Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[spardo]

oiltreader:
1962 and a Hansen road train at Quilpie, Queensland. I’ve just read that Amy Johnson landed at Quilpie on her flight from England in 1930.
Oily

New one on me Oily, I was going to correct you and suggest Johansen, but then I took a closer look.

I wonder if Dig knows of them.

[erf-ngc-european]

Some really good pics on here, I’ve not seen before - mostly showman’s lorries of the '30s, '40s, 50s and '60s.

Here’s the link:

youtu.be/e160PxlssrU

Rowena

[oiltreader]

Thanks to ERF-NGC-European for the link
Done a bit of toil this one.
Oily

[oiltreader]

ERF-NGC-European’s show link got me having a look through my files, my late good friend Ronnie Cameron has it marked as an Atkinson Searcher.
Oily

[wrighty]

oiltreader:
Thanks to Punchy Dan for the pics
A9 Kessock Bridge Inverness and a rare sight back in June this year, not the wagon but the weather.
Oily

Evening Oily

Looks like one of Willy Duffs from tain…

Cheers Wrighty.

[pyewacket947v]

13 June 1985
A442, Bridgnorth, Shrops, Eng
Monastery Garage…
A still relatively intact looking Thames 4D equipped for recovery work.

[coomsey]

Off FB. Wonder how long it took to do Bristol n back ?

[oiltreader]

wrighty:

oiltreader:
Thanks to Punchy Dan for the pics
A9 Kessock Bridge Inverness and a rare sight back in June this year, not the wagon but the weather.
Oily

Evening Oily

Looks like one of Willy Duffs from tain…

Cheers Wrighty.

yes wrighty, William Duff of Portmahomack(Tain) always tidy motors.
Cheers
Oily

[oiltreader]

Thanks to pyewacket947v, wrighty and coomsey for the pics
aye coomsey, the water hose hanging there, water from streams, horse troughs etc also coal at regular stops, overnighting at coaching inns no doubt, pioneers they were.
Oily

[spardo]

oiltreader:
Thanks to pyewacket947v, wrighty and coomsey for the pics
aye coomsey, the water hose hanging there, water from streams, horse troughs etc also coal at regular stops, overnighting at coaching inns no doubt, pioneers they were.
Oily

And the origins of the French for transport drivers, chauffeurs routiers. Chauffe means heating and a chauffeur is one who heats the boiler in the morning, before setting off. Sometime after breakfast I imagine, no instant turn of a key and off in those days.

Mere heaters, we are.

[oiltreader]

Looking at coomsey’s post got me wondering what the make was and now pretty sure it is a Clayton and Shuttleworth of Lincoln, they were some firm in their day, traction engines, harvesters and even aeroplanes, the Sopwith Camel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_%26_Shuttleworth
Oily

[dave_docwra]

Credit to Ifor Roberts for the picture, Anyone recognise these Leyland models.

[suedehead]

coomsey:
0
Off FB. Wonder how long it took to do Bristol n back ?

More to the point, i noticed it says" continental" on the van.
I presume the body would be sent over unaccompanied ?

[pyewacket947v]

dave docwra:
Credit to Ifor Roberts for the picture, Anyone recognise these Leyland models.

Leyland Leopard chassis i believe,
Operated in New Zealand and rebuilt with bus bodies.

[punchy_dan]

Unloading inside a nice dry shed .

[punchy_dan]

will old Windrush know where this is ?

[leyland600]

Leyland Leopards registered in Dunedin.
Cheers, Leyland 600

[windrush]

Punchy Dan:
0will old Windrush know where this is ?

I will have to ask him when I next see him. No idea, it isn’t Mancetter (far too clean and dry!) Crich, Dene, Dalton, Milltown or Shining Bank so I probably never went to wherever it is anyway. My first thought was a Welsh one but you wouldn’t be allowed back out of there at present!

Pete.

[punchy_dan]

windrush:

Punchy Dan:
0will old Windrush know where this is ?

I will have to ask him when I next see him. No idea, it isn’t Mancetter (far too clean and dry!) Crich, Dene, Dalton, Milltown or Shining Bank so I probably never went to wherever it is anyway. My first thought was a Welsh one but you wouldn’t be allowed back out of there at present!

Pete.

Spot on Criggion .

[oiltreader]

Thanks to dave docwra and Punchy Dan for the pics
Now then gents all opinions welcome. All credit to Carl Spencer for this photo.
Oily