not many mod cons
sounded sweet big old ■■■■■■■ humming away
i well remember the Ferrymaster F89’s, we ended up with 1 at desborough depot , most of its time with us was spent offhiring rental trailers, i think its demise came with a coil of steel coming through the headboard of a tilt coming out of dover and knocking the cab off , pretty sure the drivers name was bill saunders from finedon.
tony
A gathering of Lorries from Murcia Province in South-East Spain,
delivering fruit & vegetable products to Agrial Fresh Produce at
Martland Park Industrial Estate in Wigan. March 1st 2022.
Ray Smyth.
tonyj105:
i well remember the Ferrymaster F89’s, we ended up with 1 at desborough depot , most of its time with us was spent offhiring rental trailers, i think its demise came with a coil of steel coming through the headboard of a tilt coming out of dover and knocking the cab off , pretty sure the drivers name was bill saunders from finedon.
tony
Funny you should remember that, it has brought back a vague memory long forgotten to me too. When I worked for White Trux in Dover on European work, as I was casual at the outset there were some weeks when I didn’t have a load across the water and he would offer those of us in that position day (or rather, I think, night) runs with Ferrymasters trailers to changeover somewhere in Northants. He had 2 distinct fleets, Volvos (almost all F 89s) for continental work and much lower powered Mercs for UK only. The reason was that he only taxed the Volvos as cars and we were not allowed to run with even empty trailers in the UK, always bouncing back and forth to Dover. Did mean though that there were no delays waiting for clearance, I knew that when I got off the boat I was home in Folkestone within a couple of hours. Didn’t suit me though, the Ferrymasters runs, because after the 89s I found the Mercs just a little bit laboured, and preferred to take some time off on the beach till the next call came. 
PS Buzzer, does Ferrymasters count towards the list you are so interested in? 
Ferry Masters, I remember buying a couple of Corgi Michilotti Cabbed Scammell Artics with F/Ms containers on the trailers, We still have them , But in differant livery, As you do to please the boys , I must have bought them over 50 years ago, 
Larry.
A couple of Whitetrux F89’s.
DEANB:
A couple of Whitetrux F89’s.0
Just before my time, mine was an R reg, and I reckon that was an ME unit with the aircon on the roof.
That’s a nice little Mercury truck, a chap I rally with had a yellow one and I quite fancied one myself. About the closest I would ever have been to my ambition of actually owning and exhibiting a classic commercial!
Pete.
heritagemachines.com/commercial … -wheelers/
Some nice 50s and 60s photos on there.
