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Nice to see a proper trailer in the 6th photo without the stupid great rear overhang today’s trailers have.
Thanks for posting them all.
The first picture is Standishgate on the A49 in Wigan town centre in the early 1960s,
showing a Commer dustbin vehicle and a BMC FG series lorry. The 2nd and 3rd pictures
are from the same location earlier today, approx 60 years later.
Ray Smyth.
The Seddon unit looked smart, wonder if the company ever trialled a raised cab version? Was it a Motor Panels cab?
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Hello Buzzer …another great shot for S Wales …that Leyland Octopus ,probably BRS Newport …backloading cars in ckd form Triumph Coventry for export through Newport docks …this type of thing continued up until the 1980s …Geraint
What are the 2 half cabs? One looks almost AEC grill.
essexpete:
What are the 2 half cabs? One looks almost AEC grill.
Not so much a ‘grille’ as an original exposed radiator! And yes, it’s an AEC. The second one is a Dennis. 
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This one is stunning at first glance!
Kempston:
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oiltreader:
Ray Smyth:
I was thinking of going back " Behind the wheel " with my HGV Class 1 licence when I saw the amounts of wages
on the back door of this Volvo 6 wheeler which was delivering to the little Tesco at Pemberton, Wigan.Ray Smyth.
Hi Ray, Agency advert today off FB page of Highlands and Islands Trucks.
“Class 1 Drivers needed tomorrow
Eurocentral trunk run from Inverness £18.00 per hour.
Drivers must have CPC and Digital Tacho”.
Cheers
EddieI dont have a Digital Tacho, but I have some old discs and an old logbook, and my CPC certificate from 1979.
Ray Smyth.
Tell you what Ray, I’ve just got back from deepest Dorset on holiday, journey down was excellent though I did set off just after 4am, journey home was different, temporary traffic lights just a few miles outside Lyme Regis for a hole the size of a bucket! Over 2 miles of queuing traffic each direction, anyway journey after that was excellent thanks to Deans advice regarding major roadworks at Ringwood and we made good time, I opted for the M3 M25 M1 after Salisbury as opposed to the A303 A34 to Oxford/Bicester and A421 across country to mk as it was getting dark. Got as far as Fleet and 2
Lanes closed, bit sticky but moving slowly, what for? Nothing! Nothing there whatsoever! Onto the M25 and as always very busy despite now being 9pm, got to Heathrow area and of course the highway agency morons (or whoever) were doing their usual as they do every day by setting the compulsory overhead variable speed signs at various different speeds, the lowest down to 30mph. Needless to say a motorway which was previously running absolutely fine was then stop start virtually all the way to the M40.Anyway onto the M1, thought everything would be fine from here as now 9.30pm but no! Again their favourite toy for messing up free flowing traffic was deployed, the variable speed signs, from Hemel Hempstead all the way to J13 Bedford down to 50mph with the signs saying “reports of a lane blockage “ and of course you guessed it, nothing there whatsoever! And of course the results were bunching up and having to brake every 100yds to around 20mph, now I’m all for safety but Hemel to Bedford! There’s cameras every 100yds for the morons to check for problems. So in conclusion Ray even for the rates some are offering today I really couldn’t be doing with this crap every day.
The M62 between the M1 and M606 as been a joke for quite a while now. The 40mph speed restriction comes up just past the Tingley exit and lasts for about 2 miles and everything grinds to a halt. Then stop start until you get past the permenant speed camera then all restrictions are lifted , then a mile further and 50mph roadwork restrictions come into force. A new concrete barrier is being built on site but only on nights , it should have been completed weeks ago if they had worked day and night shifts , someone is making alot of money out of this
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Looks like an ex Greater Manchester Waste motor ?
ERF-NGC-European:
essexpete:
What are the 2 half cabs? One looks almost AEC grill.Not so much a ‘grille’ as an original exposed radiator! And yes, it’s an AEC. The second one is a Dennis.
Thanks and glad you added the “e”!
A Scania fridge artic delivering to a chilled fruit & veg factory at Martland Mill Industrial Park, Wigan. 27.08.2022.
Ray Smyth.
Pennineman:
Punchy Dan:
0Looks like an ex Greater Manchester Waste motor ?
Could be it’s in Ilkeston now .
youtu.be/G6hNpwGQ69c
Quality not great but some might find interesting.
essexpete:
https://youtu.be/G6hNpwGQ69c
Quality not great but some might find interesting.
Interesting Pete, especially as I worked driving for Wimpey when the next section over the Trent past Nottingham was built. Previously, before my driving days, for M.J.Gleeson building the Stapleford and Sandiacre by-pass on the A 52, so it brought a lot back.
Now, needing some assistance with faulty hearing I bring up subtitles whenever available and have been introduced to a whole new source of humour. One classic I picked out on that video was when it informed me that ‘the Monterey system has spread all over the country’. 
So raise your glasses to the M1 Monterey.
Love these little artics, really surprised they weren’t used more but I suppose the demountable bodies work out cheaper especially on 7.5 ton chassis like many distribution companies use.