Aberdeen reg number that is .
Hi Dan, SS registration was the East Lothian mark. Andrew Hogg tankers from Tranent were all SS registered. The Edinburgh area lads all had very smart motors livery wise and always well turned out including themselves. ie Croans Kippers, Forth Haulage Co, Saddlers of Leith, Pollock, Musselburgh Dobsons, Thos Davidson, Hugh Harper, Drummonds Armadale, Wm Alston of Bathgate, William Russell, Bathgate, and John G Russell Grangemouth to name a few.
Cheers, Leyland 600
newmercman:
Now this is a sight to behold, a true master at his craft.
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A great photo there NMM , now this isnt a criticism but square loads always look better than an odd shaped load when sheeted but hes an obvious expert as you couldn`t improve on that effort 
Talk abut OCD, newmercman, I bet you spend your 45 minute break picking stones out of your tyres withy an old screwdriver.
Why is it not sheeted over the headboard ?
Retired Old ■■■■:
Talk abut OCD, newmercman, I bet you spend your 45 minute break picking stones out of your tyres withy an old screwdriver.
Funny you should say that, I did actually do that last year, having a double drive unit made that twice as laborious a task too, it isn’t an exercise I will repeat though, a complete and utter waste of time as they were full of stones before I left the (gravel surfaced) yard. It did feel quite satisfying though and the Michelins looked pristine when I had finished.
I had an OCD moment this weekend when I questioned why anybody would put the salt and pepper pots back in the cupboard in the wrong order, it was pepper and salt, not salt and pepper, the wife and the boy wonder looked at me, looked at each other, then shook their heads, heathens they are…
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Suedehead:
Why is it not sheeted over the headboard ?
Hiya Suedehead most likely a pallet load and although an excellent job I
personally always “encased” the headboard with the main sheet and if
the load didn’t reach the tail end of the trailer that bit was “encased”
as well and I never in all my years got a damaged or wet signature not
bad Eh.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Suedehead:
Why is it not sheeted over the headboard ?Hiya Suedehead most likely a pallet load and although an excellent job I
personally always “encased” the headboard with the main sheet and if
the load didn’t reach the tail end of the trailer that bit was “encased”
as well and I never in all my years got a damaged or wet signature not
bad Eh.
thanks harry, long retired.
Sheeting over the headboard all ok back in the day but today we have proper headboards on trailers 6 ft plus .
ok nice load look closely, and you cannot see any doles or hicthes in the ropes,and the fly sheet has rubber ties…
peggydeckboy:
ok nice load look closely, and you cannot see any doles or hicthes in the ropes,and the fly sheet has rubber ties.…
Can’t beat old innertube for fastening sheets, used loads of them, and then innertubes went out of fashion so we searched building sites for plastic drain pipe connectors that were ‘surplus’ to requirements! Jump on them a couple of times and the rubber seals popped out…result! 
And then calamity, somebody invented the Easysheet and they were no longer needed so the plastic wastepipes could then rest in peace for evermore. 
Pete.
WELL you learn every day rubber ties ,never come across them ,i would not have dared use the,only on a number plate bracket. later on in years i did see them used in Italy.
peggydeckboy:
WELL you learn every day rubber ties ,never come across them ,i would not have dared use the,only on a number plate bracket. later on in years i did see them used in Italy.
Was that when you visited a “knocking shop” in Italy PDB ■■ 
an early '76 shot of one our F88’s leaving Bowater Scott’s Mill in Barrow-in -Furness the trailer is loaded for our night trunk to their West Thurrock RDC, and yes I sheeted and roped the load, well IIRC the nearside as shown on the shot, my Old Guv’nor Eric Postlethwaite did the O/S as he always did on the Octopus and trailer I could be "in and out " of Bowaters like a dose of salts when we were busy which was a right bone of contention at times, but it was a case of “who you know” and Possy and me were “tight” ! Bewick.
windrush:
peggydeckboy:
ok nice load look closely, and you cannot see any doles or hicthes in the ropes,and the fly sheet has rubber ties.…Can’t beat old innertube for fastening sheets, used loads of them, and then innertubes went out of fashion so we searched building sites for plastic drain pipe connectors that were ‘surplus’ to requirements! Jump on them a couple of times and the rubber seals popped out…result!
Pete.
Bungees Pete are the best way .
Punchy Dan:
windrush:
peggydeckboy:
ok nice load look closely, and you cannot see any doles or hicthes in the ropes,and the fly sheet has rubber ties.…Can’t beat old innertube for fastening sheets, used loads of them, and then innertubes went out of fashion so we searched building sites for plastic drain pipe connectors that were ‘surplus’ to requirements! Jump on them a couple of times and the rubber seals popped out…result!
Pete.
Bungees Pete are the best way .
Nice one Bewick. i still remember," quanto per una sveltina"= {how much for a quickie} and maybe sub from the running money but always put it back…i also go to Crete, solo,self catering for servicing ,oil change 2,weeks every year to Elounda…
I would have sheeted this box; just so no-one could take a picture.
ChrisArbon:
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I would have sheeted this box; just so no-one could take a picture.
Bewicks secrets out he’s been sheeting containers up
Punchy Dan:
ChrisArbon:
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I would have sheeted this box; just so no-one could take a picture.Bewicks secrets out he’s been sheeting containers up
No no no Dan’l, with the size of sheets you use there is no way you could have fully sheeted that box (using all of them) ! Now as regards the size of sheets we used at Bewick Tra------- Cheers Dennis.
Yes master ,when I was dinning in the wheatsheaf on Saturday night they said you come in folding the serviettes !