I’ll await my apology from Ro and bonus Ramoan forget SDU but don’t expect it any time soon.Walter Mittys indeed.
I’m not aware that my post on the T45 was hostile. But there you go. I’ve lost interest already. Entirely.
Because of the dotty thread zig-zagging I can’t locate the weekend references to knocking the lorry out of cog to go faster downhill. I always knew it as ‘Aberdeen overdrive’ but I never ever did it with a lorry with air-brakes because if you stalled, the compressor stopped working.
This led me to wonder: what about the old vacuum brakes? What would happen if you stalled with those at speed on a descent?
Here’s a pic of an old Leyland on such a descent, to give you a nudge in the grey matter (yes GOM, wake up boy at the back! 
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My aim in linking that decade-old post was to provide some additional background on the subject, not to provide fuel for silly personal online feuds and grudges, that is all. I trust this clears up any misapprehension.
Good question. No idea what the answer might be, but I daresay they wouldn’t be very good at lifting the tut out of the living room carpet.
You’d have been more likely to own a Ewebank carpet-sweeper than a vacuum-cleaner in those days!
Guilty as charged m’lud. Old 6 wheel Sentinel tipper running coal to Harrogate gas works. 28mph, flat out in top gear (yes, 28). So approaching Harwood House it regularly got ‘silent 7th’, the low geared diff. suffered badly.
I was a young carefree ‘knight of the road’
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Anybody else having problems posting/finding pics on this thread? Seems to be all over the place,or is it just me 
No point because you dont listen to what people who were actually there experienced.No matter what was reported you know better.
Mum had a Ewbank (or something similar) for those occasions when the wheezy hoover stopped working. It’s the indoor equivalent of the sort of “lawn mower” you had to work up a sweat to use (Qualcast?) and to no great effect.
I thought it was just me. It’s all over the shop.
How the hell did you stop it going down the hill GOM .Nerves of steel i suspect especially when you got to the bend at the bottom
Me too it’s all over
No no, wrong side of Harwood Village, I know the bit you’re thinking about, I wasn’t brave enough to ‘throw it out’ going down there. No, the approach to the village from the other side has a long downhill and then a natural uphill to the village itself, never touched the brake pedal. Always short weight at Harrogate Gas because of the coal that blew off.
I suspect the Sentinel diff. was glowing, if old Fred Chappell ever found out what I was doing to his motor he would have sacked me. But I was young, brave, and fearless, I was a ‘knight of the road’ doing 3 load a day from a Wakefield Pit to Harrogate Gas
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Hells teeth, where did you find those ? To answer your question YES, XWX 769,( 28mph) The photos are Fred’s yard at Batley, and the Commer looks very much like my first regular motor.
Fred was a good man, he gave me and a few others a start in happy careers 'on the road and I for one am eternally grateful.
Thank you for posting the photos, the memories have made an old man very happy.
Can’t remember where I found these photos. Needless to say I did not take them, but I have always had a interest in anything Sentinel or TVW (Transport Vehicles Warrington) based. NWW was a rebuilt Sentinel DV46 and up until 2010 still survived in Rush Green Motors, but unknown now. Glad you enjoyed seeing them.
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What make are they? I’d say Thornycroft for NWW 666, and possibly Foden for XWX 769, but may by totally wrong.
Sorry, I was too quick to write and hadn’t gone through all the previous answers. So, Sentinel for the first. Thanks.