the flying foden:
ezydriver do you know if the driver was named hughes from saltney ?
Hi mate,
It says “Alan Harrison” and does not give a location. Only that he was 43 years old.
ezydriver:
the flying foden:
ezydriver do you know if the driver was named hughes from saltney ?Hi mate,
It says “Alan Harrison” and does not give a location. Only that he was 43 years old.
cheers mate it’s not the lad i thought it was . 
Brilliant photos again Bubbleman, keep them coming please mate.
BB
Great pics as ever bubbs. Got any info on the 4 wheeler “Spanish” Dodge?
Cant recall seeing many(if any) with the sleeper cab.
ezydriver:
the flying foden:
ezydriver do you know if the driver was named hughes from saltney ?Hi mate,
It says “Alan Harrison” and does not give a location. Only that he was 43 years old.
ezydriver the bloke with the norberts renault was alan harrison also known as egg on legs ,
he was a total prick , i worked with him there and at sitra .
Suedehead:
Great pics as ever bubbs. Got any info on the 4 wheeler “Spanish” Dodge?
Cant recall seeing many(if any) with the sleeper cab.
Hi again,Suedehead…sorry mate,no info as the pic is drawn from a Dodge brochure,I must admit that I do recall many with sleeper cabs but this was after a bit of a facelift a few years after they came over here,the rare ones were 4 wheel rigids,there was one near me here in Bristol…a company called Groves Tpt ran one with a dangler on the back…I think I’ve put a pic of it on the scrapbook somewhere.Ok heres todays offering,Cheers Bubbs, 
Hi,heres an inside look inside the Transcons cab.
Now you might think that the 2 blokes having a kip are Ford test drivers,actually they are Dennis and Harry sleeping off a good night out on the ■■■■!!! 
Cheers Bubbs,
Bubbs,
gazza1970:
ezydriver:
the flying foden:
ezydriver do you know if the driver was named hughes from saltney ?Hi mate,
It says “Alan Harrison” and does not give a location. Only that he was 43 years old.
ezydriver the bloke with the norberts renault was alan harrison also known as egg on legs ,
he was a total prick , i worked with him there and at sitra .
Ha ha, I can tell by the crap in the windscreen… us night lads would soon be slinging that on the bunk!
bubbleman:
Bubbs,
hiya,
Not guilty Bubbs I do not snore, ask my Missus, and a bed that size
wouldn’t do for me, so no thanks, a mid afternoon nap maybe but
only if the weather was bad and I couldn’t find a decent park bench.
thanks harry, long retired.
mr bubbleman was that you on top the bridge on the M4 by the M32 junction this afternoon around 3.30 ish ■■? i did beep !!!
bubbleman:
Suedehead:
Great pics as ever bubbs. Got any info on the 4 wheeler “Spanish” Dodge?
Cant recall seeing many(if any) with the sleeper cab.Hi again,Suedehead…sorry mate,no info as the pic is drawn from a Dodge brochure,I must admit that I do recall many with sleeper cabs but this was after a bit of a facelift a few years after they came over here,the rare ones were 4 wheel rigids,there was one near me here in Bristol…a company called Groves Tpt ran one with a dangler on the back…I think I’ve put a pic of it on the scrapbook somewhere.Ok heres todays offering,Cheers Bubbs,
Cracking Hovis picture!!!cheers flourpower
GCR2ERF:
Hi Bubbs, when would this have been taken? Looks to me like this has been upgraded to 38tonnes?
Well blow me down, thats the the first Clarks of Wellingborough truck i’ve ever seen in picture, many thanks for posting it i’m chuffed to buggery.
Looks like Wurzel at the helm complete with fishermans hat permanently stuck to his head, smashing bloke he was, haven’t seen hide nor hair of him for well over 20 years, last time i seen him he was moving to Sth West Wales with his lovely Welsh wife and their kids, bought themselves a smallholding.
Its got to be Wurzel, do you know i’ve forgotten his real name, Paul something, the worlds biggest sideburns are the giveaway.
That truck like so many other Crusaders suffered hub reduction axle failure, the gaffer Peter bought a Rockwell from a broken Transcontinental and the mechanic Alan Dyke (one of the best i’ve ever known) fitted it as i recall.
I loved driving that truck, you could be overtaking someone at 75 and just as you got cab to cab slip it into top…that caused some double takes… 
seems a lifetime ago we used to cruise at speeds like that, it had the usual 290 Rolls Eagle engine and Fuller Ranger box.
Most of the trailers had extra axles fitted to uprate them to 38tons and some stretched to suit, not sure if this one was a stretch.
Thanks for the great memories in this thread all those who post their pics.
Juddian:
I loved driving that truck, you could be overtaking someone at 75 and just as you got cab to cab slip it into top…that caused some double takes…Most of the trailers had extra axles fitted to uprate them to 38tons and some stretched to suit, not sure if this one was a stretch.
Thanks for the great memories in this thread all those who post their pics.
Blimey Juddian, I wouldn’t want to tip an extended tipper trailer, not unless it was fitted with stabaliser legs at the back, but they must have been a pain, lifting and lowering.
Agree about the old high speed days, the last time I did 75 in a lorry was around 1965, hairy but exhilerating. 
I never drove a Crusader but always thought they looked the bees knees and thought of them as the forerunner of the Magnum in cab design. Would that be a fair description?
Spardo:
Juddian:
Blimey Juddian, I wouldn’t want to tip an extended tipper trailer, not unless it was fitted with stabaliser legs at the back, but they must have been a pain, lifting and lowering.
Agree about the old high speed days, the last time I did 75 in a lorry was around 1965, hairy but exhilerating.
I never drove a Crusader but always thought they looked the bees knees and thought of them as the forerunner of the Magnum in cab design. Would that be a fair description?
Never had a moments trouble tipping Clarks trailers, extended or otherwise, never any wear in the hinge which helped , in practice the trailers that got extended were simply too small to carry our loads, of which many comprised of leather industry waste, coal, grain etc.
We used to carry wet leather often so stabiliser legs not possible, as you raised the body about three rams you’d feel for the load start to shift and then gently under control let the load shoot you forward about 2 or three yards as it came out quickly, usually in one lump, keep it in place and good possibility of the tailboard getting bent or ripped off when 25 tons shot out as one.
Only had one go over in my time there and that wasn’t extended, not me guv.
Never driven a Magnum, a Crusader was an aquired taste i suppose, hard ride and in most cases no air assistance on the clutches (Wurzels truck in the pic being one of the last made might have had air assisted clutch i can’t remember) so heavy traffic called for some strength to keep the clutch down, but the ever useful Fuller Ranger meant no or minimal clutch needed once on the move.
As i recall the cab was another Motor Panels design apart from the front but raised higher than other makers, and for its day was roomy not having so much of a bonnet inside, most Crusaders including the two i had allocated to me were day cabs with ‘cushette’ bed…there’s posh for you… .
Proper drivers truck though, none of that synchro gears-for-girls rubbish and decent engines under the bonnet, would take whatever you threw at it.
The Rockwell rear axle conversion though fun on motorway for its overgearing, was too high geared for the truck, for general use the hub reduction was better for our type of work round farms etc, they’d still cruise at 70/75 all day long.
An old mate of mine used to take his day cab Crusader on continental work, the foreign lads were intrigued when he raised the bonnet, undid the securing wheel and the radiator would swing out on two massive side hinges allowing full access to the front of the engine, brilliant bit of design that, never seen it on anything else.
Juddian:
GCR2ERF:
Hi Bubbs, when would this have been taken? Looks to me like this has been upgraded to 38tonnes?
It maybe just an illusion but do the rear wheels/tyres look a bigger size than the front ones on this Scammell?
Could be a stretch though. look at the hubs on the trailer. front axle is a different hub.
Juddian:
Never had a moments trouble tipping Clarks trailers, extended or otherwise, never any wear in the hinge which helpedWe used to carry wet leather often so stabiliser legs not possible, as you raised the body about three rams you’d feel for the load start to shift and then gently under control let the load shoot you forward about 2 or three yards as it came out quickly, usually in one lump, keep it in place and good possibility of the tailboard getting bent or ripped off when 25 tons shot out as one.
Only had one go over in my time there and that wasn’t extended, not me guv.
Never lost one myself, but when I was at Bulkliners with their little 20 foot skellies and then they introduced 30s there was a problem. I don’t know if it was the extra weght of the 30 foot container or some engineering miscalculation but several went over shortly after they were introduced. They welded some extra strengthening to the chassis at the front and that seemed to cure it but I was always nervous with them. I used to keep the cab door open just in case and once while watching the top of the trailer felt sure it was going. I slammed the handle down as I left the cab at speed and shot off to a safe distance. Only then did I realise that what I’d seen were the clouds on that windy day scudding across the sky making it look as as if the trailer was on the move. 
I gingerly got back in and sent it up again to complete the task. 
Got to agree about girly synchros though. I hated them, always seemed sticky to me and hard wearing on the elbow. Since my 2nd car now, a Saxo, had a problem with the linkage a year or so ago I went back to doubling. Nice.
pimmer73:
mr bubbleman was that you on top the bridge on the M4 by the M32 junction this afternoon around 3.30 ish ■■? i did beep !!!
Hi again,No mate…I was on the M5 footbridge near Gordano services yesterday from about 2pm til 3.25pm,before I went to work.blasted off a couple of hundred pics…heres a few,including one of your mates Cheers Bubbs,
