Sniffy:
Chris Webb was asking about West ■■■■■■■■■■ by products - taken over/bought out by Tankfreight
Photo’s of the hill up to Marchon Whitehaven and some of the drivers, maybe ex WCBP
Have you got any pre -Tankfreight WCBP pics Sniffy, or any of driver Bill Headley who I used to travel with when I was about 18,he led me astray showing me the seedy sights of London, on overnights at Aldgate roundabout & Sheperds Bush, staying in the SedAtk hotel as he called it. Trips away with him made me want to be a driver,so he had a lot to answer for Lost touch for a few years, I last saw him in 96 driving a TF Scania, sadly found out a few weeks later he was found dead in the cab.
Sniffy:
Chris Webb was asking about West ■■■■■■■■■■ by products - taken over/bought out by Tankfreight
Photo’s of the hill up to Marchon Whitehaven and some of the drivers, maybe ex WCBP
Have you got any pre -Tankfreight WCBP pics Sniffy, or any of driver Bill Headley who I used to travel with when I was about 18,he led me astray showing me the seedy sights of London, on overnights at Aldgate roundabout & Sheperds Bush, staying in the SedAtk hotel as he called it. Trips away with him made me want to be a driver,so he had a lot to answer for Lost touch for a few years, I last saw him in 96 driving a TF Scania, sadly found out a few weeks later he was found dead in the cab.
Sniffy:
Chris Webb was asking about West ■■■■■■■■■■ by products - taken over/bought out by Tankfreight
Photo’s of the hill up to Marchon Whitehaven and some of the drivers, maybe ex WCBP
Have you got any pre -Tankfreight WCBP pics Sniffy, or any of driver Bill Headley who I used to travel with when I was about 18,he led me astray showing me the seedy sights of London, on overnights at Aldgate roundabout & Sheperds Bush, staying in the SedAtk hotel as he called it. Trips away with him made me want to be a driver,so he had a lot to answer for Lost touch for a few years, I last saw him in 96 driving a TF Scania, sadly found out a few weeks later he was found dead in the cab.
Right you Marrers who remembers these motors ?
And marrer hadn’t even got to Cockermouth he only got as far as back o’t Lake !!
Sniffy:
Chris Webb was asking about West ■■■■■■■■■■ by products - taken over/bought out by Tankfreight
Photo’s of the hill up to Marchon Whitehaven and some of the drivers, maybe ex WCBP
Have you got any pre -Tankfreight WCBP pics Sniffy, or any of driver Bill Headley who I used to travel with when I was about 18,he led me astray showing me the seedy sights of London, on overnights at Aldgate roundabout & Sheperds Bush, staying in the SedAtk hotel as he called it. Trips away with him made me want to be a driver,so he had a lot to answer for Lost touch for a few years, I last saw him in 96 driving a TF Scania, sadly found out a few weeks later he was found dead in the cab.
Right you Marrers who remembers these motors ?
And marrer hadn’t even got to Cockermouth he only got as far as back o’t Lake !!
Same shot differen’t angle watter well ower T 'wellie tops !!
Dave the Renegade:
Did that have an 8LXB in it Dennis
Yea yea Renegade go on take the ■■■■ !!! That was the driver ( A Keswick lad ) stood looking lost in the middle !! I believe he needed to change his underpants when the water gushed around the waggon ! Just like being in Maderia now . Tell you more sometime !! Dennis.
Trev_H:
A shot of the rare big j 4t 8lxb untervasser !
Hiya Trev have you ever seen a Big J floating in a sea of Jennings bitter !! ( Wolverhampton & Dudley ) well now you have as when that water the Big J is floating in gets to Cockermouth it will piped into the Brewery !!
dafdave:
Did you work for athersmiths in the 70s?.If so can you remember the name of a driver who was known to stick a bar wedgeing the accellerator down once on a stretch of m/way.
regards dave.
I think a lot of drivers used this trick if the motor was Gardner powered, the pump springs and linkage on them things would give your right leg cramp after an hour, a sort of primative cruise control but you had to kick the stick out to brake that was after unwrapping the blanket from round your legs cos they never got warm either.
I recall having a timber scotch that I used to wedge underneath the throttle pedal in my Humber McVeigh Gardner 180 powered Atkinson,although you had to remove it once you came off the motorway,although running Sea Train containers to Felixstowe,you could get a way with using the scotch along the A47,but not to be recommended!!
Sniffy:
Chris Webb was asking about West ■■■■■■■■■■ by products - taken over/bought out by Tankfreight
Photo’s of the hill up to Marchon Whitehaven and some of the drivers, maybe ex WCBP
Have you got any pre -Tankfreight WCBP pics Sniffy, or any of driver Bill Headley who I used to travel with when I was about 18,he led me astray showing me the seedy sights of London, on overnights at Aldgate roundabout & Sheperds Bush, staying in the SedAtk hotel as he called it. Trips away with him made me want to be a driver,so he had a lot to answer for Lost touch for a few years, I last saw him in 96 driving a TF Scania, sadly found out a few weeks later he was found dead in the cab.
Right you Marrers who remembers these motors ?
And marrer hadn’t even got to Cockermouth he only got as far as back o’t Lake !!
How did he get into that lot Dennis,what was the cause of him getting in that lot.
Cheers Dave.
Sniffy:
Chris Webb was asking about West ■■■■■■■■■■ by products - taken over/bought out by Tankfreight
Photo’s of the hill up to Marchon Whitehaven and some of the drivers, maybe ex WCBP
Have you got any pre -Tankfreight WCBP pics Sniffy, or any of driver Bill Headley who I used to travel with when I was about 18,he led me astray showing me the seedy sights of London, on overnights at Aldgate roundabout & Sheperds Bush, staying in the SedAtk hotel as he called it. Trips away with him made me want to be a driver,so he had a lot to answer for Lost touch for a few years, I last saw him in 96 driving a TF Scania, sadly found out a few weeks later he was found dead in the cab.
Right you Marrers who remembers these motors ?
And marrer hadn’t even got to Cockermouth he only got as far as back o’t Lake !!
How did he get into that lot Dennis,what was the cause of him getting in that lot.
Cheers Dave.
Well Dave during the previous night there was torrential rain and it built up in the fields to the left and our lad set of from Keswick to run to Whitehaven with the load of drums well just as he gets between the embankments the walls burst and the flood water engulfed the artic and I believe a bus !! We brought the Guy backto the workshop and drained the engine and transmission re-filled them and we were in buisness again !! I’ve one or two worse disasters than that on photo but I will put them on at a later date !! Dennis.
Hi Dennis,
Not nice being engulfed by that amount of water as quick as that. From the pic it’s a job to see if it’s a road or a river,good job no cars were on the road,you wouldn’t have much chance of getting out of that lot safely.
Cheers Dave.
I think you sold this one to Bradys after a while?
You gave me this pic, I was interested in the underslung suspension (need to get out more I know). Underslung seemed to be a feature of early Borderers.
The next one isn’t obvious from first viewing. It is actually a Gardner 8LXB engined GUY Big J 4T, but recabbed to look like a Scania 112 (Dennis didn’t want the publicity at the time)
Not a ■■■■■■■■ truck I know, but a nice day out nonetheless in a Bassett 8LXB Borderer in 1988. Old man Basset liked the reg numbers 762, many of the fleet had this, used to cause lots of confusion in the office
GEO789G I had this as a Shunt Motor while I was still working in the warehouse before I was 21 and got my class 1. It was originally a Breakdown motor with a big steel weight which was removed and a fifth wheel put back on it but the yard on the trailer park was full of pot holes and the cab fell to bits in the end, And it had no power steering. This was at the Walney Road depot.
Steve.
Lost touch for a few years, I last saw him in 96 driving a TF Scania, sadly found out a few weeks later he was found dead in the cab.
Right you Marrers who remembers these motors ?
that was after unwrapping the blanket from round your legs cos they never got warm either.
