One for Tony Rastone,
windrush:
Ah, INSTARMAC from just off of Tyburn Road are still in business then, I used to deliver tarmac to them from Ballidon for bagging. A nice early morning tip and be back at the quarry before 8.30am to get stuck into the days work proper.Pete.
Ballidon for you Pete.
Oily
pete smith:
One for Tony Rastone,
Got the negative for this.My dad took it and it belonged to my grandad.Ex Ansells I think.
Tony
5thwheel:
lurpak:
trams in Manchester
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AdeAt least these in Manchester are the right way up!!!
Sorry David but a bit of bad taste
Tony
David
oiltreader:
windrush:
Ah, INSTARMAC from just off of Tyburn Road are still in business then, I used to deliver tarmac to them from Ballidon for bagging. A nice early morning tip and be back at the quarry before 8.30am to get stuck into the days work proper.Pete.
Ballidon for you Pete.
Oily
Thank’s for those Oily, not the Ballidon I knew alas although the original weighbridge in the first pic hasn’t changed a deal. Spent some hours standing in there waiting for work!
Pete.
windrush:
oiltreader:
windrush:
Ah, INSTARMAC from just off of Tyburn Road are still in business then, I used to deliver tarmac to them from Ballidon for bagging. A nice early morning tip and be back at the quarry before 8.30am to get stuck into the days work proper.Pete.
Ballidon for you Pete.
OilyThank’s for those Oily, not the Ballidon I knew alas although the original weighbridge in the first pic hasn’t changed a deal. Spent some hours standing in there waiting for work!
Pete.
Oh yes pete , the infamous wailing wall , every quarry had one .
muckaway again .
oiltreader:
Thanks to rastone and Ray Smyth for the pics
This for rastone, the yellow one looks very much ex Post Office Telephones with the two hatches, now windows, that is where the ladders were poked through and the occasional telegraph pole, tho’ the ones I remember were Morris Commercials.
Oily
Yes Oily I don’t remember any Fords there and the windows don’t look wide enough.You’ld have a job with a telegraph pole through those holes.Beansticks would be o.k. though.Living quarters I reckon.
Remember the Morris Commercials and didn’t they run a few Albions.After the war they ran some ex W.D.motors
rastone:
oiltreader:
Thanks to rastone and Ray Smyth for the picsThis for rastone, the yellow one looks very much ex Post Office Telephones with the two hatches, now windows, that is where the ladders were poked through and the occasional telegraph pole, tho’ the ones I remember were Morris Commercials.
OilyYes Oily I don’t remember any Fords there and the windows don’t look wide enough.You’ld have a job with a telegraph pole through those holes.Beansticks would be o.k. though.Living quarters I reckon.
Remember the Morris Commercials and didn’t they run a few Albions.After the war they ran some ex W.D.motors
Having done a bit of Trader tracking I find the yellow 4D would be ex Civil Defence Corps
flickr.com/photos/soggy-sem … 319739724/
also GPO Telephone Engineers and BT vans with ladder and pole hatches
flickr.com/photos/kitmaster … 14601@N23/
flickr.com/photos/kitmaster … 14601@N23/
flickr.com/photos/28083135@ … 14601@N23/
Back to the early '40s and homeward bound from school in what then was guaranteed summertime, popping tar blisters on the road and pinging stones at the ceramic insulators on the crossbars of the telegraph poles 
Oily
oiltreader:
rastone:
oiltreader:
Thanks to rastone and Ray Smyth for the picsThis for rastone, the yellow one looks very much ex Post Office Telephones with the two hatches, now windows, that is where the ladders were poked through and the occasional telegraph pole, tho’ the ones I remember were Morris Commercials.
OilyYes Oily I don’t remember any Fords there and the windows don’t look wide enough.You’ld have a job with a telegraph pole through those holes.Beansticks would be o.k. though.Living quarters I reckon.
Remember the Morris Commercials and didn’t they run a few Albions.After the war they ran some ex W.D.motorsHaving done a bit of Trader tracking I find the yellow 4D would be ex Civil Defence Corps
flickr.com/photos/soggy-sem … 319739724/
also GPO Telephone Engineers and BT vans with ladder and pole hatches
flickr.com/photos/kitmaster … 14601@N23/
flickr.com/photos/kitmaster … 14601@N23/
flickr.com/photos/28083135@ … 14601@N23/
Back to the early '40s and homeward bound from school in what then was guaranteed summertime, popping tar blisters on the road and pinging stones at the ceramic insulators on the crossbars of the telegraph poles
Oily
Just about remember those.They had quite a few
Tony
oiltreader:
Thanks to pete smith and Buzzer for the picsLoud and clear.
Oily
What the hell is that on the front 
I know the lad that used to own that truck and am awaiting his view on it 
1 of jamie davis highway thru hell fame sitting on top of coquahala b.c. waiting for storm about to hit and get some punters
