THanks, I was about to ask
Although it is a Seddon, that single axle short tipper artic reminds me of a truck I drove for a while for an owner based at Dixon’s of Derby. But what I had was a screaming Commer unit which, apart from the row was fine, until I came to a steep downhill, such as that one on the old A2 in Kent. The brakes were fine but the compressor couldn’t keep up and I would go down in a series of pauses, coming to a halt each time ‘till the air built up again. I was a casual, mainly doing shifts for Dixon’s, and was ‘lent’ to Maurice for a time but was mighty pleased when I was dragged back to drive an 88 or 86. 
‘they seek him here, they seek him there’
And that Australian road train reversing 4 trailers…Pah, easy peasy for our hero. 
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Yes PR it was who you thought it was.He was very young at the time probably at second school but that didn’t stop him.If you could see inside the Cafe you would notice a table of drivers eating while being lectured by a young lad stood on the yellow pages telling them where they were going wrong.Luckily they had tankers so he didn’t have to demonstrate how to tie a dolly so the hoover lived to survive another day
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Ah well Les apparently this was a Buffalo with an Albion engine in. Well according to the text that came with the photo (i dont think i can spell accompanied). A bit of a homemade motor built over in Australia you know what they are like over there similar to the A Team .An old shopping trolley a welder and four old metal signs and out pops a tank.The bloke that built it was known for his creations but i can’t remember his name .It certainly looks the part
A splendid ‘bitsa’ then!
A Peter Gunner of Red North built it apparently.Maybe SDU will have heard of him
Another blast from the past for me, Convoys, one of my very first back loads was through them.
Convoy’s own trucks used to carry the newsprint reels from Tilbury to Fleet St if memory serves correctly?
Someone…no names, but not me…used to mange to squeeze in a quick local load from Tilbury for cash, before loading the official load for home.
I am not sure. 60 years on, what or from and to where but my feeling is it was reels from London area to elsewhere in the country. It was not my first, that one was through Silver Roadways from London west to Bath and Bristol. My mate George Milner had put me right before I left Nottingham for Cambridge, he told me to stop at the first caff and buy a Headlight and also there was a little booklet I seem to remember, but the point was for numbers for backloads and also for digs.
Rednorth was owned by a fellow from North Queensland, by the name of Rod North. He also had bus runs.
He always had backloading from Central Queensland, but I never did anything for him as he had a reputation for being a very slow payer.
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There’s nothing like getting the last bit on but they need to have a look at that rope n sheeting of those reels.Whoever told them to rope between didn’t get the memo that would never work would it 
A nice new Mammoth Major outside Tillotsons at Burnley for GOM and a Marshall that’s seen better days
