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foden 01:
great pictures Tidderson any more car transporters :smiley:

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toshboy:

TIDDERSON:

foden 01:

harry:

foden 01:
this is my Dad Stan Druse next to his albion where i dont know maybe rowley rd coventry ,what year would it be ,is the albion a artic any idea,s

Albions on BRS were usually 4 wheel rigids.

Harry thanks for the reply ,my Dad when on to drive car transporters for the rest of his life in coventry ,ie Rootes, Progressive,Furness and parker, cartransport,lathams,tolemans ,i belive you drove car transporters who was that for Harry ,Mark

Tidderson,
The Leyland PRESTCOLD is interesting to me ,Prestcold was in my day the refridgeration arm of Pressed Steel and we used to deliver commercial fridges throughout the uk from cowley ,trailers were tail lift 25ft carrimores usually,often pulled by the infamous Morris Saurer in Prestcold colours.obviously at some point the fleet was used for body carrying as well.
Please keep the brs pics coming!— toshboy

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Cracking pics there Tidderson, I had one of those Fl10’s new in 1990 when they first got the new 10 car trailers out of Coventry depot.

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harry_gill:

Bewick:

harry_gill:

adr:
My Dads Drivers Handbook from 50s-60s when he was a Tramper out of BRS Oxford.

hiya,
Still got mine but don’t have a clue where it’s stowed, the last entry was the most important thing for the driver never “pink lint” when you carried one of them yeh the old Ops 6 they financed me a few ■■■■-ups.
thanks harry long retired.

Whats the betting that “H” checked his tyre pressures every day before setting off,and removed all flints and sharp objects
from each tyre? Aye “and pigs might” !!! Anon!

hiya,
ANON, you got it in one everything by “the book” even moved the rig forwards a bit to make sure I hadn’t missed owt left the tyre pressures to the “trailer boy” he had bigger boots than me, “90” all round Harry !! thanks Gav now get in the shed and stay awake or else it’s a dose of the “knotted rope” no no “H” anything but the knotted rope , anything !! no the knotted rope.
thanks harry long retired.

Sadistic Masochist!!! “Nasty ■■■■■ in english!!! Anon.

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Bewick:

harry_gill:

Bewick:

harry_gill:

adr:
My Dads Drivers Handbook from 50s-60s when he was a Tramper out of BRS Oxford.

hiya,
Still got mine but don’t have a clue where it’s stowed, the last entry was the most important thing for the driver never “pink lint” when you carried one of them yeh the old Ops 6 they financed me a few ■■■■-ups.
thanks harry long retired.

Whats the betting that “H” checked his tyre pressures every day before setting off,and removed all flints and sharp objects
from each tyre? Aye “and pigs might” !!! Anon!

hiya,
ANON, you got it in one everything by “the book” even moved the rig forwards a bit to make sure I hadn’t missed owt left the tyre pressures to the “trailer boy” he had bigger boots than me, “90” all round Harry !! thanks Gav now get in the shed and stay awake or else it’s a dose of the “knotted rope” no no “H” anything but the knotted rope , anything !! no the knotted rope.
thanks harry long retired.

Sadistic Masochist!!! “Nasty [zb]” in english!!! Anon.

Hiya.
Tell you what ANON I never get that sort of talk from Dennis he’s always respectful of the “Skipper” having done a bit himself he also informed me on one occasion that his “Skipper” never had to resort to the knotted rope, Dennis must have been good eh.
thanks harry long retired.

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Bewick:

harry_gill:

adr:
My Dads Drivers Handbook from 50s-60s when he was a Tramper out of BRS Oxford.

hiya,
Still got mine but don’t have a clue where it’s stowed, the last entry was the most important thing for the driver never “pink lint” when you carried one of them yeh the old Ops 6 they financed me a few ■■■■-ups.
thanks harry long retired.

Whats the betting that “H” checked his tyre pressures every day before setting off,and removed all flints and sharp objects from each tyre? Aye “and pigs might” !!! Anon!

Hi Bewick,
I resent that remark! i can honestly state that i used to kick my tyres at least once a week .well, if it was not raining ! ----toshboy

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toshboy:

Bewick:

harry_gill:

adr:
My Dads Drivers Handbook from 50s-60s when he was a Tramper out of BRS Oxford.

hiya,
Still got mine but don’t have a clue where it’s stowed, the last entry was the most important thing for the driver never “pink lint” when you carried one of them yeh the old Ops 6 they financed me a few ■■■■-ups.
thanks harry long retired.

Whats the betting that “H” checked his tyre pressures every day before setting off,and removed all flints and sharp objects from each tyre? Aye “and pigs might” !!! Anon!

Hi Bewick,
I resent that remark! i can honestly state that i used to kick my tyres at least once a week .well, if it was not raining ! ----toshboy

hiya,
Tell you what toshboy it was bloody marvellous how accurate the kick test was without fail mine always read 90 PSI wish I’d thought to patent the idea might have cleaned up eh’.
thanks harry long retired.

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This is clearly a skill that is passed from father to son, cos I do the 5 am kick test every morning, not too hard though cos I might spill my tea!
Regards Chris

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harry_gill:

toshboy:

Bewick:

harry_gill:

adr:
My Dads Drivers Handbook from 50s-60s when he was a Tramper out of BRS Oxford.

hiya,
Still got mine but don’t have a clue where it’s stowed, the last entry was the most important thing for the driver never “pink lint” when you carried one of them yeh the old Ops 6 they financed me a few ■■■■-ups.
thanks harry long retired.

Whats the betting that “H” checked his tyre pressures every day before setting off,and removed all flints and sharp objects from each tyre? Aye “and pigs might” !!! Anon!

Hi Bewick,
I resent that remark! i can honestly state that i used to kick my tyres at least once a week .well, if it was not raining ! ----toshboy

hiya,
Tell you what toshboy it was bloody marvellous how accurate the kick test was without fail mine always read 90 PSI wish I’d thought to patent the idea might have cleaned up eh’.
thanks harry long retired.

You must still be “■■■■■■■ “H” your kicking the tyres on the J & H motor parked next to yours!!! Must 'ave been a good night in the Brown Bear last night eh! Dennis.

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Bewick:

harry_gill:

toshboy:

Bewick:

harry_gill:

adr:
My Dads Drivers Handbook from 50s-60s when he was a Tramper out of BRS Oxford.

hiya,
Still got mine but don’t have a clue where it’s stowed, the last entry was the most important thing for the driver never “pink lint” when you carried one of them yeh the old Ops 6 they financed me a few ■■■■-ups.
thanks harry long retired.

Whats the betting that “H” checked his tyre pressures every day before setting off,and removed all flints and sharp objects from each tyre? Aye “and pigs might” !!! Anon!

Hi Bewick,
I resent that remark! i can honestly state that i used to kick my tyres at least once a week .well, if it was not raining ! ----toshboy

hiya,
Tell you what toshboy it was bloody marvellous how accurate the kick test was without fail mine always read 90 PSI wish I’d thought to patent the idea might have cleaned up eh’.

thanks harry long retired.

You must still be “■■■■■■■ “H” your kicking the tyres on the J & H motor parked next to yours!!! Must 'ave been a good night in the Brown Bear last night eh! Dennis.

hiya,
Nowt to do with the Brown Bear Dennis i was carrying out planned maintainence for the J&H driver you know “knights of the road and all that” the J&H lad had a wooden leg and his kick wasn’t giving a true reading so just giving him the benefit of my expertise my boots always recorded 90 PSI.
thanks harry long retired.

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Dieseldogsix:
Cracking pics there Tidderson, I had one of those Fl10’s new in 1990 when they first got the new 10 car trailers out of Coventry depot.

you beat me to it Dieseldogsix Cracking

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adr:
This is clearly a skill that is passed from father to son, cos I do the 5 am kick test every morning, not too hard though cos I might spill my tea!
Regards Chris

Hi Chris. Clearly your Dad has something to answer for ,.he was my mentor you could say --he taught me a few things -including how to turn round a 30ft artic in a 32ft space at BRS Oxford Mayfield road depot.many moons ago

Toshboy

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Hi Tosh boy , do you remeber these oxford drivers , Ivor parry , idris hughes , bernard woodward , fred holiday , workshop fitters were Ted starling , Alfie Atherton , how about Tex diamond t wrecker driver ■■? , I started in the early 80s but these were still there . ps Albert Hall , Ray Timms :laughing:

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JAKEY:
Hi Tosh boy , do you remeber these oxford drivers , Ivor parry , idris hughes , bernard woodward , fred holiday , workshop fitters were Ted starling , Alfie Atherton , how about Tex diamond t wrecker driver ■■? , I started in the early 80s but these were still there . ps Albert Hall , Ray Timms :laughing:

Hi Jakey, Sorry mate ,my time was 1950/56 -a while before you , but i’m amazed that i can remember lots of drivers of that time and i know some stayed there years yet i cant remember the jobs my wife wanted doing this morning!!
Cheers toshboy

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Hi tosh boy , these were long service men with some as much as 50 years service ,and were just about gone by the 90s .
Ivor Parry is a welsh man who lives in Littlemore , i pop round his house every month or two as he now lives on his own ,I have herd all the stories over and over again but I never say any thing as it makes his day to tell me .
His last wagon was 1730 leyland roadtrain and it was mint .He has some photos of his trucks and Im sure he had a log of the drivers etc he knew .Bernard has now died but he was on the Habitat contract with me last truck he drove was a man 320 arctic .

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JAKEY:
Hi tosh boy , these were long service men with some as much as 50 years service ,and were just about gone by the 90s .
Ivor Parry is a welsh man who lives in Littlemore , i pop round his house every month or two as he now lives on his own ,I have herd all the stories over and over again but I never say any thing as it makes his day to tell me .
His last wagon was 1730 leyland roadtrain and it was mint .He has some photos of his trucks and Im sure he had a log of the drivers etc he knew .Bernard has now died but he was on the Habitat contract with me last truck he drove was a man 320 arctic .

Hi Jakey, All i can do is to give a few names of my era at brs and see if any of your contacts recognise any of them ,i fear that after all this tme many will be in brs heaven by now as most were a little older than me ,i was about the youngest tramper there at that time … here goes --Cavender–Haines–Douglass–Thompson–Barnes–Close–Weller–Shipperley–Blackwell–Charlett–Emerson–Fortesque–Trinder–Smart–.to name a few. others i cannot remember at the moment Regards —toshboy

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Hi Harry—,
Done more than my usual amount of boring motorway driving lately and occured to me how did we ever manage without a mobile phone,i seem to remember we had time to stop and use a phone box . the guys today are rushing around ,phone to the ear and when (if) they get caught come crying for sympathy . Times have changed greatly ,remember when we carried spare injector pipes, olives, nobby connectors and had to change our own wheels ! etc were they really the good old days?

Toshboy

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Hi toshboy , only name rings a bell is haines " hoppy haines" , from Blackbird leys ? , he was still there where when I was a workshop fitter at 16 , he was on the night trunk to South wales , He is still alive but wont speak for some reason :angry:

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toshboy:
Hi Harry—,
Done more than my usual amount of boring motorway driving lately and occured to me how did we ever manage without a mobile phone,i seem to remember we had time to stop and use a phone box . the guys today are rushing around ,phone to the ear and when (if) they get caught come crying for sympathy . Times have changed greatly ,remember when we carried spare injector pipes, olives, nobby connectors and had to change our own wheels ! etc were they really the good old days?

Toshboy

hiya,
Yes Toshboy I do believe they were the good old days if you needed to change a wheel I’ll dare bet there was always a fellow driver willing to give you a hand’ with the task and that would be rain or shine, and the pocket full of coppers for the phone instead of the phone/spy in the cab thing now in use would rather be a road sweeper than a road runner in this day and age, I,do speak with drivers some like myself retired but some a lot younger and still operational and the younger guys are fed up with the job, I myself managed to get out of it and drive a little Astra van for my last year or two of employment not so much take home pay (38 hours) but nearly double the hourly rate than for driving HGV 1s to say being as “happy as Larry” would have been an understatement.
thanks harry long retired.

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I have a very close friend that used to work out of the gloucester depot John warmingham aka willy warmer and his brother nick i believe also did a stint there aswell :slight_smile: I will ask him when i see him if he can give me some more info on what he did there :slight_smile: