Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[oiltreader]

Some more at Broxden Services last weekend.
Oily

[bma_finland]

thank,s you to ,you( and bubb,s) are the great inspiration for pictures ,follow you every day

here i,m sitting whit a lager figuring out the next,hmm give you the same as on my own tread today,only couse i like it

did some logging for years so even if it,s a mercy it bring back feelings ,cheers for now ,hollyday to morrow ,can take a lager and look at my wiew,many thank,s oily,benkku

[oiltreader]

From Switzerland, thanks to ponte1112, a Faun and a Henschel on parade.
Oily

[oiltreader]

CEMEX wagons thanks to Mostly Dans.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Thanks to Graham Richardson for sharing these Scania pics from the Plymouth area.
Oily

[daibootsy]

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[pete_359]

Hi oily,
Thanks for continuing to share your photos on both this and the South Wales thread.a few from me here.

[daibootsy]

Grants Whiskey,

[daibootsy]

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[oiltreader]

Brilliant pics Andrew and Dai thanks for that
Stand Fast (Craigellachie) motto goes back Into the warring clans era, or even local village differences, local dialect would have been hud yer grun… translated, “hold your ground”.
Cheers
Oily

[oiltreader]

Some more from the Highland capital and Dingwall.
Oily

[grumpy_old_man]

daibootsy:
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I remember those Commer rear view mirror arms, absolute pain in the a*se, forever flapping about loose.
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[trev_h]

grumpy old man:

daibootsy:
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I remember those Commer rear view mirror arms, absolute pain in the a*se, forever flapping about loose.
download/file.php?id=79655&t=1

Remember when on some motors it used to be common practice to run a piece of string from the mirror arm down to the bumper ?
I also recall seeing some joker with a broom handle with a nailed on rubber glove out of the passenger window as an indicator
Imagine what they would say about those practices today

[fredm]

Trev_H:

grumpy old man:

daibootsy:
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[/quotei seem to remember early tk bedfords always seemed tov have string on the mirror arm stopping it from blowing back, I drove a j type bedford when I was a butcher for a firm and did the same thing myself happy days, fredm]
I remember those Commer rear view mirror arms, absolute pain in the a*se, forever flapping about loose.
download/file.php?id=79655&t=1

Remember when on some motors it used to be common practice to run a piece of string from the mirror arm down to the bumper ?
I also recall seeing some joker with a broom handle with a nailed on rubber glove out of the passenger window as an indicator
Imagine what they would say about those practices today

[oiltreader]

Trev_H:

grumpy old man:

daibootsy:
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I remember those Commer rear view mirror arms, absolute pain in the a*se, forever flapping about loose.
download/file.php?id=79655&t=1

Remember when on some motors it used to be common practice to run a piece of string from the mirror arm down to the bumper ?
I also recall seeing some joker with a broom handle with a nailed on rubber glove out of the passenger window as an indicator
Imagine what they would say about those practices today

Semaphore “hand” indicators on Australian trucks, see here flickr.com/photos/secret_squ … 3372757481
I have pics somewhere but can’t find them, I am not sure but same type of indicator may have been used in NZ also.
Oily

Edit
This example with kind permission of Richard Mohr.
Oily

[900x20]

Greetings,All.
IIRC,the army Bedford QL had a white semaphore arm with a red pointer on the end,fitted to the nearside of the cab.Also,I think some American Army lorries over here during the war had them.
Regards,900x20.

[oiltreader]

A mix of mixers for a change, with thanks to Richard Mohr, Bristol Lad and Joost J Bakker.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Grateful to Ronnie Cameron for permission to share his photo collection, I meet with him most Fridays, his dedication to photo taking is something else, this despite not enjoying the best of health.
CWM enjoy.
Oily

[cattle_wagon_man]

Thanks to Oiltreader , Ronnie Cameron, and all others, for their contributions to this interesting thread.

Going back to 1960, Tommy Staveley bought this Leyland Comet ,with a Fox of Lancaster-made livestock body.
With an interior decks length of 22` , the Leyland 0.350 ( or 0.375 ? ) engine would be worked hard when the folding 3 rd. was used to increase carrying capacity for around 200 sheep.

Tommy`s son, Eric , has kindly allowed me to show this nostalgic photograph.

Cheers, cattle wagon man.

[jakdaw]

Blast from the past.