Hi Gardner120, The white Bristol VR is bearing the number plate fitted to a Hants & Dorset Bristol RE new but for some reason have been swopped onto this bus. The RE was scrapped at Norths, Sherburn in Elmet. The other bus is another ex London Transport Daimler Fleetline DMS type.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
These old 'uns, thanks to trunker08, headlights on the traction engine a bit different to the lanterns that would once upon a time been the only lighting attached when overnight on workings.
Oily
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oiltreader:
A rare motor it would seem, well preserved from itâs original life see here commercialmotor.com/big-lorr ⌠-thats-a-n
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There was a cattle dealer came into the old Derby Cattle Market and they brought two in with drags.They were painted grey.I think the company was Demulder but I donât know if it was the same Demulder round the Nuneaton area as I think they had red motors.
But it was nearly 60yrs ago.Tony
Tony I am sure the DeMulders at Nuneaton were the firm who had a place at Doncaster ( animal by products ) and they were a maroon colour they sold the wagons to the drivers who then worked as O/D s for them as I knew one of the Doncaster lads quite well
cheers Johnnie
P S they ran a mix of British wagons then went onto Volvo,s mid 70s thats when they sold wagons mid to late 70s
Prosper de Mulder were at Bentley,Doncaster.You went over two level crossings to get to the place and could get trapped between the two very often. There was a notice asking tipper drivers not to stand too long as blood used to seep out of the loads. Where they were supposed to go when tâgates were shut I donât know
.Both gates were controlled by a woman,with a face that would have worried rats. We used to go in with SBP,6600 gallons a time and you got used to the smell. They ran those bonneted Mercs and trunked to Silvertown and Nuneaton every night.There was a waiting list to get on there,smell or no smell.
Wait a minute Chris, am I getting this right?..you âgot used to the smellââ â ? I havenât been in the place for more than 20 years and I can still smell it.
Youâre right about the tippers standing between the crossing gates though, the rail lines were up a slight incline so that basically the road vehicles were doing a hill start, parked on a hill, fluid shifted to the back. Just about every fluid you can imagine used to leak out of the tail door.
grumpy old man:
Wait a minute Chris, am I getting this right?..you âgot used to the smellââ â ?I havenât been in the place for more than 20 years and I can still smell it.
Youâre right about the tippers standing between the crossing gates though, the rail lines were up a slight incline so that basically the road vehicles were doing a hill start, parked on a hill, fluid shifted to the back. Just about every fluid you can imagine used to leak out of the tail door.
It was a regular drop for A E Evans out of the NCB refinery at Wath on Dearne,we did others as well,like FMC at Stoke Bardolph Notts and Waltham Kent,but the worst by far was Granox at Widnes,it really was bad there,the smell mingled with Albright and Wilsons output just down the road.
Now I can still smell GranoxâŚ
Chris Webb:
grumpy old man:
Wait a minute Chris, am I getting this right?..you âgot used to the smellââ â ?I havenât been in the place for more than 20 years and I can still smell it.
Youâre right about the tippers standing between the crossing gates though, the rail lines were up a slight incline so that basically the road vehicles were doing a hill start, parked on a hill, fluid shifted to the back. Just about every fluid you can imagine used to leak out of the tail door.
It was a regular drop for A E Evans out of the NCB refinery at Wath on Dearne,we did others as well,like FMC at Stoke Bardolph Notts and Waltham Kent,but the worst by far was Granox at Widnes,it really was bad there,the smell mingled with Albright and Wilsons output just down the road.Now I can still smell GranoxâŚ
Me, too, Chris. No matter what sort of sh*t you were lumbered with as a backload, the smell of the Granox plant always seemed worse than any other!
Odours, smells, stinks, well, first part of the M4, Maidenhead Thicket to Chiswick Flyover, early '60s which was a connecting of the Maidenhead and Slough By Passes took traffic alongside the Slough Sewage Treatment Works on the south side of the motorway, now with a SE,S,or SW breeze that was quite a pong for the suited users travelling to and from London, they created a stink with the powers that be and guess what the outcome was, the installation of perfume dispensing stalks along that part of the westbound carriageway, can anyone else remember them a perfume to mask a smell never really works. The other obnoxious stink I remember was from the British Cellophane works at Bridgewater when approaching on the A361, even on a still night you could smell that miles away.
Oily
Thanks to servo88 for the pics
One of Hunterâs of Lochinver who were set upon in Northern France back in July having their loads of shellfish trashed by angry farmers
.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ⌠in-france/
Oily
Hi Oily, Get away man, that British Cellophane smell at Bridgewater makes you thrive, I have been brought up with that almost identical smell here in
Wigton where we have the original British Rayophane cellophane factory Bewick will vouch for the smell but he lived up in the hills 8 miles to the south and would only smell it when the north wind was blowing. The local cricket club captain owner of the town timber yard lived opposite the factory and always had club trophies on display but the odour used to turn the silverware purple. We visited the Rotarua NZ geothermal parks in 2007 where there are very strong sulphurous smells but while everyone was complaining we felt quite at home. All the â â â packeta have been wrapped in cellophane from Wigton for the past 60 years and more.
Cheers, Leyland 600
oiltreader:
Thanks to servo88 for the pics![]()
One of Hunterâs of Lochinver who were set upon in Northern France back in July having their loads of shellfish trashed by angry farmers
.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ⌠in-france/
Oily
Well if they donât want our shellfish then we donât want their letters!!!
The old ones are the best
Ah!The legendary Sam Hunter met him many years ago when he drove for Mark Loane from Kesh in Co Fermanagh. We spent a weekend in Vigo, I had tipped skins in Padron and Sam had tipped prawns in Vigo and we were waiting to load fish scrap for Pedigree Petfoods .Having loaded on the Monday morning we were too late to do customs (1100 hours close) so another day on the San Miguel! Despite having my brother with me to âdouble manâ after clearing customs on Tuesday morning - we lit up the 340 Renault and Sammy lit up the 113 - 360 he was empty when we got to Salvesens at Easton. Good job he wasnât driving one of the ambushed trucks,might have been a different outcome!
How things have moved on in the way vehicles are presented today, when I first ran lorries the sign writing used to take best part of a day to complete, nowadays itâs mostly done in vinyl probably down to cost at the front end as well as the back end when a vehicle is sold on. Vanâs to day can be completely wrapped or partially as in my picture which at a glance makes you look again, Buzzer.
Thanks to Buzzer and servo88 for the pics
servo, this is your new machine for cross border raiding ok the rest of you itâs a motortrike*, so back to lorries with a couple.
Oily
- taken at Berwick earlier this year and putting 2&2 together would have a connection with the watch shop on the High St.
HaHa I like it Oily, i,m one of the Robson Reivers, i m having trouble getting over Hadrian,s Wall with this one. regards servo
Another bit of light relief and it hails from the past to the present and involves in our village a tractor and trailer, the pre- wedding âblackeningâ ritual, the groom to be , gets waylaid by his mates and stripped, used to be tarred, floured and feathered, but today anything that sticks, is messy and difficult to remove is par for the course, the bush telegraph puts the message round and umpteen ambushes are lying in wait along the way. The first pic was on the Fri evening, the second on the Sat which with the ratio of females on board would have been the bride to beâs turn, plenty cans and drams, you could say they got plastered
Oily
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Aye even better with the trailer
Oily
They use pick ups in Orkney and the occupants usually end up spashing about in the harbour.
Cheers Leyland 600