Todays selection, Buzzer
I think that Sutcliffe’s were based at Bilston if that AEC is the same company? The Guy of Archer’s: Ken Archer was one of the stewards at the Masham Steam Rally until this year, they are still trading. archers-removals.co.uk/
Pete.
The neat tidy loads by the driver, the last two pics would have been loaded by a large grab at Inverness harbour and on the A96 at Inverness heading to Norbord plant for conversion to OSB(orientated strand board).
Oily
Back to the Ergo cab and the window wind lever I liked, tho it could go down with quite a thud, treated with respect it kept it working.
AEC Ergomatic cab tipper 1967, all credit to John Wakely for info and photo.
Oily
Some pics courtesy of the Glasgow Archives site.
Glasgow city centre just next to the River Clyde. No idea about the vehicle.
Glasgow fruit market, late 60’s. Bit of a bugger having to handball that trailer.
Buzzer,
Hi ,seeing the photo of the Rewbridge Octopus reminded me of the the ex Rewbridge TK I drove as a young man. When new it was a six wheeler with iirc a Boyes or Primrose third Axle but definitely a 350 Leyland motor in it, YCY 419 was the number. The guy I drove it for converted it to a four wheeler and I drove it on steel out of Port Talbot steelworks. This was back in the mid sixties.
Regards , Mr Steel
Buzzer:
Thursdays entry, Buzzer
I suppose this is a conversion? Any idea what was the extra load admitted with the third axle? The tipper at the top of the picture is interesting too; it looks it’s a rigid 4 or 6 wheeler coupled to a rigid trailer. An unusual outfit in UK or France, but was quite widespread in Germany at a time.
A busy day in Glasgow city centre taken in 1965. To give you a sense of the size of the cooling tower in the background this power station was almost a mile away
A 1957 aerial shot of the tower.
This is the remains of a fire engine (looks like an AEC) that attended a major fire in Cheapside St, Glasgow in 1960. The fire was in a bonded warehouse holding over a million gallons of whisky and 30,000 gallons of rum used by Arbuckle Smith & Co and an explosion blew the building apart. A total of 14 firefighters and salvage crew lost their lives.
The appliance is buried under this pile of rubble.
Froggy55:
Buzzer:
Thursdays entry, BuzzerI suppose this is a conversion? Any idea what was the extra load admitted with the third axle? The tipper at the top of the picture is interesting too; it looks it’s a rigid 4 or 6 wheeler coupled to a rigid trailer. An unusual outfit in UK or France, but was quite widespread in Germany at a time.
New Zealand set up Froggy55, looks a similar trailer body tho different tipping gear on this NZ Dodge 1962 photo.
Oily
