Froggy55:
Buzzer:
Buzzer Thu0Definitely a 8x2, but which model, year and engine? Loaded with beer casks, I guess.
Thanks.
Not sure the exact date of this one, but the Scammell Rigid-8 was built from 1937 to the late '50s. It used the Gardner 6LW engine with a 6-sp constant-mesh 'box. The one pictured looks like one of the later '50s examples.
What is the point of the horizontally split, and possibly opening, screen on the passenger side? Normally that would be for the driver’s advantage and in his control. I note the luxury of the 2 wipers too. 
The Scammell is a 1948 Reg, Dont know the model, But it would have the 6LW Engine with a Scammell Gate change gearbox. Larry.
Spardo:
What is the point of the horizontally split, and possibly opening, screen on the passenger side? Normally that would be for the driver’s advantage and in his control. I note the luxury of the 2 wipers too.
Father worked for the Whitbread group for years. They were one of the best firms to work for, looked after their staff and had first class tackle. Most of the lorries had a “trouncer” or drivers mate so the opening left hand screen and wiper would be for his benefit.
Bernard
albion1938:
Spardo:
What is the point of the horizontally split, and possibly opening, screen on the passenger side? Normally that would be for the driver’s advantage and in his control. I note the luxury of the 2 wipers too.Father worked for the Whitbread group for years. They were one of the best firms to work for, looked after their staff and had first class tackle. Most of the lorries had a “trouncer” or drivers mate so the opening left hand screen and wiper would be for his benefit.
Bernard
Thank you Bernard, I had half an inkling that might be the case with a company like Whitbread and, of course, having a mate he would open it for the benefit of the driver too in hot weather. Own account employers often, if not always, made commercial decisions, in the interests of their drivers, which vehicle to buy or extras to add, than hard pressed hauliers. In my own case, putting myself in the drivers’ position I always had them in mind when specifying replacements.
There were a couple of memorable exceptions, when I took over at what was then Courtauld’s there was a mixed fleet already there, Leyland, Bedford, Mercedes, SedAk and even a Dodge/Commer (which provided me with my first job on the first morning, it had broken down with a full load that had to be transhipped by hand 
). The longest serving driver, with a Leyland had seen an advert for aftermarket cab heaters, and he wanted one. Not about to use budget on a vehicle which would not be there for long the best I could do was promise that all future new ones would have them from the start. And I kept that promise, sadly he never benefitted as, after a very nasty accident as passenger in a car, he was retired early on health grounds. Another driver was appalled, after part of the fleet had been kitted out with them, when I told him to take an older model on a night out job. ‘But it hasn’t got a night heater’, he pleaded. Speaking as a former driver who at that point had never had a night heater in his life, he got both barrels, and sloped off to get his sleeping bag. 
There are two periods of London TMK registrations for the Whitbread Scammell Rigid 8, October 1948 to June 1949 and December 1958 to March 1959, I would think the latter reg dates fit the Scammell as the earlier 1948 to 49 reg will have had numbers first then TMK, in the 50’s some Council’s that issued the registrations ran out of the sequence so to keep the plate size the same they reversed the sequence and had letters before numbers as in the Scammell’s case, this only lasted until the new letter prefix A started in 63. Also worth remembering registrations sometimes didn’t just cover one specific year, depending on the area some changed sequence in a matter of a few months some a couple of years, as in the periods above. Franky.
Buzzer:
Buzzer Thu
Hello …great period shot of the Abernant Atkinsons …thats probably the former Felindre tin plate works near Swansea .
Great find Buzzer ! …Abbernant a very smart fleet ,they also had tippers on coal haulage …The Thames Trader ,could well have been D Austin Jones from Llanmorlais in the Gower …Geraint.
I was informed yesterday that John Cannon, known as " Old 67 " and " Rippydick " passed away earlier this year.
John was a lifelong driver with Ripponden & District parcel carrier in Yorkshire. John and I met about 7 years
ago through Trucknet. Rest in peace John.
Ray Smyth.
oiltreader:
1959 Berliet fuel tanker and 1958 Unic, credit to Dave Fawcett for photos.
Oily
The Berliet is a GLC 6M produced 1959-64, with the front exhaust compulsory on flammable transport.
Lawrence Dunbar:
The Scammell is a 1948 Reg, Dont know the model, But it would have the 6LW Engine with a Scammell Gate change gearbox. Larry.
Thanks for all the answers concerning the Scammell rigid-8!
Lawrence Dunbar:
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Hi Larry that’s a typical opencast scene 
