Chris Webb:
Hi Bubbs,Harry will have driven one of them Albions same as me.I can’t remember whether it was a Clydesdale or a Chieftan but SWB 425F I had now and again with a four in line trailer and the splitter lever at back of cab.It was the first artic I ever drove - talk about cab - happy.
Still got the bruises from that splitter lever
hiya,
Yep a four pot job Scammell coupling single axle traialer and i seem to think it had a 2 speed axle went like the wind when empty but loaded “yuk” think i used to put about twelve tons on her which was six too many, the firm was Harwood Meggitt now long gone, i was “resting” after doing a spell of heavy haulage moving old main line steam locomotives Lancs to South Wales i was doing a bit of freelance on that job, shh, cash per job, well i was single and the local brewery had to be kept going.
thanks harry long retired.