Buzzer:
Fridays fancies, Buzzer
Hi Buzzer, Another great batch of pictures. I am trying to identify the first picture on this posting.
Somewhere in my mind, I seem to recognise the location, the filling station and the pub across
the road. I may have filled up with diesel and a couple of pints of beer here many years ago.
Cheers, Ray Smyth.
I nipped in to Wigan town centre earlier today to go to Boots Chemist to pick up a packet
of Covid test kits, and I spotted this van with an unusual badge on the radiator grill which
I could not identify. I did a bit of searching with my limited skills on my laptop and found
that it is a SAIC MAXUS from China. It has a 2 litre diesel engine, and is probably 3500kg GVW.
Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth:
I nipped in to Wigan town centre earlier today to go to Boots Chemist to pick up a packet
of Covid test kits, and I spotted this van with an unusual badge on the radiator grill which
I could not identify. I did a bit of searching with my limited skills on my laptop and found
that it is a SAIC MAXUS from China. It has a 2 litre diesel engine, and is probably 3500kg GVW.Ray Smyth.
It’s the Chinese version of the LDV Maxus. SAIC bought the rights to it when LDV went to the wall. They also make the MG range of cars.
Dennis Javelin:
Ray Smyth:
I nipped in to Wigan town centre earlier today to go to Boots Chemist to pick up a packet
of Covid test kits, and I spotted this van with an unusual badge on the radiator grill which
I could not identify. I did a bit of searching with my limited skills on my laptop and found
that it is a SAIC MAXUS from China. It has a 2 litre diesel engine, and is probably 3500kg GVW.Ray Smyth.
It’s the Chinese version of the LDV Maxus. SAIC bought the rights to it when LDV went to the wall. They also make the MG range of cars.
Are they made in China or the UK factory
atlas man:
Dennis Javelin:
Ray Smyth:
I nipped in to Wigan town centre earlier today to go to Boots Chemist to pick up a packet
of Covid test kits, and I spotted this van with an unusual badge on the radiator grill which
I could not identify. I did a bit of searching with my limited skills on my laptop and found
that it is a SAIC MAXUS from China. It has a 2 litre diesel engine, and is probably 3500kg GVW.Ray Smyth.
It’s the Chinese version of the LDV Maxus. SAIC bought the rights to it when LDV went to the wall. They also make the MG range of cars.
Are they made in China or the UK factory
Sorry, haven’t a clue.
Ray Smyth:
Buzzer:
Fridays fancies, BuzzerHi Buzzer, Another great batch of pictures. I am trying to identify the first picture on this posting.
Somewhere in my mind, I seem to recognise the location, the filling station and the pub across
the road. I may have filled up with diesel and a couple of pints of beer here many years ago.Cheers, Ray Smyth.
The A638 Doncaster Ray.
Pete.
Thanks to pyewacket947v, Buzzer, Ray Smyth, Punchy Dan and servo88( you’re going well Gordon, is that the Phyllosan tablets, fortifies the over forties 
) for the photos 
and all the craic
Oily
Cured all ills
windrush:
Ray Smyth:
Buzzer:
Fridays fancies, BuzzerHi Buzzer, Another great batch of pictures. I am trying to identify the first picture on this posting.
Somewhere in my mind, I seem to recognise the location, the filling station and the pub across
the road. I may have filled up with diesel and a couple of pints of beer here many years ago.Cheers, Ray Smyth.
The A638 Doncaster Ray.
Pete.
Thank you Pete, I now recall the location in detail. From early 1970, and for the next 3 years, I was a HGV Class 1 shunter
for Robert Baillie & Co Ltd of Portsmouth. I was based at their Wigan depot, and quite often when Baillies Doncaster depot
were over busy, one of us from the Wigan depot had to operate from Doncaster for a couple of days. Around that time the
M62 Motorway only went as far as Huddersfield and Bradford, so the route to Doncaster depot was via Manchester, Hyde, &
over the A628, through Barnsley and on to the A635 and past The Sun Inn, as shown in the picture. Cheers, Ray Smyth.
