Jackson’s brick lorries of Manchester lined up, that’s some fleet of steam lorries! Nmp
I have owned my brace and bit set since 1957 bought for a £1 when I started my apprenticeship . I use it frequently especially when large diameter holes are required.
Leyland600:
I have owned my brace and bit set since 1957 bought for a £1 when I started my apprenticeship . I use it frequently especially when large diameter holes are required.
. Good for you, Leyland600, Im like you I keep the good old gear, Larry.
Spardo:
DIG:
Buzzer:
BuzzerLove the steamers,
.Are those Buntines Dig? I never loaded there but the side loading I do remember, very rapid and efficient.
I.m pretty sure David those trucks are all RTA Buntines company he started after the collapse of Bunties Roadways.
The double decker trailers now all have walk throughs on both top and bottom so the whole procedure is done through one side gate on each deck, most of the stations have 2 ramps at the yards so the truck loads all 6 decks without moving.
Dig
Buzzer:
Buzzer
What amazing condition, not many like that.
essexpete:
Buzzer:
BuzzerWhat amazing condition, not many like that.
Still grafting everyday, see about now and again, that snap taken at a tar plant.
Oily
Lawrence Dunbar:
rigsby:
Froggy55:
tyneside:
TynesideI remember using such a hand-operated drill some 40 years ago, and it was surprisingly more efficient than one could have thought.
I still have one in my shed , still used when I forgot to charge the drill battery .
. .I still have mine as well, I also have Yankeedriver, Made by Stanley. Larry.
Yankee screwdriver got me thinking hey I’d forgot about it so a rummage and came up with this lot and should have a set of bits somewhere for the driver and the braces. The one on the right was my fathers so over 100 years old.
Oily
Thanks to Kempston, DIG and Buzzer for the photos 
Oily
Timber wagons the Logan one with a lady driver.
Carryfast:
tyneside:
Saw this in the US last month and had with a quick word with the owner who was in his eighties.
Car was first reg in 1955, he has owned it since 1970 and had it professionally restored. Six cylinder, 2.5 fuel injected.
Has to be seen in the flesh to appreciate it.Tyneside
If it’s only 2.5 it ain’t the original/correct engine.It should be 3.0 litre.
Should it now, how long did it take you to google that information up !
Buzzer
justpassing:
Carryfast:
tyneside:
Saw this in the US last month and had with a quick word with the owner who was in his eighties.
Car was first reg in 1955, he has owned it since 1970 and had it professionally restored. Six cylinder, 2.5 fuel injected.
Has to be seen in the flesh to appreciate it.Tyneside
If it’s only 2.5 it ain’t the original/correct engine.It should be 3.0 litre.
Should it now, how long did it take you to google that information up !
Carryfast may be correct in this instance. I picked this up from Wiki
“The Mercedes-Benz M198 engine is a water-cooled 3.0 L, 182.8 cu in, 2,996 cc overhead cam straight six. Like the racing Mercedes-Benz M194, the 300 SL borrowed the basic two-valves-per-cylinder M186 engine from the regular four-door 300 (W186 “Adenauer”) luxury touring car introduced in 1951”
I saw the car in a filling station in the middle of nowhere in Virginia and the owner was kind enough to let me take the photos. As mentioned he must have been in his eighties but seemed to have a good knowledge of the car and he had owned it for the last fifty years so I had no reason to disbelieve him.
Tyneside
But then again it could have been this:-
"
The high-performance, fuel-injected M198 was created in 1954 for the first generation of the 300SL, known colloquially as the “Gullwing”. To fit under its low profile hood the engine was tilted 50-degrees to the left.[10][11] The result for the car was aerodynamic efficiency, and an enormous sand-cast aluminum intake manifold that stretched across the engine’s entire breadth.[12] In order to deliver track-ready performance, race-derived features were built in, including a dry sump lubrication system and Bosch mechanical direct fuel-injection, one of the first production cars with fuel injection. This engine produced 215 PS (158 kW; 212 hp) DIN net at 5,800 rpm and 275 N⋅m (203 lb⋅ft) DIN net of torque at 4,600 rpm[1] and 243 PS (179 kW; 240 hp) net (brake hp) at 6,100 RPM and 294 N⋅m (217 lb⋅ft) net torque at 4,800 RPM. An optional high-performance “Sport” camshaft was also available. This was the only available configuration for the Roadster version of the 300 SL when it made its debut in 1957.[1] Production ended in 1964"
Here a couple of photos under the hood, somebody else can do the maths!!!
Tyneside
Thanks to Buzzer, Tyneside, Suedehead and lurpak for the photos
Oily
ACE cranes youtube.com/channel/UCIv147 … F6YEk5yRiQ
From recent travels.
