Win-Stone:
Bedford TK? Atkinson? Pah… Some of us learned on REAL lorries.Ok. I’ll go back to polishing my zimmer frame
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Me too Win-stone. Almost didn’t recognise it without the “yellow suitcases” wedged behind the seats! 
windrush:
Punchy Dan:
Edit could do with a louder hands free thing because when the air con vents are open I can’t here the phone for road noiseThere just can’t be anything wrong with the Foden Dan, it will be you needing hearing aids now the years are marching rapidly on!
By the way, what is this thing called air-con? Is it like the designer air gap around the Foden door?
Pete.
In the mid sixty’s, driving for a north London tipper firm that ran J type Bedford’s and Thames Trader tippers, we went on strike and refused to take the motors out, not over pay and conditions but about getting standard heaters fitted in the motors, there was no heaters at all in the motors, the boss said get the motors back on the road and they will be fitted, it worked by the time we got back to the yard that night the workshop was full of boxes of heater ready to be fitted…happy day’s air conditioning was a hole in the floor…
ossie
robroy:
Just to wind up some of you lads who come on here moaning about truck quality, your air seat is faulty or curtains let in too much light etc.I was driving, (well more like steering )my modern Mercedes with air con blowing icy, after getting a cold can out of my fridge, listening to crystal clear dab radio, on an air seat, and on air suspension and I was just comparing it with when I first started, driving the likes of a Mark2 Atkinson, which you had to actually DRIVE in the true sense, unlike today, with no power steering, a gear change like a stick in a bucket, where you had to judge the revs while double de clutcing the crash box, otherwise it just did NOT go in, while used very often as the 220 engine sensed a hill before you actually saw it.
The fumes coming through the daylight at the bottom of the gear lever and each pedal rubber, made worse on a hot day like this where you spent the entire day sweating like a blacksmith’s arse.
Then looking forward to building your bed at end of shift out of boards and a bit of foam.
I just got to thinking how much things had improved (in one sense that is)
Yeh I know, to some of you I may as well be talking about the middle ages, and you will just write it off as ancient history or whatever
There aint such a thing as a BAD truck these days, just some are better than others.
So some of you lot don’t know you’re [zb] born.Btw…I’ll beat you to it…‘‘During the war Del’’
Come along Rob old boy, the oldies forum is this way -------> viewforum.php?f=35
that’s it slow and steady, just say if you need to stop for a rest or a pee break…
Come off it Reef, RobRoy isn’t an ‘oldie’ at all because he is still out there trucking! I’m only 67 so don’t consider myself one either, unlike Dennis (Bewick) and a few more who must be in their nineties by now! 
Now, where did I leave my teeth? 
Pete.
Win-Stone:
Bedford TK? Atkinson? Pah… Some of us learned on REAL lorries.Ok. I’ll go back to polishing my zimmer frame
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That looks suspiciously like an Antar. 150 RCT? I was next door with 32 GW regt RA workshops when they were at Bulford.
robroy:
Just to wind up some of you lads who come on here moaning about truck quality, your air seat is faulty or curtains let in too much light etc.I was driving, (well more like steering )my modern Mercedes with air con blowing icy, after getting a cold can out of my fridge, listening to crystal clear dab radio, on an air seat, and on air suspension and I was just comparing it with when I first started, driving the likes of a Mark2 Atkinson, which you had to actually DRIVE in the true sense, unlike today, with no power steering, a gear change like a stick in a bucket, where you had to judge the revs while double de clutcing the crash box, otherwise it just did NOT go in, while used very often as the 220 engine sensed a hill before you actually saw it.
The fumes coming through the daylight at the bottom of the gear lever and each pedal rubber, made worse on a hot day like this where you spent the entire day sweating like a blacksmith’s arse.
Then looking forward to building your bed at end of shift out of boards and a bit of foam.
I just got to thinking how much things had improved (in one sense that isYeh I know, to some of you I may as well be talking about the middle ages, and you will just write it off as ancient history or whatever
There aint such a thing as a BAD truck these days, just some are better than others.
So some of you lot don’t know you’re [zb] born.Btw…I’ll beat you to it…‘‘During the war Del’’
What an easy job. My great grandad was a long distance horse and cart driver. Used to set out from Grimsby Monday morning to London with fish and return late Saturday evening. He would have given his right arm for your Atkinson
no1dieselman:
robroy:
Just to wind up some of you lads who come on here moaning about truck quality, your air seat is faulty or curtains let in too much light etc.I was driving, (well more like steering )my modern Mercedes with air con blowing icy, after getting a cold can out of my fridge, listening to crystal clear dab radio, on an air seat, and on air suspension and I was just comparing it with when I first started, driving the likes of a Mark2 Atkinson, which you had to actually DRIVE in the true sense, unlike today, with no power steering, a gear change like a stick in a bucket, where you had to judge the revs while double de clutcing the crash box, otherwise it just did NOT go in, while used very often as the 220 engine sensed a hill before you actually saw it.
The fumes coming through the daylight at the bottom of the gear lever and each pedal rubber, made worse on a hot day like this where you spent the entire day sweating like a blacksmith’s arse.
Then looking forward to building your bed at end of shift out of boards and a bit of foam.
I just got to thinking how much things had improved (in one sense that isYeh I know, to some of you I may as well be talking about the middle ages, and you will just write it off as ancient history or whatever
There aint such a thing as a BAD truck these days, just some are better than others.
So some of you lot don’t know you’re [zb] born.Btw…I’ll beat you to it…‘‘During the war Del’’
What an easy job. My great grandad was a long distance horse and cart driver. Used to set out from Grimsby Monday morning to London with fish and return late Saturday evening. He would have given his right arm for your Atkinson
Aye…and he’d come home and thrash us t’ sleep wi’ his belt.
And who’d have thought 30 year ago we’d be sat here drinking Chateau de Chasslais eh?
I prefer chianti.
Quite right though, progress is normally good
very well put rob…you forget the fact that while we struggled with the steering…whilst trying to change down a gear or two…plus operating the split, we also had to keep the boiler stoked .so we had enough steam to operate the brakes.
waddy640:
My first HGV was a 1965 Bedford TK Pantechnicon which I drove and slept in for a year in 1972/73. I was doing house removals from London to Irish Republic via Stranraer to Larne ferry.
Sleeper cab, air conditioned trouser leg, quarter lights so you could wash your face while driving, magnets to air your socks on the dash board!
Don’t know your born [emoji23]