oiltreader:
Thanks to pyewacket947v, coomsey, Lawrence Dunbar, DEANB, Buzzer, tyneside and Buzzer for the photos
Looking Buzzer’s Fullers Brewery street scene got having a closer look and seeing what I could recognise r to l a London Evening Standard ■■■■■■ van, Citroen DS and Transit on the forecourt, TK, Black Cab, Minivan, Mercedes, Morris LD van, Austin Westminster?, Mini Clubman,Transit, Albion, VW Beetle, Ford Zephyr.
Oily
Hi Oily what about the old London Eye featured behind the Foden waggon & drag, Buzzer
Yes Buzzer had another look and the first thing that came to mind was the Festival of Britain 1951 (I was 16) my older sister’s boyfriend brought me back a FoB pen and pencil set also a book of everything going on at the Festival with pictures of Battersea Pleasure Park with a Ferris wheel might be some connection
Oily
An Austin/Morris/BMC lorry delivering to the building site of the new swimming baths in
Wigan town centre in the mid 1960s. The second picture is the precisely the same location
with this swimming baths building and also Council offices built in the last few years.
First picture from Tim Cooke.
That last one is indeed Australia, it shows Kurt Johannsen who built an early, some say the first, roadtrain using WW2 surplus. An extremely interesting man.
The photo shows his load to be 45 gallon oil drums. I recall he purchased loads in government auctions in Darwin (I think it was), cleaned them up and sold them on.
Kurts old Diamond T and self tracking trailers now resides at the Transport Hall of Fame in Alice Springs and goes for a drive through the city every year.
Dig
Interesting and spacious cab for the Shorrock Foden, with a wide sleeper.
Crew cab I think Froggy, see the rear door, but I agree it would have made a good sleeper well before its time. The unions of the day were against sleepers, it was only the arrival of the Swedes which forced the issue. Of course British trucks overseas, particularly Australia, had sleepers in advance of the UK.
Thanks to Ray Smyth and DIG for the photos
Came across this quite by chance and never heard of them before.
GG quote"1954-1964 Produced approximately 20 vehicles"
Oily
Buzzer,i,ve shown my Dad the picture of the Deniffs 6 wheeler mixer as he drove for them in the sixties in Sheffield where the family is originally from,even at the age of 89 he identified the drum and gear to be Stoddard & Pitt i think he said,certainly not lost his eye for detail,
Thanks for posting the picture.
740MICK:
Buzzer,i,ve shown my Dad the picture of the Deniffs 6 wheeler mixer as he drove for them in the sixties in Sheffield where the family is originally from,even at the age of 89 he identified the drum and gear to be Stoddard & Pitt i think he said,certainly not lost his eye for detail,
Thanks for posting the picture.
The car might be a Lanchester but I think that the background looks like it’s the US and I think it’s a left hand drive so I might be talking ■■■■■■■■.
740MICK:
Buzzer,i,ve shown my Dad the picture of the Deniffs 6 wheeler mixer as he drove for them in the sixties in Sheffield where the family is originally from,even at the age of 89 he identified the drum and gear to be Stoddard & Pitt i think he said,certainly not lost his eye for detail,
Thanks for posting the picture.
Heres another one.
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Thank You for posting Dean he,ll love that when i show him.
That last one is indeed Australia, it shows Kurt Johannsen who built an early, some say the first, roadtrain using WW2 surplus. An extremely interesting man.
The photo shows his load to be 45 gallon oil drums. I recall he purchased loads in government auctions in Darwin (I think it was), cleaned them up and sold them on.
Kurts old Diamond T and self tracking trailers now resides at the Transport Hall of Fame in Alice Springs and goes for a drive through the city every year.
Dig
Good piccie.
And thanks to Dipster who recommended Johannsen`s book Red Centre. Very interesting stuff.
That last one is indeed Australia, it shows Kurt Johannsen who built an early, some say the first, roadtrain using WW2 surplus. An extremely interesting man.
The photo shows his load to be 45 gallon oil drums. I recall he purchased loads in government auctions in Darwin (I think it was), cleaned them up and sold them on.
Kurts old Diamond T and self tracking trailers now resides at the Transport Hall of Fame in Alice Springs and goes for a drive through the city every year.
Dig
Good piccie.
And thanks to Dipster who recommended Johannsen`s book Red Centre. Very interesting stuff.
If you enjoyed that you might be interested by the story of Tom Kruse, known as the Outback Mailman. Again an interesting man and there is a book, which I have somewhere in “my extensive library” (!), but I do not recall the exact title.
That last one is indeed Australia, it shows Kurt Johannsen who built an early, some say the first, roadtrain using WW2 surplus. An extremely interesting man.
The photo shows his load to be 45 gallon oil drums. I recall he purchased loads in government auctions in Darwin (I think it was), cleaned them up and sold them on.
Kurts old Diamond T and self tracking trailers now resides at the Transport Hall of Fame in Alice Springs and goes for a drive through the city every year.
Dig
Good piccie.
And thanks to Dipster who recommended Johannsen`s book Red Centre. Very interesting stuff.
If you enjoyed that you might be interested by the story of Tom Kruse, known as the Outback Mailman. Again an interesting man and there is a book, which I have somewhere in “my extensive library” (!), but I do not recall the exact title.
I’ve been on the Quantas sure already today. Don’t encourage me any more!
Dipster:
If you enjoyed that you might be interested by the story of Tom Kruse, known as the Outback Mailman. Again an interesting man and there is a book, which I have somewhere in “my extensive library” (!), but I do not recall the exact title.
And also ‘The History of Road Trains in the Northern Territory 1934 - 1988’ by the late John Maddock. A mine of information on the subject, I tried to contact John many years ago to get permission to use a section of his book on the operation of the Mack quad box in my own publication. Sadly he had just died but his publishers happily gave permission providing that I credited him, which of course I duly did. I knew I couldn’t have improved on his excellent description.
“Larry Williams and his truck Leyland Lil at Camooweal in October 1976. He was carrying a load of furniture from Newcastle to Darwin”, credit to Ken Hodge for the photo and quote.
That’s a fair old trek and I look at that motor and think back to when I was given something similar in the form an new BMC FJ artic with a 6 car trailer, it went well when the cab wasn’t in tilt and that was fairly often.
Oily
I knew I couldn’t have improved on his excellent description.
