My dad ran the 24hr break-down service for Gordon Motors in Portsmouth at the end of the 60’s, going into the early 70’s, that became (and still is) Hendy Ford in Cosham/Portchester/Paulsgrove, depending on how posh you are/were. They had a contract to “look after” Smith Crisps and Wall’s ice-cream trucks when they broke down. Us three kids were never short of things to eat after dinner… Or between!
harry:
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Should have bought a Toyota Hilux, can’t kill them with dynamite, as Top Gear proved 
I think that,s what you,d call a ‘cap’ load. 
I don’t know about falling off the back of a lorry, but I once fell out of my cab in a French eating house car park, I think it was something to do with the wine we drank, and I have the scar’s to prove it.
But these pictures are good, no Elf n Safety there but do they care, no they don’t, just like life was back in the old days.
Don’t you just LOVE the pic of the chap squatting under that load? Must be an advert for Bewick’s roping & sheeting skills. 
Greetings,All.Re. the photo of the man squatting under the load,he’ll be a member of the crab family soon,namely a Crushed Asian. Regards,900x20. 
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900X20:
Greetings,All.Re. the photo of the man squatting under the load,he’ll be a member of the crab family soon,namely a Crushed Asian. Regards,900x20.
will not be missed then
keith 2:
900X20:
Greetings,All.Re. the photo of the man squatting under the load,he’ll be a member of the crab family soon,namely a Crushed Asian. Regards,900x20.will not be missed then
Hi Keith, Common he could be a Bradford lad now. 
Les.
900X20:
Greetings,All.Re. the photo of the man squatting under the load,he’ll be a member of the crab family soon,namely a Crushed Asian. Regards,900x20.
Very subtle, I like it. pmsl
albion1938:
Talking of Police “involvement”. My brother was on with a firm who delivered tomatoes to Dewhurst’s butchers shops, you remember they always had tomatoes in the window. Drove round in the middle of the night leaving a few boxes in the doorway of each shop. One shop kept ringing in the morning to complain he was a box short. The police were informed but the boxes kept disappearing. Drivers tried checking on the way back, seems it wasn’t long before the box went. One night a driver had a bit of time to spare so he dropped the toms, drove away, parked up, walked back and “staked out” the shop. He didn’t have to wait more than a few minutes before a little blue car with white doors and a blue lamp on top pulled up, a man with a pointed head got out, box of toms in the boot and away. A funny thing, nothing to do with thieving, my brother stacked some boxes in a shop doorway just after midnight one time, got back to the yard in the morning, they’d had an irate 'phone call, seems he’d leaned the boxes against the doorbell, kept the people in the flat upstairs awake all night!
Bernard-
When I was driving for Jordan’s the flour millers from Biggleswade, I left Liverpool docks with a few extra sacks of seed potatoes fitted into the load, I was just going out of the docks when a dock’s copper stopped me and told me to come into his office. With skid marks in my underpants I followed him expecting to have my load counted, but he asked me if I wanted to buy a shirt. Stunned, I asked him what sort and he took off hiss tunic and told me he had a spare police shirt and it was under the shirt he was wearing and he took it off to show me. I gave him a spare ounce of Golden Virginia, said no, got into my cab and never stopped until I got to Bob’s Café at the end of the A45.
lespullan:
keith 2:
900X20:
Greetings,All.Re. the photo of the man squatting under the load,he’ll be a member of the crab family soon,namely a Crushed Asian. Regards,900x20.will not be missed then
Hi Keith, Common he could be a Bradford lad now.
Les.
Hi Les,Bradford lads are sound but not them green uns
keith 2:
lespullan:
keith 2:
900X20:
Greetings,All.Re. the photo of the man squatting under the load,he’ll be a member of the crab family soon,namely a Crushed Asian. Regards,900x20.will not be missed then
Hi Keith, Common he could be a Bradford lad now.
Les.Hi Les,Bradford lads are sound but not them green uns
Hi Keith, Spot on mate.
Les.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Don’t you just LOVE the pic of the chap squatting under that load? Must be an advert for Bewick’s roping & sheeting skills.
Don’t know about the nutter squatting under the load, but I think that’s one brilliant balancing act, it take’s lot’s of practice to get it perfect…
think he over did it with he spare wheel?
harry:
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Good thread!
All the posts about police attending lorry rollovers etc are spot on. If it’s loaded with scotch, or something equally nice and expensive, old bill would turn up in cars, transits, range rovers and the like. If a lorry loaded with chicken ■■■ goes over, 1 copper on a push bike would be sent there! You can bet your life it’s still like it now.
Had lots of pop,body spray,shower gel,beds,thats about it.any one had owt any good,keith
A long time ago is this, everybody had a coal fire at home, coal cellar and all that, I asked one of the lads “when you tip, leave a couple of bags on and drop it off at home for me”. He had and Albion Reiver 6 wheel tipper, daft bugger didn’t leave a couple of bags full on, he left just about the full load on and tipped it up in the street. Every house in the street fill their coal cellar.