Hi, Dan, Our YARD was next door to that was Corbetts, the S/A , was an ex STIRLANDS ,WE HAD TWO of there W reg , very good tools ,and the old lorry up by the tank beleve it or not we had brand new in 1961, was a Seddon mark 5 lnr , R 6 ENGINE BROWN 5 SPEED OVERDRIVE ,Single speed axle , oil brakes double tandem hydrovac , it would stop on a six pence ,went like a Rocket it had a 50 style cab on but with a lot of fiberglass panels and alloy doors , we think it was all the left overs from early models as it was a hell of ajob to get parts for ,But did us proud untill the chassie broke in half behind e cab usuall thing overloading ,a bit of usless info Cheers Barry
Err Saw this today ,the driver had done his best .
steelboyf10:
Hi Barry
Here you go, a great line up of some of your Sed Atki’s found them on flicker
A tidy shot of some of your Sed/Atks Baz but I didn’t go much on “home made” sleeper conversations TBH, did they all have Gardner engines? Cheers Mr. Bewick.
The last two British motors we got at Bewick Transport in 1984.
EERR,I bet the other side is worse ,
double twists round the dolly eye, why its not the queen mary,
uneven dolly’s all the way along,
back end not good .
ropes need attention ends need backsplice or a hot flame to seal them off.
looks like the same sheet used as a fly,
,rubber old inner tube ties,
use a nice thin cord,spliced in the eye of the sheet.called tails.
other than that, not a road hazard, sheet will not flap about, driver will be able to see behind, no bilowing ,so not a bad job, needs attention to detail but i would have taken it out, effort good. wearing a funny hat so no one recognised me…pdb
HI, MR, BEWICK , Yes all Gardeners , 180 ,201 , 240 s ,our sleepers were the back of another day cab welded onto our day cab ,looked the part only difference to a factory one was ,ours had two small windows behind the door ,as the factory ones had a big window and a small one ,Cheers Barry
peggydeckboy:
EERR,I bet the other side is worse ,
double twists round the dolly eye, why its not the queen mary,
uneven dolly’s all the way along,
back end not good .
ropes need attention ends need backsplice or a hot flame to seal them off.
looks like the same sheet used as a fly,
,rubber old inner tube ties,
use a nice thin cord,spliced in the eye of the sheet.called tails.
other than that, not a road hazard, sheet will not flap about, driver will be able to see behind, no bilowing ,so not a bad job, needs attention to detail but i would have taken it out, effort good. wearing a funny hat so no one recognised me…pdb
The lad’s done his best, pdb. You have to realize that he’s based in the Peaks where most of their loads are covered by an Easysheet and get unloaded by hydraulics. Not really a “proper” driver, but you can’t hold that against him. He does try hard, though. 
■■■■■■■■ to all that!
Will it flap in the slipstream? Will it allow water ingress? Will it allow the load to loosen and fall off?
No?
Job’s a goodun! All else is vanity!
I’m already half an hour behind schedule!
John.
John West:
■■■■■■■■ to all that!Will it flap in the slipstream? Will it allow water ingress? Will it allow the load to loosen and fall off?
No?
Job’s a goodun! All else is vanity!
I’m already half an hour behind schedule!
John.
+1
No time to waste doing origami when he’s got a tipping job and a bulk refuse/scrap job when he’s swapped the flat for the tipper and bulker multi lift bodies later on. 
Carryfast:
+1No time to waste doing origami when he’s got a tipping job and a bulk refuse/scrap job when he’s swapped the flat for the tipper and bulker multi lift bodies later on.
That’s right CF,got it in one. Crack on and get that load off and get the next one on before somebody else takes it! In the Peaks we don’t have the time to stand around admiring folk’s handywork and having ■■■■■■’s over neat roping, if the truck isn’t moving then it’s making nowt and man can’t live on fresh air alone! 
Pete.
Aye leave the Lad alone but he is getting better so the Bewick “correspondence course” is not such a waste of money after all 
Wh oooooo 85 pages on here all looking for perfection, all photographs looking for perfection ,and when a poor ,old,southerner pensioner , picks a few nits on a lad from the peaks,all hell breaks loose , hahah .
All loads are game for quality inspection from the southern quality control .old ■■■■■ department. P.O.S.E.R.our branch of V.O.S.A.
Are the peaks really up north,?if you were a jock they would be down south…
I do understand that the Dean, of the ■■■■■■■■ roping and sheeting collage , Milnthorpe branch, has excepted full responsibility for the A- result…
his course will be looked in to for modification, by out side observers maybe from Wales as interdependent…as they seem thin on the grass.
Mr WINDRUSH are you telling me that road haulage is money orientated, “never”! ,i thought it was ,look nice for the public, all though all the sheep in the PEAKS will not care.
What Bewick neglected to tell everyone was that his roping and sheeting course was stolen from me. As per usual he undercut me so that he could get all the profitable (over priced) courses that I was running, only to hike the prices up as soon as he had put me out of business. Now where have we heard this before?
Me? Bitter? Certainly not! I’m quite happy living out the rest of my days struggling on a basic state pension while Bewick strolls around his hidden warehouses, counting his 240 Gardner engines with a glass of something expensive in his hand.
Mmm, not often that you see the words ‘Poor, Southerner and Pensioner’ in the same sentence PDB! 
Yes, The Peaks ARE in the North (The North Midlands when I last looked 
) and what industry we had is rapidy vanishing so we have to make the best of it before ‘tripper power’ and the Peak National Park etc finally remove what little we still have and Dan has nothing left to cart ! Dennis’s course will improve Dan’s efforts without doubt, ROF was offering something similar but it has transpired that it would be Dennis doing the actual training and ROF just taking a cut of the proceeds so Dennis (quite rightly) cut out the middle man to get 100% of the profits instead of the scraps that ROF was offering! 
Pete.
peggydeckboy:
Wh oooooo 85 pages on here all looking for perfection, all photographs looking for perfection ,and when a poor ,old,southerner pensioner , picks a few nits on a lad from the peaks,all hell breaks loose , hahah .All loads are game for quality inspection from the southern quality control .old ■■■■■ department. P.O.S.E.R.our branch of V.O.S.A.
Are the peaks really up north,?if you were a jock they would be down south…I do understand that the Dean, of the ■■■■■■■■ roping and sheeting collage , Milnthorpe branch, has excepted full responsibility for the A- result…
his course will be looked in to for modification, by out side observers maybe from Wales as interdependent…as they seem thin on the grass.Mr WINDRUSH are you telling me that road haulage is money orientated, “never”! ,i thought it was ,look nice for the public, all though all the sheep in the PEAKS will not care.
i reckon rof can hardly remember sheets and ropes seeing as how he spent his declining years on powder tanks ( easier work for the older drivers ) .
Well, well, Rigsby & Windrush, you certainly find out who your friends are when the chips are down.All you “Northerners” are ganging up on a poor Southern pensioner in the hope that the ■■■■■■■■ Sheeter will cut you in on the Gardner and ■■■■■■■ NOS scam that he runs with Hoo Flung Dung, the Hong Kong anchor importer. I’m sorry to have to enlighten you, chaps, but in the true spirit of the entrepreneur, Bewick will pocket every last penny of his ill-gotten gains and will cast you aside as you have me. I intend to apply to leylandlover and lurpak to see if I would be welcome back in God’s Own County after all these years in exile trying to educate you foreigners in the ways of the “proper” lorry driver.
Sad to think that my whole life has been a complete and utter waste, despite my best efforts. I wonder if BRS would have me back?
What a capture that picture is, i think the shovel man is very interested in something maybe left earlier and perhaps still steaming? and not a concessioner of old ,or
even modern trucks , mirrors were round and like from a budgies cage on a Austin in 1965 they were I do remember the one nearside spot light for the kerb, on a leyland super comet 1966. BRS…first 2 months roping and sheeting ,all day every day. Saturday mornings overtime.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Well, well, Rigsby & Windrush, you certainly find out who your friends are when the chips are down.All you “Northerners” are ganging up on a poor Southern pensioner in the hope that the ■■■■■■■■ Sheeter will cut you in on the Gardner scam that he runs with Hoo Flung Dung, the Hong Kong anchor importer.
Fixed that.Although you’ve missed out the free Guy Big J provided with each boat anchor as a bonus for the customer.
That’s exactly the problem, CF: There are no Big Js left since You-know-who hijacked them off the M6, took out those lovely ■■■■■■■ units, fitted the 240 Gardners and flogged the last 40 to those unsuspecting Smith blokes up in Maddiston. He’s probably still arguing over the price of the remainder of the engines with Hoo Flung Dung. I wonder if he’s started offering a free 220 ■■■■■■■ with every Gardner, yet?
There’s those same three words yet again! Poor, Southern and Pensioner; not a problem when written singularly but when put together in the same sentence it turns the whole article into a work of fiction and you will get no sympathy from me. Anyway ROF, Macclesfield was reasonably North (of Leatherhead at least!) the last time I passed through there which was on Sunday? Oh and I can’t afford ANY of the sheeting courses offered on here, I will just settle with chucking a sheet over my 8ft trailer and pulling the elastic bands tight! The sheet has a few holes in it but any water can run out through the gaps in the floor.
Pete.