First three pics are BMC wagons of Turkey and at work there. Wiki link here… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC_(Turkey
Desoto also made in Turkey
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askam_(trucks
Oily
Sat nav error, or just plain stupidity ?
I’d go for stupidity, Sure, sat navs can cause problems for big motors but whoever was driving shouldn’t have just kept going when it started getting a bit tight and it must have started long before he got the thing into that situation. Hell, he should have looked and said “no chance”
Did he honestly think the trailer was going to follow round that corner?
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daibootsy:
one from the norht.
Cheers Dai, yes Scotstoun, Glasgow.
Oily
Not a great photo, But never the less an Albion 723 BBB, Baxters Road Services based on the Quayside Newcastle upon Tyne with one of Cawthorns coach built cabs, Regards Larry.
Which one is you Larry. Eddie.
erfguy:
Which one is you Larry. Eddie.
The one with the Brownie camera, Ha Ha. Regards Larry.
another albion
Lawrence Dunbar:
Not a great photo, But never the less an Albion 723 BBB, Baxters Road Services based on the Quayside Newcastle upon Tyne with one of Cawthorns coach built cabs, Regards Larry.
That’s a brilliant photo of the period, it says a lot about then and now. The freedom of bairns playing safely outside unlike today when most likely their equivalent will be planted in front of a telly at that age.
…anyway the topic is Albion and thanks to Ronnie Cameron here’s another two.
Oily
Hi Oily, The Albion milk wagon of The North of Scotland Milk Marketing Board would later become The Claymore Dairy I think. I have seen a photo of a couple of Commers at this location. They had a dairy in Kirkwall untill about 1998 or thereabouts, changed its name to The Orkney Cheese Company.
Cheers Leyland 600
Dave the Renegade:
Hi bumper,I drove one of these Morris Commercials when I was 17.A builder I worked for in Kington,Herefordshire had two of them from new.The same colour as the one in the pic.Get three blokes sat in one,it was tight.
Cheers Dave.
Hi, I’ve got one of the Austin badged versions (Austin 301) of this Morris except it the double rear wheel version, very rare only badged as an Austin for several months during the BMC merger, seen a three single wheel Austins but no other twins, my dad bought it to restore been sat in one of my workshops for nearly 40 years looks like it will end up down to me to get it back on the road.
Leyland600:
Hi Oily, The Albion milk wagon of The North of Scotland Milk Marketing Board would later become The Claymore Dairy I think. I have seen a photo of a couple of Commers at this location. They had a dairy in Kirkwall untill about 1998 or thereabouts, changed its name to The Orkney Cheese Company.
Cheers Leyland 600
Hi Leyland600, Claymore were the main milk processors in the Highland area when I arrived here in '96, the Co-op, I think were also involved in distribution. Claymore headquarters were in Nairn and still there but bought out or taken over by Grahams. There is also involvement of Arla (Milk and or dairy products) in this area but I have no idea who really owns what. Orkney Cheese Company was featured on local telly a wee while ago and I think started as and still is a Orkney Dairy Farmer’s Co-operative venture.
A Graham’s Merc pic.
Oily
Edit…another milk distributor in the Highlands are, freshnlo (Wisemans) supplier to Tesco
