H143500:
oiltreader:
Thanks to SHUNT1986, Buzzer, DEANB, HRS, Ray Smyth and Froggy55 for the pics
Not your normal unit and what is the trailer for, note the hook.
OilySeen pictures of something very similar set up for agricultural use ie towing trailers,muck spreaders,driving foragers, and even a couple set up for ploughing and cultivation work.Some are 4x4 but most are 6x6 and 8x8.
Hi H143500, had a google and found this dailymotion.com/video/x1i2y1e
Oily
An interesting picture from the early 1960s in Liverpool city centre. The Crawfords Biscuits FG van
is at the end of Commutation Row, about to go straight ahead along Lime Street, which starts where
the workmens ladders are up against the “Legs Of Man” public house. The Liverpool Corporation
Leyland PD2 bus is heading up London Road. The shop near to the Crawfords van is Burton Tailoring.
Our friend Chris Webb will know this location very well, despite the pub having a Manx name.
Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth:
An interesting picture from the early 1960s in Liverpool city centre. The Crawfords Biscuits FG van
is at the end of Commutation Row, about to go straight ahead along Lime Street, which starts where
the workmens ladders are up against the “Legs Of Man” public house. The Liverpool Corporation
Leyland PD2 bus is heading up London Road. The shop near to the Crawfords van is Burton Tailoring.
Our friend Chris Webb will know this location very well, despite the pub having a Manx name.Ray Smyth.
Great picture Ray , would love to date it accurately , if we could see exactly what’s on at cinema ■■..
Certainly can’t see any number plates .
Jim
I always thought those FGs were a great idea for local delivery work, can’t knock many cyclists off with those doors, so why weren’t they copied? Or were they, and I’m too old to remember? 
JFC999:
Ray Smyth:
An interesting picture from the early 1960s in Liverpool city centre. The Crawfords Biscuits FG van
is at the end of Commutation Row, about to go straight ahead along Lime Street, which starts where
the workmens ladders are up against the “Legs Of Man” public house. The Liverpool Corporation
Leyland PD2 bus is heading up London Road. The shop near to the Crawfords van is Burton Tailoring.
Our friend Chris Webb will know this location very well, despite the pub having a Manx name.Ray Smyth.
Great picture Ray , would love to date it accurately , if we could see exactly what’s on at cinema ■■..
Certainly can’t see any number plates .
Jim
Hi JFC, Thank you for your comments. I think it is 1962 or 1963. About that time, Liverpool Corporation
altered their style of painting their buses. The cream bands were discontinued, and cream paint was applied
to the window surrounds. A couple of Gadgees are wearing Trilby hats, and the schoolboy is wearing his grey
flannel short trousers, and the BMC FG biscuit van looks fairly new. Cheers, Ray.
Ray Smyth:
JFC999:
Ray Smyth:
An interesting picture from the early 1960s in Liverpool city centre. The Crawfords Biscuits FG van
is at the end of Commutation Row, about to go straight ahead along Lime Street, which starts where
the workmens ladders are up against the “Legs Of Man” public house. The Liverpool Corporation
Leyland PD2 bus is heading up London Road. The shop near to the Crawfords van is Burton Tailoring.
Our friend Chris Webb will know this location very well, despite the pub having a Manx name.Ray Smyth.
Great picture Ray , would love to date it accurately , if we could see exactly what’s on at cinema ■■..
Certainly can’t see any number plates .
JimHi JFC, Thank you for your comments. I think it is 1962 or 1963. About that time, Liverpool Corporation
altered their style of painting their buses. The cream bands were discontinued, and cream paint was applied
to the window surrounds. A couple of Gadgees are wearing Trilby hats, and the schoolboy is wearing his grey
flannel short trousers, and the BMC FG biscuit van looks fairly new. Cheers, Ray.
Cliff Richards in " Were all going on a Summer Holiday "perhaps on at the picture house 1963, Buzzer.
Ray Smyth:
An interesting picture from the early 1960s in Liverpool city centre. The Crawfords Biscuits FG van
is at the end of Commutation Row, about to go straight ahead along Lime Street, which starts where
the workmens ladders are up against the “Legs Of Man” public house. The Liverpool Corporation
Leyland PD2 bus is heading up London Road. The shop near to the Crawfords van is Burton Tailoring.
Our friend Chris Webb will know this location very well, despite the pub having a Manx name.Ray Smyth.
Ha ha, look at the length of those ladders. H&S bods nowadays would be apoplectic. 
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oiltreader:
H143500:
oiltreader:
Thanks to SHUNT1986, Buzzer, DEANB, HRS, Ray Smyth and Froggy55 for the picsNot your normal unit and what is the trailer for, note the hook.
OilySeen pictures of something very similar set up for agricultural use ie towing trailers,muck spreaders,driving foragers, and even a couple set up for ploughing and cultivation work.Some are 4x4 but most are 6x6 and 8x8.
Hi H143500, had a google and found this dailymotion.com/video/x1i2y1e
Oily
Thanks Oily, certainly different aren’t they.
Punchy Dan:
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Great stuff there Dan, Keep them rolling my good friend, As per Im having a large Malt before I go to bed & I do hope to wake up in the morning feeling good for another Milllion Miles , , Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Punchy Dan:
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Moving a static screen todayGreat stuff there Dan, Keep them rolling my good friend, As per Im having a large Malt before I go to bed & I do hope to wake up in the morning feeling good for another Milllion Miles ,
Here’ to you Larry … Life’s a dram not a drama 
Oily
Ray Smyth:
An interesting picture from the early 1960s in Liverpool city centre. The Crawfords Biscuits FG van
is at the end of Commutation Row, about to go straight ahead along Lime Street, which starts where
the workmens ladders are up against the “Legs Of Man” public house. The Liverpool Corporation
Leyland PD2 bus is heading up London Road. The shop near to the Crawfords van is Burton Tailoring.
Our friend Chris Webb will know this location very well, despite the pub having a Manx name.Ray Smyth.
Yes I remember that location well Ray.Used to go down London Road with wagon and drag on nights,turn left past Lime Street Station and turn right down School Lane to tip Littlewoods.
Spardo:
I always thought those FGs were a great idea for local delivery work, can’t knock many cyclists off with those doors, so why weren’t they copied? Or were they, and I’m too old to remember?
Yes, a couple of good ideas there, the doors and the knee windows. They where such horrible things to spend a day in though, the noise and vibration,. I bet if we stopped and thought about it we would come up with other ‘good’ ideas that have quietly slipped away.
A bit back was signs about snakes etc …my mate at camp says believe them!! he got bit by a cottonmouth way down south Usa in the 80s when he went to stretch his legs by a river and still has the scars to prove it (killed the skin/flesh. by the bite ,and needed a graft in later yrs). He says he survived working in Vietnam during the war(for a Canadian construction company guarded by aussies on UN building jobs) 3 yrs and never bitten ,he drove a CAT dozer and had a local lad with him to hit the snakes when they came up on the tracks.
JIMBO47:
A bit back was signs about snakes etc …my mate at camp says believe them!! he got bit by a cottonmouth way down south Usa in the 80s when he went to stretch his legs by a river and still has the scars to prove it (killed the skin/flesh. by the bite ,and needed a graft in later yrs). He says he survived working in Vietnam during the war(for a Canadian construction company guarded by aussies on UN building jobs) 3 yrs and never bitten ,he drove a CAT dozer and had a local lad with him to hit the snakes when they came up on the tracks.
I was told by a mate on the road trains to keep the windows closed no matter how hot and humid it was as snakes could be thrown up by the front wheels. I wasn’t sure whether to believe it or not but kept the window down anyway. Same as sleeping in the bulldust under the trailer, the favourite hidey places of snakes and scorpions. Believed that too, but still did it, then woke up one morning on my way south (so not working and sleeping in the daytime) to find my overnight companion had been a snake in my sleeping bag. He was in there for warmth, mine 
, and as the sun was barely up was a bit groggy and staggered away. They never warned me about that. 
Or about the salt water crocs in the rivers, they never told me about that also, might not have plunged in so readily.
In fact the only thing they didn’t warn me about, snakes seeking bodily warmth, did happen.
yup believe you ! jack says his boots in “Nam” if not on his feet were up upside down on a Y shaped frame to keep snakes etc out, another story was he sat on his bed in the morning and the “hooch” maid swung a machette at him and killed a snake at the side of his pillow… she told him you are Canadian so I save you!! jack isn’t one for tall stories, he says the aussies that guarded them never bought a beer the time he was there ,the "Austin "construction group bought them as much as they wanted as a thankyou for keeping the lads safe.
Spardo:
JIMBO47:
A bit back was signs about snakes etc …my mate at camp says believe them!! he got bit by a cottonmouth way down south Usa in the 80s when he went to stretch his legs by a river and still has the scars to prove it (killed the skin/flesh. by the bite ,and needed a graft in later yrs). He says he survived working in Vietnam during the war(for a Canadian construction company guarded by aussies on UN building jobs) 3 yrs and never bitten ,he drove a CAT dozer and had a local lad with him to hit the snakes when they came up on the tracks.I was told by a mate on the road trains to keep the windows closed no matter how hot and humid it was as snakes could be thrown up by the front wheels. I wasn’t sure whether to believe it or not but kept the window down anyway. Same as sleeping in the bulldust under the trailer, the favourite hidey places of snakes and scorpions. Believed that too, but still did it, then woke up one morning on my way south (so not working and sleeping in the daytime) to find my overnight companion had been a snake in my sleeping bag. He was in there for warmth, mine
Or about the salt water crocs in the rivers, they never told me about that also, might not have plunged in so readily.
In fact the only thing they didn’t warn me about, snakes seeking bodily warmth, did happen.
