Great Testimonial there by Heanor Haulage for Detroit Engines…Wonder if Carryfast wrote that MATERIAL… 
E.W.
oiltreader:
Back to lorries and HHT, 4 converted Scammell Constructors, 001 002 003 Detroit 8V92 powered and 004 Cat 3406 370hp power, a picture below when awaiting restoration.
tractors.wikia.com/wiki/Heanor_Haulage.
Oily
Cheers Oily… seems I’m on the ball for once in me life… 
oiltreader:
The mention of WW2 planes takes me back to 1943ish and my dad and I on many a dark evening sitting on the back step listing to the bombing on Aberdeen 30 odd miles away and once hearing a plane above us “that’s a Heinkel bomber” my dad said, a very distinctive sound that’s stayed with me to this day. The blackout, the gas masks, the Home Guard, the LDV and sitting listening to an accumulator battery powered Cossor radio with the sometime crackly signal coming and going all part of my young years. We were schooled in preparation for the worst, fortunately it didn’t happen in rural Aberdeenshire.
Oily
Watched “Dunkirk” last night, that particular engine sound plays a role as well in the film, was more between the Spitfires and the kraut counterpart though, but there’s a Heinkel bomber in it as well… the sound of the falling bombs must have send shivers down the spines of everyone who was involved back then…
pv83:
oiltreader:
The mention of WW2 planes takes me back to 1943ish and my dad and I on many a dark evening sitting on the back step listing to the bombing on Aberdeen 30 odd miles away and once hearing a plane above us “that’s a Heinkel bomber” my dad said, a very distinctive sound that’s stayed with me to this day. The blackout, the gas masks, the Home Guard, the LDV and sitting listening to an accumulator battery powered Cossor radio with the sometime crackly signal coming and going all part of my young years. We were schooled in preparation for the worst, fortunately it didn’t happen in rural Aberdeenshire.
OilyWatched “Dunkirk” last night, that particular engine sound plays a role as well in the film, was more between the Spitfires and the kraut counterpart though, but there’s a Heinkel bomber in it as well… the sound of the falling bombs must have send shivers down the spines of everyone who was involved back then…
This is the sound I remember at 6.40mins on this clip youtube.com/watch?v=11sEP1xzI-U
Oily
DEANB:
Heanor with detroit diesel !
I drove one of these for Shand mining at an opencast in Leics. She was one of 20 odd on site ,all were between 12/16 yrs old all Detroit engines , not sure which size.The foreman fitter remembered when they were new, he told me not one of them had had a spanner on the engines. I drove her for the next 5yrs, she was double shifted for all that time. In all that time she only let me down once when the seat collapsed, and I don’t recall any of the other’s giving out. That says something about their reliability. By coincidence Heanor H delivered them to site
oiltreader:
The mention of WW2 planes takes me back to 1943ish and my dad and I on many a dark evening sitting on the back step listing to the bombing on Aberdeen 30 odd miles away and once hearing a plane above us “that’s a Heinkel bomber” my dad said, a very distinctive sound that’s stayed with me to this day. The blackout, the gas masks, the Home Guard, the LDV and sitting listening to an accumulator battery powered Cossor radio with the sometime crackly signal coming and going all part of my young years. We were schooled in preparation for the worst, fortunately it didn’t happen in rural Aberdeenshire.
Oily
Slightly off track, but ironic, was the fact that many German bombers where fitted with BMW engines which then propelled them to Birmingham, where they attempted to flatten the Austin Motor Works where they where building Spitfires.
Move on a few decades and BMW buy the Austin (BL)-(BMC)-(BLMC) factory, remove anything useful then flog it on again.
Funny ole world aint it.!
lurpak:
just found this looklng for something else lol
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Ade
Not sure this one would match today’s safety requests! Great picture.
coomsey:
0DEANB:
Heanor with detroit diesel !1
I drove one of these for Shand mining at an opencast in Leics. She was one of 20 odd on site ,all were between 12/16 yrs old all Detroit engines , not sure which size.The foreman fitter remembered when they were new, he told me not one of them had had a spanner on the engines. I drove her for the next 5yrs, she was double shifted for all that time. In all that time she only let me down once when the seat collapsed, and I don’t recall any of the other’s giving out. That says something about their reliability. By coincidence Heanor H delivered them to site
With the seat collapsing Coomsey,it also says something about your weight,lol,lol!
Happy Xmas all
David
Froggy55:
lurpak:
just found this looklng for something else lol
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AdeNot sure this one would match today’s safety requests! Great picture.
I think that belonged, until very recently, to a coal man in Whitby, it ran tourist trips round the town every summer, winter time he changed the body and delivered house coal round the town
This AEC appears to be from a BRS Liverpool Depot, judging by its number plate, and depot code on the door.
Its condition gives the impression that it is only used as a local shunter, or that if it has a regular driver,
he doesn’t give a “Donald” about his lorries appearance. Some may disagree, but that is my opinion.
Thank you to Eddie Heaton for the picture. Regards, Ray Smyth.
5thwheel:
coomsey:
0DEANB:
Heanor with detroit diesel !1
I drove one of these for Shand mining at an opencast in Leics. She was one of 20 odd on site ,all were between 12/16 yrs old all Detroit engines , not sure which size.The foreman fitter remembered when they were new, he told me not one of them had had a spanner on the engines. I drove her for the next 5yrs, she was double shifted for all that time. In all that time she only let me down once when the seat collapsed, and I don’t recall any of the other’s giving out. That says something about their reliability. By coincidence Heanor H delivered them to site
With the seat collapsing Coomsey,it also says something about your weight,lol,lol!
Happy Xmas all
David
David I’m not as far through as a lath, chap on the opposite shift was nicknamed Squash 
few from 1st leg of canada /usa triangle 1st leg prince edward island to lethbridge alberta via toronto 3200miles bad weather all the way lowest minus 35 deg in saskatchewan fuel pumps frozen regina
round to trl this morning in lethbridge versacold to kick reefer over as load over was dry freight and want her to start when empty 2morrow for load to san diego california cant wait to be heading south
Ray Smyth:
This AEC appears to be from a BRS Liverpool Depot, judging by its number plate, and depot code on the door.
Its condition gives the impression that it is only used as a local shunter, or that if it has a regular driver,
he doesn’t give a “Donald” about his lorries appearance. Some may disagree, but that is my opinion.
Thank you to Eddie Heaton for the picture. Regards, Ray Smyth.
Ray.
I would think that in those days no driver had the money for bling or the time.
When I started in the late 60s[not brs] the nearest I got was a quick wash with hosepipe and brush when you got time.
regards dave.
stevejones:
few from 1st leg of canada /usa triangle 1st leg prince edward island to lethbridge alberta via toronto 3200miles bad weather all the way lowest minus 35 deg in saskatchewan fuel pumps frozen regina
A daft question I know Steve but how does your screenwash cope with these very low temperatures?
Re :- Heanor Haulage.
My dad and his lorry driving mates always referred to them as Mr Heanors wagons when they saw or talked about them, has anybody else come across this?