Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[kenfig_bill]

Guy Big J 8lxb:
Cracking 8 wheel Foden Buzzer

Ray

Yes indeed …Gwynne Bowen ,he had several Foden 8 wheelers …sadly missed …but happy memories for my father …many thanks Geraint .

[buzzer]

Saturday salvo, Buzzer

[buzzer]

Second sitting, Buzzer

[grumpy_old_man]

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

Henry Long, Bradford.■■

[grumpy_old_man]

Ray Smyth:
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.

A drop of malt last evening calmed me down.

[suedehead]

Not my pics

[ramone]

grumpy old man:

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

Henry Long, Bradford.■■

Yep , my dad drove it for a few months when his mkv went in for the new then m.o.t

[pyewacket947v]

21 April 1986
MI Services
Leicester Forest East
Leicester
Leics
Eng

URG 852R, Registered in 1975
Interesting motor this one.
It looks like a ERF NGC, but it is in fact a ERF MDC 852 6x4/ Chassis 3315
The 6MW cab was replaced with this 7/8MW cab
The ■■■■■■■ 335 was changed for a 350.
The Carlsberg DAF 3300 4x2 + Tandem tank alongside is almost mundane in comparison.

[dig]

Buzzer:

ParkRoyal2100:

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

You have to be careful on this thread, very wise men clock in and let you know if you get it wrong, Buzzer

Has to be OZ its right hand drive far to complicated for the American market

Dig

[buzzer]

Wet & stormy Sunday morning, early morning alarm call when the blew up the Fawley power station chimney spot on 7am this morning landscape changed forever now, Buzzer

[juddian]

Bewick:
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 ! [zb] that for a game of Cowboys ! Cheers Bewick.

Thought i was going to have them all out on strike, Gladstone if my memory serves, one case weighing about 1cwt, queue as far as you could see, so i pulled up hefted it in on my shoulder as apprently that was ok with ‘parcel’ size consignments, they went bonkers.
Between handballing 21 ton loads of fertiliser or salt and other rubbish like dock deliveries i removed myself from general haulage driving and found other sectors.

[bewick]

Juddian:

Bewick:
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 ! [zb] that for a game of Cowboys ! Cheers Bewick.

Thought i was going to have them all out on strike, Gladstone if my memory serves, one case weighing about 1cwt, queue as far as you could see, so i pulled up hefted it in on my shoulder as apprently that was ok with ‘parcel’ size consignments, they went bonkers.
Between handballing 21 ton loads of fertiliser or salt and other rubbish like dock deliveries i removed myself from general haulage driving and found other sectors.

I was a bit on the light side at 1 cwt as I clearly recall that I had to bar the case across onto the horse lorry as it was too heavy to lift manually. cheers Bewick

[lurpak]

[pyewacket947v]

24 April 1986
Beeston
Nottingham
Notts
Eng

MFA 235P
Lady Emma.
Sans Leyland name, a Clydesdale 4x2 curtainsider with homemade penthouse and bumper.
Seen on the bay at Sainsburys Beeston store.

[dipster]

lurpak:
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I liked those Triumphs, but preferred the looks of the Mk1. But I have always hated the “racing” mirrors as fitted to the Alpine. Preferred the MGB too, until I drove one… Quite agricultural n my view.

Thanks for the pics.

[buzzer]

The sun is shining here this morning after the gales of yesterday, Buzzer

[tyneside]

Hi Buzzer

Do you know if the TH Brewis photo is the Northumberland branch of the family??

Tyneside

[old_67]

A couple of oldies, not certain about the lorry but I think it is a Commer ?
My money says nobody can identify the car !! ■■

Not my photos.

Regards John.

[ray_smyth]

old 67:
A couple of oldies, not certain about the lorry but I think it is a Commer ?
My money says nobody can identify the car !! ■■

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Not my photos.

Regards John.

John, I think the big van may be a REO, and the car, possibly a Buick or a Packard.

Cheers, Ray.

[spardo]

Ray Smyth:

old 67:
A couple of oldies, not certain about the lorry but I think it is a Commer ?
My money says nobody can identify the car !! ■■

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Not my photos.

Regards John.

John, I think the big van may be a REO, and the car, possibly a Buick or a Packard.

Cheers, Ray.

As a former Packard owner, it doesn’t look like one of those Ray, so if you are right about the choice, I’m going for Buick.