Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

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oiltreader:
Backpacking or piggybacking in the States.

It has been done here but only one truck piggy backed, new deliveries to West Os from the factory in the eastern states mostly KW.

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[star_down_under]

Every day’s a school day, I’d never heard of these until a few minutes ago.

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[oiltreader]

Thanks to Lawrence Dunbar, Buzzer, Ray Smyth, Star down under and Suedehead for the photos
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[oiltreader]

Hallford Lorry - Birt & Co, Sole Agents, Cessnock, N.S.W. - 1915.
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[mushroomman]

De Havilland Comet, (with square windows) at Manchester Docks.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet

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You could see that Comet from Ordsall Lane Salford,it was a night club IIRC,on Pomona Dock.

[mushroomman]

Yer dead reet Chris. It looks like it was called The North Westward Ho.

I am sure that there was an article about it in The Manchester Evening News some time ago. I shall have a look through their archives and see if I can find out anything more about it.

B.T.W. Chris, this wasn’t you doing a ‘Dodgy’ was it, during you National Service days.

ANSON STREET, VICTORIA PARK, MANCHESTER.

TIPPING STREET, ARDWICK, MANCHESTER.

[chris_webb]

mushroomman:
Yer dead reet Chris. It looks like it was called The North Westward Ho.

I am sure that there was an article about it in The Manchester Evening News some time ago. I shall have a look through their archives and see if I can find out anything more about it.

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B.T.W. Chris, this wasn’t you doing a ‘Dodgy’ was it, during you National Service days.

ANSON STREET, VICTORIA PARK, MANCHESTER.
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TIPPING STREET, ARDWICK, MANCHESTER.
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Not me pal,that Bedford is marked “M” for Maintenance Command,I were in Bomber Command.Nice photo that Steve.

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[mushroomman]

Chris Webb:

mushroomman:
Yer dead reet Chris. It looks like it was called The North Westward Ho.

I am sure that there was an article about it in The Manchester Evening News some time ago. I shall have a look through their archives and see if I can find out anything more about it.

B.T.W. Chris, this wasn’t you doing a ‘Dodgy’ was it, during you National Service days.

ANSON STREET, VICTORIA PARK, MANCHESTER.

TIPPING STREET, ARDWICK, MANCHESTER.

Not me pal,that Bedford is marked “M” for Maintenance Command,I were in Bomber Command.Nice photo that Steve.

I bet the driver has dropped his trailer in AVROES at Woodford.

Here’s that article about ‘The Vomit Comet’.

manchestereveningnews.co.uk … t-24597327

Photo courtesy of Trevor Stone.

[spardo]

mushroomman:
Here’s that article about ‘The Vomit Comet’.

manchestereveningnews.co.uk … t-24597327

Photo courtesy of Trevor Stone.

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Not having heard of that before I found the article very interesting, but having only been bought and converted in the '70s why on earth was it broken up and removed in the '80s?
Strikes me there is a missing bit of this story.

[mushroomman]

Spardo:

mushroomman:
Here’s that article about ‘The Vomit Comet’.

manchestereveningnews.co.uk … t-24597327

Photo courtesy of Trevor Stone.

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Not having heard of that before I found the article very interesting, but having only been bought and converted in the '70s why on earth was it broken up and removed in the '80s?
Strikes me there is a missing bit of this story.

You might like this story David.

youtube.com/watch?v=ccGPQdhf6Ho

Enjoy.

[lawrence_dunbar]

OOT ON THE LASH.