I can understand the USA complaining about the noise from the Concordes as my parents house in Reading was below the flight path and at 11am every morning the house shook and conversation indoors ceased!
Interesting read on Concorde it was an amazing iconic plane. I was working offshore off Newfoundland around 2000 and was doing some work on the back deck of a vessel and around 14.00 heard a dull bang nether really paid much attention though. Then the next day around the same time the same bang. One of the marine crew then said " That’s Concorde going over again same time every day" It was the sonic boom you could hear, awesome plane up with the Vulcan for sheer earth shattering noise!!
Hi Dean
thanks for the Drinkwater Sabey Volvo, but I prefer the Guppy Haulmaster in original Drinkwater green.Roll on off with a crane is a handy tool.
finbarot:
Hi Dean
thanks for the Drinkwater Sabey Volvo, but I prefer the Guppy Haulmaster in original Drinkwater green.Roll on off with a crane is a handy tool.
Could be built onto the rollonoff chassis as opposed to the vehicle chassis, we had one at smiths with a grab built onto a bulk tipper rollonoff container/chassis.
windrush:
I can understand the USA complaining about the noise from the Concordes as my parents house in Reading was below the flight path and at 11am every morning the house shook and conversation indoors ceased!
Pete.
They had the hump Pete as they were jealous of it.
Kempston:
Kempston" Early London brick motor.
Yes it’s a beauty Dean
Here’s another old one,will pop something on about London Bricks soon.
jshepguis:
Interesting read on Concorde it was an amazing iconic plane. I was working offshore off Newfoundland around 2000 and was doing some work on the back deck of a vessel and around 14.00 heard a dull bang nether really paid much attention though. Then the next day around the same time the same bang. One of the marine crew then said " That’s Concorde going over again same time every day" It was the sonic boom you could hear, awesome plane up with the Vulcan for sheer earth shattering noise!!
Yeah remember the boom sound well.
finbarot:
Hi Dean
thanks for the Drinkwater Sabey Volvo, but I prefer the Guppy Haulmaster in original Drinkwater green.Roll on off with a crane is a handy tool.
I thought you might,knowing how much you like Fodens.
Kempston:
“finbarot” Hi Dean
thanks for the Drinkwater Sabey Volvo, but I prefer the Guppy Haulmaster in original Drinkwater green.Roll on off with a crane is a handy tool.
Could be built onto the rollonoff chassis as opposed to the vehicle chassis, we had one at smiths with a grab built onto a bulk tipper rollonoff container/chassis.
Yes it was a roll on roll off body “Kempston” as it carried bodies like the one on there mighty Commer that was running around
for years. I expect they still have the Commer although its not on the road anymore.
DEANB:
Yes such a shame that the accident in France finished it off Kempston.
Fascinating interview here youtube.com/watch?v=fqOcYhzWUZY with John Hutchinson, senior Concorde pilot and later Concorde Fleet Manager, about the true causes of the Concorde crash. The debris on the runway was a contributory factor, but its fate was sealed by:
a) poor maintenance by Air France - they left out an undercarriage component on reassembly, which meant that it crabbed down the runway and provided the ignition source for the fuel leak
b) poor decisions by the Captain, not challenged by the First Officer - 3 tonnes overweight with excess fuel, gross overfilling of fuel tanks leading to the fuel leak, attempting a downwind take off whilst knowingly overweight and outside the aft centre of gravity limits, and using a portion of closed runway which involved running over a lip in the runway surface
c) Shutdown of a functioning engine by the Flight Engineer, without any reference to the pilots whatsoever
Is there anything that you don’t have clippings about??
I think i have some more stuff on it somewhere but its not scanned. Was going to pop a brochure on about the 747 but again not scanned
and i put it somewhere safe and cant find it now…
240 Gardner:
DEANB:
Yes such a shame that the accident in France finished it off Kempston.
Fascinating interview here youtube.com/watch?v=fqOcYhzWUZY with John Hutchinson, senior Concorde pilot and later Concorde Fleet Manager, about the true causes of the Concorde crash. The debris on the runway was a contributory factor, but its fate was sealed by:
a) poor maintenance by Air France - they left out an undercarriage component on reassembly, which meant that it crabbed down the runway and provided the ignition source for the fuel leak
b) poor decisions by the Captain, not challenged by the First Officer - 3 tonnes overweight with excess fuel, gross overfilling of fuel tanks leading to the fuel leak, attempting a downwind take off whilst knowingly overweight and outside the aft centre of gravity limits, and using a portion of closed runway which involved running over a lip in the runway surface
c) Shutdown of a functioning engine by the Flight Engineer, without any reference to the pilots whatsoever
Thanks for that link Chris,very intresting watch,not seen that before.
You cant believe the pilot made all those mistakes that ended up killing everybody. Its surprising how often it is pilot error that
causes some of these crashes,bit like the Air Asia one that crashed between Singapore and Jakarta a few years ago.
finbarot:
“240 Gardner” “DEANB”
Have a fair bit on Concorde.
Is there anything that you don’t have clippings about??
He doesn’t have much on Drinkwater Sabey, tippers or Fodens.Very poor effort really!!
Anyone know where the Auto Mechanical Iveco is from ■■
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Dont think we have had a T.A.Jervis motor on before,anyone make out where they are from ■■
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Trevor,cant remember if we have had a D & G Transport motor on before ■■
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Burgoynes Foden.
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Hello DEAN ,what an assortment ,the Scania fridge is Elwyn Morris from Oswestry ,they no longer sign write thier trucks ,and D&G Transport were from Lydbury North ,but i am not sure if they are still around .
T A Jervis were from Doseley that was down towards Ironbridge ,they did very similar work to Lion Transport who we mentioned last week ,coal ,flyash in and out of Buildwas power station …they have all gone sadly ,thank you Trevor
Primor Freight is a blast from the past remember there motors coming through Poole alot back in the 80’s. Pic was taken in 2007
are they still going does anyone know ■■
