Dont know much about Albion’s as i am far too young 
and dont have much scanned,but heres what i have !
Albion Chieftain brochure.
Click on pages twice.
Commercial Motor Show 1960.
Albion stand.
Click on pages twice to read.
Albion Super Clydesdale.
1964 Advert.
1969 Leyland Gazette.
Albion Super Clydesdale brochure.
thelongdrag:
Thanks for the comments and pic on Talbot’s. I wonder if they had a depot in the North as this looks like a Talbot Scania and it
has the T and other initials on the door like the ERF. It seems strange to be buying it in Manchester if they dont have a depot
that way ?4
Hi Dean.
No. Talbots from Dronfield,that was Gary Talbots first Scania and this was his second that I posted on here a while back. Packed up a good many years ago and worked for B.J.Waters until he retired a few years ago. Garys dad ran some ERFs and AECs on a Shell contract out off Trafford Park for many years. Chris Webb will has been chauffered around in several of the fleet in days gone by. Unfortunately Gary passed away recently with this dreadful covid disease. I still come on here from time to time and fully appreciate the work you all put in on Trucknet. Thanks, Mike.0
Hi Mike,sorry to hear about Gary,poor lad,RIP. Yes,I had a lift with Gary once and many more in the A Series ERF Talbot had which was driven by Joe Charlesworth,an ex A E Evans driver.Usually picked up around 0500 from Gleadless Townend Sheffield with a load of empty drums for Shell Trafford Park.Gary always used Snake,Joe Woodhead.
Dont know much about Albion’s as i am far too young Taking up novel writing now Dean ?
Drove Lad/Ergo n Bathgate models , cracking motors n 17t payload , just the job on percentage.
Hi All
Because of this virus thingy going round I’ve had time on my hands to follow this absolutely marvelous thread. A big thank you to Paul, Dean, Mark and all of the other contributors for the quantity and quality of the pictures. I had to have a double take sometimes…looking at the stunning colours and then realizing that the photos are 40 to 50 years old. A great piece of social history in the making.
It has taken me right back to childhood memories of school holidays spent in the passenger seat…It was the A74 not the M74, it was the North Circular not the M25 the sun always shinned and there were no traffic jams!! right?
Keep up the good work.
This one is a JD Crawfords from Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Sold up in the early 2000’s maybe
grumpy old man:
moomooland:
1Regarding tankers anyone remember 1995 when every available tanker in the country went on the Yorkshire Water job
during the drought that year.0The scene on the A672 Oldham Road adjacent to Boothwood Reservoir in 1995,
More details and pictures here on the Yorkshire Water Tankers 1995 thread
Yes indeed, my eldest lad earned a lot of money on that water job…I think it was Keilder to Yorkshire…“as many as you can lad, don’t worry about the tacho”
Yorkshire Water learned a lesson that year, we’ve never had any water restrictions since, even this last hot summer. IIRC it’s underground pipeline now to keep the reservoirs at a reasonable level.
Hi G.o.m. The water from the Kielder Dam can pumped out of the River Tyne at Riding Mill via underground pipeline across to River Wear and then pumped across to the River Tees. So your son might have collected so called Kielder water from the River Tees somewhere?
DEANB:
Langdons Volvo. Are they still going,seem to remember there yard was just off the M4.9
BOC Gasses ERF.
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Owens Volvo.
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Bryans MAN, Welsh ■■
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SK Haulage Volvo.
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Anyone recognise the Foden ■■?
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Anyone recognise the Renault ■■?Hey Dean they were based down Rover way Cardiff ,have not seen them of late MT
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Not sure if we have had a Hammond motor on before ■■
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Onyx Foden.
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Charles Footman ERF…Magic ! thanx Dean MT
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DEANB:
Dont know much about Albion’s as i am far too youngAlbion Chieftain brochure.
Click on pages twice.
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Interesting to see the suspension arrangement on the Reiver 6x4, with independant axles. Never seen such a fitting on a French 6x4; they always have a rear bogie.
Froggy55:
DEANB:
Dont know much about Albion’s as i am far too youngAlbion Chieftain brochure.
Click on pages twice.
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Interesting to see the suspension arrangement on the Reiver 6x4, with independant axles. Never seen such a fitting on a French 6x4; they always have a rear bogie.
That, with slight modifications, became the standard set-up for the Albion/Leyland/Scammell 6 and 8x4 ranges. Brilliant for traction but quite high on maintenance.
Pete.
windrush:
Froggy55:
DEANB:
Dont know much about Albion’s as i am far too youngAlbion Chieftain brochure.
Click on pages twice.
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Interesting to see the suspension arrangement on the Reiver 6x4, with independant axles. Never seen such a fitting on a French 6x4; they always have a rear bogie.
That, with slight modifications, became the standard set-up for the Albion/Leyland/Scammell 6 and 8x4 ranges. Brilliant for traction but quite high on maintenance.
Pete.
Not just high on maintenance but a swine of a job too. Bad enough on the Bathgate cabbed Leyland versions with the linkage mainly outboard, but inside the chassis. 
coomsey:
Dont know much about Albion’s as i am far too young
Drove Lad/Ergo n Bathgate models , cracking motors n 17t payload , just the job on percentage.
I might pop a Tonka toy on for you later chap.
antwright:
Hi All
Because of this virus thingy going round I’ve had time on my hands to follow this absolutely marvelous thread. A big thank you to Paul, Dean, Mark and all of the other contributors for the quantity and quality of the pictures. I had to have a double take sometimes…looking at the stunning colours and then realizing that the photos are 40 to 50 years old. A great piece of social history in the making.
It has taken me right back to childhood memories of school holidays spent in the passenger seat…It was the A74 not the M74, it was the North Circular not the M25 the sun always shinned and there were no traffic jams!! right?
Keep up the good work.
antwright:
This one is a JD Crawfords from Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Sold up in the early 2000’s maybe
Thanks for your comments and recollections “antwright”.
I think most of us remember going with our dad,uncle,or grandad in a truck as a kid.
Nice to see you appreciate the mighty F88 as well chap. 
J.D.Crawfords.
Click on pages twice to read.
The article mentions the F86 wih a Hoynor tipping trailer. Heres a nice advert with both from 1973.
Click on twice.
MANTRONIC:
“DEANB”Anyone recognise the Renault ■■?Hey Dean they were based down Rover way Cardiff ,have not seen them of late MT
Charles Footman ERF…Magic ! thanx Dean MT
Thanks for the info on the Renault “MT”.
windrush:
“Froggy55” "DEANB"Dont know much about Albion’s as i am far too youngAlbion Chieftain brochure.
Interesting to see the suspension arrangement on the Reiver 6x4, with independant axles. Never seen such a fitting on a French 6x4; they always have a rear bogie.
That, with slight modifications, became the standard set-up for the Albion/Leyland/Scammell 6 and 8x4 ranges. Brilliant for traction but quite high on maintenance.
Pete.
Thanks for your input “Froggy55” and from our genius mechanic the one and only “windrush”
cav551:
“windrush”That, with slight modifications, became the standard set-up for the Albion/Leyland/Scammell 6 and 8x4 ranges. Brilliant for traction but quite high on maintenance.
Not just high on maintenance but a swine of a job too. Bad enough on the Bathgate cabbed Leyland versions with the linkage mainly outboard, but inside the chassis.
Thanks for the comments “cav551”
“Genius mechanic” Dean? 
I think not, but good of you to think so! I never had the ‘good fortune’ to work on Leyland products with that suspension, but know many poor sods who did. Most of my ‘spanner time’ was spent initially on BMC’s and later Fodens, all nice uncomplicated and simple to repair stuff, with a smattering of Bedfords and poxy Land Rovers thrown in just to annoy me!
I ALMOST managed to totally avoid anything foreign, both as a fitter and later as a driver, the exception to that was when I was attending to one of our Foden tankers with a rear hub bearing collapsed on Leicester Forest services in the late 70’s and a German driver with a Mercedes asked if I could fit some fan belts for him. I obliged: I don’t know the model but it had a fixed cab and you accessed the engine via either a trap in the cab floor or from behind both cab steps which swung out, it reminded me of working on BMC FHK’s engines (before your time Dean! 
) which were equally inaccessible and partly responsible for my back and knee problems! 
Pete.
windrush:
“Genius mechanic” Dean?I ALMOST managed to totally avoid anything foreign, both as a fitter and later as a driver, the exception to that was when I was attending to one of our Foden tankers with a rear hub bearing collapsed on Leicester Forest services in the late 70’s and a German driver with a Mercedes asked if I could fit some fan belts for him. I obliged: I don’t know the model but it had a fixed cab and you accessed the engine via either a trap in the cab floor or from behind both cab steps which swung out, it reminded me of working on BMC FHK’s engines (before your time Dean!
Pete.
Thanks for the input Pete.
