nyk473l:
trucken:
nyk473l:
Back in the early sixties my Father ran two Leyland Super Comet artics on roof tile deliveries out of Marley Tile Company in Riverhead near Sevenoaks. In 1965 he put a thrid artic, this Scammell Handyman III on the road with a specially built 28’ Merriworth flat trailer. It was built to a very low height to facilitate the hand loading and off loading of tiles. The loaders loved it as you could reach 3 rows in from the ground. The tractor could not have full rear mudguards as they would have fouled on the trailer. Also not long after it went on the road the wheels on the landing legs were replaced by flat plates welded on to the bottom of the legs as the wheel kept grounding out. Only problem with it was that it kept breaking the body out riggers as these were attached to the sides of the chassis rails to keep the height down, not run over the top of them as was common at that time.
Yes he had to help load and also off load, although I remember him telling me that when he turned up on site with 22 tons of tiles all the labour suddenly vanished!! Good old days. In later years he ran a crane trailer on the work.
I’m sure I remember your father from when he used to come into Marleys at Beenham, I’m still based there but fortunately now I’ve got a wagon and drag with a forklift attached to unload the tiles. I well remember the vanishing labour, or turning up on a site to see a sign saying “tiles here please”!
I’m sure I’ve seen you up and down the M4 near Reading in a truck with the same name on.
Ken
Hi Ken
Yes he did used to go into Beenham. He used to deliver the granules in a bulk tipping trailer when there was a burner at Riverhead. He then started doing them from Burton with the tipping trailer, as he was cheaper than Marley Transport using the bins. He also started working out of Beenham with both a flat and a crane trailer when Riverhead ceased production. Eventually stopped working from Beenham when there was only the interworks transfer loads being subbed out as it didn’t pay.
Forgot to add, yes I am now driving with a 105 superspace, and I do get up and down the M4
I’ll look out for you in future. I’ve got an Actros curtainside W&D in Marley red livery.
trucken:
I’ll look out for you in future. I’ve got an Actros curtainside W&D in Marley red livery.
Havn’t noticed curtainsiders in Marley livery, but will keep an eye out for you now.
There must have been a job lot of black berets, in cardiff tile works as well,and, squaddies doing a foreigner!.. that national service pay was rubbish!.so i was told.
I like thousands of drivers have done my fair share of brick loading, and delivery,all in the same day and yes the foreman on the different sites were the same as make a start! son,we will be with you in a while,and that happened about when you had to turn the trailer round as you had taken one side off yourself ,how many times did you think ,that the trailer would come off…but it never did…not so good old days. also getting a wash was near impossible ,wash your hand in a puddle…why did we never carry any soap or towel? when on day work…
Bewick:
John West:
Bewick:
eric the judge:
When I started driving for a living [1967] all bricks from London Bricks works in Bedfordshire were loaded by hand with the driver helping. You quite often only went 20 or 30 miles before handballing them off again . Oh happy days but it kept you fit
I’ve got to say that you got involved in some [zb] traffic Westy 
Dennis.
Hey, someone had to the [zb] while you were doing the milk runs out of Libbys, as Eric said - it kept you fit! 
John
Possy never much hand ball either,I lifted the sheets onto the loads !!Cheers Dennis.
If you were born in Bedfordshire like I was, loading and unloading bricks and Brussels Sprouts was in your genes.
Land drainage pipes from Arlesy or Stewartby were the killer, ripped gloves to bits. I once acquired a pair of palm mitts with metal studs which were excellent until some scally nicked them. The pipes always needed to go into some field down a narrow track - one lot needed to be the wrong side of a railway line. In the heavy frost it took 3 or 4 goes to get over the sleeper-built crossing. Wheelspin, TRAIN COMING! bang it into reverse, ALL CLEAR! try again, TRAIN COMING! etc etc. Picked up a mate once from the firm we were doing the job for, turned out he was their helicopter pilot who did arial spraying…was not impressed. Thought he was just going to show me where to put them
When coalville shopping precinct was being built in the 1960s Bancroft and powers a local lorry operator( later coach) had 8 wheel atkinsons doing 3 loads a day from the whitwick brick yard to this site !!! I m sure they had a great turn over of drivers at that time.
I remember my dad on Thermalite saying that his work ended at the side and tailboards, anything past there was nothing to do with him. He would stack them, that’s all. He carried that principle on when on the grain lorries, no ■■■■■■■ bags around for farmer’s etc for him, they wanted the stuff so they carried it! 
Pete.
When I was on flat work for Vic Wild 40 odd years ago did a lot of bricks, especially after he bought out a firm in Bourne. At least they were loaded by fork lift with finger forks, but handball off.
I delivered to one building site up Warrington way one day and the site foreman told me where he wanted them!, then there was no one to be seen.
I jack knifed the trailer and shunted back and forth several times and got most of one side off, then turned round and did the same on the other side. Just left a couple of hundred to kick off.
Found the foreman to sign my notes and he remarked how quick I’d been!
Did a lot of kerbstones out of Hulland Ward also, no joke that lark!
I did not have much in the way of fingerprints in those days, but I was as fit as a butcher’s dog!
Hiya can i join in…20 ton of kerbs and flags from Hulland ward to Huntingdon area …handball
call into Peterborough for a return load of bricks 10,000 for north wales area the next day as Ian said
you could rob a bank…not a finger print in sight and god was your finger tips sore, 3 years i was on
the brick and hulland products job…winter gave us a break when the sites was to wet we had a tipper
job to fall back onto…heaven…Ian remember the canteen at Hulland …tea was in pint mugs 3pence
a shot.
John
3300John:
Hiya can i join in…20 ton of kerbs and flags from Hulland ward to Huntingdon area …handball
call into Peterborough for a return load of bricks 10,000 for north wales area the next day as Ian said
you could rob a bank…not a finger print in sight and god was your finger tips sore, 3 years i was on
the brick and hulland products job…winter gave us a break when the sites was to wet we had a tipper
job to fall back onto…heaven…Ian remember the canteen at Hulland …tea was in pint mugs 3pence
a shot.
John
It’s nice to look back on it from here, but it was ■■■■■■■ graft. Try and get some one to do it today!
Transportcompany Van Huet from Pannerden invented HULO in the sixties. They experienced
a lot of hard labour and time involved by manually handling, hence the HULO!!!
Herewith some explaining examples out of their sales leaflets
I mean as a instructor I know you have to have licences for each forklift attachment you use, during my forklift training I there was someone that was being trained on how to use an attachments to pick up slabs of granite worktops etc, I know we do it, there is actually some information on it on the home page. Hope it helps
Hiya that hulo kraan is interesing. thats the setup Ensor at Sandbach used i never knew what company made the cranes
the trailers had the same rear steer bougi idea as well.they would go down a narrow street then turn left without
swinging out across the street and the trailer wheels would follow the kerb and not mount the pavement. problem
is the trailers was heavy.interesting write up to me.thanks john
It’s a pleasure John 3300!
By the way…it actually should be asked/discussed on the ERF European-thread…or elsewhere,
what do you know about ERF Trailers? Where were they produced as Sanbach Works was so small
in fact? Any pictures, leaflets or stories to be shared? Thank you, A-J
ERF-Continental:
It’s a pleasure John 3300!
By the way…it actually should be asked/discussed on the ERF European-thread…or elsewhere,
what do you know about ERF Trailers? Where were they produced as Sanbach Works was so small
in fact? Any pictures, leaflets or stories to be shared? Thank you, A-J
I can see where you are coming from, A-J (see pic below of NGC with an ERF experimental trailer of some sort). Why not start an ERF trailers thread! Robert
Here is a Hulo arrangement hauled by an FTF. Robert
One of Shones, who used to carry out of Lane End Brickwork Buckley, driven from new by Ken “snicker” Peers.
Who progressed to this FL, picture courtesy of C hep stow Chap, parked on the sugar loaf. Shones transferred to 100% steel before closing down in 1994 ish
Another ex Shones driver started up as an OD in around 1986, has just hung up the keys of his FH and traded for a caravan and holidays…
