Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

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gingerfold:
Thank you for the photo and info “600”. I remember the (in)famous Stanley Smith who ran Bolton Transport and Trading, he had several Albions with Pilot Works / B & E cabs. I use the term Albions loosely, he cobbled together his own lorries pre- Testing and Plating and what the driveline consisted of was anyone’s guess. It usually featured a Gardner engine either a 4LW or a 5LW, or very rarely for an artic a 6LW. The entire fleet seemed to carry the same registration number! Incidentally Bromilow and Edwards also built bus bodies for Bolton Corporation Transport (a very loyal Leyland customer, with a few Crossleys and AECs down the years), and also one or two other Lancashire municipal bus fleets.

Gingerfold.
Brings back memorys this post.Didnt BTT have a couple of old black atkis parked at tonge moor rd/moss bank way jnc.were the cricket club was?Used to carry containerway flats.
regards dave.

[gingerfold]

Hello Dave, yes, when the home made Albions were consigned to history courtesy of Testing & Plating, BTT did acquire some Atkinsons. I may be mistaken but I seem to remember that some were 6x2 tractive units, maybe Gardner 240 can provide more details.

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Ray Smyth:
Hi Ed, The SNCF lorry is an amazing machine. .It looks like an electric traction motor
between the steel rail wheels below the front bumper,which will feed off the
pantograph on the roof. Nice Mercedes Benz, I am surprised that SNCF didn’t have
it built on a Renault chassis. Ray Smyth.

Yes Ray the French, Italians and Germans were and are extremely patriotic towards home grown stuff, in particular with regard to police vehicles also local and national authorities. UK’s favourite police patrol cars seems to be BMW and and Volvo. EU directive telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ … icles.html accounts for a lot of what really sticks in the craw There is no question that German companies have an edge, VW Group of Audi,Volkswagen, Skoda, Seat, Porsche, Bugatti, Bentley and Ducati motor bikes, also MAN, Scania and Neoplan coach building. BMW have Rolls Royce and the Mini. An undervalued euro also gives them a trading advantage.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Very British .
Oily

[pv83]

That Atki in the first pic is a stunner Oily

[pv83]

oiltreader:
Thanks to lespullan, Leyland600 and pv83 for the pics

SNCF maintenance unit, road, rail, diesel and electric pantograph, and sideways movement tracks.
Oily

Now that’s some proper piece of kit eh…Looks like they’ve attached a roof from a little Renault…Premium is it…?

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pv83:
That Atki in the first pic is a stunner Oily

Yes Patrick, Leyland600 will hopefully gen us up on that one.
Oily

[oiltreader]

You’re on the ball Patrick, nice one
Oily

[dirty_dan]

Hi al! Dont know if i posted this ones here. Iv done it on my own thread in the photo forum.
But this are some great thinks and i cant think to be with out them

Danne

[lespullan]

[leyland600]

Hi The Atki belongs to Joe Thirwell from Croglin up on the East Fellside of the Pennines between Brampton and Langwathby . Thirwells were well known long established livestock hauliers. Attached is a photograph I took at the Carlisle Vintage Club Rally at the Borderway Mart in Carlisle this last summer. Two Atkis in a line , two former ■■■■■■■■ livestock hauliers. The Atki in the background belongs to friend Colin Bateman from Scales , Aspatria and is an exact replica of the lorry his father Johnny Bateman bought new in 1953.
Cheers, Leyland 600

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[pv83]

lespullan:
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Cracking stuff mate, cheers!

[pv83]

This was just send to me, looks like it’s stil keeping it’s earn…

[lespullan]

pv83:
This was just send to me, looks like it’s stil keeping it’s earn…

Looks like a good project, seems a long time since I saw that up and down the road. Les.

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Dirty Dan:
Hi al! Dont know if i posted this ones here. Iv done it on my own thread in the photo forum.
But this are some great thinks and i cant think to be with out them

Danne

Thanks for the pics Danne good idea and essential for your part of the world.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Thanks to lespullan, Leyland600 and pv83 for the pics

The MacKay Actros is a Ronnie Cameron snap, here’s one from the same spot on the Dingwall lorry park taken yesterday.
Oily

[punchy_dan]

[robinswh]

The old Foden has clearly been reregistered it shows a 1955 registration when its definitely a pre war model (SPT)

[ray_smyth]

Hi Oily, Nice picture of the Iveco and fridge fish trailer at Dingwall.
( Camion de Frigo de Mariscos y Pescados). It reminded me of my first
ever trip to France on “Tregastel” of Brittany Ferries in 1985.
I had arrived at Plymouth about 4 a.m., in order to go on the lunchtime
ferry to Roscoff, so I got into my sleeping bag for a few hours sleep.
About an hour later,I was woken up by a very loud “Thump,Thump,Thump”.
Parked beside me was an unusual looking lorry,it was a Spanish Dodge,
“Chinese Six Wheeler” fridge van,with a Bilbao number plate. The fridge
motor on the front of the bodywork was purring away, but the “Thump”
noise was coming from an oxygen pump on the side of the chassis.
Apparently, the langoustines and lobsters were “Live”,and the pump was
to aerate the tanks of water they were in. In my limited Spanish, and
the Spanish drivers equally limited English,he showed me an identical
oxygen pump on the other side of the chassis,and it was wired up so
that if a pump failed,the other one would fire up straight away, and so
keep the fish alive and fresh. He seemed to indicate that he had driven
from somewhere near Mallaig,and down to Plymouth in one hit.
He then showed me a speeding ticket,issued by Greater Manchester
Police about 10p.m. the night before. It was for doing 75 MPH,between
Junction 26 (Orrell), and Junction 23 (Haydock) on the M6 Southbound.
This picture is me having a break near Carnac in Brittany, on my way
back to Roscoff on the same trip. Happy Days, Ray Smyth.