toyotat:
saw an old bedford tk in hereford collecting pallets CHA711K and still looked in good ink
cheers darren
There is a red H reg Bedford TK working in the Hereford area, still with the original owners delivering coal and gas.
Cheers Dave.
I take coal there he was getting it ready for test when I went about three weeks ago. He’s had it since new. He bags all his coal by hand. Bloody grand bloke he is !!!
He is a friendly guy - he let me take some snaps a few years ago
commonrail:
seen a battered old f88 pulling a log trailer twice,just recently…on the m42.
That’ll be Bob Carmichael - owner of possibly the most photographed F88 in the UK. Excellent example of what you can do if you treat your tackle right and get on with the job.
commonrail:
seen a battered old f88 pulling a log trailer twice,just recently…on the m42.
That’ll be Bob Carruthers - owner of possibly the most photographed F88 in the UK. Excellent example of what you can do if you treat your tackle right and get on with the job.
yeah,just been looking at it on google images.
that is one mean looking truck…and one ugly ■■■■■■ trailer
any ideas about the white f12…its immaculate,and as ive said,i ve seen it quite a few times in the midlands area.
once it was pulling some kind of tipper,and then another time it overnighted in Lincoln farm…it was pulling a low loader.
young lad was driving it.
ParkRoyal2100:
Cross post from “Older wagons still earning their corn”:
A 1969 (yes, 44 years old) Commer I came across the other day, still at work. Almost certainly the oldest still earning in Australia (there are older Commers here but all are show ponies).
It’s not in show-winning nick either, and all the better for it:
This Scania has undergone a few cosmetic changes in its lifetime.
It started-out as a 2 axled tractor unit ( I think ) , then the chassis was stretched to become a
2 axled rigid. A drawbar trailer was pulled behind , with livestock bodies for cattle haulage.
The Scania was found to be running over the legal maximum weight , so a 3 rd. axle was added , and the Scania
was also treated to a thorough refurbishment a couple of years ago.
Sporting the reg. no. COW 888 W, this no. was earlier on both a DAF 2100 and later on a 2500 , - quite appropriate for a cattle train . . The Longhorn skull makes a bovine bullish mascot.
Before any " Bewick Spotters" say owt about the cab colour scheme ,…the Scania was not owned by the Milnthorpe company. The original reg. no. was a D prefix, and therefore is exempt from the speed-limiter regulations.
Owned by Chris Forster , of J. & J. Forster , Wigan , to whom I thank for the details .
I see this about quite a bit - he goes from Wolves to Peartree Lane IIRC.
yeh runs out of rail terminal at wolves that’s where I took this pic at acenta steel pear tree lane lol.
This weghbridge was Geoge Gadds Steel. I went there many times in 70 & 80s — the fat b------d in that little office
was one of the worst miserable sods i had ever seen – — Hywel.—
I see this about quite a bit - he goes from Wolves to Peartree Lane IIRC.
yeh runs out of rail terminal at wolves that’s where I took this pic at acenta steel pear tree lane lol.
This weghbridge was Geoge Gadd Steel. I went there many times in 70 & 80s — the fat b------ in that little office
was one of the worst miserable sods i had ever seen – — Hywel.—[/quote
yer I heard it used to be George ghadds my old man been going in since 80’s also, still a busy place tho not many factorys like this left in the midlands.
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