After doing a bit of Googling, this is what I was searching for.
CARBOY.
STANDARD LAMP.
DODGE.
mushroomman:
After doing a bit of Googling, this is what I was searching for.CARBOY.
3STANDARD LAMP.
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DODGE.
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I remember the carboys, and the picture of the standard lamp reminds me of the old man bringing two bloody great brass shell casing home for ornaments in the fire place.
Amuses me that the word âcarboyâ sounds very much like the word âcowboyâ when spoken in a Nottingham accent. A term much used in the long ago years before tachographs. 
When I worked in Nigeria (about 20 years ago) there was, and still is difficulty in getting fuel for vehicles, despite the country having and exploiting vast oil reserves⌠However queues outside filling stations are normal. Consequently black marketeers could be seen at the roadside selling petrol and diesel from the the glass part of carboys. I used to think they were accidents waiting to happen.
Spardo:
Amuses me that the word âcarboyâ sounds very much like the word âcowboyâ when spoken in a Nottingham accent. A term much used in the long ago years before tachographs.
True story David although I might have mentioned this before.
I was week ending at The Prater Stadium in Vienna in April 1980, with a lad called Mick who drove for Thompson Jewitts from Nottingham. There were three of us sat in my mate Alanâs Foden Fleetmaster and Mick was sat in the driverâs seat, staring out of the windscreen, looking at the falling sleet, on a cold and drab Saturday afternoon.
Alan said âwhat would you be doing now Mick, if you back at homeâ.
Mick just kept staring out of the window looking lost in thought and then said, âIâd be up our kids aaarseâ. 
Alan and I stared at each other, not quite believing what we had just heard and then after a couple of seconds Mick continued.
Well, itâs not really an aaarse,⌠itâs more like a little cottage that he has been renovating for the last six months.
mushroomman:
Spardo:
Amuses me that the word âcarboyâ sounds very much like the word âcowboyâ when spoken in a Nottingham accent. A term much used in the long ago years before tachographs.True story David although I might have mentioned this before.
I was week ending at The Prater Stadium in Vienna in April 1980, with a lad called Mick who drove for Thompson Jewitts from Nottingham. There were three of us sat in my mate Alanâs Foden Fleetmaster and Mick was sat in the driverâs seat, staring out of the windscreen, looking at the falling sleet, on a cold and drab Saturday afternoon.
Alan said âwhat would you be doing now Mick, if you back at homeâ.
Mick just kept staring out of the window looking lost in thought and then said, âIâd be up our kids aaarseâ.Alan and I stared at each other, not quite believing what we had just heard and then after a couple of seconds Mick continued.
Well, itâs not really an aaarse,⌠itâs more like a little cottage that he has been renovating for the last six months.
mushroomman:
Spardo:
Amuses me that the word âcarboyâ sounds very much like the word âcowboyâ when spoken in a Nottingham accent. A term much used in the long ago years before tachographs.True story David although I might have mentioned this before.
I was week ending at The Prater Stadium in Vienna in April 1980, with a lad called Mick who drove for Thompson Jewitts from Nottingham. There were three of us sat in my mate Alanâs Foden Fleetmaster and Mick was sat in the driverâs seat, staring out of the windscreen, looking at the falling sleet, on a cold and drab Saturday afternoon.
Alan said âwhat would you be doing now Mick, if you back at homeâ.
Mick just kept staring out of the window looking lost in thought and then said, âIâd be up our kids aaarseâ.Alan and I stared at each other, not quite believing what we had just heard and then after a couple of seconds Mick continued.
Well, itâs not really an aaarse,⌠itâs more like a little cottage that he has been renovating for the last six months.
Classic, and just as I remember it. I was never quite that broad but a couple of weeks ago I had a trip back to an old boysâ school reunion and spent a couple of days visiting various family members. At our Grandsonâs house I made a 30 minute video of him, his wife and our 2 young Great Grandsons. Playing it back now and listening to myself talking to them, both are very Nottingham, I found my own accent slowly changing.
Before Franâs illness we would often just for fun resort to really broad speech between us, and, as we lived right on the border with Derbyshire you might imagine what it was like. 
Ha ha, just what weâve been talking about in a way, the Highwayman takes me right back to Ilkeston Haulage, just over the border in Derbyshire where the accents are incomprehensible to many. And the hours long enough to confuse anyone talking about carboys.
Also, the Humber, mine was a Super Snipe, not a Hawk, but exactly that colour.
I recognised the Allard, and named it before I saw your caption. Strange looking design and unlike little else.
Spardo:
Ha ha, just what weâve been talking about in a way, the Highwayman takes me right back to Ilkeston Haulage, just over the border in Derbyshire where the accents are incomprehensible to many. And the hours long enough to confuse anyone talking about carboys.Also, the Humber, mine was a Super Snipe, not a Hawk, but exactly that colour.
I recognised the Allard, and named it before I saw your caption. Strange looking design and unlike little else.
David,if you look closely at the side panel/wing near to the door hinge,you will see the Humber is actually a Super Snipe not a Hawk,not sure of the build differences.
Lovely old colourway too.
David
5thwheel:
Spardo:
Ha ha, just what weâve been talking about in a way, the Highwayman takes me right back to Ilkeston Haulage, just over the border in Derbyshire where the accents are incomprehensible to many. And the hours long enough to confuse anyone talking about carboys.Also, the Humber, mine was a Super Snipe, not a Hawk, but exactly that colour.
I recognised the Allard, and named it before I saw your caption. Strange looking design and unlike little else.
David,if you look closely at the side panel/wing near to the door hinge,you will see the Humber is actually a Super Snipe not a Hawk,not sure of the build differences.
Lovely old colourway too.
David
I think you are right, I owned a Hawk in Sydney and it wasnât quite like that, but my Snipe had twin heads and I thought they were all like that, apart from the much older ones of course. When I got my first driving job at the Co-op the day I passed my car test, an older mate there had a much older ex-WD Snipe and he was a driver for officers with one when doing his national service. He said that there was a simple test before he got the job. The officer (or more probably someone less valuable ) would stand at the side of a skid pan and he was to arrive at speed, throw it into a 360 skid and arrive at the halt with the rear passenger door adjacent to the officer. Hopefully without killing him. Not sure I totally believed him but it was a good laugh anyway.
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not sure of the build differences.
I think the Snipes were longer than the Hawks, and one reason I agree, apart from the fact that now I can see the badge. 
A pink anteater, whatever next.
Thanks to Buzzer, Lawrence Dunbar, Bewick, DIG, mushroomman, vwvanman0 and kevmac47 for the photos also cav551 for the link
Oily
Pretty sure thatâs a load of trawler or drifter nets, worth quite a bit.
Spardo:
A pink anteater, whatever next.
Complete with owner of the opposite gender David ,there is a lady in WA who has a unit decked out in similar fashion not sure if thatâs the truck though.
Dig
Spardo:
5thwheel:
Spardo:
Ha ha, just what weâve been talking about in a way, the Highwayman takes me right back to Ilkeston Haulage, just over the border in Derbyshire where the accents are incomprehensible to many. And the hours long enough to confuse anyone talking about carboys.Also, the Humber, mine was a Super Snipe, not a Hawk, but exactly that colour.
I recognised the Allard, and named it before I saw your caption. Strange looking design and unlike little else.
David,if you look closely at the side panel/wing near to the door hinge,you will see the Humber is actually a Super Snipe not a Hawk,not sure of the build differences.
Lovely old colourway too.
David
I think you are right, I owned a Hawk in Sydney and it wasnât quite like that, but my Snipe had twin heads and I thought they were all like that, apart from the much older ones of course. When I got my first driving job at the Co-op the day I passed my car test, an older mate there had a much older ex-WD Snipe and he was a driver for officers with one when doing his national service. He said that there was a simple test before he got the job. The officer (or more probably someone less valuable
Edit:
not sure of the build differences.
I think the Snipes were longer than the Hawks, and one reason I agree, apart from the fact that now I can see the badge.
The first Snipes with double headlights were introduced in 1960, on the Series lll.
Buzzer:
Buzzer
I had a snipe like that but in black. Ex BBC camera car. 4.1 litre engine thatâd pull 'ouse down. 9mpg.
