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Hi Jim.I remember now about the different Ramage,not paying attention in class 
.There was a Ramage in Newcastle as well,all very confusing.
If you like photos of sheeted loads I’ll try and get some when they come off the harbour - Manx Independent,Graylaw,Edmundson,Highway Express,ICD etc.
stravaiger:
Hi Lads, Mark as Robert points out a different firm of Ramages possibly related somewhere along the line (through drink,as they say) This old firm would be found on the A70 as you head east from junction 12 (Cairnlodge Services) and nowadays the yard is surrounded with used pallets. As an aside the garage/office was built by foreign labour so nothing new under the sun, co-incidently they happened to be POWs…jim
Jim,is that the yard at the top of the hill after Rigside?Decent yard and large brick building at the far end of it? Last time I passed that one Yuilly & dodds had motors parked in it.A few years back admittedly.Before that it was always stacked with pallets…
I used to come that way a lot from the 74 as I found it as quick to the Hyndford brig as leaving at Abingdon,that`s with a car.(Am I allowed to mention that word on this board?:-))
Mark
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stravaiger:
A car? Isn’t that one of those things that bomb along the third lane of the motorway at excessive speeds to get past a line of wagons only just managing to sqeeze back in as the roadworks cones reduce it all down to one lane, and having achieved this, proceed to brake to well under the max 50mph to ensure the convoy comply with the law?Oh go on then. Guess you were in the un-killable Peugeot
Just a couple of corrections to your very accurate assumption.
Normally over the last thirty years it would be a Volvo estate of one sort or another and the convoy would already have been under fifty miles an hour at the roadworks as I would have left it that late that the lead truck would have had to stand on them to avoid pushing me into the cones.
Another question from yesterdays travels.How come I never see a Thornbridge Sawmills truck with timber as a load?
Mark.
hi lads, i don’t think there is any connection with ramage transport Newcastle and the other ramage outfits from Scotland, think they started as coal merchants back in the 50Ty,then the son took it over and built it up to present day size, now based at new york way , they run a mixed fleet, always clean and tidy motors, bumper
I see the Newcastle Ramage motors at the Forth Bridge quite often.Must have a reasonable sized fleet,definitely always tidy.Who was the firm from that direction who used to come up here with the loaded container handler.Looked like a skelly with hiabs on both ends and could,I believe handle loaded containers on and off the trailer?
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hi lads, now there 's a thought jim, 14-16century when all of them bits of scuffles they use to have with the border reivers, the Douglas’s and Percy having a bit bash every now and then, well you never know, they could be a connection some where with the ramage name, traced my family tree back to Scotland, kilmarnock then dornoch, may be that’s why a always prefer the Scottish runs, bumper
Sorry Jim.Have never heard of Kronospan.
Hi Jim,I got some photos e-mailed to me by the sheriff,he works for Sam Anderson.Thought the Coopers one and the Andersons with the Hunters of Airdrie behind it would be of interest to this site.Thanks for the Daf photo,is that not one ugly lorry.
Hi Robert.
That’s a great photo of a Sam Anderson AEC MK3 and the Hunter AEC at the back 
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stravaiger:
Totally agree with that Chris and a Hunters one as well
Robert, definately cracking photos from The Sherriff including the Big J of Coopers with, by the looks of things, a load of bricks from Armadale going down the road.(Why did we sheet some load of bricksbricks of all things) I’ll show the pic to James and find out how he’s getting on with his enquiries.
The more and more we look at those early motors of Sams the more we can appreciate the craft of those coachpainters and signwriters. Who wouldn’t have been chuffed to be seen with that one?MacBumper, Further proof if it is necessary that our ancestors were a mobile lot and without even as much as a bike
Mark, I could be a mile out about the Kronospan takeover. It was just one of those conversations about chipboard in general and how we would run occasionally from Caberboard at Cowie or Kronospan at Chirk and that wasn’t yesterday,as we say. Kronospan went further and produced laminated products such as tables, wardrobes etc and that’s were that one came from but as I say could be wrong…jim
The Sammy MK3 would be just as bloody cold and draughty as the non-cosmetic Hunters MK3 Jim,take my word for it
Do you remember a haulier from Alloa caled Thompson,they were in a blue livery IIRC and I used to see droves of them southbound on the A74 on a sunday in the 70s.I don’t suppose they are going now?
stravaiger:
(Why did we sheet some load of bricks
To stop the bricks bouncing of Volvos at roadworks?
That is a cracking picture of Andersons.Shame that most companies can no longer afford the cost of livery like this in paint.I suppose its thought of as an extravagance nowadays and of course more companies are run by bean counters who will only allow expenditure on whats needed to do the job.
I remember many years ago replacing a broken crank in a Daf 2800 and the bean counter (who is now top man with a shipping line) would not allow the one conrod I needed.Refused point blank on the grounds of cost.
Got to agree with Robert,that is one ugly Daf.Reminds me of something else but can`t think what.
Mark.
Could it be this Mark,another one for the ugly bug ball.
The mechanic:
Not that one Robert, although it`s no beauty.I think it was something like a utility wagon cab,Shelvoke or maybe even a Commer.Thinking about it,does anyone remember the refuse carts with the half round body on the back.Each side had three curved lids that slid up for the rubbish to be thrown in.They had flat fronted cabs I think.I can sort of visualise them from forty year or so back.
Mark.
Re your early Scania Robert.Was this earlier than the ones Alston of Bathgate had?
I seem to remember his were higher cabbed and a horrible colour scheme.
About thirty years ago I was talking to a mate at one of the smallholdings west of Broxburn on the A89 when two of Alstons went steaming past with portacabins on the back.When I left to go down the road they were pulled up the other side of the railway bridge just before the Wimpey roadend.The road was covered in matchwood and the trailers now had the bases of two portacabins on them plus the cab of the second one was stoved in because he had been that close behind his mate… They hadn`t just bumped the bridge but hit it on full pedal.
Mark.
Gridley51:
Thinking about it,does anyone remember the refuse carts with the half round body on the back.Each side had three curved lids that slid up for the rubbish to be thrown in.They had flat fronted cabs I think.I can sort of visualise them from forty year or so back.
Mark.
Karrier Bantams?
There’s a photo of one here:
