Jeez spardo £15 a fortune, in the '60s we got 32shillings and 6pence which got us a midday meal then the digs with a evening(5/6pmish) meal and breakfast a couple of pints and still had a shilling or two over. Beer one and thruppence a pint back then and proper grog it was. I always carried an extra fiver just in case of emergency like running out of fuel or a prolonged stay with a breakdown etc luckily never had to use it. On cartransporters 1960s my take home money after stoppages was £30 to £35. Happy days absolutely.
To be fair, I can’t really remember how much it was in the ‘60s but I do remember that I thought I was well off with change left after the digs, but perhaps that was because I was never a boozer, I remember nights in digs, not boozers. 
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Running to Scotland we stopped at Carlisle a lot and and the evenings were not always spent in The Malt Shovel but quite often at the pictures(cinema).
Sensor block is just another type of splitter gear set synchronisation.As opposed to the 4 constant mesh gear sets in the main box.
There’s nothing there which says float the shift from 3rd to 4th or 6th to 7th or 7th to 10th.Those are all constant mesh shifts in the main box, double de clutched or transmission braked and a preselected split shift.But not preselected in the form of eco split etc etc.Because the stupid torque sensing system will mess up the preselection.Unlike purely clutch actuated splitters which also have the advantage of allowing split shifts to be rev matched properly.
My God, I’d love to see you get a lorry with a Twin-splitter out of the same yard you nearly got an RTO 915A out of! I doubt if you’d get it in gear 
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Now an Italian restaurant…..had some good nights in there myself 80s and 90s.
Where did you park near there in those days?
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The only gears he’s ever changed were made by Sturmey-Archer.
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He’ll never learn. Before you can learn, you have to admit you don’t know. That’s simply not in his make up.
Every time he tries to look clever and knowledgeable, he proves the opposite. We can all see it, he’s the only one who can’t.
As opposed to preselecting a split upshift when entering a roundabout that you’ll need on the exit.So instead of engine braking you’ve got an upshift on the entry instead because you’ve lifted.Just like with a dumb automatic.
You have never driven a modern SCM, the only dumb thing is your comments.
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Absolute rubbish. You enter the roundabout in the normal way: if you wanted to traverse the roundabout in say, 7th, you’d change down to 7th just before entry [don’t forget that’s the high position in the 3rd stick position - you can choose to effect that, and any, downshift simply by moving the switch & breaking the torque with the throttle; or if you really want to, you can move the stick into neutral, select the lower gear, double-declutch and move the stick back into the same stick position (usually completely unnecessary)]. Then you can travel round the roundabout and if you need to change up before exiting on the other side, simply move the switch and momentarily lift the foot off the accelerator and the change immediately goes through quicker than you can do it the normal way. Nothing like an automatic in the least: you’re in complete control.And what’s engine-braking got to do with it? Just use your exhaust brake or Jake.
Parking at The Sands a large open space back then and now a leisure centre, digs in Corporation Road with Mrs Robinson whose husband Freddie was on for Robsons, parking, digs and a pint all within a hundred yards. An odd visit to The Apple Tree on Lowther Street and the Picture House was on the left off Lowther St onto Warwick Road which back then was the main north south road A6 with a constant stream of lorries that in itself was quite a scene. If there was a time in my life I could live again that would be it.
Got to be two stops short of Dagenham*, if you ask me!
*Barking, to save you looking it up 
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Nothing new, everybody knows that 
Whereas Mr CF is educating all us old lorry drivers as to how best handle a gearbox.
We are indebted…or damn well should be. 
How the hell did we get from A to B without his technical…( I hesitate to say it)…his technical genius
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Does anyone know why BRS wanted Scammell to design and build the Crusader for them. Wasn’t the other British offerings enough for them at the time?
Ah, but us elite tanker men got Luncheon Vouchers on top of the night out money
You’ll never sicken him off, he’s ‘away with the fairies’.
He’s got an answer to everything (however bizarre)
A psychiatrist would have months of work trying to figure him out.
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