Norman Ingram:
Well Richards you must remember the prince is related to the Spencers, Dianne brother is the Earl, he may be paying his respects to his late daughter-in-law who is interned at Althorpe, which is only a couple of miles from Northampton. I do hope he never called on me, for we was both out! Now I stated if 
I won on the lottery I would take my trucker mates on a cruise, well I am as good with the lottery as Harry is with the horses, 
, not a bean for this last few weeks and nowhere near a big win! 
It could be your night tonight Norm,thats if you do the wednesday draw.I do it,but Iām not expecting a big win,if I get a tenner I will be doing well 
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Cheers Dave.
Not a chance Dave I forgot owing to the fact I walked fom the Bowling club to the Pensioners one, then came home by two buses.
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Well Richards you must remember the prince is related to the Spencers, Dianne brother is the Earl, he may be paying his respects to his late daughter-in-law who is interned at Althorpe, which is only a couple of miles from Northampton. I do hope he never called on me, for we was both out! Now I stated if I won on the lottery I would take my trucker mates on a cruise, well I am as good with the lottery as Harry is with the horses, , not a bean for this last few weeks and nowhere near a big win!
It could be your night tonight Norm,thats if you do the wednesday draw.I do it,but Iām not expecting a big win,if I get a tenner I will be doing well .
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Not a chance Dave I forgot owing to the fact I walked fom the Bowling club to the Pensioners one, then came home by two buses.
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Well Richards you must remember the prince is related to the Spencers, Dianne brother is the Earl, he may be paying his respects to his late daughter-in-law who is interned at Althorpe, which is only a couple of miles from Northampton. I do hope he never called on me, for we was both out! Now I stated if I won on the lottery I would take my trucker mates on a cruise, well I am as good with the lottery as Harry is with the horses, , not a bean for this last few weeks and nowhere near a big win!
It could be your night tonight Norm,thats if you do the wednesday draw.I do it,but Iām not expecting a big win,if I get a tenner I will be doing well .
Cheers Dave.
There you are Norm ,your a winner,you didnāt lose anything.All the more to stick on the lottery on Saturday .
Cheers Dave.
harry_gill:
hiya,
The Royal Yacht i wonder was it mothballed or just berthed and kept tidy, mothballed IE could the engines be started and it being taken out to sea it still looks very seaworthy but is that superficial and it now must stay as a tourist attraction you know what they say in the forces [zb] baffles brains what a waste of what appears on the surface to be a perfectly serviceable vessel,but then again the bottom may have rotted out of her and the bilges have been filled with concrete to keep her looking good for people who want to visit such an iconic ship can do so for years to come, anybody know??.
thanks harry long retired.
Phil the Greek was on TV the other night saying the Royal yacht is in fine nick, nothing wrong with it, a runner. He said that if it was properly looked after itās good for another 50 years.
kevmac47:
Belated birthday greetings Harry, I had a problem getting on TNUK for a day or two but reading the threads I wasnāt the only one. Hope to see you next sunday at the Tyne Tees Run midway halt at Chester le Street. I hope that 8 potter bathchair doesnāt make to much smoke when you fire it up or the neighbours will be calling the fire brigade out. PS if you want a ride to the rally finish I can help you out. Im sure a ride in a proper motor with a āmagic ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā will be an improvement on your āpercyā powered bathchair. regards kevmac47
hiya,
Thanks for the kind wishes Kev, I think a lot of us have had problems logging in to tnuk, will certainly see you at the āhalf way pointā but Sunday is one of my working days āchild mindingā both my wife and daughter and son in law having other things to do but have demanded a short break to pop down to the car park to see the motors, the bath chair is going well have had a former boss of mine ātuneā it up a bit the infamous āDr John Killingbeckā who was the daddy of Gardner engineering able to make a 150 equal to a 180 and a 180 as good as a 240 an ingenious man now enjoying, i hope, a long and happy retirement, just refresh my memory as to when the motors start to arrive at the council car park the memory isnāt working very well i should really use a diary,I do get one free every year and with all the good intentions in the world failing me it never gets used and gets dropped in the recycling bin without a single entry in there, thanks again Kev see you on the day.
thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
Been conversing with Toshboy via email, a senior member on here an old retiree from BRS Oxford depot gave me his age 82 that knocks me into a cocked hat iām just a bairn by comparison, he was enquiring was there going to be a show this year dedicated to solely BRS vehicles, you know shades of the Lincoln Farm Cafe one which i attended last year havenāt seen anything advertised anybody heard anything ie where and when.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi donāt know if i am the oldest on here, This is a photo taken back in the 1970s (long hair was all the rage then), This is the mammoth major i drove with Globe Petroleum in Scotland when i was 21 years old. I am 56 now and still on fuel tankers, Not bad 35years on the road. (still got the hair).These tankers were hand washed,( and hand painted if you finished early).6 speed box, good lorries to drive, never let us down, After a few years the mammoth majors and mandators were replaced with bisons and buffallos.The tanker i am standing beside was the spare one that everyone used when there own one was being serviced, mine was SFW217H. Had it for 4-5years and it never let me down.
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matt watson:
Hi donāt know if i am the oldest on here, This is a photo taken back in the 1970s (long hair was all the rage then), This is the mammoth major i drove with Globe Petroleum in Scotland when i was 21 years old. I am 56 now and still on fuel tankers, Not bad 35years on the road. (still got the hair).These tankers were hand washed,( and hand painted if you finished early).6 speed box, good lorries to drive, never let us down, After a few years the mammoth majors and mandators were replaced with bisons and buffallos.
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Matt,you are definitely not the oldest on here pal.Nice picture of the Mammoth Major,drove plenty of them older than that.Globe was an Immingham based company IIRC,I used to see them regular but didnāt realise they operated out of Scotland.
Hi Chris the tanker you see was the spare one, we all used this one when our own one was being serviced, mine was SFW217H. Globe were based in scunthorpe and had depots at (gunness wharff )( velva liquids south shields) (thurrock) (south alloa scotland), We covered from Dundee to cannonbie in the borders .great job back then.There were other depots but i cant remember where they were.
matt watson:
Hi Chris the tanker you see was the spare one, we all used this one when our own one was being serviced, mine was SFW217H. Globe were based in scunthorpe and had depots at (gunness wharff )( velva liquids south shields) (thurrock) (south alloa scotland), We covered from Dundee to cannonbie in the borders .great job back then.There were other depots but i cant remember where they were.
Hi Matt,yes Gunness Wharf,thatās where I used to see them and Velva Liquids South Shields,forgot about those places.I used to load out of both places in tāolden days.It was the āFWā reg that reminded me of Globe Petroleum in North Lincs.
Chris
I really owe everybody an apology for āhorning inā on a thread that really belongs to a close-knit group of old mates. I just saw the Thread header and posted that I will be 82 this coming August without reading the other posts. I am new here ā I actually joined to find out what happened to Paul Andersonās Northwest truck photo site. I really liked that site ā it held a particular interest for me because I was an apprentice truck cab and body builder at Oswald Tillotsonās, Summit Works, Manchester Rd., Burnley from 1947-1950 ā I probably built, or help build, many of the (especially) flat bed bodies depicted in some of the Tillotson built truck photographs on Paulās site. I also have great interest in British trucking in general. My father was the driver for Economic Gas Boilers of Burnley during the 1930s (up until the outbreak of WWII in 1939 when he went to work for Joseph Lucas). Every week he would make deliveries all over Britain (picking up material such as sheet copper to bring back to Economic). He used to take me with him when possible (even sneaking me away on school days), and I have fond memories of trucking down the Great North Road ā standing up in the cab and giving āthumbs upā to the AA patrols.
Economic had three vans: a Leyland, Dodge and Bedford ā my Dad drove all three from time to time.
James
jamesicus:
I really owe everybody an apology for āhorning inā on a thread that really belongs to a close-knit group of old mates. I just saw the Thread header and posted that I will be 82 this coming August without reading the other posts. I am new here ā I actually joined to find out what happened to Paul Andersonās Northwest truck photo site. I really liked that site ā it held a particular interest for me because I was an apprentice truck cab and body builder at Oswald Tillotsonās, Summit Works, Manchester Rd., Burnley from 1947-1950 ā I probably built, or help build, many of the (especially) flat bed bodies depicted in some of the Tillotson built truck photographs on Paulās site. I also have great interest in British trucking in general. My father was the driver for Economic Gas Boilers of Burnley during the 1930s (up until the outbreak of WWII in 1939 when he went to work for Joseph Lucas). Every week he would make deliveries all over Britain (picking up material such as sheet copper to bring back to Economic). He used to take me with him when possible (even sneaking me away on school days), and I have fond memories of trucking down the Great North Road ā standing up in the cab and giving āthumbs upā to the AA patrols.
Economic had three vans: a Leyland, Dodge and Bedford ā my Dad drove all three from time to time.
James
Paulās thread has been lost due to the picture outfit that he used going bust.He is hoping to retrieve them.
Cheers Dave.
Hi chris, Dont know if you have looked on the oil company thread, I have posted some other photos of Globe tankers on there.cheers matt.
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