Chris Webb:
Morning Dean.
I wonder if the Wincanton Big J was running Styrene into PD Storage at Poole from BP Baglan Bay,a job I did once or twice. 
Hello Chris, thats an intresting comment about delivering a load of Styrene to Poole. Out of intrest can you remember where PD Storage’s depot
was in Poole ?
My old uncle (90) used to work on Poole docks for a company called Synthetic Rubber Co that had 2 depots in Poole. The main one was
just over the railway lines in Poole docks turn left and first yard on RHS. They also had another depot when you went back over the lifting bridge
on the LHS next door to the BRS depot.
I wondered if you loaded out of Synthetic Rubber or delivered there,as they use to do loads of Styrene he was telling me.
They use to have a pipe that run down to the waters edge where they use to pump if off or on ships. Synthetic Rubber was
eventually sold to an Italian company called ENI.
Pic below shows the Poole depot on the docks. The white tanks on the LHS were Texaco’s depot and at one time a company called
J.R.Wood operated there.
Ray Smyth:
“DEANB”
Blast from the past OTA Iveco.
Hi Dean, I refer to your picture of the OTA International Iveco, on the left of the picture is an AEC Reliance coach
owned by someone in Poole. I recognised the livery straight away, it would have been new to what was then called
Smiths Happiway Spencers of Wigan, later to become Shearings Holidays, now recently, sadly, gone. I have just put
a picture of one of the AEC coaches on the " Buses & Coaches " thread. Cheers, Ray.
You did well to spot that Ray !
Buzzer:
Tidy looking old wagon & drag, Buzzer
Nice pics Buzzer. Look at the size of the mirrors !! 
Dennis Javelin:
I think that the coach belonged to Dolphin Coaches who were based at Wimborne when I was a supplier to them. Sadly they called it a day at the end of 2018.
Yes they had a couple of different yards over the years Dennis. Seem to remember they ended up on Stone Lane Ind Estate,Wimborne,which is not the best
of places to turn a long rigid vehicle into ! I notice it says Poole on the back of the coach in the pic so i assume they were based in Poole at some
point. 
windrush:
Yes Dean, the Tilcon Foden was new to Ballidon quarry and given to Sam Hambleton who was the first employee back in the days when the first owner of the quarry ran a butchers shop in Ashbourne before he started into quarrying! With it having a white bumper in the pic (they were maroon when new) it was probably driven in that pic by the Late Derek Booth and based then at Kevin quarry in Staffordshire. However Bill Clowes (old stokie on this forum) also had a spell driving it at Kevin before Derek. I can’t remember if that one had the S40 cab fitted later, the sister truck (TRB 130K) did though.
Pete.
Thanks for the comments Pete. Thats an unusual change of career from a butcher to running a quarry !
Froggy55:
“DEANB”] "Froggy55"Thanks Dean, for the most interesting article on the 1960 Leyland heavy range!
Heres a brochure about them “Froggy55”. Bit of a bugger to scan as too big for the scanner.
Exactly the kind of stuff I love, and which enables me to compare with the specifications of continental trucks of the same time.
Here’s how I do when the documents are too large for my scanner. A good reflex digital camera fitted on an excellent 1970 tripod. Remote control makes it possible to have a very long exposure time.
There are loads of brochures posted on here Froggy if you have a look through the thread. Thats a serious set up you have there !
oiltreader:
“Tidy looking old wagon & drag, WHAT MAKE IS IT ?Buzzer”
It’s a Krupp, here’s another one.
Oily
Nice pic Oily.
Froggy55:
“DEANB”
Heres a brochure about them “Froggy55”. Bit of a bugger to scan as too big for the scanner.
I took enough time to read every single line of this document with attention. De-misting was still an option on the heavy Leyland range; how did the drivers managed by cold damp weather with the standard cab? The control panel is in the middle of the dashboard. It certainly made it cheaper to fit either RHD or LHD, but probably also likely to give a stiff neck to both British or Overseas drivers!
It was possible to buy a heater.
Advert from 1958.
windrush:
“Froggy55”
I took enough time to read every single line of this document with attention. De-misting was still an option on the heavy Leyland range; how did the drivers managed by cold damp weather with the standard cab? The control panel is in the middle of the dashboard. It certainly made it cheaper to fit either RHD or LHD, but probably also likely to give a stiff neck to both British or Overseas drivers!
Not many British vehicles had heaters/demisters at that time, I remember when our garage supplied new BMC’s in the late sixties heaters were an option and we used to fit them to new chassis if the customer requested one. Many didn’t bother: “You already have an engine in the cab, why do you want a heater as well?” was a common reply by a gaffer to a driver, many vehicles engaged on local deliveries didn’t bother with one as they never got warmed up anyway. Many British trucks and cars had the controls/speedometer in the centre, BMC FFK/FJK, Ford Trader, ERF etc and many light vans like Morris Minor/ BMC J2/J4 as it made economic sense.
Pete.
Pete, I can remember an old driver telling me that they use to tie old newspapers around there legs to keep the cold out in the winter as they had no
heaters. 
gingerfold:
“Froggy55” “oiltreader”“Tidy looking old wagon & drag, WHAT MAKE IS IT ?Buzzer”
It’s a Krupp, here’s another one.
Oily
Here are hundreds of Krupp pictures:
myntransportblog.com/tag/krupp/
Some of them were fitted with odd cylinder number (5 or 7) 2-stroke engines quite similar to Fodens.
I don’t think that they screamed quite like the Foden two-stroke
Foden 2 stroke brochure.
Click on pages twice to read.
gingerfold:
“Froggy55”
I took enough time to read every single line of this document with attention. De-misting was still an option on the heavy Leyland range; how did the drivers managed by cold damp weather with the standard cab? The control panel is in the middle of the dashboard. It certainly made it cheaper to fit either RHD or LHD, but probably also likely to give a stiff neck to both British or Overseas drivers!
De-misting the windscreen was the least of the problems. Scraping ice of the inside of the windscreen was much more difficult. 
:
I have had cars that used to ice up on the inside ! 
