Nottingham bus firm( middle east work

Hi boys
Sorry Chris cannot remember the firm but I seem to remember it was out to the west of Sheffield. This would have been around 1987/8.

Regards Keith.

hiya,
cracking bit of engineering that Keith, but as Chris and yourself say it would have needed a good swing on corners,i’ve pulled single axle trailers with the axle at the back although they was only standard size stuff you needed a lot more room than you did with a normal tandem of the same length Siddle Cook i remember had a 75ft one piece trailer but the axles was well forward and steerable by rods the full length of the trailer, never pulled it but the steering operated somehow by the fifth wheel, i’ve followed and it went round corners and roundabouts very well.
thanks harry long retired.

Hi boys
The cut in was so bad the only way we could turn around at the yard was to take the fence down at the back of the yard and go and turn in the field.That was ok in the summer when the ground was hard but a bit dodgey in the winter Its a good job we had that double drive 141.

Regards Keith.

hiya,
Keith, there was a trucky type song many years ago where the driver needed a lot of room to turn his rig around, and no i’m not going to sing it, are you sure your trailer didn’t finish up stateside.
thanks harry long retired.

harry_gill:
hiya,
Keith, there was a trucky type song many years ago where the driver needed a lot of room to turn his rig around, and no i’m not going to sing it, are you sure your trailer didn’t finish up stateside.
thanks harry long retired.

I remember that song,“Give me fourty acres and I’ll turn this rig :frowning: around”.

I thought rigs were summatt to do with gas or oil? :laughing:

harry_gill:
hiya,
cracking bit of engineering that Keith, but as Chris and yourself say it would have needed a good swing on corners,i’ve pulled single axle trailers with the axle at the back although they was only standard size stuff you needed a lot more room than you did with a normal tandem of the same length Siddle Cook i remember had a 75ft one piece trailer but the axles was well forward and steerable by rods the full length of the trailer, never pulled it but the steering operated somehow by the fifth wheel, i’ve followed and it went round corners and roundabouts very well.
thanks harry long retired.

Hiya
There was a brick company in the seventies using trailers with the rear axles connected to the 5th wheel. They could just about get anywhere on building sites. Talking of which, on a site one day with a 40footer with single axle right at the back, the foreman said i want you down there, took one look and said sorry mate you got no chance, it won’t go round that corner because my trailers to long, to which he replied, course it will, the brick man went down there this morning and he had TWO axles on HIS trailer. :angry: :angry:
Ray

hiya,
i did’nt pull them very often FF but they was a bit of a pill at some places and you could clip the kerb a bit if you forgot you had one on.
thanks harry long retired.

harry_gill:
hiya,
i did’nt pull them very often FF but they was a bit of a pill at some places and you could clip the kerb a bit if you forgot you had one on.
thanks harry long retired.

Not being in the same league as you heavy haulage men the biggest headache I had with an artic was with a 33ft single axle trailer with the axle on the a*** end in the old Covent Garden market.Having to drive round and round the block until a space could be found to load and then struggling to get out.
Good old days. :smiley:

hiya,
Chris when working for Bowkers in the mid sixties (redundant from BRS) used to do the odd load out of Covent Garden myself ,thats when you could get in there and when you’d finished loading it the phone would ring and the inevitable Harry just bring the trailer round here to the depot we’ll send it up on night trunk, i hated the fruit bits and bobs of all sorts and roping and sheeting was a nightmare nowhere to stand when throwing the sheets out the corner boards was a nightmare the load being up and down like a camels back and after that still empty the next day to start all over again ,not much fun days.
thanks harry long retired.

Thats one for the book, Harry don’t like fruity bits, when on that job, was that when you fell in a barrel of ■■■■??. When I was a young boy of 8, I would help the market trader set up stall, and keep it tidy, and have all the speck fruit, and orange boxes, I had no trouble tying my load on my trolley, do you think I was destined to be a lorry driver. Sandman Norman

hiya,
Norm, i just hope the bogie was painted red and had a fleet no, bet you could’nt make a lorry drivers dolly though, i could from a very young age but did’nt learn to sheet until i started as a civvie driver, no call for sheets on army motors.
thanks harry long retired.

Harry, I was in the cubs, and sea scout, and a dab hand at the reef knot, granny knot, and the half hitch, and my brother from the navy, taught me the dolly, and a plait knot, or chain , where you tie one end to a pole or a ring, then hold the rope in the left hand, and pull tight, make a loop with your right hand, queeze the bottom of the loop, hold ing two bits ofrope together and make a upside down sliding lasso, then feed a loop through a loop, doing a seesaw action, tightening the rope as you are plaiting,or chain making, then at the end, you lock it by feeding all of single rope through the last hoop you do. This makes the rope five to six times stronger, if this piece is long enough, you can repeat, and repeat it, and end up with a hawser size. Sandman Norman. ps suggest you try it with a bit of string, it is good fun for the young ones.

hiya,
OK, OK, OK, so Norm you can tie a dolly and join two ropes together in this day and age thats as much to us as a chocolate fireguard, now dancing on eggs that would be something to be singing about, you can do it, iv’e never danced a step in my life, but have had plenty of egg on my face in my time, i’m going to bed i’m starting to ramble again the medication must be wearing off, good night.
thanks harry long retired.

Harry, that might be the case now, but in my driving career, it has been very useful, and for you now, you can tie all illgotten gains from the bookmakers into your bedstead. Sandman Norman

hiya,
there’s no chance of me needing to tie my money up Norm, i would’nt need a lot of string there’s so little of it. but who knows i could just score on the lottery tonight, don’t want a big jackpot though, i might croak before i got it all spent and that would never do, i could always become a tax exile on Chris’s island but i’ll take a rain check on that one he’s always offering me old BRS motors to drive and i’m not comeing out of retirement for nobody,i’ll just stay where i am and watch the trains go by.
thanks harry long retired.

That your trouble harry, you have got too set in your ways, eating too much, drinking too much, and gambling, you just do not want to work, and Chris, finds all them old wagons, and even ships for you to try, you have got too old before your time. Sandman Norman

hiya,
you’re right as usual Norm but not with the drinking i’m afraid, have’nt a great deal of tummy left about 10% i think so not a lot of storage in there so about one of my favourite tipples and thats about it and at mealtimes a teaplate is my lot sizewise, i can’t take much more so never dine out these days it’s too much of a waste there’s always more than half left over when i’m full up and still get charged full price if i ask for a childs portion, so i’m on a loser everytime, but do invest a few bob on the gee gees but the way i bet i’m very unlikely to lose much and usually get my stake back at least, i’m aware Chris keeps offering me work but ■■■■ i have’nt the heart to tell him my class 1 has expired, but maybe you don’t need an HGV on his island if you just keep going round the TT course.
thanks harry long retired.

Harry, you my type of person, cheap, I mean to take out, I took my wife to Morrison’s, for a meal, on thursday after 4.30, you get two meals with drinks, for £7.50, we had two pots of tea, and two fish & chips with mushy peas, good value, harry they were handsome. Sandman Norman

hiya,
Norm, a plate of fish chips and mushy peas would last me four meals, at one time i used to live to eat now i eat to live.
thanks harry long retired.

harry_gill:
hiya,
you’re right as usual Norm but not with the drinking i’m afraid, have’nt a great deal of tummy left about 10% i think so not a lot of storage in there so about one of my favourite tipples and thats about it and at mealtimes a teaplate is my lot sizewise, i can’t take much more so never dine out these days it’s too much of a waste there’s always more than half left over when i’m full up and still get charged full price if i ask for a childs portion, so i’m on a loser everytime, but do invest a few bob on the gee gees but the way i bet i’m very unlikely to lose much and usually get my stake back at least, i’m aware Chris keeps offering me work but ■■■■ i have’nt the heart to tell him my class 1 has expired, but maybe you don’t need an HGV on his island if you just keep going round the TT course.
thanks harry long retired.

Well Harry you don’t need an HGV licence to drive a Scania,they are only like a car.Here’s a Co-op Scania artic on the Mountain Road near the Bungalow on the TT course heading for Douglas.Only thing is they don’t go round and round,they do make deliveries now and again :laughing:

Or you could drive this up and down Snaefell.

Or what about this for a part-time job,one day a year - 1st of April. :laughing:

You can bring Norman and Keith with you and I’ll get you all fixed up :laughing: .
I just missed a job on nights,they wanted a windsock washer at Ronaldsway Airport. :grimacing: