Sentinel steam lorry
Luxury or what?
Ray
rich12:
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.
National Tyre Service,spent many an unsociable hour , trundling down the M4 to change "you old gits"tyres - Happy days
Got stuck at Membury services one Sunday in a snowstorm for 7 hrs - not the best cab to be doing that 
Pacific ‘Dragon Waggon’ Tank transporter from WW2
These are what Wynns Heavy Haulage based their Pacific HH tractors upon.
Tim
jazzdrummer:
Pacific ‘Dragon Waggon’ Tank transporter from WW2
These are what Wynns Heavy Haulage based their Pacific HH tractors upon.
Tim
great picture – is that a recent one?
have you got any more?
here’s a Leyland Bison I found yesterday — rusty cab but all complete.
Here’s the Pacific.
Tim
been great to be browsing thru all them old cab interior shots,brings back the memories of my childhoood when i spent a lot of time sitting at the wheel of my dads various Atkinson Borderer’s pretending I was driving it! 
I remember one in particular he drove for Albert Bartlett of Watt Street Airdrie,It was a 1974 model PVA393M a 220 ■■■■■■■ with a 9sp Fuller Roadranger 'box & it could fly! exceeded 75mph without breaking sweat
I also remeber it had no power steering & my dads arms were like them of hercules at the time.Eventually he left Bartlett for BOC GASES tanker fleet out of Carfin when the artic fleet was Foden S80’s fitted with the same 220 ■■■■■■■ engines but with Fodens 9sp overdrive gearbox, they like the ■■■■■■■ engined ATKI’S could also fly!
The rigid fleet of BOC at that time were Albion Clydesdales & Albion Reivers fitted with the ergomatic cab & most of them were replaced in 1978 by a new fleet of Leyland Bisons fitted with the L10 engine & 6sp gearbox , fabulous trucks they were!
Thanks for the memories!
Rivits
jazzdrummer:
Here’s the Pacific.
Tim
where is that?
hiya,
even a can of polish in the bison shed, get cracking somebody, oh and please water the houseplant in the passenger footwell.
thanks harry long retired.
a 13 year old me on Dad’s F10
Love the old 2800 pictures of the dash with the stalks but the centre console should still be fitted in modern trucks, best thing ever for flasks, bottles and paperwork.
I liked the FG and its threepenny bit cab, driven all day with the doors open and a nice breeze, it was probably as quiet that way 
Magazine clippings from long ago.
A 1930s Bedford WLG
A 1940s Bedford OW
And one for the X BRS drivers
Ray
Here’s Fords effort and not a bad one really.
the old thames trader never looked like these. 
What great pics, I never thought about taking pics when I was a young driver, I went to the Leyland truck museum a few weeks back, very interesting especially as I had driven most of the trucks in there. I started driving heavy,s in 1961 and I still do a bit now ,but I cant get my head round these new regs I r4member when the cops used to have a walk round your motor to give you time to fill in your log sheet.
rocky 7:
What great pics, I never thought about taking pics when I was a young driver, I went to the Leyland truck museum a few weeks back, very interesting especially as I had driven most of the trucks in there. I started driving heavy,s in 1961 and I still do a bit now ,but I cant get my head round these new regs I r4member when the cops used to have a walk round your motor to give you time to fill in your log sheet.
Rocky you must have known a better class of bobbies then i did regards Big Al
Big Al:
rocky 7:
What great pics, I never thought about taking pics when I was a young driver, I went to the Leyland truck museum a few weeks back, very interesting especially as I had driven most of the trucks in there. I started driving heavy,s in 1961 and I still do a bit now ,but I cant get my head round these new regs I r4member when the cops used to have a walk round your motor to give you time to fill in your log sheet.Rocky you must have known a better class of bobbies then i did
Believe me Al, he knew most of them, or should I say most of them knew him .
Regards Steve.
Steve you old bandit, why arnt you in bed
Hi Al nice to hear from you I see your from Preston . did you ever pull for Ian parky■■?
rocky 7:
Steve you old bandit, why arnt you in bedHi Al nice to hear from you I see your from Preston . did you ever pull for Ian parky■■?
No mate but his yard at Red Scar very close to ours. regards Big Al
A Scammell, men from the boys 
I think this was a WHC&C lorry.
Ray