I remember Corona delivering too our house but that was many years before KM’s appeared, usually a Karrier Bantam! 
Oh, and the milk came by hoss and cart… 
Pete.
windrush:
I remember Corona delivering too our house but that was many years before KM’s appeared, usually a Karrier Bantam!Pete.
Pete my mate had a contact to buy there old trucks, as you say Karrier bantams & TK’s before KM’s and he had a Bedford Joey with single wheels as well. Also a lot of the bodies were built with a slope to the middle and tailboards as they never seemed to secure the crates in any way only gravitation, we used them for straw cart and we put a hood over the cab for an extra 50 bales, Buzzer.
hello buzzer ,when i first left school in 1977 and passed my test i started working for a soft drinks door to door delivery company called alpine soft drinks whose head office was in birmingham ,we worked out of a depot based in durham driving bedford TKs with the same type of bodywork as you mentioned with loading bars and a huge tailboard to keep all the loose crates from coming of ,this must have reduced the fuel consumption dramatically when driving with wind drag but then nobody was really concerned as much as nowadays ,when i worked there taking photographs of wagons was not something i did as much as i do now so never had any photos to look back on ,it would be great if somebody on here has though ,
cheers ,paul
Buzzer:
windrush:
I remember Corona delivering too our house but that was many years before KM’s appeared, usually a Karrier Bantam!Pete.
Pete my mate had a contact to buy there old trucks, as you say Karrier bantams & TK’s before KM’s and he had a Bedford Joey with single wheels as well. Also a lot of the bodies were built with a slope to the middle and tailboards as they never seemed to secure the crates in any way only gravitation, we used them for straw cart and we put a hood over the cab for an extra 50 bales, Buzzer.
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paul ward:
hello buzzer ,when i first left school in 1977 and passed my test i started working for a soft drinks door to door delivery company called alpine soft drinks whose head office was in birmingham ,we worked out of a depot based in durham driving bedford TKs with the same type of bodywork as you mentioned with loading bars and a huge tailboard to keep all the loose crates from coming of ,this must have reduced the fuel consumption dramatically when driving with wind drag but then nobody was really concerned as much as nowadays ,when i worked there taking photographs of wagons was not something i did as much as i do now so never had any photos to look back on ,it would be great if somebody on here has though ,
cheers ,paul
Tk’s had the 4 pot diesel and I can remember the Scammell Routemans used for trunking to the depots,
Thanks to Buzzer and pete smith for the pics 
Buzzer’s mention of the money back took me back to my early days and an attempt to self generate some pocket money, that was to sneak into the backyard of the village pub undercover of dusk (plentiful supply of empties) and at a later date present them for reward to be told “yer father disna drink India Pale awa ye go”
Never mind the soft stuff, what about Davenport’s Beer at Home, some would probably say only marginally stronger
Had a photo on here but find a shadow of copyright across it so deleted, find them here midlandspubs.co.uk/breweries … rewery.htm.
Oily
It’s funny the things your brain picks out as you surf lorry stuff on the web. I spotted this picture of an unaccompanied Austrian tilt behind the Volvo, and I recognised it as a regular trailer through Dover in the '80s. I checked my photos and sure enough, I had picked up the same trailer ‘7G’ with a B-series ERF back in '86. Pics of both below. Robert
hi.pete,
thanks for that picture of the alpine pop wagon its one of the last judging by the sign writing on the cab door ,not sure which depot its from ,
our stock came from bradford on o six wheeler leyland mastiff every day and returned back to bradford with empties ,the driver of this would let me drive it round the yard just to get used to the big stuff,(he,he)
i did drive one of the bantams but only once or twice as these where more or less fazed out by the time i started driving ,the bedfords where the 4 potter and fi can still remember the reg LRF 110k …my first truck, and i have been hooked ever since ,.
thanks again for that and best wishes , ,paul
Dirty Dan:
Whent to Finland/Suomi for the first load of the year. Me and my friend were of to Tempere. We shipped from kapelskär to Nantali. Then about 160km to load a metso 130 cruiser. It comes in two part witch then they dock together. My part was the bottom part. 21.5 meters and 59000kg. And Roberts abit shorter but 73000kg.Danne
Nice start to begin the year with eh 
Cracking shots mate!
oiltreader:
Thanks to robert1952 for the picsFor the heavy men.
Oily
Cheers Oily
This might be a Super Hippo, but I notice that it appears to have a lift axle!
And a Spanish Volvo F89. Robert
oiltreader:
Thanks to robert1952 for the picsFor the heavy men.
Oily
Another one taken at the Bluebell railway c 2006
Tony
robert1952:
I wonder what the story behind this unlikely-looking Leyland is! Robert0
Heard mixed stories about LAD cabs, but that looks great.!
pv83:
Dirty Dan:
Whent to Finland/Suomi for the first load of the year. Me and my friend were of to Tempere. We shipped from kapelskär to Nantali. Then about 160km to load a metso 130 cruiser. It comes in two part witch then they dock together. My part was the bottom part. 21.5 meters and 59000kg. And Roberts abit shorter but 73000kg.Danne
Nice start to begin the year with eh
Cracking shots mate!
Hi! Yeah it was a great trip and it was a couple of years since ive been to Finland so it was really nice evan thou the weather was crap. Just when we left the metsofactory it started to snow and do to our hight we had a 50km detour but no really worries. The worst part was the pilotcar driver,he spoke no swedish or no english and our cb didnt work toghter. When we do Finland they had always talk english or swedish and had small cb witch we could use. But we made it to port. Then in Sweden we drove 6hour insted of maby 2h because of some bridges in Stockholm. Kapellskär to Nynäshamn is ca150 km but we had to go via Kallhäll-Västerås-Eskilstuna-Södertälje-Nynäshamn and thats 350km.And the last part is narrow and some bad hills but its al part of the game eh…
Danne
