27 June 1986
Clock Tower Shopping Centre
Corporation St
Rugby
Warks
Eng
A Leyland Constructer 6x4 Compactor rearing up in protest at the weight being imposed on her lifting gear.
This shopping complex is now called Rugby Central. Christian Salvesen vehicles where regular visitors when
Sainsbury still had a store in the town centre.
oiltreader:
peterm:
That Humber Snipe KXL195 is the same as I had years ago. Not a great top speed, but pull a house down. 4.1L thirsty straight six. Mine was an ex BBC camera car and still had the steel mounting below the bumpers for the cradle that the camera sat on. When I bought it for 25 quid it had 750x16 8 ply tyres and they really took some getting off because they were meant for split rims of course. I think it was used for the horse racing.
Good old motor but as I said, it did like a drink.Hi peterm, the Humber in Buzzer’s photo is a Hawk(4cyl), the Super Snipe with the 6cyl engine had a longer bonnet buy about a foot.
Found a couple of photos for comparison. Ministry of Defence were a big customer of Humber just wonder if your Humber with said tyres may have been ex MOD.
Oily
Yes thanks, I can see JAM926 is a Hawk, but my old eyes must have deceived me when I looked at that bonnet. The previous owner told me it was an ex camera car. The tyres were explained by us both working for the same haulage firm, second hand from a small feeder lorry.
servo88:
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I think that’s me driving the Castrol ERF. It’s a few years ago, I did miss out driving it when I was waiting for a spinal operation. I’m going to try and get in it again sometime this year, I’ve still got my licence, so before I finally, finally finally! 
give it up I’m hoping to have one last cabby. Regards Kev.
Just had this firm turn up to backfill some holes that had been dug to connect the gas us to the 2 new bungalows being built opposite me.
Thanks to fodenway, Lawrence Dunbar, Buzzer, coomsey, servo88, pyewacket947v and Kempston for the photos 
Oily
Top of the stack cruise missile in disguise!, credit to eastleighbusman for the photo.
Spardo:
Dipster:
oiltreader:
Thanks to Buzzer, DIG and DEANB for the pics
Oily
Old Aussie pics.Todays second pic is annotated Mackay, Queensland. Off topic but I recall I was there one evening whilst travelling up to FNQ when the main street in the town had trees that were full, really full, of Rainbow Lorikeets all screeching their heads off. It drove my wife (temporarily!) crazy. I have often wondered if that was a permanent feature of the town. Anybody know?
Sorry Dipster, can’t help, I arrived in Mackay, found the labour exchange, went out to a couple jobs both of which offered accommodation and the last of which took me back to Sarina. Then when I finished there I blew straight through to Townsville, so remember nothing about Mackay at all. Townsville neither come to think of it, I lived on the edge of town. When were you there?
Hi Dipster and Spardo, In the early 1920s I had two uncles(mother’s side) still in their teens emigrated, £10 Poms in Aussie speak settling in and around Sarina and later one of them to Mackay. With local government encouragement and some assistance they cut their way into the bush and established successful sugar cane farms, Early pioneers making their mark one with his own invention of a cane cutting machine, the rights of which he later sold to Massey Ferguson. On leaving school at 16 they were willing sponsor me joining them but mother would not sign the papers. There is even a street named after them in Sarina. Down a track off the main road and towards the beach one of them built a beach house, other properties followed and became
Crichton Street
google.com/maps/@-21.389865 … 286,18.35z
Oily
1 July 1986
M42
Alvechurch
Worcs
Eng.
One of a number of Kraz/Belaz tipper trucks engaged on Motorway construction.
This one appears to have what i imagine is a temporary wheel arrangement.
oiltreader:
Hi Dipster and Spardo, In the early 1920s I had two uncles(mother’s side) still in their teens emigrated, £10 Poms in Aussie speak settling in and around Sarina and later one of them to Mackay. With local government encouragement and some assistance they cut their way into the bush and established successful sugar cane farms, Early pioneers making their mark one with his own invention of a cane cutting machine, the rights of which he later sold to Massey Harris. On leaving school at 16 they were willing sponsor me joining them but mother would not sign the papers. There is even a street named after them in Sarina. Down a track off the main road and towards the beach one of them built a beach house, other properties followed and became
Crichton Street
google.com/maps/@-21.389865 … 286,18.35z
Oily
I worked for the Main Roads Department south of Sarina and lived in one of the caravans provided not far away further south in the direction of this picture
google.com/maps/@-21.428675 … 384!8i8192
The hill beyond the river was steeper then, perhaps the road has been cut in and/or the bridge was lower nearer the surface of the river and was made up of crossed planks. I was driving a diesel road roller and made a bit of a name for myself on 2 occasions. I was at the top of the hill in the distance and I saw that the tea van had arrived and parked in the side road, seen here on the left the other side of the river. Anxious not to miss out I let her go, quite forgetting that the footbrake was useless and the way to stop was to ease the lever into reverse, but not at the speed I was doing so I flew past the turning at a great rate of knots and made a fair imitation of a machine gun as I rattled across the planks of the bridge to finally stop on the bank up the other side. More gently now I eased it into reverse, recrossed the bridge and turned gracefully left to the van. The blokes were still a little shocked at what they had witnessed till one broke the spell with a ‘you thirsty mate?’
The other time was when I rolled too near the edge and put it into the ditch. The boss calmly said ‘stay on board mate, we’ll soon have you out’ and instructed my mate on the grader to hook a chain up to me. I wasn’t best pleased as the thing was leaning at a very steep angle but, I stayed put and out she came, no problem. I was forgetting that all the weight was down in the rollers and the engine, only a little 4 pot was way lower under the much higher bonnet.
The road was much narrower then and made of dirt, our job there was not to seal it but simply to level and compact it for a few more year’s use. Another mate drove a Toyota ute and his job was to test the compactness by hammering in a tube every so often and testing it on his equipment. The grader driver was fresh from life threatening injuries in hospital after rolling his car at speed by tangling his thongs (flipflops) in the pedals. Illegal, he also got a hefty fine for his trouble.
oiltreader:
Spardo:
Dipster:
oiltreader:
Thanks to Buzzer, DIG and DEANB for the pics
Oily
Old Aussie pics.Todays second pic is annotated Mackay, Queensland. Off topic but I recall I was there one evening whilst travelling up to FNQ when the main street in the town had trees that were full, really full, of Rainbow Lorikeets all screeching their heads off. It drove my wife (temporarily!) crazy. I have often wondered if that was a permanent feature of the town. Anybody know?
Sorry Dipster, can’t help, I arrived in Mackay, found the labour exchange, went out to a couple jobs both of which offered accommodation and the last of which took me back to Sarina. Then when I finished there I blew straight through to Townsville, so remember nothing about Mackay at all. Townsville neither come to think of it, I lived on the edge of town. When were you there?
Hi Dipster and Spardo, In the early 1920s I had two uncles(mother’s side) still in their teens emigrated, £10 Poms in Aussie speak settling in and around Sarina and later one of them to Mackay. With local government encouragement and some assistance they cut their way into the bush and established successful sugar cane farms, Early pioneers making their mark one with his own invention of a cane cutting machine, the rights of which he later sold to Massey Harris. On leaving school at 16 they were willing sponsor me joining them but mother would not sign the papers. There is even a street named after them in Sarina. Down a track off the main road and towards the beach one of them built a beach house, other properties followed and became
Crichton Street
google.com/maps/@-21.389865 … 286,18.35z
Oily
This isn’t your uncle is it Oily. 
Only joking mate.
youtube.com/watch?v=8jQD742bGsY
An old film from 1987 that shows glimpses of the Sarina area is Travelling North with Leo Mckern, that old grumpy git in Rumpole Of The Bailey.
There used to be sandwich shop in the main street of Sarina that sold I.M.H.O. the best crab rolls in the world. It was compulsory
for us to do a stop there when ever we were passing through north or south.
youtube.com/watch?v=d_vblR48xTo
I don’t know if you have already seen these David but I hope that you might find them interesting.