If any one hasn’t seen my site yet :-
Excellent site John.The photos of Amos Meers trucks are brilliant going back into the 50s/60s to present days this is what transport is all about. 
Great site you`ve got there John many thanks for sharing it with us
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Thanks for the comments and to those who have given me photos for the site, I really appreciate it and especially Jim (Stravaiger)for steering me in the right direction to get the site more noticed. Whether or not I manage to get on a par with Paul and Brians brilliant sites, who knows but I just like sharing photos with other enthusiasts like myself.
John
Some lovely photos there mate.
It’s a good job some people had the foresight to record the vehicles that they drove and saw on their travels.
I wish i’d carried a camera everywhere with me from day one.
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Thanks for the photo Jim, just what I have been asking for, it will fit in nicely in the Rally Collection. I will ask on the site if any one has any photos or information of it now or in the past, you never know what might turn up.
John
stravaiger:
John don’t know if this one fits the bill for your Rally/Show section? If so you are more than welcome to it.
It was a working class entry at the 1993 Biggar Rally and I snapped it coming of the (Original) field that afternoon. I’ve never known who had it in it’s working life, the colour is similar to BRS parcels but would they have had a side caped vehicle? It carries a Glasgow/Paisley registration and out of interest does anyone have any idea what it look like now almost 17 years on?..jim
Hi Jim and John.
I remember Sheffield BRS parcels div. had an Albion like that with sides and IIRC it was used for carrying small consignments of steel - castings etc,so that could well be ex BRS Parcels.
This photo was sent to me by revman (Alan) and I don’t think he’ll mind me posting it as it is a Scottish reg -SG Edinburgh.A chinese six ERF run by Thomas Smith Jr. and it looks like “Fisher King” on the front.anybody recall them?
Photo courtesy of revman.
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stravaiger:
, the colour is similar to BRS parcels but would they have had a side caped vehicle? It carries a Glasgow/Paisley registration and out of interest does anyone have any idea what it look like now almost 17 years on?..jim
Think this was based at Aberdeen and the photo above fits in perfect with the Rally and Shows Collecton Jim.
John
A “J” Reg LAD Albion? This must have been re-registered and the green looks all wrong for a BRS Parcels lorry and by the way theres an Atkinson 4 wheeler going around painted in the BRS Parcels livery but this vehicle was never owned by BRS and it is highly doubtful if a vehicle of this type eve was…Tony.
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A “J” Reg LAD Albion? This must have been re-registered and the green looks all wrong for a BRS Parcels lorry and by the way theres an Atkinson 4 wheeler going around painted in the BRS Parcels livery but this vehicle was never owned by BRS and it is highly doubtful if a vehicle of this type eve was…Tony.
Colwyn Bay K reg
Musswell Hill K reg
Bermondsey L reg
J reg between a pair of K reg
One of Bonkeys from the Hoveringham thread
I didn’t think the LADs went as far as “K” or “L” reg.The Albion/AEC/Leyland tilt cabs came out in 1965 on “C” plates so did BRS buy and store 'em?
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A “J” Reg LAD Albion? This must have been re-registered and the green looks all wrong for a BRS Parcels lorry and by the way theres an Atkinson 4 wheeler going around painted in the BRS Parcels livery but this vehicle was never owned by BRS and it is highly doubtful if a vehicle of this type eve was…Tony.
I believe it was actually new to Latham’s as a drawbar car transporter. Later on, it was a wrecker with Lynx at Leyland. But BRS Parcels? 4-wheel Atki flat in the 1970s? I don’t think so either!
One of Hoveringhams in colour
photo courtesy of Shaun Ballisat community.webshots.com/user/shaunyb2 Cheers Mel
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Suttons Tony:
A “J” Reg LAD Albion? This must have been re-registered and the green looks all wrong for a BRS Parcels lorry and by the way theres an Atkinson 4 wheeler going around painted in the BRS Parcels livery but this vehicle was never owned by BRS and it is highly doubtful if a vehicle of this type eve was…Tony.I believe it was actually new to Latham’s as a drawbar car transporter. Later on, it was a wrecker with Lynx at Leyland. But BRS Parcels? 4-wheel Atki flat in the 1970s? I don’t think so either!
This Is this the one you mean, now as you say a 4w BRS parcels flat, a figment of someones imagination.
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Hy, I was amazed with those LAD cabbed cheiftans, these would have been 72/73 registered motors, long after the Ergo cab was being fitted to Albions and what is more the would be operating under pre 1967 C&U regulations with Scammel couplings and the 800x25 tyres on the units and 900x20 tyres on the trailers, I wonder when City Road thought they would go modern ? During the late fifties and early sixties most of the units used by BRS (Parcels) were the Leyland Comet with at various times the BRS asked AEC to build them a Scammel coupled unit with an original order of 30 but not many, if any, more being supplied and Atkinson produced, with of course a Gardner, a bow fronted unit with the Scammel coupling to a request from BRS but not many appeared to have been bought by BRS to the relief I’m sure of the Drivers. At this period 72/73 it would be difficult to find Scammel coupled units being built as a standard offering and I wonder if the Albions had been in store or if Albions built these to a special order, As I wrote earlier the predominant unit used was the old square cabbed Leyland Comet but Parcels did not seem to like the LAD Comet when it came out as not many seemed to be bought.
I find the above to be idicative of what was going on in the British Transport Industry with both Manufacturers and Operaters unable to properly throw off some of the old ways and not sure how to proceed in the future only to end up virtually disappearing, you have only to look at Leyland Motors which at one time was the biggest exporter of heavy lorries in the World, helped of course by the Empire, which upto 1960 built a solid, if uninspiring, heavy range with the Hippo, Octopus and Beaver, who then bring out a new modernised Hippo, Octopus and Beaver range which lacked development and appeared to be put together from the parts bin with a cab which was found to be small on the Albion Cheiftan, fuel tanks etc from the Super Comet and others, I was all ways surprised how these waggons seem to get an aged and battered look about them very quickly from new all though I know some of these waggons were liked by some of their Drivers because they could fly with the right engine in, but I believe were unreliable, anyway I digress, this was the company which was just beginning the slide into decline, that was given the task of saving the British Motor Industry, the rest is history as is the British Motor Industry both Goods Vehicles and Cars…Tony.
Suttons Tony:
Hy, I was amazed with those LAD cabbed cheiftans, these would have been 72/73 registered motors, long after the Ergo cab was being fitted to Albions and what is more the would be operating under pre 1967 C&U regulations with Scammel couplings and the 800x25 tyres on the units and 900x20 tyres on the trailers, I wonder when City Road thought they would go modern ? During the late fifties and early sixties most of the units used by BRS (Parcels) were the Leyland Comet with at various times the BRS asked AEC to build them a Scammel coupled unit with an original order of 30 but not many, if any, more being supplied and Atkinson produced, with of course a Gardner, a bow fronted unit with the Scammel coupling to a request from BRS but not many appeared to have been bought by BRS to the relief I’m sure of the Drivers. At this period 72/73 it would be difficult to find Scammel coupled units being built as a standard offering and I wonder if the Albions had been in store or if Albions built these to a special order, As I wrote earlier the predominant unit used was the old square cabbed Leyland Comet but Parcels did not seem to like the LAD Comet when it came out as not many seemed to be bought.
I find the above to be idicative of what was going on in the British Transport Industry with both Manufacturers and Operaters unable to properly throw off some of the old ways and not sure how to proceed in the future only to end up virtually disappearing, you have only to look at Leyland Motors which at one time was the biggest exporter of heavy lorries in the World, helped of course by the Empire, which upto 1960 built a solid, if uninspiring, heavy range with the Hippo, Octopus and Beaver, who then bring out a new modernised Hippo, Octopus and Beaver range which lacked development and appeared to be put together from the parts bin with a cab which was found to be small on the Albion Cheiftan, fuel tanks etc from the Super Comet and others, I was all ways surprised how these waggons seem to get an aged and battered look about them very quickly from new all though I know some of these waggons were liked by some of their Drivers because they could fly with the right engine in, but I believe were unreliable, anyway I digress, this was the company which was just beginning the slide into decline, that was given the task of saving the British Motor Industry, the rest is history as is the British Motor Industry both Goods Vehicles and Cars…Tony.
Hiya Tony I believe that Leyland via Albion continued to build the LAD 4/6 wheelers into the 70s as an economy chassis obviously it was a cheaper alternative to the Ergo cab however I am just not certain of the date they were phased out but I think it was 72/73 if I was to hazzard a guess but no doubt an Albion specialist will put us straight .Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
Suttons Tony:
Hy, I was amazed with those LAD cabbed cheiftans, these would have been 72/73 registered motors, long after the Ergo cab was being fitted to Albions and what is more the would be operating under pre 1967 C&U regulations with Scammel couplings and the 800x25 tyres on the units and 900x20 tyres on the trailers, I wonder when City Road thought they would go modern ? During the late fifties and early sixties most of the units used by BRS (Parcels) were the Leyland Comet with at various times the BRS asked AEC to build them a Scammel coupled unit with an original order of 30 but not many, if any, more being supplied and Atkinson produced, with of course a Gardner, a bow fronted unit with the Scammel coupling to a request from BRS but not many appeared to have been bought by BRS to the relief I’m sure of the Drivers. At this period 72/73 it would be difficult to find Scammel coupled units being built as a standard offering and I wonder if the Albions had been in store or if Albions built these to a special order, As I wrote earlier the predominant unit used was the old square cabbed Leyland Comet but Parcels did not seem to like the LAD Comet when it came out as not many seemed to be bought.
I find the above to be idicative of what was going on in the British Transport Industry with both Manufacturers and Operaters unable to properly throw off some of the old ways and not sure how to proceed in the future only to end up virtually disappearing, you have only to look at Leyland Motors which at one time was the biggest exporter of heavy lorries in the World, helped of course by the Empire, which upto 1960 built a solid, if uninspiring, heavy range with the Hippo, Octopus and Beaver, who then bring out a new modernised Hippo, Octopus and Beaver range which lacked development and appeared to be put together from the parts bin with a cab which was found to be small on the Albion Cheiftan, fuel tanks etc from the Super Comet and others, I was all ways surprised how these waggons seem to get an aged and battered look about them very quickly from new all though I know some of these waggons were liked by some of their Drivers because they could fly with the right engine in, but I believe were unreliable, anyway I digress, this was the company which was just beginning the slide into decline, that was given the task of saving the British Motor Industry, the rest is history as is the British Motor Industry both Goods Vehicles and Cars…Tony.Hiya Tony I believe that Leyland via Albion continued to build the LAD 4/6 wheelers into the 70s as an economy chassis obviously it was a cheaper alternative to the Ergo cab however I am just not certain of the date they were phased out but I think it was 72/73 if I was to hazzard a guess but no doubt an Albion specialist will put us straight .Cheers Bewick.
Hi, when the LAD cab was phased out 72/73 the cheiftan got the BMC bathgate laird cab, At Wolverhampton BRS we used them up to the mid eightes with scammell couplings and the original single axle parcels trailer. The trailers were fitted with slatted sides with a canvas top and were used for carrying mini subframes from sankeys to Longbridge.