Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[stanfield]

I know what you mean CWM here’s another.

[kevmac47]

More from Shildon Oily, this little engine is a “fireless” steamer. Used in areas where there was a high fire risk from sparks and flames, paper mills etc. These places used a lot of steam and water in manufacturing so steam was readily available on “tap”, the engine was “plugged in” and the pressure vessel recharged. This engine worked at Imperial Paper Mill Dartford until the mid seventies. I regularly loaded from there for home so I will have seen without noticing this unique engine. Regards Kev.

[cattle_wagon_man]

Hi “Stanfield” ,
I had better luck taking the photograph of Myers & Bowmans Commer breakdown wagon. :slight_smile: So its not only me who cusses at the invaders spoiling a ( hopeful ) old-time photograph.

Cheers , cattle wagon man.

[buzzer]

Here is a nice little Dodge for you, cheers Buzzer.

[stanfield]

Hi CWM same here with these two.

[oiltreader]

Fine lot of photos again thanks to Buzzer, cattle wagon man, kevmac47 and Stanfield

a couple to brighten rigsby’s day, recent takes, thanks to Ronnie Cameron.
Oily

[retired_old_fart]

Buzzer:
Here is a nice little Dodge for you, cheers Buzzer.

I’d drive that tomorrow providing it had the AEC engine not a Perkins!
By the way, EDGMOND used to be on the B5062 between Newport & Crudgington in Staffordshire. The village has been by-passed for some time.

[oiltreader]

Buzzer:
Hi Robert as you say those bales on top of that load do look a bit rough and ready. When I was a young lad being brought up on a farm we used to cut the wheat with a binder then stack it in the corner of the field and await the arrival of a contractor with thrashing drum and also a stationary baler, all this was pulley driven buy the tractor. The baler was fed with the thrashed straw and a horse head motion pushed it into a chamber where the ram came up and compressed it, this was before knotters and there used to be two chaps one each side of the exit chamber. One would push through a horse shoe guide first closely followed buy two strands of wire which had loops on one end the same was repeated from the other side returning the wire which was then threaded and twisted and when exit from the machine sprung tight, and they were very heavy to. For a thrashing and baling team you would probably need about ten men, cheers buzzer.

A brill photo that is Buzzer I can so relate to that.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Four from Inverness.
Oily

[rigsby]

Out of interest , where did you take the photos of klb fishselling Volvo oily ? They must have had that new after August as they were running a pair of plain white 60 plate volvos last summer .

[oiltreader]

Other end of the country and Plymouth, with thanks to Graham Richardson.
Oily

[oiltreader]

rigsby:
Out of interest , where did you take the photos of klb fishselling Volvo oily ? They must have had that new after August as they were running a pair of plain white 60 plate volvos last summer .

Taken at Tore Services, I didn’t take them they are Ronnie Cameron snaps (we have an arrangement ).
Oily

[buzzer]

This is a picture of one of my own trucks taken on the A4 in a café near Marlborough, we used to run synthetic rubber out of ISR which was based near the ESSO refinery at Fawley, Southampton. Two loads a day and knew every bump in the road, had 2 motors on that run and diesel was 72p a gallon then. That was the first Volvo I bought 1974 model, it was second hand and five years old 240 and the only bug bear we had running them was the individual grooved cylinder heads which seemed a common fault, but other than that they were a good old truck. Another problem was the wheels would grow themselves onto the stub axle’s, but we applied liberal amounts of copper slip grease when once removed and that solved that, cheers Buzzer.

[bumper]

hi oilreader load if odd stuff on the back of the showman scania, plus a couple more, bumper

[buzzer]

Nice job done on this, looks tidy cheers Buzzer.

[oiltreader]

Thanks to Buzzer and bumper for the pics the showman’s Scania with CMS reg originally Stirlingshire then Edinburgh.

Another Commer this time from Australia.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Commers thanks to Sou’wester with the E&N Ritchie 1959 TS3 from a different angle and with a different “load”.
Oily

[buzzer]

Here are my todays pictures both 8 leggers a Foden and a Leyland, cheers Buzzer.

[leyland600]

Hi Buzzer, when I see photos like this Foden and Leyland Octopus it makes me feel old but privilaged to have worked with and alongside such quality motors, “The Good Old Days” Eh !
Cheers Leyland

[telekonsteve]

Here’s an old glyn John transport foden