Norman Ingram:
Harry I have just had a good idea, when you pass on, why don’t you put in your will, that you want to be pickled in scotch whisky, then you will leave this world in good " SPIRIT".
hiya,
Norm if scotch is such a good preservative they’ll have to beat me to death with a baseball bat aged 105 to stop me drawing the old age pension.
thanks harry long retired.
Norman Ingram:
Harry I have just had a good idea, when you pass on, why don’t you put in your will, that you want to be pickled in scotch whisky, then you will leave this world in good " SPIRIT".
Hiya Norm well they shipped Lord Nelson home from the battle of Trafalger in a barrel of Brandy so I don’t see anything wrong in shipping “H” home from the “smoke” in a barrel of Mild!!! Cheers Dennis.
Dennis that is a great idea, but I am afraid it is whisky or nothing with our Harry, I think he has been mixing with some upper class tourist when he was in “TUNISIA " and would not be found dead in a barrel of mild, in fact I am sure he would be " BITTER” about it. 
Norman Ingram:
Dennis that is a great idea, but I am afraid it is whisky or nothing with our Harry, I think he has been mixing with some upper class tourist when he was in “TUNISIA " and would not be found dead in a barrel of mild, in fact I am sure he would be " BITTER” about it.
I only suggested Mild Norm 'cause I wouldn’t want to waste decent “drink” we’d need a decent barrel for the “wake”!!! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Nothing less than a half decent single malt for pickling purposes none of your common or garden beer for me but i could always drink it first and then use what i pass for pickling purposes, come on you know it makes sense and i would need surgery to remove the smile before i get slung on the bonfire, have no immediate plans to expire just yet though i’ve got two bottles of Glenffidick and two bottles of Bells to consume before i go anywhere, but i promise i’ll make a start tomorrow,oh what the hell theres time for a few large ones before i go to bed.
thanks harry long retired.
What did I tell you Dennis, our Harry is a fussy person, still my old bowling mate Tom is 95 and he has whisky in his tea in the morning, and a tot in the afternoon at the pensioners club, and afew when he is at home in the evening with his hot chocolate and he is still going strong, so you enjoy yourself Harry, but make sure you have more blood in your body than whisky.
hiya,
Blimey Norm old Tom 95 and still bowling i’m 21 years his junior and can hardly bleedin’ walk.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Blimey Norm old Tom 95 and still bowling i’m 21 years his junior and can hardly bleedin’ walk.
thanks harry long retired.
Right “H” there are two interpritations of “can hardly bleedin’walk” and I don’t think that the “medical” one is applicable to you! I would suggest it is more than likely to be the “spiritual” one as in “legless”!!! just enjoying a large “dram” my-self at the moment------we’ve been out all-day with the two Granddaughters whey! hey! I’ll suffer to-morrow but by it is en-joyable to watch them enjoying themselves!!Cheers and “down the hatch” Dennis.
Bewick:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Blimey Norm old Tom 95 and still bowling i’m 21 years his junior and can hardly bleedin’ walk.
thanks harry long retired.Right “H” there are two interpritations of “can hardly bleedin’walk” and I don’t think that the “medical” one is applicable to you! I would suggest it is more than likely to be the “spiritual” one as in “legless”!!! just enjoying a large “dram” my-self at the moment------we’ve been out all-day with the two Granddaughters whey! hey! I’ll suffer to-morrow but by it is en-joyable to watch them enjoying themselves!!Cheers and “down the hatch” Dennis.
And in an effort to keep this “high class thread” on track and knowing how polite “H” was to his former employers hows this for a demonstration of respect to your Boss! This lad’s name was Mick Wilson and he was at this time(1976) a foreman at Bewick Transport he later moved into the traffic office as assistant manager but unrortunatley he died suddenly in Jan 78 of an un-diagnosed heart problem R.I.P.at 41 years old! I’d just got him his CPC while he was off sick (I still have it) and he never saw it.What a loss he was to us as both a good mate and a valued employee.But what you see in the picture is what you got! but he he could graft with the best. There’s a true saying only the good die young and this was proof.Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Bewick:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Blimey Norm old Tom 95 and still bowling i’m 21 years his junior and can hardly bleedin’ walk.
thanks harry long retired.Right “H” there are two interpritations of “can hardly bleedin’walk” and I don’t think that the “medical” one is applicable to you! I would suggest it is more than likely to be the “spiritual” one as in “legless”!!! just enjoying a large “dram” my-self at the moment------we’ve been out all-day with the two Granddaughters whey! hey! I’ll suffer to-morrow but by it is en-joyable to watch them enjoying themselves!!Cheers and “down the hatch” Dennis.
And in an effort to keep this “high class thread” on track and knowing how polite “H” was to his former employers hows this for a demonstration of respect to your Boss! This lad’s name was Mick Wilson and he was at this time(1976) a foreman at Bewick Transport he later moved into the traffic office as assistant manager but unrortunatley he died suddenly in Jan 78 of an un-diagnosed heart problem R.I.P.at 41 years old! I’d just got him his CPC while he was off sick (I still have it) and he never saw it.What a loss he was to us as both a good mate and a valued employee.But what you see in the picture is what you got! but he he could graft with the best. There’s a true saying only the good die young and this was proof.Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Dennis is your mate and first class employee telling you to go away rather impolitely or is he ordering two large whiskies, nice story mate what a waste of a young life, it’s not fair and much worse when you genuinely like the person, anyway Dennis i’ll join you in a wee dram before i hit the wooden hill, i’ve had one or two very large ones earlier but what the hell who’s counting, goodnight mate and enjoy.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi you “Red & Rust” fanatics, has anyone got any photographs of the car transporters that ran from Sandy Lane Depot, Oxford about 1962 ish. Interested in anything but particularly the AEC Mercury/Dyson wagon and drag outfits which carried cars and could swop bodies for containers or flats using a S&D Freightlifter. Here’s hoping !
E/D I have no photo’s , but I know sandy lane well, call in there many times in the late 60’s and early 70’s.
Norman Ingram:
E/D I have no photo’s , but I know sandy lane well, call in there many times in the late 60’s and early 70’s.
hiya,
Remember the motors can’t ever remember using the depot must have had a few bob in my pocket when in that area.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry the depot was down the swindon road just after you turned off the Oxford by-pass on the lefthand turn, it looked like you was turning down a country lane A421 was the main road.
Norman Ingram:
Harry the depot was down the swindon road just after you turned off the Oxford by-pass on the lefthand turn, it looked like you was turning down a country lane A421 was the main road.
Didn’t know the A421 went to Oxford 
I always thought Sandy lane was in Cowley- off Watlington Rd , but then what would a pipsqueek like me know
Love Boris x.
The A421 is an important road for east/west journeys across England. Together with the A428, the A43 and A34, it forms the route from Cambridge through Milton Keynes to Oxford. The section between the A1 near St Neots and the A5 in Milton Keynes is a primary route.
You had better switch your fly zapper on again Norm 
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Cheers Dave.
Moving swiftly on!!
ExiledDevonian:
Hi you “Red & Rust” fanatics, has anyone got any photographs of the car transporters that ran from Sandy Lane Depot, Oxford about 1962 ish. Interested in anything but particularly the AEC Mercury/Dyson wagon and drag outfits which carried cars and could swop bodies for containers or flats using a S&D Freightlifter. Here’s hoping !
Exiled Devonian : I asked the same…ish question on ‘Car bodies from Cowley’ thread, so might be worth a look. Also in the book ‘The pictorial history of the B.R.S.’ there are one or two pics of those motors, though I think they may be on a little older model, …if that makes sense!! 
Go on take the micky Dave & Boris, just because I am a year older and my eyes are going, I hit the wrong end of the pad, A420, and that is where I went and it said Sandy lane, and all the car transporters were there? 
Norman Ingram:
Go on take the micky Dave & Boris, just because I am a year older and my eyes are going, I hit the wrong end of the pad, A420, and that is where I went and it said Sandy lane, and all the car transporters were there?
Wasn’t taking the mick Norm,thats what it said about the A421 on Wilkipedia,have a look for yourself.
Cheers Dave.
Without me getting the map out,didn’t the A420 run between Swindon and Oxford through Faringdon? I was once stopped there by a group of locals,accompanied by the police,campaigning about wagons going through the town,why I was using the road etc etc.Must have been in the 70s and they seemed to be particularly keen on talking to tanker drivers like myself.
I presume the place is by-passed now?