malc step:
Hi Folks,
First new truck july 1972 ERF 120 Gardner 5spd 2 spd axle no power steering,
24 ft flat.
0Cheers Malc…
■■■■ always said “these strang lads” round Ingleton don’t need power steering!!! and what was saved on not having P/steering trained a racehorse for a month in those days!! And anyway,who sheeted that load Malc,not you I hope!! Cheers Dennis.
Another ERF which wouldn’t have any power steering for Malc.
Bewick:
malc step:
Hi Folks,
First new truck july 1972 ERF 120 Gardner 5spd 2 spd axle no power steering,
24 ft flat.
0Cheers Malc…
■■■■ always said “these strang lads” round Ingleton don’t need power steering!!! and what was saved on not having P/steering trained a racehorse for a month in those days!! And anyway,who sheeted that load Malc,not you I hope!! Cheers Dennis.
Hi Dennis,
Yep twas me settle dairy filled bags half milk powder half wind !!!
Cheers Malc.
malc step:
Bewick:
malc step:
Hi Folks,
First new truck july 1972 ERF 120 Gardner 5spd 2 spd axle no power steering,
24 ft flat.
0Cheers Malc…
■■■■ always said “these strang lads” round Ingleton don’t need power steering!!! and what was saved on not having P/steering trained a racehorse for a month in those days!! And anyway,who sheeted that load Malc,not you I hope!! Cheers Dennis.
Hi Dennis,
Yep twas me settle dairy filled bags half milk powder half wind !!!Cheers Malc.
OK!! but it’s still a mess!!! here’s one of the F6 we ran for a while which I eventually sold to Robert Taylor & Son at Green Smithy which David used to deliver the new tractors and implements.Cheers Dennis.
An ERF of John Norman’s from Holme Lacy near Hereford.
Not sure about this one,looks like an Austin K series.
malc step:
Hi Folks,
This quality 4 wheeler will make Dennis finish
his bottle of whiskey off !!
0Cheers Malc.
Pass!!! I think ■■■■ and David must have won that as a booby prize in a raffle!! Cheers Dennis.
This was one we inherited in 1985,what a bag of ■■■■! That International engine was crap,IIRC I replaced it with the Volvo F6 Malc. Cheers Dennis.
Dave the Renegade:
Not sure about this one,looks like an Austin K series.
Morris-Commercial Dave, possibly an LC model.
Pete.
windrush:
Dave the Renegade:
Not sure about this one,looks like an Austin K series.Morris-Commercial Dave, possibly an LC model.
Pete.
Thanks Pete,thought I’d called it wrong when I posted it.
Cheers Dave.
Bewick:
This was one we inherited in 1985,what a bag of [zb]! That International engine was crap,IIRC I replaced it with the Volvo F6 Malc. Cheers Dennis.
Suprised at that Dennis, we ran three four wheelers and one six (301) for several years and the engines were never touched in that time. They all pulled well, a lot better than the 6.354 engined Boxers that they replaced.
Pete.
Not sure whether this should be on here as I suppose it’s a wagon and drag - Thomas Wards,Sheffield,elephant on steel job. 
Chris Webb:
Not sure whether this should be on here as I suppose it’s a wagon and drag - Thomas Wards,Sheffield,elephant on steel job.
Brilliant 
Any takers for the make and model ?
windrush:
Bewick:
This was one we inherited in 1985,what a bag of [zb]! That International engine was crap,IIRC I replaced it with the Volvo F6 Malc. Cheers Dennis.Suprised at that Dennis, we ran three four wheelers and one six (301) for several years and the engines were never touched in that time. They all pulled well, a lot better than the 6.354 engined Boxers that they replaced.
Pete.
It was a bit long in the tooth by the time we aquired it Pete,but it wasn’t very good to put it mildly!! Cheers Dennis.
Evening all, David, Dennis, you are probably both right, the D800s I had through my hands were spectacularly worn out, braking was a “hit and miss” affair at best!! Most were sourced as part exchanges from owner drivers employed on muck shifting sub contracts when Birmingham was being turned into a “motor friendly city”. Which reminds me how B… awfull were the Clayton Dewandre lock actuator brakes on the K1050 Dodges, when they had not received a lifetime of care and preventative maintenance!! Gentle braking producing antics more akin to one of Pat Collins Dodgem cars than what the “innocent driver” was expecting!! ( or again were the examples I had through my hands “a little more worn” than the average)!! Chris, super image of Thacker Barrows little F6, they ran quite a spectacular fleet, not all Volvo, and some really smart little air suspended close coupled drawbars, and the wheelbarrows were quality. I`ve still a few, and they have outlived, and worked all the cheap EU produced barrows!! Ah the Bollinger .beckons,(Dennis, try a proper Whisky, not Grouse, may I recommend Bushmills, or for a really desperate day Blackbush)!! Cheerio for now.
Dave the Renegade:
Any takers for the make and model ?
It was a Ford Dave,belonged to John Ion who had been an ownerdriver based in Milnthorpe,in his latter years he parked his trailer in our depot as his artic had outgrown his own garage.After he retired IIRC he re-built this old Ford as a hobby.If you re-call the shot of that Seddon 4 wheeler I put on which was lettered J.L. Ion,well that was Johns elder brother,Larry, who sold the bulk of his haulage operation to Davy & Co in '64 and it was one of the firms I bought off Davy’s in '76! phew!! Cheers Dennis.
Saviem:
Evening all, David, Dennis, you are probably both right, the D800s I had through my hands were spectacularly worn out, braking was a “hit and miss” affair at best!! Most were sourced as part exchanges from owner drivers employed on muck shifting sub contracts when Birmingham was being turned into a “motor friendly city”. Which reminds me how B… awfull were the Clayton Dewandre lock actuator brakes on the K1050 Dodges, when they had not received a lifetime of care and preventative maintenance!! Gentle braking producing antics more akin to one of Pat Collins Dodgem cars than what the “innocent driver” was expecting!! ( or again were the examples I had through my hands “a little more worn” than the average)!! Chris, super image of Thacker Barrows little F6, they ran quite a spectacular fleet, not all Volvo, and some really smart little air suspended close coupled drawbars, and the wheelbarrows were quality. I`ve still a few, and they have outlived, and worked all the cheap EU produced barrows!! Ah the Bollinger .beckons,(Dennis, try a proper Whisky, not Grouse, may I recommend Bushmills, or for a really desperate day Blackbush)!! Cheerio for now.
I experienced a few issues with the Ford D Series handbrake in my Mothers Pride Bakeries days. Had a fleet of 44 of them at Chesterfield, and in the main they were very good and much better than the BMC FG or Leyland Terrier which was the other preferred choice of the parent company. I didn’t rate the Perkins 6.354 engine at all, especially in a 16-tonner. I experienced major failures twice whilst driving firstly a Dodge and secondly a Leyland Boxer both with the Perkins montrosity. 100,000 miles was the absolute maximum with these engines in my experience, and more like 60,000 if you were lucky.
Just to be pedantic Saviem, Whisky as in Scotch, Whiskey as in Irish Bushmills. Off to USA in a a couple of days for my delayed honeymoon so lorries will take a backseat for a couple of weeks.
Morning all, and a bloomin windy one!! Graham, youre not being pedantic, I just cannot spell, never have been able to, and Im a bit far into my sell by date to learn now!! Bushmills is a wonderful drink, (and really nice people), and thats from the man who was responsible for putting the French lorries into Aberlour Glenlivet, (but of course by then it was a French company)!! If I remember correctly with our Scottish Dealer, George Stewart, Stewarts of Larbert we used the “Auld Alliance” to good effect in selling RVI products, McPhearsons of Aberlour, Pollock, Duncan Barbour, to name but three. Enjoy the US,great country, and great people, Cheerio for now.
