Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[buzzer]

Heavy haul truck with Cornish reg number, never knew they had anything that big down there, Buzzer.

[oiltreader]

Thanks to adr and Buzzer for the pics

Max loading in Morocco, a bit odd but a lot of skill applied.
Oily

[oiltreader]

MOVERIGHT video here with skill and coordination between driver and steersman youtube.com/watch?v=t7y83U0C4Pw .
Oily

[servo88]

oiltreader:

rastone:

oiltreader:
A vacuum tanker on Isle of North Uist, apt for the topic.
Oily

Not a tree in sight.Some folk will know of Angus Mackinon in Utoxeter and he comes from Benbecula but he has a cousin who is in South Uist and is the owner of Howmore Coaches ( spelling ?) Donnie Macdonald and he told me how upset he was when he saw one of his coaches with a full load and he hadn’t got a camera.They did buy a couple of coaches from Bassets of Tittensor.A bit interesting you bus lads to look at their Website
Tony

Hebridean Coaches at Howmore, South Usit, called in by two years ago, asked if I could take photos and was made very welcome.
Oily

That bull nose Bedford brings back memories Oily, my dad used to drive one of them. regards servo

[servo88]

[rastone]

oiltreader:

rastone:

oiltreader:
A vacuum tanker on Isle of North Uist, apt for the topic.
Oily

Not a tree in sight.Some folk will know of Angus Mackinon in Utoxeter and he comes from Benbecula but he has a cousin who is in South Uist and is the owner of Howmore Coaches ( spelling ?) Donnie Macdonald and he told me how upset he was when he saw one of his coaches with a full load and he hadn’t got a camera.They did buy a couple of coaches from Bassets of Tittensor.A bit interesting you bus lads to look at their Website
Tony

Hebridean Coaches at Howmore, South Usit, called in by two years ago, asked if I could take photos and was made very welcome.
Oily

I don’t know why I called it Howmore Coaches,as you say nice people.The Trader was bought from David Tilke from Burton.I went with Angus to pick it up from there and I could drive that as it was a motor before 1960.It didn’t seem quite right to me and I found out later that it had a 4D in it and had the 6D fitted so that was why it was very slow as the axle ratio would be lower.The brakes weren’t very good but nothing to do with the truck as it should have been.The upholstery was wrong so I think this was done as a cheap restoration

Tony

[grumpy_old_man]

oiltreader:
Thanks to adr and Buzzer for the pics

Max loading in Morocco, a bit odd but a lot of skill applied.
Oily

That’s got to end in tears, it’s just not going to work.

[retired_old_fart]

oiltreader:

Retired Old ■■■■:
Is it a silly question, but what was the purpose of the cab built on the front of the trailer? First thoughts were that it’s provided for the bloke riding shotgun.

Dear oh dear ROF…it’s a leprechaun cabin, you don’t see him, but rest assured he’s there
Oily

Ah now, wouldn’t ye know it!

[oiltreader]

grumpy old man:

oiltreader:
Thanks to adr and Buzzer for the pics

Max loading in Morocco, a bit odd but a lot of skill applied.
Oily

That’s got to end in tears, it’s just not going to work.

You’re sounding just a wee bit too baleful GOM, or was it the last straw that… oh dear
Oily

[oiltreader]

Thanks to servo88 and rastone for the pics
A few with a bit of scenery, A82.
Oily

[oiltreader]

rastone:

oiltreader:

rastone:

oiltreader:
A vacuum tanker on Isle of North Uist, apt for the topic.
Oily

Not a tree in sight.Some folk will know of Angus Mackinon in Utoxeter and he comes from Benbecula but he has a cousin who is in South Uist and is the owner of Howmore Coaches ( spelling ?) Donnie Macdonald and he told me how upset he was when he saw one of his coaches with a full load and he hadn’t got a camera.They did buy a couple of coaches from Bassets of Tittensor.A bit interesting you bus lads to look at their Website
Tony

Hebridean Coaches at Howmore, South Usit, called in by two years ago, asked if I could take photos and was made very welcome.
Oily

I don’t know why I called it Howmore Coaches,as you say nice people.The Trader was bought from David Tilke from Burton.I went with Angus to pick it up from there and I could drive that as it was a motor before 1960.It didn’t seem quite right to me and I found out later that it had a 4D in it and had the 6D fitted so that was why it was very slow as the axle ratio would be lower.The brakes weren’t very good but nothing to do with the truck as it should have been.The upholstery was wrong so I think this was done as a cheap restoration

Tony

Great connection there with the Trader, a good reason for calling by for a chinwag next time I’m on South Uist .
Oily

[rastone]

Oily would you give Donnie my regards

Tony

[adr]

V.C. Turner od Ringmer, Sussex. Traditional Haulage firm, you can see the start of the European invasion into this fleet with the DAF! Chris

[bassman]

Rastone

Lovely pics. of that Trader, The cab has everything a driver could want -----except comfort!!

However did we manage without all of today’s bits and pieces , and a lot of our predecessors went out all week in one of those, they wasn’t all on local work. There are some of today’s drivers that wouldn’t do a local if the radio didn’t work.

Bassman

[rastone]

Bassman:
Rastone

Lovely pics. of that Trader, The cab has everything a driver could want -----except comfort!!

However did we manage without all of today’s bits and pieces , and a lot of our predecessors went out all week in one of those, they wasn’t all on local work. There are some of today’s drivers that wouldn’t do a local if the radio didn’t work.

Bassman

Yes a lot of folk said what a load of rubbish but a lot of folk used them like the big construction firms, i.e. Wimpy,Taylor Woodrow.Although a lot of them used the old ET6 as they were cheap to run and repair and we sorted diffs and halfshafts out as if they were going out of fashion.Elliots of York used a lot of Traders and I wouldn’t have thought they were too gentle with them.It’s too long a story to go into now about the Trader but I don’t know if you are old enough to remember ( please forgive me if I’m being rude) but when the Trader came out it had the chassis painted silver.I heard the a lot of cheap tippers are ■■■■■■■■ under the Motorways

Tony

[bassman]

Rastone

I wasn’t aware of the silver painted chassis, my first experience of the Traders was on plant hire, not driving them ( officially)
although I did on site work, but at the time I was a plant operator so I loaded , pulled out shoved out many a Trader. I saw more Traders being abused than treated with care.I think ,from memory, that the chassis were mostly two coats of mud!!
I worked for a few of the big companies ( McAlpines , Wimpey etc.)who ran Traders in various forms, well worked them to death, and they generally gave good service.
When I joined the Honorable Profession of Lorry Driving I counted myself lucky that I was never given a Trader to drive , but by that time the D" series was entering service, a truck a lot of people thought was a massive step forward. Nevertheless the Trader was an icon of it’s time

Bassman

[leyland600]

Much has been written here on TNUK about the mythical Guy Big J fitted with 8 cylinder Gardner, today I managed to track it down and dispel any further speculation. Seen here todays rally at BCVM, Leyland.
Cheers Leyland 600

[sugar_ray]

RC Halliday Worked for them 75/78. Good bunch of lads.
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[ste46]

Bassman:
Rastone

Lovely pics. of that Trader, The cab has everything a driver could want -----except comfort!!

However did we manage without all of today’s bits and pieces , and a lot of our predecessors went out all week in one of those, they wasn’t all on local work. There are some of today’s drivers that wouldn’t do a local if the radio didn’t work.

Bassman

Yeah - did a few years on various Traders (supplied new by Tony/Rastone) - sand and gravel all over the midlands and finished up doing two a day from Cheadle (Croxden Gravel) to Liverpool area.
No radios and not much in the way of heaters, either!
Sat in one at a show a short while ago and I couldn’t believe how we just sat on the floor with our legs out front!

Steve

[ste46]

rastone:

Bassman:
Rastone

Lovely pics. of that Trader, The cab has everything a driver could want -----except comfort!!

However did we manage without all of today’s bits and pieces , and a lot of our predecessors went out all week in one of those, they wasn’t all on local work. There are some of today’s drivers that wouldn’t do a local if the radio didn’t work.

Bassman

Yes a lot of folk said what a load of rubbish but a lot of folk used them like the big construction firms, i.e. Wimpy,Taylor Woodrow.Although a lot of them used the old ET6 as they were cheap to run and repair and we sorted diffs and halfshafts out as if they were going out of fashion.Elliots of York used a lot of Traders and I wouldn’t have thought they were too gentle with them.It’s too long a story to go into now about the Trader but I don’t know if you are old enough to remember ( please forgive me if I’m being rude) but when the Trader came out it had the chassis painted silver.I heard the a lot of cheap tippers are ■■■■■■■■ under the Motorways

Tony

I reckon they would have dug out one or two when they built those new houses on Allen’s old yard at Hilton, too!

Steve