to push that tub along, and Norm remember when taking the ■■■■■■ be sure to swallow it quick i do’nt want you finishing up with a stiff neck cos i’m not doing all the rowing.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi boys
Harry I don’t mind giving you a hand with the rowing so long as Norm isn’t on the drum as he might be a bit fast for us, I wouldn’t like to get out of rhythm.BTW who’s in charge of the rum?
Regards Keith.
No no no, see I knew that word rowing would turn up, I am a physical wreck, I would not have enough puff to blow a balloon up, as for those pills, if it got hard, the women would have to be on top, to do all the work, I am definightly a old soldier in the fade away mode. , do you lads think I am going through the change of life, or I am a bloated old man 