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stravaiger:
Here she is as sold to the Driver. (This one is an Albion Reiver)<OT pic removed, looks like closing your tinypic account was a bad idea !>
Love the bit about the draught sealed floor 
As a point of interest when the LAD cab first appeared there were concerns that the “large” expanse of windscreen would shatter (a concern also levied at the BMC FFK) as at the time the majority of truck screens were in two sections! The BMC was the largest curved screen at the time and needed metal tags pop rivetted to the cab to prevent it from falling out under heavy braking, they would both look on the “pokie” side nowadays 
Pete.
Leyland marketed the LAD cab as the Vista-Vue to promote the ‘perfect all-round visability’, mmm. They didn’t mention the short wheelbase tractor units back end bouncing like a ball when solo and shaking your teeth out. Franky.
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Yes, i well remember the BMC FG? with the threepenny bit doors.Hideous machines.
Very noisy engine and a crash gearbox.The one i drove literally shook itself to pieces.
leslie g heath:
Yes, i well remember the BMC FG? with the threepenny bit doors.Hideous machines.
Very noisy engine and a crash gearbox.The one i drove literally shook itself to pieces.
I was in the UK on a break & waiting to go away on holiday when a guy I knew asked me to help him out & fill in for his driver on local deliveries.
After agreeing I found out it was to drive a BMC FG – what a nightmare !! It wouldn’t start in the morning unless the diesel system was bled of air – I was told “it’s always been like that” !!
Yet these were popular vehicles – I’m trying to remember who had a whole fleet of them, was it CooP or a bakery firm ■■
hi.ffyfes bananas had loads of them.when i was 18 my dad bought one (ex ffyfes)took the body off and put an alloy flat bed on it,as it was under 3 tons unladen i could drive it at that age.it could carry 6tons and grossed out at 9tons.i went all over the country in that delivering china clay and slate powder from north cornwall.got quite a bit of ribbing when collecting from some of the big china clay pits and asking for just 6tons!!
cheers steve.
Heelo all
BRS had those BMCs on the Grimsby Fish contract , if we were in the yard and any spares were needed for the workshop " use a Threpeepenny bit " , I remember how gutless they were and did they stink of fish , the only good thing was the blue they painted them with did my old Singer a treat .
Excellent forum with loads of in cab memories .
Regards Frenchy
Big Leggy:
Yet these were popular vehicles – I’m trying to remember who had a whole fleet of them, was it CooP or a bakery firm ■■
Wonderloaf
a Ward LaFrance wrecker that’s still in regular use in Worcs.
no frills…
fryske:
albion lad
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Except for the yellow door this could be an Albion i drove, i even had the tartan blanket over the engine cover
And what about that ■■■■ long gearlever, used to love that I did’nt think of my cab as cramped, more like ‘cosy’ 
I use to drive the Lad Albions and also had a tartan blanket, plus
2 sacks, a few overcoats a donkey jacket round my legs, hat and scarf.
At least after spending a few hours ‘handballing’ in the rain I always had a dry coat to put on
Ray
240 Gardner:
Big Leggy:
Yet these were popular vehicles – I’m trying to remember who had a whole fleet of them, was it CooP or a bakery firm ■■Wonderloaf
northern dairies (dale farm) also had a large fleet of them ,they used them as milk floats,spent many happy hours in them as a kid when my old man was a milkman.
L
240 Gardner:
Atkinson Viewline, 1970
Nice pic, did you see the Gardner 240 chrome badge on ebay ? The guy says he worked
at Atkinson Preston as an aprentice (anyone remember them ? ) He took it home to put
on his tool box and thirty years later found it in his sock draw present bid £40.00
regards Big Al
fryske:
a Ward LaFrance wrecker that’s still in regular use in Worcs.no frills…
not seen one of those in a long while, I had one when I was manager of George Hunt Cranes, Chorley.
this is what it looks like Al
Talk about Spartan, another one of Mushroom’s Seddon pictures. regards Big Al
