Stanfield:
A couple of Fodens
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Guy Invincible
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Scammell
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Thornycroft Sturdy
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Were they really periscopes on the roofs of Dennif’s Fodens or was someone “having me on” many years ago when I first saw them up and down the A1? Cheers Haddy.
oiltreader:
These were kindly sent to me thanks to lurpak.
Oily
I may be wrong but I believe that old engine was the origional No1 at Furness Railway Co. nicknamed “Copper Knob”,well it looks it 
Hi Bewick, Yes I think you are right about Copper Knob and the Furness Railway.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Hi Lawrence, With regard to the load of sisal mooring ropes on a Wallsend motor, I dont think there is any doubt where he loaded. Hood Haggies known throughout the world for ships mooring ropes, I recall visiting there as a lad riding shotgun in a Morris Commercial collecting ropes for colliers lying in Blyth river.
Cheers Leyland 600
Leyland600:
Hi Bewick, Yes I think you are right about Copper Knob and the Furness Railway.
Cheers, Leyland 600
I believe this old engine now resides in the National Rail museum in York,during WW2 it got bombed out of the glass case it had been kept in at Barrow station.Cheers Bewick.
Interesting piece of information Bewick, I think I have seen pictures of the engine in a glass case.
Leyland 600
Gardner 120:
oiltreader:
Gardner 120:
A potted history of ERF 4 wheeler SMA 13H first registered in July 1970 and new to Woodwards of Macclesfield - Gardner 120 (engine no 173434) and chassis 19649 - bought by J Haydon 1973/74 and fitted with a silver cattle box - in service until the late 1980s - one of its finest jobs was when we used it to move house in April 1974 but it had been washed out well!Growing up in rural Aberdeenshire 30s/40s/50s, farming folks flittings were mostly by cattle float, but sometimes by horse and cart or tractor and trailer.
OilyWell aye and SMA 13H was the perfect removal wagon - I think my mum gave her cousin (driver) a fiver! A good wash out, a few blankets and we were well away although a 16 ton cattle wagon, in the middle of Coventry caused one or two curtains to flutter in the new road as I recall
When my mum was a girl (mid 1950s) she recalls many a lift from Coventry to Biddulph (pre M6 of course) with her and my nan in the cab and my grandad and my uncle sat in the back of a flat bed - happy days!
Ah–the old snobbery at work! More years ago than I dare think about, I arranged for my mate’s dad, who was a coalman and also owned a junk shop to move my old gran from her house into sheltered housing on his Bedford KZ type ex-Corona drinks coal lorry for nothing, in exchange for him keeping her furniture and stuff that wouldn’t fit in her new flat. I got a load of stick from her daughters (dad’s sisters). Oh, the shame of it, our mother being moved on a coal cart! Well, I was happy, dad was happy, most of all the old girl was happy, bugger the aunties!
Bernard
Last ones for tonight.All from Sheffield.Found on the net.
Leyland
Leyland Freighter
Atkinson
Foden
Hi Stanfield, Was there only one signwriter in Sheffield in the 1960s or was he that good he did most of the city’s haulage fleets his distinctive style certainly always looked good ? Blue was also a favourite colour with Sheffield hauliers as I remember.
Cheers, Leyland 600
When I first started driving there were very few Irish wagons around but
I always thought that there was only one signwriter over there because
they all looked to have been done by the same person.
Hiya …when i worked at Jennings in Sandbach there was at least 6 signwriters under one roof,
two who also did the woodgrain on the cabs.
John
Thanks to benkku, Stanfield and neversweat1 for fine lot of photos
here are some from the north, starting with MacPherson of Aberlour, spirit movers 
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Oily
A couple of heavyweight AECs.
Oily
Saw this one on the A1M at Washington today. Not sure what was going with the rear ramp.
Few more may be of interest
tyneside:
Few more may be of interest
Guinan girls is a haulage company from Bilston West Midlands, as well as containers they also pull trailers for TNT. I think they operate from the old Cannon gas fire works in Deepfields.
Classic Foden 8-Wheeler
