robroy:
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How not to rope and sheet. I’d be ashamed to go down the road like that. you could hear it flapping as you passed it.
dont fancy paying his fuel bill lol
Could be that “fast eddie” has started sheeting and roping ! 
Bewick.
Blown up it reads BTS on the tail door !!
Dan Punchard:
Blown up it reads BTS on the tail door !!
Probably “Brooklands Transport Services” Dan Couldn’t be one of Bewicks the sheets are too manky mate plus they are flapping which is another clue !! 
Cheers Dennis.
got this one nice and tight for you Dennis just incase you saw me passing through yesterday
Dan Punchard:
0got this one nice and tight for you Dennis just incase you saw me passing through yesterday
If you can’t beat the ■■■■■■■ you have to join them 
Well err ,by your own standards Dennis err not sheeted over the headboard for a start !!!
Dan Punchard:
0got this one nice and tight for you Dennis just incase you saw me passing through yesterday
C’mon Lads this is “nit picking” to the Nth degree eh! It was a piece of machinery from the Mill set on timbers which we were returning to the manufacturer for re-furb or repair so it would have looked a right bloody mess with the fly sheet over the headboard which would have created a right wind trap! Dennis.PS Ooh! my head hurts !!
Went to brother Andy’s this afternoon to try and get a set of points working on the model railway.
Took several photos of a couple of model trucks. As I’m a ■■■■ photographer, I’ll only put one on here.
The John Mitchell ERF had no number plate or load when Andy bought it. However, it had a name Grangemouth Princess. Andy wrote to Ian Mitchell, who very kindly wrote back with the number - it was H reg, but It’s out of focus on the one I took from the front
Ian said he remembered it well, he changed the gearbox on it as an apprentice. At that point, andy had a ‘Hap’ on the cab roof, as per the K reg Smith of Maddiston behind it. Ian said that his Dad wouldn’t let the drivers put the sheets on the roof - he reckoned they weren’t strong enough.
I think Andy’s made a pretty good job of the roping and sheeting. (The Smith of Maddiston load and roping and sheeting is a moulding)
John
John West:
Went to brother Andy’s this afternoon to try and get a set of points working on the model railway.Took several photos of a couple of model trucks. As I’m a [zb] photographer, I’ll only put one on here.
The John Mitchell ERF had no number plate or load when Andy bought it. However, it had a name Grangemouth Princess. Andy wrote to Ian Mitchell, who very kindly wrote back with the number - it was H reg, but It’s out of focus on the one I took from the front
Ian said he remembered it well, he changed the gearbox on it as an apprentice. At that point, andy had a ‘Hap’ on the cab roof, as per the K reg Smith of Maddiston behind it. Ian said that his Dad wouldn’t let the drivers put the sheets on the roof - he reckoned they weren’t strong enough.
I think Andy’s made a pretty good job of the roping and sheeting. (The Smith of Maddiston load and roping and sheeting is a moulding)
John
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I trust you had your hi viz gear on John and had “look outs” and “flag men” up the track while you were working on the points !! What is Andy’s layout modeled on—Foxfield junction maybe ? and that four wheeler loaded with timber looks like it could be one of Broomby’s by the colour scheme! Cheers Dennis.
The cab caps on the roof’s of the Mitchell’s and SOM were fixed on top of the actual metal cab roof so they were strong enough to hold a couple of sheets but I suppose it was only affecting rigids as they were not used on tractor units the first “B” Series we got at Bewick Transport had the same roof cap incorporating the illuminated sign but the ones we took delivery of later were fitted with illuminated “box” straight on to the metal roof.My old Pal Malc Woodhouse Snr. use to refer to them as “Irish boxes” ! Cheers Bewick.
The fron’t unit has the cab cap and the one behind the illuminated “box”
Dennis , did any of your loads require the use of ‘sideboards’ such as bottles and the like ?
boris:
Dennis , did any of your loads require the use of ‘sideboards’ such as bottles and the like ?
Hiya “boris” yes we did use corner boards on the Libby traffic,they were those heavy black cardborad ones about three foot six long,I also had some strips of poly fly sheet about one foot wide and about ten foot long with rope at each end which we used on the Bowater tissue loads but these were superseded by “bottle” fly sheets with rope stitched around the edge so the whole load was well tied down.Cheers Dennis.
If you notice that the far load has an orange foot wide strip sticking below the fly sheet,these were three loads of Bowater tissue stood on our trailer park at the side of the A6 at Milnthorpe,the two Atkis would run to Daventry and back at night and the ERF was Dudley based at the time and will have been up for service and would have been collected later on that evening and returned to Dudley where the day man would run to West Thurrock and back.The shot is late afternoon circa mid 1975.Cheers Dennis.