Happy days.
That 8 wheeler Dodge is a rare animal. We had a couple of that model Dodge units at Shaw’s, both with ear splitting Cummins V engines. It’s a wonder we weren’t banned, climbing up Ilkeston High Road fully loaded with the buildings close together either side the noise was immense.
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What are the tools on the last pictures meant for? Forestry?
Mostly wool bales, Froggy.
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Thanks! If I had a closer look to its registration, I should have guessed it right!
Looks like a couple of chain tensioners (dogs) aswell
Yes, fabricated rather than the usual cast.
With a Cummins nine and thuppence.
It was actually a Mammoth Major 8 to begin with but Astran turned into a 6x4. The cab was a sleeper conversion undertaken by Tillotson and was insulated. It’s driver, Gordon Pierce loved it, but complained that it was noisy!
They were , well the one my dad drove was but everything was in those days.A big improvement on the GUY they had on their first outing
Way too slow uphill and way too fast going down. No exhaust/ engine brake either.
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Car a Singer Vogue or Humber Sceptre early '60s carted a few of them.
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Is No. 3 the Woolwich Ferry? My only claim to over the water in earlier days. And my favourite of that bunch is of course the last one. 
Or ‘‘The Woolworth Ferry’’ as somebody on here used to call it.
On my first trip to London with my mate as a young lad I went on that, you used to be able to park up overnight on the South side, and I did that a few times when I started driving myself.
Like every where else in that anti truck sh hole they stopped you parking later on.
I reckon its even worse now with Sh Weasel being the mayor.
I used to love parking in London in the early days before they became ‘‘truck haters’’.
I’ve had some great nights out there both in the East End and when drivers used to actually speak to each other and socialise 
…and catching the Tube down the West End…
Old Compton st was it?..where all the ‘dodgy establishments’ were.
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