Buzzer:
Thursdays lot, Buzzer
Is it my eyes or is it that the owners of that Scarab can’t spell? Mortimers or Mortiners? 
Spardo:
Buzzer:
Thursdays lot, BuzzerIs it my eyes or is it that the owners of that Scarab can’t spell? Mortimers or Mortiners?
Specsavers for you Spardo, if you look closely it may be the upright brace of the side board distorting the line, did you work for them as well ? 
Buzzer
Sorry about poor quality and tail view, but I thought this a tidy 4 wheeler tipper, the like not so common today.
Spardo:
Buzzer:
Thursdays lot, BuzzerIs it my eyes or is it that the owners of that Scarab can’t spell? Mortimers or Mortiners?
David, It is an M on the Scammell Scarab, but it does look like an N because of whatever it is dangling down.
I was a bit doubtful of its spelling at first, but it became a bit clearer when I expanded the picture. Cheers, Ray.
essexpete:
Sorry about poor quality and tail view, but I thought this a tidy 4 wheeler tipper, the like not so common today.
As you say Pete you don’t see many 4 wheeler tippers nowadays, wildmans used to run a couple round our way but they’ve been gone a while now but the small building site opposite my house has had a couple of 4 wheeler loads of sand delivered by this company in the photo below.
Buzzer:
Spardo:
Buzzer:
Thursdays lot, BuzzerIs it my eyes or is it that the owners of that Scarab can’t spell? Mortimers or Mortiners?
Specsavers for you Spardo, if you look closely it may be the upright brace of the side board distorting the line, did you work for them as well ?
Well I’m boggered, should have enlarged it, clear as day when you do. 
No, not for them but I did have a Scammell coupled Leyland Redline when I worked for W.E. (Bill) Andrew & Son on the Kellogg’s Cornflakes contract. does that count? 
When my brother and I started up on our own he offered it to us together with its 30 foot single axle stepframe van for £500. £100 down and £100 a month with no interest. We turned him down because if we broke down anywhere far away we wouldn’t be able to hire a replacement to tow the trailer. 
21 April 1986
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Turkish trio in the murk.
Istanbul based Volvo F10/12s with tilts.
A Bedford dropside lorry at Canning Place on the Dock Road in Liverpool in 1965.
I think the Walkers pub on the left was The Flying Dutchman. Mines a pint, Cheers.
Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth:
A Bedford dropside lorry at Canning Place on the Dock Road in Liverpool in 1965.
I think the Walkers pub on the left was The Flying Dutchman. Mines a pint, Cheers.Ray Smyth.
I wonder if that is the pub where I whiled away enough time watching a World Cup match in 1966 while the dockers, who must have been on a late bonus, handballed my load of whisky into the bond. I was supposed to be finding change for a tenner to pay them for the ‘labour’.
I strolled back in time to get my notes and roll up my sheets. 
Only time I ever got one over on those bar stewards.
Ray Smyth:
A Bedford dropside lorry at Canning Place on the Dock Road in Liverpool in 1965.
I think the Walkers pub on the left was The Flying Dutchman. Mines a pint, Cheers.Ray Smyth.
Ray, please don’t mention Dock Road Liverpool again, it reignites my stress levels, I’m an old man and it doesn’t do me any good. It must be 50/60 years since I encountered those Liverpool dockers and I still have nightmares. 
Cracking 8 wheel Foden Buzzer
Ray
Buzzer:
A very blustery Friday, lets see what the wind blow’s in, Buzzer
ONE FOR DIG DOWN UNDER OR IS IT AMERICAN
Australian. But you knew that, right
ParkRoyal2100:
Buzzer:
A very blustery Friday, lets see what the wind blow’s in, Buzzer
ONE FOR DIG DOWN UNDER OR IS IT AMERICANAustralian. But you knew that, right
You have to be careful on this thread, very wise men clock in and let you know if you get it wrong, 
Buzzer
grumpy old man:
Ray Smyth:
A Bedford dropside lorry at Canning Place on the Dock Road in Liverpool in 1965.
I think the Walkers pub on the left was The Flying Dutchman. Mines a pint, Cheers.Ray Smyth.
Ray, please don’t mention Dock Road Liverpool again, it reignites my stress levels, I’m an old man and it doesn’t do me any good. It must be 50/60 years since I encountered those Liverpool dockers and I still have nightmares.
I think this was taken on the Dock Rd GOM , i hear it`s still in the queue
ramone:
grumpy old man:
Ray Smyth:
A Bedford dropside lorry at Canning Place on the Dock Road in Liverpool in 1965.
I think the Walkers pub on the left was The Flying Dutchman. Mines a pint, Cheers.Ray Smyth.
Ray, please don’t mention Dock Road Liverpool again, it reignites my stress levels, I’m an old man and it doesn’t do me any good. It must be 50/60 years since I encountered those Liverpool dockers and I still have nightmares.
I think this was taken on the Dock Rd GOM , i hear it`s still in the queue
Thanks to Buzzer, pyewacket947v, coomsey, lurpak, essexpete, Kempston, Ray Smyth and ramone for the pics .
Oily
A couple thanks to SCP for the photos, the AEC will get GOM looking for the Phyllosan Tablets, remember them fortifying the over 40s probably need the plus variety.
Hi Grumps, I totally agree with you, There was more life in " A Glass of Andrews " than them crafty dockers in LIverpool.
I was born and bred in Liverpool, but in those days, I was a young lorry driver and got stuck in loading and unloading.
That was part of the job. Sorry to upset you with my earlier comments, Go and have a lie down. Cheers, Ray.
I kicked dock deliveries into touch within the first couple of months of starting as an O/D with my first motor. I was in the queue on Dock Road one day with one small wooden case containing paper that was consigned to some far flung part of The Empire in 1969 so this was about mid day as I had tipped the 10 ton of paper during the mid morning at a printing works IIRC. So I am totally ■■■■■■ off standing in a queue with one poxy little 1 cwt case to deliver as I would have been there for the rest of the f------ day. Anyway salvation came clip clopping down the outside of the queue and it was one of the numerous horse drawn lorries that were still active at that time. So I jumped out and asked Wack if he was on his way the top of the queue that I was stuck in and quickly established that that was where he was heading and he only had a couple of small cases on board so he agreed to take the case off me ( for a ten bob note ) He went forward and spun around and came back alongside and we barred the wooden case over and he scrawled over my receipt notes something illegible and turned around again and plodded off to the front of the queue as horse drawn lorries took priority and could go to the front of any queue in those far off days. That episode was my last venture into delivering into Liverpool Docks ! ■■■■ that for a game of Cowboys ! Cheers Bewick.