These vans are several of about 40 belonging to the transport division of W.H.Smith & Son ( Newsagents )
on contract to The Liverpool Daily Post & Echo. They are seen backed on to the Daily Post & Echo building
in Crosshall Street in Liverpool in the 1930s waiting to load with the next edition of the Liverpool Echo.
Picture from Bootle History Forum.
Ray.
Highland Haulage ERF from 1957.
What an unhappy end for a truck!
robthedog:
Now I’m not a fan of FG’s horrible to drive and worse to work on but this does look good
Looks great , like something out of mad max. I remember when the bread companies near me had those, would love to have a go In one but I was too you g back in the day.
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robthedog:
Now I’m not a fan of FG’s horrible to drive and worse to work on but this does look good
I loved them, both driving and working on them (have worked on far worse, and FG’s were as simple as a truck could be really) and would love to have had one to take to rallies etc. I’m on the FG Facebook group and a surprising number are still around in the UK and many more in Oz and NZ.
Pete.
Buzzer:
Do you remember ? Buzzer
‘Do you remember’…round my area we’ve still got one of those outfits…horse, cart, and man. I should explain…near to my house there are 2 large ‘social housing’ estates and twice a week he goes round the estates (today, 20/08/2020) is one of his days, I’ll hear his bell ringing about lunchtime, he ALWAYS finishes up with a full cart. He’'ll take anything metal.
I don’t know where he comes from or where he goes, but he seems to make the job pay. A few weeks ago he took a broken freezer from me (saved me a journey to the local tip.
windrush:
robthedog:
Now I’m not a fan of FG’s horrible to drive and worse to work on but this does look goodI loved them, both driving and working on them (have worked on far worse, and FG’s were as simple as a truck could be really) and would love to have had one to take to rallies etc. I’m on the FG Facebook group and a surprising number are still around in the UK and many more in Oz and NZ.
Pete.
Pete years ago I used to own one with the bull nose 6 cylinder engine IIRC, it was an ex Corral coal truck and I used it for hay and straw & when I finished the season I found a horse box body and fitted it and sold it to an old boy from Wilton near Salisbury as he used to plough with a pair of Shire horses and he was about 75 when he bought it but think his son drove it for him. Mine went well even with 50 bales over the cab on a rack and cant remember if it had power steering but I was young and strong back then, cheers Buzzer.
“Couple cool trucks from up your end Oily, cheers Buzzer”
Ta for the pics Buzzer 
Gibbs a sound well respected concern packed in round 2002 and started up again 2016 still the same family.
Oily
Buzzer:
Pete years ago I used to own one with the bull nose 6 cylinder engine IIRC, it was an ex Corral coal truck and I used it for hay and straw & when I finished the season I found a horse box body and fitted it and sold it to an old boy from Wilton near Salisbury as he used to plough with a pair of Shire horses and he was about 75 when he bought it but think his son drove it for him. Mine went well even with 50 bales over the cab on a rack and cant remember if it had power steering but I was young and strong back then, cheers Buzzer.
Power steering was only an option on those large FG’s Buzzer, as was a five speed overdrive box and two speed axle. They could carry a six ton payload in basic form with a lightweight platform body and rated at 9 tonnes gross. I liked the BMC constant mesh gearbox fitted to all but the smallest models, a nice light change and they gave very little trouble really. Lockhart Equipment in Reading used them on their Scottish trunk in the sixties.
Pete.
rigsby:
The white Volvo in the last picture will be Mackenzie from Scourie , I’ve seen that motor often up in Kinlochbervie when we’ve been up there , with either a low loader or a bulker . He has a little quarry by the road north out of Scourie . His mum lived overlooking the harbour at Lochinver , nattering to her in the pub a few years ago , her and her friend were a comedy double act . I think it will be his brother has the caravan site at scourie , miserable sod .
Hi rigsby, they also run fish tankers collected at the quayside pumped straight from the boat and carted to processing plants.
Oily
oiltreader:
rigsby:
The white Volvo in the last picture will be Mackenzie from Scourie , I’ve seen that motor often up in Kinlochbervie when we’ve been up there , with either a low loader or a bulker . He has a little quarry by the road north out of Scourie . His mum lived overlooking the harbour at Lochinver , nattering to her in the pub a few years ago , her and her friend were a comedy double act . I think it will be his brother has the caravan site at scourie , miserable sod .Hi rigsby, they also run fish tankers collected at the quayside pumped straight from the boat and carted to processing plants.
Oily
I miss going up there Oily , we went to the same spot for many years , but with health issues and selling the wobble box we only go for a couple of weeks now in a rented cottage . Of course with the lockdown we missed this year . We made good friends there and I miss the comings and goings round the area .
Buzzer:
Few more today, Buzzer
Think that Volvo is eyeing up the Albion for its lunch !! Tyneside
This is the aftermath of a vehicle fire on what was then the A1 at Team Colliery just south of Low Fell, Gateshead. It is in the big layby that is still there today. looks like a Commer six wheeler with a load of bagged product.
On the bottom picture there is a tall brick structure on the RHS, that was the pit baths and the Angel stands there now.
Tyneside
Corporation Quay Sunderland,1972. Looks like pallets of Libby Corned Beef, not sure if it been loaded or unloaded.
Tyneside
This was taken at the David Brown factory at Salford, at the time it was the largest cut gear in the world, that is an Aston Martin DB6 inside the gear wheel. Tyneside
