We regularly brought stone blocks from St Bees, ■■■■■■■ back to Springwell Quarry, Gateshead. The blocks were then cut and dressed for various applications. Stone fireplaces were popular at the time and the pink stone from St Bees mixed well with the yellow stone quarried at Springwell. We would also bring blocks down to Springwell from Darnley Quarry at Otterburn, this stone was a lighter cream.
Blocks quarried at Springwell were a regular load to Thaw & Campbell stone masons in Glasgow.
To get back to the point each block was secured with a chain and Warwick.
tyneside:
We regularly brought stone blocks from St Bees, ■■■■■■■ back to Springwell Quarry, Gateshead. The blocks were then cut and dressed for various applications. Stone fireplaces were popular at the time and the pink stone from St Bees mixed well with the yellow stone quarried at Springwell. We would also bring blocks down to Springwell from Darnley Quarry at Otterburn, this stone was a lighter cream.
Blocks quarried at Springwell were a regular load to Thaw & Campbell stone masons in Glasgow.
To get back to the point each block was secured with a chain and Warwick.
Tyneside
Quite right too, these days I would have thought not doing that would be an automatic pull if spotted. Isn’t there a law which says that nothing should rely simply on its own weight for security? Thos rocks may ride perfectly safely until the time when a sudden stop or change of direction is required.
tyneside:
We regularly brought stone blocks from St Bees, ■■■■■■■ back to Springwell Quarry, Gateshead. The blocks were then cut and dressed for various applications. Stone fireplaces were popular at the time and the pink stone from St Bees mixed well with the yellow stone quarried at Springwell. We would also bring blocks down to Springwell from Darnley Quarry at Otterburn, this stone was a lighter cream.
Blocks quarried at Springwell were a regular load to Thaw & Campbell stone masons in Glasgow.
To get back to the point each block was secured with a chain and Warwick.
Tyneside
Quite right too, these days I would have thought not doing that would be an automatic pull if spotted. Isn’t there a law which says that nothing should rely simply on its own weight for security? Thos rocks may ride perfectly safely until the time when a sudden stop or change of direction is required.
We loaded / delivered solid fuel for years, never a rope or sheet in sight. Appreciate we were not up and down the motorway etc but we still went round corners and roundabouts. Our main depot was a stones throw from the centre of Gateshead and before the flyover was constructed we had to drive up the High Street loaded and empty. Never lost a bag and never bothered by the law.
The “Ministry Men” as they were at the time regularly set up a check point on outside the main bus garage just off the High street. The odd time we got stopped nothing was ever said about load security.
Tyneside
The lift bridge at Litherland was about half a mile from the Northern end of the large
docks in Liverpool. The lift bridge was necessary because of the Liverpool & Leeds
Canal, to allow the large goods barges to go to and from the docks, long before lorries
were regular transport. The bridge was dismantled many years ago and replaced with
a new roadway, an incline on both sides so that it rises above the canal. The red bus
is a Leyland PD3, 72 seater of Ribble Motor Services.
Pictures from Bootle History Forum.
Ray are you lost mate as you appear to have posted on the wrong thread, your post is irrelevant to roping & sheeting could be on Buses, Coaches & Lorries, cheers Buzzer
moomooland:
Wondered how long it be be before it appeared on here without an once of credit to the late Jim Riding.[/q
See you are still ploughing the same furrow & there’s been no sugar intake to sweeten you up over the last couple weeks, never knew Jim Riding so how can one credit someone you did not know and have never met, at the end of the day its just another truck picture posted for all to see so do your best to get over it, I am beginning to think you may be related to the man, Buzzer.
moomooland:
Wondered how long it be be before it appeared on here without an once of credit to the late Jim Riding.[/q
See you are still ploughing the same furrow & there’s been no sugar intake to sweeten you up over the last couple weeks, never knew Jim Riding so how can one credit someone you did not know and have never met, at the end of the day its just another truck picture posted for all to see so do your best to get over it, I am beginning to think you may be related to the man, Buzzer.
An Ossi Atkinson with Ossi tarp job [nmp], not as nice looking truck compared to the pommy unit.
DIG:
An Ossi Atkinson with Ossi tarp job [nmp], not as nice looking truck compared to the pommy unit.
Do you know who, and why, those Aussie Atkis were designed Dig. I often wondered why such a non aerodynamic thing could have been a good idea. I know they were fibreglass, like their UK parent but I have been told that, like the parent, draughts, and thus dust, couldn’t be excluded.
And what was Atkinson about them anyway, not the wheels, not the cab, not the engine or gearbox. Just the big A on the rad then.
DIG:
An Ossi Atkinson with Ossi tarp job [nmp], not as nice looking truck compared to the pommy unit.
Do you know who, and why, those Aussie Atkis were designed Dig. I often wondered why such a non aerodynamic thing could have been a good idea. I know they were fibreglass, like their UK parent but I have been told that, like the parent, draughts, and thus dust, couldn’t be excluded.
And what was Atkinson about them anyway, not the wheels, not the cab, not the engine or gearbox. Just the big A on the rad then. [/quote
David I have seen the Ozzi history of Atkinson here but Im unable to find the original story of them at this time, I can tell you they were around in the late 1960s as I worked at the Shell main depot in Freemantle in 1969 and they had at least one there an 8 wheeler tanker with a Detroit 671 engine.
I later drove an 8 wheeler flat top in 1972ish pulling a 6 wheel dog trailer carting mainly bricks and building materials not a sleeper model but a comfortable truck to drive no A/c but the hollow roof supplied a cool and not noisy environment to drive in and I can’t say I had any problems with dust the cab was well sealed it was powered by a Detroit 8v71 with a 13 speed R/R transmission 6rod rear suspension on Eaton diffs.
I tried to include an article about an 8 wheeler in Victoria that had a 250hp Gardener engine and is still i working today but web loc wouldn’t let me, the engine sticks out the back of the cab a fair way there is a pic I will try to upload it later
Not long before International took them over you could buy a heavy duty prime mover with a Cat 3408 and a spicer gear box 450-hp.
Sorry to say this will be my last post on the roping & sheeting thread as I have had a clipping of my wings so to speak from one of the moderator’s of TNUK, this saddens me but this has been brought about by my recent posting pictures of a well known haulage company & someone objecting to this thus going to the moderators of TNUK to complain even though the images were obtained from FB which is in the public domain. Most of you will be able to work out who the person is by previous recent posts.
One does enjoy doing what comes naturally when retired having spent a career in the industry and looking back and that surely is the aim of TNUK but sad to say one person can destroy many others pleasure, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Sorry to say this will be my last post on the roping & sheeting thread as I have had a clipping of my wings so to speak from one of the moderator’s of TNUK, this saddens me but this has been brought about by my recent posting pictures of a well known haulage company & someone objecting to this thus going to the moderators of TNUK to complain even though the images were obtained from FB which is in the public domain. Most of you will be able to work out who the person is by previous recent posts.
One does enjoy doing what comes naturally when retired having spent a career in the industry and looking back and that surely is the aim of TNUK but sad to say one person can destroy many others pleasure, Buzzer.
Shock, horror. Internet poster takes images that are publicly available on another website and reposts them on a specialist forum for the enjoyment of a wider audience - who would have thought that this would be allowed in this day and age
FWIW I always enjoy your posts, frequently making them my first port of call when I visit this site. Why some people take offence at pics being displayed without referring back to the person who took them originally is baffling. Especially when the pics are over 30 or 40 years old. Some people need to get a grip of themselves and stop being ■■■■.
I wonder how many pics the complainer has put on here without acknowledgment
