What do you reckon about that last one Dig? A B-single, or a Leyland Twinload?
I can see why he isn’t using gates though.
A Leyland B trouble springs to mind David.
One station I carted some wool for had a good idea for loading they used a Bob Cat with forks and had dug a trench which the trucks drove down into this put the trailer floor just above ground level, we put the gates up on one side and the bobcat then pushed the bales over nice tight which allowed us when finished to put the rest of the gates on.
I still preferred the old way with spiked anchor pegs never experienced any problem with them on but it put a lot more emphasis on armstrong positioning by the Mexican fella Manual labour…
What do you reckon about that last one Dig? A B-single, or a Leyland Twinload?
I can see why he isn’t using gates though.
A Leyland B trouble springs to mind David.
One station I carted some wool for had a good idea for loading they used a Bob Cat with forks and had dug a trench which the trucks drove down into this put the trailer floor just above ground level, we put the gates up on one side and the bobcat then pushed the bales over nice tight which allowed us when finished to put the rest of the gates on.
I still preferred the old way with spiked anchor pegs never experienced any problem with them on but it put a lot more emphasis on armstrong positioning by the Mexican fella Manual labour…
Dig
Ha ha, reminds me of one time loading wine into my tilt in Italy, They directed me into a large empty warehouse with a weighbridge plate in the middle of the floor, which I was to drive onto and open the rear flap… Did that and waited for the signal to move on but they told me to make sure the cab door was shut. I did so and turned round to see my wagon disappearing into the floor. When it was nice and level the forkies arrived and loaded me in about 5 minutes flat. A great idea but never came across it again, though others here on regular wine work must think it quite normal.
Spardo:
Love the KM tipper, the name of the makers, or originators of that chassis-less style escapes me for the moment but I believe they also made car carriers (Oily?).
More stable than they looked they also had an added (accidental?) advantage. If you were stuck in mud, raising and lowering repeatedly with judicious setting and releasing of the brakes, trailer and unit alternately, ‘walked’ you out of the mire.
Hi Spardo, you’re thinking of Hoynor who also made cartransporter trailers who became Transporter Engineering then some other name I can’t remember still making along with others today’s multi deck trailers. archive.commercialmotor.com/art … -tc-outfit
Oily
I used one of those stubby single axle trailers several times. I have a feeling it was a Neville product. The gaffer
bought it as a sort of back up for tipping lime slurry on a landfill. It did look a bit odd behind a Scania 110 though.
8 May 1986
Leicester Forest East
Leicester
Leics
Eng
A somewhat brutal looking ERF Chinese 6 with a crew cab rescuing a sick DAF 4x2box van.
East Midland based Placketts Express Parcels were bought up by Impact Logistics (?) in 1994.
pyewacket947v:
8 May 1986
Leicester Forest East
Leicester
Leics
Eng
A somewhat brutal looking ERF Chinese 6 with a crew cab rescuing a sick DAF 4x2box van.
East Midland based Placketts Express Parcels were bought up by Impact Logistics (?) in 1994.
Could that have been one of Lowe’s chinese-six units I wonder?
pyewacket947v:
8 May 1986
Leicester Forest East
Leicester
Leics
Eng
A somewhat brutal looking ERF Chinese 6 with a crew cab rescuing a sick DAF 4x2box van.
East Midland based Placketts Express Parcels were bought up by Impact Logistics (?) in 1994.
Could that have been one of Lowe’s chinese-six units I wonder?
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I think your probably right RO or could it have been a bakers they had some like that although I’m not sure if they were Chinese 6’s
pyewacket947v:
8 May 1986
Leicester Forest East
Leicester
Leics
Eng
A somewhat brutal looking ERF Chinese 6 with a crew cab rescuing a sick DAF 4x2box van.
East Midland based Placketts Express Parcels were bought up by Impact Logistics (?) in 1994.
Placketts were based on the Stapleford/Sandiacre border just off the A 52 between Nottingham and Derby. As a lad we lived next door to the family and were very friendly. But later as a driver they were very useful as, although they wouldn’t stop for you for security reasons, you could catch the whole convoy at one of their regular stops (Leicester Forest or Watford Gap) for a lift home. I seem to remember you were directed to talk to the road foreman. But they took a risk, the company was very strict. One of their drivers stopped to help a woman with a flat tyre and later, in gratitude, wrote to the company praising him for being a ‘Knight of the Road’. That got him instant dismissal.
The livery in the picture was the later one, I think it was dark green originally.
I’ve still got some of my Dad’s (stamped from '56 onwards), including his motorcycle licence which allowed him to drive a 3-wheeler (a Bond in his case).
An interesting look back PR, some of those loads in the first one look a bit dodgy. The wagon in the 2nd is an A-double, I don’t think the ‘B’ concept was invented then. I’d have given good money for a ‘dog box’ in the 60s, that bloke was lucky.
I’d have given good money for a ‘dog box’ in the 60s, that bloke was lucky.