Thanks to gazsa401, Boatchaser and Lawrence Dunbar for the pics 
the Renault a rare one in the Macleod fleet.
Ruane of Chesterfield on the Isle of Skye and the A1(M), same unit.
Oily
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when in Rome 
Oily
grumpy old man:
Lawrence Dunbar:
And here it is a Jaguar refitted with the Gardner 4 LK, Regards Larry.0We once had a fitter who put a 4LK into an old Daimler car. It was a big car, it had once been part of the Royal fleet of vehicles.
I remember MANY years ago, Mick Carlier - one of the sons of A J Carlier and Sons, Derby (who remembers them?) fitted a Perkins P3 into a MK IV Jag.
Steve
oiltreader:
Thanks to pete smith for the pic, nice one
Oily
Hi Oily,
Nice to see they are still trading, Cheer’s Pete
Here is a shot of a GUY big J should think when it was new belonging to ACH before the glory days of Volvo Globetrotter’s, Buzzer.
Went to a small truckmeet this weekend. And an old FB88 was there liked alot. Two old guy drivning it. Real nice day out!
Danne
Thanks to Buzzer and Dirty Dan for the pics
Today going back through the list of people I wrote to when I started this thread, among them Andy Breeden, so thanks to him, one or two from UAE.
Oily
hi
these 3 photos are the same boat but about13 years apart , coming out of the same warehouse, and if I remember they went to the same place on the thames.
bit of a difference in vehicles , 1969 - Bedford/Leyland 5 speed 2 speed axle , with a ballast box, 1982 - Fiat 170/26 13 speed eaton and on a 45’ trailer
I don’t know what became of the boat , it must still exist, was built in 1899 and was a steamer, originally used for training the racing boats on the thames I think.
pete smith:
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Cheers for the pics Pete, A Ross and Sons now part of the Leiths Quarry Group, tho’ still retaining their livery.
Oily
Thanks to servo88 and tony105 for the pics
Now then this takes my personal experience back at least 75 years or more when Sandy Thompson was our visiting grocer and doing the rounds in the '30s and '40s, check out the Carrs Biscuit tin on the front shelf, he worked I would say a 3 or 4 mile radius of home base, the village of Rhynie in all weathers calling fortnightly. In winter the cart wheels were removed and replaced with a sledge frame.
Oily
Hi Oily, Great picture of the Rhynie Supermarket and as you say a Carr’s Biscuit tin on to the fore. Ye canna beat a good Carr’s Water biscuit or many of their other lines still produced today at the biscuit works in Carlisle despite being flooded out to a very considerable depth last December and also back in 2009. The special brick ovens that bake water biscuits have just come back into production two or three weeks ago. Many of the local girls from my locality worked there some all their lives commonly known as a “Cracker Packer at Carr’s Eh”. Personally as a teenager a friend where I worked had a daughter who worked at Carr’s and could supply tins of broken chocolate biscuits at 7/6d per tin containing chocolate sports and chocolate digestives absolutley fantastic never mind some bald bits and other parts with too much chocolate coating on them or broken in half. Then during most of my haulage career Carr’s Flour Mill at Silloth was a very regular and important customer occasionally delivering flour to the biscuit works. As a coach operator I had a job collecting a party of Americans from the Carlisle railway station and taking them to the biscuit works where they toured the site then I had to take them up to Glasgow Airport where they flew on to Ireland, these people were from the American Keebler Biscuit company, in conversation with one of them he told me that they would buy every water biscuit Carr’s could produce and sure enough ever since that visit a shipping container has been loaded almost every day by shunters Haulage Express from Carlisle and then the loaded trailer picked up in their yard at Harker by John Mitchell of Grangemouth forshipment to the USA. Carr’s of course is part of the McVittie company but now the whole group is owned by a Turkish guy I believe.
