Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[ray_smyth]

The Gentleman in the centre of picture 1 is Terry Walker, when he was a senior transport engineer
with Beecham Foods. Terry was with Robert Baillie Transport from when they started in the mid 1960s.
Because of failing eyesight, Terry resides at The Blind Veterans Home, formerly St Dunstans, Brighton.

Ray Smyth.

[spardo]

Nice Atkis, I love that coachbuilt cab front design of the 2nd picture. I only remember Munros having those, they were yellow too I think. But it is a mark 1, so where is the radiator? Was it a foreunner of the behind the cab header of the Mk 2s?

Surely not, as, looking at the windscreen wipers it appears to be an earlier model.

[rastone]

Spardo:
Nice Atkis, I love that coachbuilt cab front design of the 2nd picture. I only remember Munros having those, they were yellow too I think. But it is a mark 1, so where is the radiator? Was it a foreunner of the behind the cab header of the Mk 2s?

Surely not, as, looking at the windscreen wipers it appears to be an earlier model.

Do you lads know that Ray Brookes has sold his Cargo

[oiltreader]

Thanks to Leyland600, 240 Gardner, kevmac47, Ray Smyth and Buzzer for the pics and the craic

Lochinver last Thursday, two from Brittany waiting for boat to come in that night and two Peche(Lochinver based) waiting for a Saturday landing for Spain. The Brittany chap washing his wagon had excellent English, so a good natter with him telling me “we in Brittainy are Celts, the same as you Scots”
Oily

[old_67]

Tried to tidy-up your photo a bit. Hope you don’t mind ?

Regards. John

[deanb]

ERF press photo.

[tranconfred]

DEANB:

servo88:
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That F10 is a cracker !

Anyone know who operated these 2 x 143’s. Took the pic about 25 years ago.

0

the scania’s where binnzies before the transcon

[ray_smyth]

old 67:
0Tried to tidy-up your photo a bit. Hope you don’t mind ?

Regards. John

Thank you for tidying the picture John, You have skills that I don’t have, Kind Regards, Ray Smyth.

[jsutherland]

oiltreader:
Thanks to Leyland600, 240 Gardner, kevmac47, Ray Smyth and Buzzer for the pics and the craic

Lochinver last Thursday, two from Brittany waiting for boat to come in that night and two Peche(Lochinver based) waiting for a Saturday landing for Spain. The Brittany chap washing his wagon had excellent English, so a good natter with him telling me “we in Brittainy are Celts, the same as you Scots”
Oily

Lochinver, a fine place. Really nice pictures. Cracking wagons.

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Johnny

[oiltreader]

Thanks to DEANB for the pic
Oily

Antarctica wildlife research trip from New Zealand 2010.

[whisperingsmith]

> oiltreader:
> Thanks to Leyland600, 240 Gardner, kevmac47, Ray Smyth and Buzzer for the pics and the craic
>
> Lochinver last Thursday, two from Brittany waiting for boat to come in that night and two Peche(Lochinver based) waiting for a Saturday landing for Spain. The Brittany chap washing his wagon had excellent English, so a good natter with him telling me “we in Brittainy are Celts, the same as you Scots”
> Oily

AND the Breton guys are not just Celts but Britons too:

When the English ( who are not Britons but Anglo Saxon/German/ EE ) talk about putting the GREAT back into Britain they don’t know what they are saying:

Grande Bretagne (Great/Large Britain) was so named to differentiate from Bretagne (Brittany)

The Cornish & Bretons share the same language & our Welsh Cousins speak something very similar

‘Braman Gas An Sousen’ - just for fun

[dirty_dan]

Hi guys! Some great pics on here now! Keep up the good work
Jelliot send me some pic of his trips down under.

Danne.

[kevmac47]

[lawrence_dunbar]

Great photo Kev, This was made between April 1929 till Feb 1937, Regards Larry.

[spardo]

The Brough Superior works was in Basford, Nottingham and was on a route I sometimes took home from work on my 250 Beezer. One day something went bang and I pushed it to their place. Don’t think they were still making motorbikes, this was in about 1960 or so. But they certainly knew all about them.

Anyway they sorted it out for me, no charge, and I was home in time for tea.

[oiltreader]

kevmac47:

Cheers for the pics Kev , that’s a blast from the past, my dad in his younger days had an Indian motorbike and used to regale me with all the makes of the '20s and '30s, the Brough Superior being in his words the Rolls Royce of motorbikes including one with a reverse gear see here thevintagent.com/2017/07/26/roa … stin-four/
Brough also made motor cars.
Oily

[lawrence_dunbar]

oiltreader:

kevmac47:
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Cheers for the pics Kev, that’s a blast from the past, my dad in his younger days had an Indian motorbike and used to regale me with all the makes of the '20s and '30s, the Brough Superior being in his words the Rolls Royce of motorbikes including one with a reverse gear see here thevintagent.com/2017/07/26/roa … stin-four/
Brough also made motor cars.
Oily

Hi, Oily great photo made in 1938 IIRC And very classy I would say for that era,Regards Larry.

[oiltreader]

Dirty Dan:
Hi guys! Some great pics on here now! Keep up the good work
Jelliot send me some pic of his trips down under.

Danne.

Cheers for the pics Danne and Jelliot a Scania down under .
Oily

[oiltreader]

whisperingsmith:
> oiltreader:
> Thanks to Leyland600, 240 Gardner, kevmac47, Ray Smyth and Buzzer for the pics and the craic
>
> Lochinver last Thursday, two from Brittany waiting for boat to come in that night and two Peche(Lochinver based) waiting for a Saturday landing for Spain. The Brittany chap washing his wagon had excellent English, so a good natter with him telling me “we in Brittainy are Celts, the same as you Scots”
> Oily

AND the Breton guys are not just Celts but Britons too:

When the English ( who are not Britons but Anglo Saxon/German/ EE ) talk about putting the GREAT back into Britain they don’t know what they are saying:

Grande Bretagne (Great/Large Britain) was so named to differentiate from Bretagne (Brittany)

The Cornish & Bretons share the same language & our Welsh Cousins speak something very similar

‘Braman Gas An Sousen’ - just for fun

Spot on whisperingsmith with the Scots and Irish being Celts/Gaels speaking the Gaelic.
Oily

[leyland600]

Hi Oily, this modified Ferguson TE 20 tractor was one of three taken on the 1955-58 Commonwealth Trans ant-artic Expedition the New Zealand contingent led by Sir Edmund Hillary of Mount Everest fame. I photographed this one in the Christchurch (NZ) museum during my 2006 visit. When i first saw it I had a sense seeing it somewhere before but could not put my finger on it until later that year returning to our regular holiday cottage in Orkney where on the wall was a print of such a tractor. The lady owner of the cottage is a honorary member of the Ferguson Society as her father sold over 1500 Fergies in Orkney and Shetland between 1948 and 1956 (most of them are still running !!)
Cheers, Leyland 600.