Leyland600:
Hi Pete. The Albion Chieftain with single pane windscreen is a Pilot cab built by Pilot Engineering and Tipping Gears from Bolton. The Albion HD57 has a Boalloy cab I think.
To Oily, The HD 57 Albion at Petercooter is that in Stuart Walker’s yard. ?
Cheers. Leyland 600.
Hi Leyland600, I’m getting really confused now (not difficult these days ) the Jonathan Billinger photo of the Albion HD57 was taken at Home Farm, Pymoor, Cambs.in 2006, tho’ it would appear to be the same wagon as VALKYRIE’S ebay link(Peterculter). I’ve also found this photo ccmv.aecsouthall.co.uk/p75629100 … 2#h9159512 again taken at Pymoor and more recent, looking at the overgrowth.
Oily
Thanks to kevmac47 and Buzzer for the pics another Mallinson wagon on the A9 at Ardullie, is it the same firm as kevmac47’s photo .
Oily
edit… checked the curtain signing and yes it is
This Berliet was run by Jim Squibb from Southampton who started on International transport in the early 60’s and I went to school with his son who was a little bit younger than me. Jim was a speedway rider in his day and a good one at that, Barry his son carried on with the company renamed Transport Services in the 80’s and on. In there time they did venture to the middle east, does any one remember them ? this would have been in the 70’s, Buzzer.
Quite a tidy job of stacking bags of sawdust on this A.E.C. on the sunny island of Malta.
No sheet , so the tarpaulin experts can admire the load , - and count the number of bags instead .
The Maltese parking brake is visible , and the front wheels are slightly turned towards the wall,…just in case…
Thanks to Buzzer and cattle wagon man for he pics
had a couple of pics lined up but there’s a wee hitch
sorted, one from your neck of the woods Buzzer, thanks to Andy Breeden
Oily
pete smith:
heres a couple of past and present,1st pic from mid 60’s and 2nd 2006,i think truck in front of threpenny bit cab bmc is the truck in present photo,but i will stand to be corrected
Evening Gentlemen, Oily, Pete, Dave, Gentlemen…thank you for making me realise that I am truly getting old!!
Those shots of Millers premises…remember what those cobbles were like climbing up from the Low Level Station end?? Wheelspin…no problem…and going down…with all your weight on…just hope that there was nothing coming up through the railway bridge!
Today, just a shell…proposed for apartments…planning “issues”…the obligatory fire…health and safety issues…re submission…a never ending circle…Yet more of Wolverhamptons history in ruins…
Wolverhampton…pretending to be in the Black Country…it is not…never was…now …well think of it as the fundamental A…e. hole… of this country…
J N Miller were an institution, what a loss, went past the other day, just a shame…civic pride…where is it??
Here,s one of mine from the 70,s … V8 Perkins 6 speed +2 spd loved it… but not when No 8 injector pipe kept braking hd to carry a jar of spare olives and a couple of spare pipes
Most of the North of England and the South of Scotland’s goods were carried on Albion Chieftain FT37s like this one. I had one running to Selby BOCM mills everyday and loading 10 tons cattle / poultry feed back 270 miles return 14 gallons = 19.28mpg. 5 speed box 38 mph flat out. Diesel was 4s 6d a gallon and haulage rate of 30 shillings (£1-50) per ton.Those were the days 1962. Those Chieftains were hard reliable little wagons.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Thanks to Stanfield and Buzzer for the pics also backsplice the Dodge K Series with a Perkins V8 in full song was IMHO something to behold, some will no doubt disagree, balancing down time with flying time (literally).
A beautiful example here, with Ford stamped rocker covers youtube.com/watch?v=sUAVP2ABp1E
also an advert of their time
Oily
oiltreader:
Thanks to Stanfield and Buzzer for the pics also backsplice the Dodge K Series with a Perkins V8 in full song was IMHO something to behold, some will no doubt disagree, balancing down time with flying time (literally).
A beautiful example here, with Ford stamped rocker covers youtube.com/watch?v=sUAVP2ABp1E
also an advert of their time
Oily
That was in the days when a man was not only allowed to wolf-whistle, but be photographed doing it to advertise a lorry. I remember a time when you could have described the young lady as having ■■■■■■■ like Scammell wheelnuts - now, you never hear the word ‘Scammell’ even mentioned. Not many heathen young drivers today would know what organ-stops were either! Robert
) the Jonathan Billinger photo of the Albion HD57 was taken at Home Farm, Pymoor, Cambs.in 2006, tho’ it would appear to be the same wagon as VALKYRIE’S ebay link(Peterculter). I’ve also found this photo ccmv.aecsouthall.co.uk/p75629100 … 2#h9159512 again taken at Pymoor and more recent, looking at the overgrowth.
, another one here taken at a Castlederg Vintage Rally, thanks to Kenneth Allen.
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