Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[franglais]

essexpete:

Buzzer:
Buzzer

Were the trailers unbraked in those days?

Before my time but didnt they have "trailer boys"? A youth to apply the trailer brakes as they were separately mechanically operated, not by the drivers footbrake?

[tyneside]

Franglais:

Buzzer:
Buzzer

What would happen if that tipper threw the anchors on a bit sharpish?
I dont imagine there will be any timber baulks inside the body? Stone on steel will slide along quite nicely wont it?
Or have I got that all wrong?

They are more likely to topple over than slide.

Trying to work this one out, looking at the body it is designed for a special one off job (looks like a tipper)

The wagon itself looks too tidy for a site or internal motor and those blocks look a little oversize to be going from quarry face direct to the crusher.
Perhaps a short haul job to a sea wall construction somewhere.

Tyneside

[grumpy_old_man]

Franglais:

essexpete:

Buzzer:
Buzzer

Were the trailers unbraked in those days?

Before my time but didnt they have "trailer boys"? A youth to apply the trailer brakes as they were separately mechanically operated, not by the drivers footbrake?

That was the idea, but as ideas go it wasn’t a very good one. When I woz but a lad we had some AEC Mk3 MM’s at Harrisons of Dewsbury with the ratchet brake handle on the trailer mates side of the cab, the ‘mate’, who’s job it was to apply the brake to the Dyson draw bar at the right time, usually slept most of the way on the Dewsbury to London night trunk.

[spardo]

grumpy old man:

Franglais:

essexpete:

Buzzer:
Buzzer

Were the trailers unbraked in those days?

Before my time but didnt they have "trailer boys"? A youth to apply the trailer brakes as they were separately mechanically operated, not by the drivers footbrake?

That was the idea, but as ideas go it wasn’t a very good one. When I woz but a lad we had some AEC Mk3 MM’s at Harrisons of Dewsbury with the ratchet brake handle on the trailer mates side of the cab, the ‘mate’, who’s job it was to apply the brake to the Dyson draw bar at the right time, usually slept most of the way on the Dewsbury to London night trunk.

Ah GOM, but if you survived the journey at least you had an extra pair of (young) hands to help with the heavy sheeting.

[lawrence_dunbar]

Well in the 50s I was second man on a wagon & drag, The trailor brake on the passenger side was a Neate ratchet with a push down button to release it, The trailor only braked on the rear axle, White knuckles going over Shap Larry.

[robinswh]

My dad drove a maudesley 8 wheeler from the early 1950 s until 1964 (HAY 492) it was like the one in the pictures pulling a trailer really a maudesly badged AEC mammoth major one of a batch of 5. 9.6 litre aec engine flat out at 35 mph a royal pain after the M1 opened in 1959 as most of my dads deliveries were south. My dads Lorry owned by the whitwick granite company leicestershire.It had a shorter wheel base than the one in the picture.

[suedehead]

Adrian Cypher pic

[servo88]

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[bewick]

servo88:

Is Essex International operating again ? I am asking because in 1984 I bought 5 ex Essex units of which 3 of them were barely 6 months old on the A plate and one of the other two was reg no. XHK 600 X and when this particular unit ( R 305 4 x 2) was new it was one ,or the first, into the UK and had been supplied by Scantruck and was used in publicity shots at Dover IIRC . Just curious seeing the up to date shot of the Essex 770 Scania ! Interesting Cheers Bewick.

Two of the older ex Essex units I bought both R305’s the other three were newer R 330 intercoolers all five units gave excellent service on the BTS fleet.

[buzzer]

Buzzer

[essexpete]

Lawrence Dunbar:
0Well in the 50s I was second man on a wagon & drag, The trailor brake on the passenger side was a Neate ratchet with a push down button to release it, The trailor only braked on the rear axle, White knuckles going over Shap Larry.

Thanks for your reply and to all the others with replies. All needed some team work.

[oiltreader]

Thanks to Buzzer, Lawrence Dunbar, Suedehead, servo88 and Bewick for the photos also essexpete for the link
Oily

Credit to Richard Says for the photos, a bit crowded in the David Barker cab .

[acd1202]

Bewick:

servo88:
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Is Essex International operating again ? I am asking because in 1984 I bought 5 ex Essex units of which 3 of them were barely 6 months old on the A plate and one of the other two was reg no. XHK 600 X and when this particular unit ( R 305 4 x 2) was new it was one ,or the first, into the UK and had been supplied by Scantruck and was used in publicity shots at Dover IIRC . Just curious seeing the up to date shot of the Essex 770 Scania ! Interesting Cheers Bewick.
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Two of the older ex Essex units I bought both R305’s the other three were newer R 330 intercoolers all five units gave excellent service on the BTS fleet.

Here you go Bewick, same but different should we say. find-and-update.company-informa … y/SC525271
It was re-registered in Scotland, Aberdeen to be exact, in 2016 it has only one Director the same individual as Grampian Freight. If you look at their Facebook page you’ll see that they are doing very much the same sort of work as Grampian.

Seems an odd thing to do to me, but that’s just my opinion and certainly no reason why they shouldn’t; I have a feeling that another old company has been revitalised somewhere too?

One thing definitely different about the new Essex is they all seem to be V8s, and I’m pretty sure that the original Essex didn’t rate the V8 and would only run 6 cylinder Scanias.