Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[retired_old_fart]

Oily and tractordriver,
Do you still have to swing the ■■■■ things by the handle for two hours or have you worked out how to start them properly?

[oiltreader]

erfguy:
Hell I can smell the paraffin from here. Eddie.

Paraffin nah, TVO it was sold as, same smell.
, okay then, it was paraffin
Oily

[retired_old_fart]

Tractor Vapourising Oil, if I remember correctly. Almost paraffin, but not so abrasive.

[oiltreader]

Retired Old ■■■■:
Oily and tractordriver,
Do you still have to swing the ■■■■ things by the handle for two hours or have you worked out how to start them properly?

Hi ROF, there’s no doubt that tractordriver knows a lot more about it than I do, two tanks, one petrol, main one paraffin, half turn the crank to get max compression with handle at 12 o’clock, petrol feed on with a wee bit o’ priming, run until hot enough for firing the paraffin, not that difficult with the right knack and a magneto free of damp. A German POW on the farm I frequented would if the weather was at all humid or in the wintertime take the mag off at end of day and set it by the stove until morning, half a crank would fire the machine up.
probably set myself up to get put in place by tractordriver
Oily

[oiltreader]

Retired Old ■■■■:
Tractor Vapourising Oil, if I remember correctly. Almost paraffin, but not so abrasive.

ROF you have a point there, I remember TVO would not burn clean in the paraffin lamps we had at that time, too smokey and sooted the mantle.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Back to lorries and the A9 north of Inverness, Thursday last.
Oily

[stanfield]

One for 3300John here from stilltimecollection.co.uk

[truckfing]

Your link isn’t quite right John. Try this:
stilltimecollection.co.uk/

[stanfield]

Cheers truckfing
A couple of present day motors

[oiltreader]

Thanks to Buzzer and Stanfield for the pictures

couple of Albions thanks to Carl Spencer and Les Chatfield.
Oily

[remy]

jeffrey ellener:

remy:

oiltreader:
From outer London area, thanks to kenjonbro.
Oily

I know they like to have the front of the trailer close to the back of the cab but on the Lockwood artic it looks REALLY close, about a 2 inch gap i think.

Charles

That Lockwood unit runs on supersingles air pressure electronically controlled,on the drive axle.

Thanks for the info jeffrey

Charles

[leyland600]

Hi Oily, The OXO van is in Tyson Burridge’s preserved fleet. Cheers Leyland 600

[oiltreader]

Leyland600:
Hi Oily, The OXO van is in Tyson Burridge’s preserved fleet. Cheers Leyland 600

Cheers for the info.

From the Imperial War Museum archive and wartime Britain. First pic, H&S wouldn’t allow that man up there without a parachute
Oily

[leyland600]

Hi Oily, The Shelvoke and Drury dust cart would be tiller steered, Carlisle council had some just the same. The photo showing a load of wool rag waste reminds me that many engineering companys used the rag waste for keeping their employees hands clean or for cleaning machinery down really versatile stuff, early recycling.
Cheers , Leyland 600

[lawrence_dunbar]

Longbenton Urban District Council had a few of these when I was a boy, If IRC They were part electric the engine drove a generator, The starting handle went in from the side I don’t think they had a starter motor ■■?, Regards Larry.

[3300john]

Hiya…thanks for the Adams photo John…secondly i love the sugar beet pulp photo i can smell it like
it was yesterday. hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…it would have to be Newark for me but this photo is
some where else.
John

[leyland600]

Who remembers John Nicholson, Milburn Motors salesman from Carlisle who sold most of the Albions and Leylands operated in ■■■■■■■■■■■ Westmorland and South West Scotland during the late 1950s and 60s.
Cheers Leyland 600.

[leej]

3300John:
Hiya…thanks for the Adams photo John…secondly i love the sugar beet pulp photo i can smell it like
it was yesterday. hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…it would have to be Newark for me but this photo is
some where else.
John

Selby used to have a sugar beet place, might be there?

[cattle_wagon_man]

Thanks to “Oiltreader” for finding a second photograph of the Ford Thames. Nostalgic .
Heres another (newer) oldie`, - from 1970 or 1971 .
Albion Super Clydesdale , belonging to Charles Johnston, contractor , Kingswells.

I was asked to scratchbuild build a 1/50 th. livestock body onto a Corgi model of the Albion
for a model collector . This was the only photograph available. Luckily , I was told the correct colours of the Albion.

Ill place a photo of the finished model on here in a couple of days, - once Ive found one.

Cheers , cattle wagon man.

[tractordriver]

oiltreader:

Retired Old ■■■■:
Oily and tractordriver,
Do you still have to swing the ■■■■ things by the handle for two hours or have you worked out how to start them properly?

Hi ROF, there’s no doubt that tractordriver knows a lot more about it than I do, two tanks, one petrol, main one paraffin, half turn the crank to get max compression with handle at 12 o’clock, petrol feed on with a wee bit o’ priming, run until hot enough for firing the paraffin, not that difficult with the right knack and a magneto free of damp. A German POW on the farm I frequented would if the weather was at all humid or in the wintertime take the mag off at end of day and set it by the stove until morning, half a crank would fire the machine up.
probably set myself up to get put in place by tractordriver
Oily

No mate bang on.
My old fordson starts usually on 4 or 5 quater swings,
Cant but TVO any more as the air lines buy it all- - yes some jets run on it
I now use central heating oil (28 sec) runs like a charm on it