Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year
Cheers
Oily
21 May 1986
Fromes Hill
Hrfds
Eng
Bit of a mix.
A Scammell Pioneer recovery motor
A Ford D Type hiding behind it.
A Land Rover Defender recovery.
and a couple of PSVs in the background.
oiltreader:
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year
Cheers
Oily
Cheers Oily-and likewise.!
Best wishes Oily and all the other contributors.Thanks for another great year 
cheers Ray
pyewacket947v:
21 May 1986
Fromes Hill
Hrfds
EngBit of a mix.
A Scammell Pioneer recovery motor
A Ford D Type hiding behind it.
A Land Rover Defender recovery.
and a couple of PSVs in the background.
The pedant in me forces me to point out the Land Rover is not a Defender but, I think a Series 2, a couple of models before the Defender.
coomsey:
The Derby lads will know all about this mishap! NMP off FB
Ashbourne market place sometime around mid 1976 but luckily not on market day! Aiden Hares dadâs artic ran away down Buxton Hill (lost his trailer brakes I believe?) and ran into the back of Buddy Wheildon driving George Siddallâs Bedford KM. Buddy rarely passed a pub anyway and apparently the rescuers were searching the wreck for him when he emerged from the British Legion asking what they were looking for. He had been inside calming his nerves with a few drinks. 
Another pic here, click on it and it rotates.
Pete.
windrush:
coomsey:
The Derby lads will know all about this mishap! NMP off FB
1Ashbourne market place sometime around mid 1976 but luckily not on market day! Aiden Hares dadâs artic ran away down Buxton Hill (lost his trailer brakes I believe?) and ran into the back of Buddy Wheildon driving George Siddallâs Bedford KM. Buddy rarely passed a pub anyway and apparently the rescuers were searching the wreck for him when he emerged from the British Legion asking what they were looking for. He had been inside calming his nerves with a few drinks.
Another pic here, click on it and it rotates.
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Pete.
As long as nobodies hurt allâs well. Never had brake fail/fade thankfully. I was coming up to the A5 from Nuneaton with a load of coal on,n heard a thud,takes some doing with a Gardner. Never gave it a lot of thought until I went for the brake n a down shift, the pedal had sheared off at floor level ! I took notice then mind , the parking brake did the business n drove it home. Next day I was up to ERFs with the two part pedal, they wanted to have it tested.
Never heard anything about it after. About 2yrs later I was going down that steep sod off hill towards Staveley steel works n lo n behold on my left was the same ERF in the middle of a field with a bus stop wrapped around her. Pedal shear ? Driver brain fade ? Never found did find out. Cheers coomsey
windrush:
coomsey:
The Derby lads will know all about this mishap! NMP off FB
1Ashbourne market place sometime around mid 1976 but luckily not on market day! Aiden Hares dadâs artic ran away down Buxton Hill (lost his trailer brakes I believe?) and ran into the back of Buddy Wheildon driving George Siddallâs Bedford KM. Buddy rarely passed a pub anyway and apparently the rescuers were searching the wreck for him when he emerged from the British Legion asking what they were looking for. He had been inside calming his nerves with a few drinks.
Another pic here, click on it and it rotates.
0
Pete.
Looks like the cab held up well!
Dipster:
pyewacket947v:
21 May 1986
Fromes Hill
Hrfds
EngBit of a mix.
A Scammell Pioneer recovery motor
A Ford D Type hiding behind it.
A Land Rover Defender recovery.
and a couple of PSVs in the background.The pedant in me forces me to point out the Land Rover is not a Defender but, I think a Series 2, a couple of models before the Defender.
Cheers,Dipster i never knew thatâŠ
That Peterbilt looks awful in my opinion.
Looks like Pointer did heavy haulage as well as tippers.
GAUDY AMERICAN TRUCK
Not my taste, but I would appreciate the external visor, keeps the glare off the screen, something that internals canât achieve.
Which is why I loved my old Invincible. The plastic ones on our Mercs were useless, one bird strike and a very expensive repair.
Looks like Pointer did heavy haulage as well as tippers.
They certainly did, in fact at one time I didnât know they did tippers. There was a concrete works somewhere in Norfolk 
and I seem to remember taking stuff from there for Econofreight.
Surely that awful Peterbilt is not a working vehicle, is it? What could you see out of the cab? Ridiculous.
Wll, itâs that time of the year again, the world is in the grip of a pandemic, sadly a lot of people havenât made it so, all you fellas out there (and a few lasses) try to make the best of a bad job and have a Happy Christmas,
Just to put you in the mood ;-
youtube.com/watch?v=mG_nqUHmEmA
grumpy old man:
Wll, itâs that time of the year again, the world is in the grip of a pandemic, sadly a lot of people havenât made it so, all you fellas out there (and a few lasses) try to make the best of a bad job and have a Happy Christmas,
Just to put you in the mood ;-
youtube.com/watch?v=mG_nqUHmEmA
Cheers Grumps, Happy Christmas to you and all the Trucknet members. 
Ray Smyth.
Thanks to pyewacket947v, Buzzer, coomsey, windrush and DEANB for the photos also grumpy old man for the link
Oily
I follow Peter Schöler on Flickr so thanks to him a few from the in tray.
