truckfing:
Seeing the shiny steamers and reading recently about the good old days made me think that it would be a bit
hard at times. These are only playing at the Great Dorset but given some of the maintenance in olden
times it was probably not unknown.
Hi truckfing, cheers for the pics, I have some recall of working steam traction engines and road rollers. About age 5 or six I remember my elder brother being home on leave from the army (Scots Guards att. to No3 Commando) and taking me up close and too personal to a threshing outfit, at that age the traction engine was a bloody monster, it was a khaki drawers episode in my young life. The two men who manned the machine had a living van and their working day was as long as daylight permitted. The other steam machines were the county council road rollers and they were still about a while after the tractions engines, into the late '40s I would say.
A couple of pics with the type of living van they towed wherever they went.
Oily
Thanks to Buzzer, Stanfield, old67 and Lawrence Dunbar for the pics 
and for Buzzer a couple of Morris vans top one a Cowley.
Oily
Another tidy Morris.
Oily
Another fine example of a Sentinel steam wagon.
Oily
Will be up your neck of woods next week Oily,got me a week of peace and quiet at Dores,can’t wait!ta,Pete
London to Brighton run yesterday
Andrew Morrison:
this was parked in a service area in italy last year there was 2 the other was a plain scania.does anyone know what it is?has a touch of volvo about it maybe?i did try to talk to driver but his english & my iranian just didn’t work although he was happy for me to take pics so enjoy regards Andrew43210
Here is some more howo truck pics.
Thanks to TIDDERSON, viticle and coca cola kid for the pics, the stationary engine in coca cola kid’s photo I am guessing would be a Lister, I remember most farms would have a similar type, Petter and Wolseley were other makes, they were used for driving generators, this before mains electric and also for powering static in steading threshing mills. The ones I remember did not have a rad but an open top cast iron water tub that would bubble away on top with a gravity feed cooling system with I guess some sort of pump return, somebody can perhaps help me there.
Oily
viticle:
Andrew Morrison:
this was parked in a service area in italy last year there was 2 the other was a plain scania.does anyone know what it is?has a touch of volvo about it maybe?i did try to talk to driver but his english & my iranian just didn’t work although he was happy for me to take pics so enjoy regards Andrew
Here is some more howo truck pics.
Hi viticle, SinotrukHowo howoqg.com/?gclid=CJr09Nvtl74CFQIGwwodw2EAJw
and info here with MAN having a stake en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinotruk_(Hong_Kong.
Cheers
Oily
Just a few for CWM as I know he frequents this thread, who are they where are they from and what did they have for breakfast please, cheers Buzzer.
Hi Buzzer, the second photo of Jim Lawson’s cattle wagon from Cockermouth ■■■■■■■ who I started my transport career with back in 1962 driving a mouth organ fronted Leyland Comet graduating onto a brand new LAD cabbed Albion Clydesdale after about three weeks. Very long happy days. Still see Jim now and again.
Cheers Leyland 600
Saw this out yesterday taking the air. My lifelong interest in transport started when I was taken for
days out in the similar Dodge tipper that my uncle drove. 966HTF if I remember correctly.
I was only 6 or 7 at the time and motorways hadn’t quite been invented but I loved every minute of it.
truckfing:
Saw this out yesterday taking the air. My lifelong interest in transport started when I was taken for
days out in the similar Dodge tipper that my uncle drove. 966HTF if I remember correctly.
I was only 6 or 7 at the time and motorways hadn’t quite been invented but I loved every minute of it.
A Herefordshire number plate David. Be interesting to know who had that one new.
Cheers Dave.
Feel free to repost it on your thread Dave, I’m sure somebody will have the answer. Another one that
stirred the memory was this Albion. We moved to a village near Carnforth in 1964 and one similar to this
parked at the bottom of the village at weekends. The reason it was only there at weekends was because
the driver was away tramping. When HGV licences came in he gave up the wagon and drove a taxi.
truckfing:
Feel free to repost it on your thread Dave, I’m sure somebody will have the answer. Another one that
stirred the memory was this Albion. We moved to a village near Carnforth in 1964 and one similar to this
parked at the bottom of the village at weekends. The reason it was only there at weekends was because
the driver was away tramping. When HGV licences came in he gave up the wagon and drove a taxi.
That Albion and the two Barlows trucks are owned by an old workmate of mine, Maurice Fearn from Sheen, near Hartington. He worked for both Barlows (twice) as a fitter and driver, and Tilcon at Ballidon quarry in between.
Pete.
While I’m all teary eyed (and these are the last, I promise) and apologies for moving away from wagons
these two can evoke memories too. The Bedford OB is similar to one that used to come through our
village every night on a mystery tour from Morecambe. I was told the only mystery was how it got home
every night because it never varied it’s route but always sounded on it’s last legs. The second one is an
ex Crosville and if not the same one it is identical to one I photographed out of the back of a Crosville MW
when we were on holiday in Wales once and I grabbed my mother’s box brownie to take the picture.
truckfing:
While I’m all teary eyed (and these are the last, I promise) and apologies for moving away from wagons
these two can evoke memories too. The Bedford OB is similar to one that used to come through our
village every night on a mystery tour from Morecambe. I was told the only mystery was how it got home
every night because it never varied it’s route but always sounded on it’s last legs. The second one is an
ex Crosville and if not the same one it is identical to one I photographed out of the back of a Crosville MW
when we were on holiday in Wales once and I grabbed my mother’s box brownie to take the picture.
I travelled to school on a Bedford OB David, also a building firm I later worked for had a couple of them for transporting the blokes to some of the bigger building sites.
Cheers Dave.
Hi Truckfing, The Etruscan Bristol L 5G (Bristol Ltype, 5LW Gardner) would look much better painted in traditional Crosville livery and a genuine set of destination blinds fitted instead of Heartbeat ficticious ones. I recall regurlarly travelling from Carlisle to Newcastle and back on identical buses operated by United Automobile Services. Here are photos of a recent ride in a Bristol K6B (Bristol K type double decker,6 cylinder Bristol engine) of Western National at Kirkby Stephen rally this easter.
Cheers Leyland 600
Three more for CWM all Chris Waite’s this time, cheers Buzzer.
