gazzer:
Me, Badger and Jimski being the more junior of the clan…
I see an ADR diamond on the front of the AEC…when did that come into being…Buzzer and the lawyer from Wellow?
Hi Gary,
From memory it was early 70’s it was brought in I remember having one on my pram when I’d filled my nappy !!
Seriously I didn’t need one moving these trees !
Regards
Richard
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Stuttgart hillstopper bet she went well up hill fully loaded Richard, and you lie you wuzz hatched a lot earlier than the 70’s for sure, Buzzer.
Badger:
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Dad drove this for Monktons Fawley to PD Purfleet
many a trip sat on the bonnet as my older brother had the seat.
Spent many a hr in the weighbridge office weighing the lorries in & out while wait for Dad to load & unload
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regards
Jeremy
As a result of attending various incidents involving tankers around Middlesborough’s many chemical plants & drivers not knowing details of what exactly they were carrying,Cleveland police devised in the late 60’s a simple system of stickers & an A4 sheet to be displayed on the dashboard detailing the hazard & importantly a telephone number to contact for specialist advice.
By 1973/4 this system had evolved nationally into the standardised Trem Card system & then again into the Hazchem system which embraced the carriage of packaged hazardous goods
Depending on when the Monkton picture was taken,(late 60’s/very early 70’s?)the driver would only need an A4 sheet tucked on top of the dashboard.At that time,stickers were only necessary on the front & rear
Untill the late 60’s,the dangers of hazardous goods transport was not high on the agenda mainly I would venture to suggest as a result of ignorance.However as a result of greater demand for the transport of hazardous goods & particularly after the Flixborough disaster in 1974, Safety in general became a high priority
gazzer:
Me, Badger and Jimski being the more junior of the clan…
I see an ADR diamond on the front of the AEC…when did that come into being…Buzzer and the lawyer from Wellow?
Hi Gary,
From memory it was early 70’s it was brought in I remember having one on my pram when I’d filled my nappy !!
Seriously I didn’t need one moving these trees !
Regards
Richard
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A small story (True) regarding the great Richard Evans. When he was on the round timber
he had two problems. Firstly being at that time vertically challenged he had great difficulty
in reaching the ladder. So he had to employ the help of two burly lumberjacks to give him a bunk up.
The other small problem was once he was up there he couldn’t get his leg over. This has continued
to this very day. Please don’t pass this info on as it’s very embarrassing for him. I know how discrete
Started in West Quay road and became part of Perellie cable group, there main customer.
Moved to Nursling industrial estate off M271 and took over Kearslake and Lambourne making them the ERF dealer for the south, ( spent 5 years working for them covering Oxford )
Bought out Perellie and became independant about 1996, ish.
KL Commercials had to close when MAN took over ERF/Western Star. I had jumped ship, the writing was on the wall.
Bob Terris did well eh !!! from Transport manager, very nice man. Harvey
Badger:
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Dad drove this for Monktons Fawley to PD Purfleet
many a trip sat on the bonnet as my older brother had the seat.
Spent many a hr in the weighbridge office weighing the lorries in & out while wait for Dad to load & unload
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regards
Jeremy
As a result of attending various incidents involving tankers around Middlesborough’s many chemical plants & drivers not knowing details of what exactly they were carrying,Cleveland police devised in the late 60’s a simple system of stickers & an A4 sheet to be displayed on the dashboard detailing the hazard & importantly a telephone number to contact for specialist advice.
By 1973/4 this system had evolved nationally into the standardised Trem Card system & then again into the Hazchem system which embraced the carriage of packaged hazardous goods
Depending on when the Monkton picture was taken,(late 60’s/very early 70’s?)the driver would only need an A4 sheet tucked on top of the dashboard.At that time,stickers were only necessary on the front & rear
Untill the late 60’s,the dangers of hazardous goods transport was not high on the agenda mainly I would venture to suggest as a result of ignorance.However as a result of greater demand for the transport of hazardous goods & particularly after the Flixborough disaster in 1974, Safety in general became a high priority
I can remember going thru the then single Blackwall Tunnel with Dad going to Purfleet, then you couldn’t take Hazardous thru so late 60’s,■■ we used to give dad direction thru London as you could use all the roads then, which help me when I started driving up there. He had his bad accident at Black Dam on the A30 in 66ish the day before the Aberfan disaster when he rolled over carrying styrene which the fish in the river didn’t like much of the watercress further down stream, He wasn’t a popular bunny!!!
Jeremy
Good morning all,
Can anyone spot the deliberate mistake ■■?
Nice new road.
Safety margin of about 12 feet ( 4 of these metre things ) the other side of the barrier.
Then a gentle 80 feet run down at about 50 Degrees.
Good luck !!!
Harvey
Can you imagin how the chat whent between the driver of the low loader and his boss.
Hi boss, you know you told me to pick it up Sat morning, well , I thought , no ones working over the weekend and my boy wanted to go to foot ball , well !!!
Evan taking the rails off the gap between the posts is not enough and even if it was you dare not slew it round unless you dug the bucket into the tarmac and prayed. harvey
HRS:
Can you imagin how the chat whent between the driver of the low loader and his boss.
Hi boss, you know you told me to pick it up Sat morning, well , I thought , no ones working over the weekend and my boy wanted to go to foot ball , well !!!
Evan taking the rails off the gap between the posts is not enough and even if it was you dare not slew it round unless you dug the bucket into the tarmac and prayed. harvey
Harvey,
It’s a Caterpillar it’ll soon turn into a Butterfly and fly over the armco.
. Are you sure Jim? Couple of quids worth of scrap there! Regards Charlie 
