Bewick:
My Old blacksmith Pal say’s there’s only one thing you put into a dram of Scotch,and thats another dram !! Cheers Dennis.
Dennis an old boss of mine, Jimmy Cameron (crazyhorse) manager at Road Services Forth Alloa used to say the only way to drink scotch was out of a pint pot, and top it right up 
Lawrence Dunbar:
Dennis how about multiples of Eh, Im sitiing here enjoying my Malt, a cure for everything in my book, Regards Larry
Hope you feel better, 
my old mate. 
Just because I want to give you stick! 
But only when you are on top of your form, 
Norman Ingram:
Hope you feel better,
Harry sounds a bit like Quasimodo with the bells Norm. Hope he soon feels better.
Cheers Dave.
Harry hope you are better soon but best thing for you would be a nice large southern comfort ( soz for swearing ) as apparently that does help or something similar
animal:
Harry hope you are better soon but best thing for you would be a nice large southern comfort ( soz for swearing )
I would imagine he wouldn’t say no to a bit of smaller northern comfort Ang 
Cheers Dave.
Turn the clock back 40 odd years and we could have both been in the Brown Bear to-night “H” if we’d been parked up in Aldgate,just a nice run home Sat morning,a doddle,but you’ve gone off sick !!I should have booked my bed at Silvertown if I’d known you were’nt turning up,better class of stripper in “The Rose of Denmark” eh! Anyway old mate get well soon and back into the rudest of rude PDQ.Kind Regards Dennis.
Bewick:
Turn the clock back 40 odd years and we could have both been in the Brown Bear to-night “H” if we’d been parked up in Aldgate,just a nice run home Sat morning,a doddle,but you’ve gone off sick !!I should have booked my bed at Silvertown if I’d known you were’nt turning up,better class of stripper in “The Rose of Denmark” eh! Anyway old mate get well soon and back into the rudest of rude PDQ.Kind Regards Dennis.
hiya,
Ah’ yes didn’t every driver in the UK stay at the Silvertown Transmotel “once”
i know I did, a bit on a par with Brays I stayed there “once” as well, er’ um’ I
did have “private digs” in the Holloway Road for a time before becoming posh
and moving out to Hampstead.
thanks harry, long retired.
Harry that bray’s was a doss house, after I stopped there, it burnt down a few years later, that must have purified it a little, I pulled up at silvertown motel, had a look in and turned away, and this little old lady said not stopping, I said no I might catch something I don’t want. The lady replied I do b/b, can I park my lorry, oh yes she said, jump in gal and I handed her shopping to her and spun the lorry around and up the road over a swing bridge and a turn right, they had knocked a load of terrace houses down, hers was a corner house by a old lamp post, I parked my lorry next to it. beautiful room & bed, great breakfast. She told me the developers wanted her house, but didn’t want to pay her price, so she was staying put. I never got down that way until a few years later, the house had gone, I hope she got her price and moved down by the sea.
Here you are Norm.Save you looking for another nice lady to give you a bed for the night.Take this ERF with a sleeper cab,
a bit more room than those Marathon’s you had in the sand.
Cheers Dave.
Aye I remember sleeping on the bonnets of old Akis, AECs, Scammells Etc, But the invention of sleeper cabs on the British Motors was fantastic, the last kip I had in my ERF EC 12 was about 1999, But I do fall asleep in my concervatorey quite often & wake up with the noise of the rain hitting the roof , bringing back the mems of the old days Eh, When trying to get some kip after grafting all day, parked up , for instance say Alconbury Truck Stop , When you just get settled down & some R.Sole with a fancy motor seems to think running it all night to keep warm is OK, not in my book if you are tired you will go to sleep, & hopefulley wake up feeling fruitey, I wish Eh, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye I remember sleeping on the bonnets of old Akis, AECs, Scammells Etc, But the invention of sleeper cabs on the British Motors was fantastic, the last kip I had in my ERF EC 12 was about 1999, But I do fall asleep in my concervatorey quite often & wake up with the noise of the rain hitting the roof , bringing back the mems of the old days Eh, When trying to get some kip after grafting all day, parked up , for instance say Alconbury Truck Stop , When you just get settled down & some R.Sole with a fancy motor seems to think running it all night to keep warm is OK, not in my book if you are tired you will go to sleep, & hopefulley wake up feeling fruitey, I wish Eh, Regards Larry.
There was a few that didn’t wake up in some of the draughty old cabs in the bad winters of the 1970’s.
Cheers Dave.
Larry if you stopped your engine in cold countries you could end up dead, I got used to sleeping with it running. amd when those refridgerated lorries parked near, a lorry driver said hardly got a wink of sleep last night, how did you get on, no problem slept like a log!
Dave the Renegade:
Here you are Norm.Save you looking for another nice lady to give you a bed for the night.Take this ERF with a sleeper cab,
a bit more room than those Marathon’s you had in the sand.
Cheers Dave.
This one would have a night heater,some of the earlier sleeper cabbed British motors didn’t.
Cheers Dave.
Well my first night heater was a council parrafin lamp, that was in the 50s they were readiley availble on the road works on route to Manchester, mind you they just kept the frost off the windscreen, but of course that was better than nowt in those days, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well my first night heater was a council parrafin lamp, that was in the 50s they were readiley availble on the road works on route to Manchester, mind you they just kept the frost off the windscreen, but of course that was better than nowt in those days, Regards Larry.
hiya,
The only trouble with them was if you couldn’t find a full one you got back
to the motor in the morning and the thing had gone out and you still had to
defrost the glass, once topped one up with diesel and left it on low all night
drove most of next day with both windows down trying to blow the fumes
away the wife made me get undressed in the coal shed because of the stink.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well my first night heater was a council parrafin lamp, that was in the 50s they were readiley availble on the road works on route to Manchester, mind you they just kept the frost off the windscreen, but of course that was better than nowt in those days, Regards Larry.hiya,
The only trouble with them was if you couldn’t find a full one you got back
to the motor in the morning and the thing had gone out and you still had to
defrost the glass, once topped one up with diesel and left it on low all night
drove most of next day with both windows down trying to blow the fumes
away the wife made me get undressed in the coal shed because of the stink.
thanks harry, long retired.
Must have made you eyes water a bit Harry,with that stink in the cab. 
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well my first night heater was a council parrafin lamp, that was in the 50s they were readiley availble on the road works on route to Manchester, mind you they just kept the frost off the windscreen, but of course that was better than nowt in those days, Regards Larry.hiya,
The only trouble with them was if you couldn’t find a full one you got back
to the motor in the morning and the thing had gone out and you still had to
defrost the glass, once topped one up with diesel and left it on low all night
drove most of next day with both windows down trying to blow the fumes
away the wife made me get undressed in the coal shed because of the stink.
thanks harry, long retired.Must have made you eyes water a bit Harry,with that stink in the cab.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
I think diesel fumes in the cab were a common thing in the years up to the
mid sixties, those old Bedfords and AEC Mercury’s were notorious for necking
injector pipes and usually spraying diesel over the exhaust manifold, and if
like me you carried a spare or two it took days for the “damage” to burn off.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well my first night heater was a council parrafin lamp, that was in the 50s they were readiley availble on the road works on route to Manchester, mind you they just kept the frost off the windscreen, but of course that was better than nowt in those days, Regards Larry.hiya,
The only trouble with them was if you couldn’t find a full one you got back
to the motor in the morning and the thing had gone out and you still had to
defrost the glass, once topped one up with diesel and left it on low all night
drove most of next day with both windows down trying to blow the fumes
away the wife made me get undressed in the coal shed because of the stink.
thanks harry, long retired.Must have made you eyes water a bit Harry,with that stink in the cab.
Cheers Dave.hiya,
I think diesel fumes in the cab were a common thing in the years up to the
mid sixties, those old Bedfords and AEC Mercury’s were notorious for necking
injector pipes and usually spraying diesel over the exhaust manifold, and if
like me you carried a spare or two it took days for the “damage” to burn off.
thanks harry, long retired.
I rember a Dodge Kew I was driving spraying diesel onto the manifold Harry.It started as I was going through Worcester right by the BRS depot.I delivered my load of tarmac to Flyford Flavel about ten miles the other side of Worcester and drove it back to our yard at Kington.It was winter time,but I had the window open for 70 miles to get rid of the fumes and stink. 
Cheers Dave.
65 ish lol here and spent most of it in transport. Dad was a trucker with the BRS by j10 walsall did the Goodyear run with a Guy otter to Vauxhall motors luton and i went with him on friday nights ‘shhh not allowed’… Then left school and well the rest is history.