Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

haddy · 9 March 2013 18:21

I’m sure I’m not the only one to notice the mistake in the sheeting on the BRS Albion !!! Lovely pictures all the same.

lawrence_dunbar · 9 March 2013 18:39

haddy:
I’m sure I’m not the only one to notice the mistake in the sheeting on the BRS Albion !!! Lovely pictures all the same.

Aye they started at the front instead of the back, Very naughty, I know when I first started driving that sort of thing would have earned a bollicking plus a clip around the lug, Regards Larry.

leyland600 · 9 March 2013 18:43

The Caledonian Octopus has probably got a load of chipboard on from the Scottish Weyroc factory at Annan, now a coffin manufacturing business but its a dying trade !!! The BRS Albion HD needs close inspection from the sheeting police. Apart from being unable to see through the mirrors at speed the load would probably be wet through as the sheets appear have been put on the wrong way round, unless the journey was completed on a dry day.
Cheers, Leyland 600.

trev_h · 9 March 2013 21:14

Leyland600:
The Caledonian Octopus has probably got a load of chipboard on from the Scottish Weyroc factory at Annan, now a coffin manufacturing business but its a dying trade !!! The BRS Albion HD needs close inspection from the sheeting police. Apart from being unable to see through the mirrors at speed the load would probably be wet through as the sheets appear have been put on the wrong way round, unless the journey was completed on a dry day.
Cheers, Leyland 600.

It’s an Octopus with a Hippo badge

parkroyal2100 · 9 March 2013 22:11

Lawrence Dunbar:

haddy:
I’m sure I’m not the only one to notice the mistake in the sheeting on the BRS Albion !!! Lovely pictures all the same.

Aye they started at the front instead of the back, Very naughty, I know when I first started driving that sort of thing would have earned a bollicking plus a clip around the lug, Regards Larry.

And the poor [zb] who did it is still copping it 50 years later

bewick · 9 March 2013 22:22

robthedog:
Better ask Bewick hes your R&S critic.

kevmac47:
Here’s one of ours, any comments from the sheeting police ■■? Seriously, Nigel makes a cracking good job of sheeting up. Regards Kev. Ps I did give him a hand. 10

May-be,just maybe,that BRS Albion went faster in reverse than in forard’ gear ,give the Lad a chance wor Hinney he was only a BRS driver/shunter after all ,and he probably couldn’t get a start on a decent outfit until he got some experience eh! And by the looks of that effort,ten out of ten for visual at a quick glance but a big fat zero for sheeting the load “back to front” Doh!!! Cheers Bewick.

bewick · 9 March 2013 22:29

Leyland600:
The Caledonian Octopus has probably got a load of chipboard on from the Scottish Weyroc factory at Annan, now a coffin manufacturing business but its a dying trade !!! The BRS Albion HD needs close inspection from the sheeting police. Apart from being unable to see through the mirrors at speed the load would probably be wet through as the sheets appear have been put on the wrong way round, unless the journey was completed on a dry day.
Cheers, Leyland 600.

I reckon the Cally Octopus could have been loaded with 15ton of Carnation Milk as prior to the advent of pallets all the cases were handballed on and I recall that the loads always had a row of cases down the middle to run the rain off the load,there was an Inter City contract motor that was based at Milnthorpe and his loads,prior to full pallet loads, always had that ridge down the middle.Cheers Bewick.

kevmac47 · 9 March 2013 22:33

ParkRoyal2100:

Lawrence Dunbar:

haddy:
I’m sure I’m not the only one to notice the mistake in the sheeting on the BRS Albion !!! Lovely pictures all the same.

Aye they started at the front instead of the back, Very naughty, I know when I first started driving that sort of thing would have earned a bollicking plus a clip around the lug, Regards Larry.

And the poor [zb] who did it is still copping it 50 years later

Your correct there PR2100, a local lad made the same mistake in the 70’s and he is still known as ***** back to front. Regards Kev.

trev_h · 9 March 2013 22:43

Bewick:

robthedog:
Better ask Bewick hes your R&S critic.

kevmac47:
Here’s one of ours, any comments from the sheeting police ■■? Seriously, Nigel makes a cracking good job of sheeting up. Regards Kev. Ps I did give him a hand. 10

May-be,just maybe,that BRS Albion went faster in reverse than in forard’ gear ,give the Lad a chance wor Hinney he was only a BRS driver/shunter after all ,and he probably couldn’t get a start on a decent outfit until he got some experience eh! And by the looks of that effort,ten out of ten for visual at a quick glance but a big fat zero for sheeting the load “back to front” Doh!!! Cheers Bewick.

Hey Dennis, I started at BRS and learned roping and sheeting,some depots may have been shoddy at ours the foreman was ex. Coldstream guard and if I’d made that mistake of putting the front sheet on first I’d have got a real stinging lug from a length of rubber hose he carried. You also got this treatment if all the trailer headboards didn’t line up and the gaps between wasn’t even !

bewick · 9 March 2013 22:48

Trev_H:

Bewick:

robthedog:
Better ask Bewick hes your R&S critic.

kevmac47:
Here’s one of ours, any comments from the sheeting police ■■? Seriously, Nigel makes a cracking good job of sheeting up. Regards Kev. Ps I did give him a hand. 10

May-be,just maybe,that BRS Albion went faster in reverse than in forard’ gear ,give the Lad a chance wor Hinney he was only a BRS driver/shunter after all ,and he probably couldn’t get a start on a decent outfit until he got some experience eh! And by the looks of that effort,ten out of ten for visual at a quick glance but a big fat zero for sheeting the load “back to front” Doh!!! Cheers Bewick.

Hey Dennis, I started at BRS and learned roping and sheeting,some depots may have been shoddy at ours the foreman was ex. Coldstream guard and if I’d made that mistake of putting the front sheet on first I’d have got a real stinging lug from a length of rubber hose he carried. You also got this treatment if all the trailer headboards didn’t line up and the gaps between wasn’t even !

It would seem that your particular Foreman would have been the exception at BRS Trev rather than the norm (not our “Sandman” Norm though !! ) but he sounds like my kind of Foreman all the same ! Cheers Dennis.

v7victor · 10 March 2013 00:28

I watched all these BRS men in the 60s from were i worked next door they were good at there job but i was’nt that good and had to go round the corner to Tayforth never looked back after that

parkroyal2100 · 10 March 2013 09:11

Bewick:
May-be,just maybe,that BRS Albion went faster in reverse than in forard’ gear ,give the Lad a chance wor Hinney he was only a BRS driver/shunter after all ,and he probably couldn’t get a start on a decent outfit until he got some experience eh! And by the looks of that effort,ten out of ten for visual at a quick glance but a big fat zero for sheeting the load “back to front” Doh!!! Cheers Bewick.

To be fair to the poor [zb] who’s still taking flak decades later and all those who like me started off with dodgy outfits, mistakes were often the only way we learnt - the gaffer usually knew both halves of sfa and all the TM knew was how to bawl you out. If it wasn’t for seeing how others in “decent” outfits did it I’d have learned very little.

oiltreader · 10 March 2013 16:39

Having offered up the Albion as an example of the craft shows just how much I know about it never having had anything to do with general, but looking at it again I can’t for the life of me understand the reason for the front to back approach, the experience and status that goes with driving an 8 legger would rule the driver out, with the blame going elsewhere, anyway here’s another couple, one at Teignmouth Port and one in OZ.
Oily

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