A couple of old Foden steamers
Hi Paul
Here’s some more photo’s taken at Tip-Con, sorry but I do not have any photo’s of Butlers. regards prattman.
Guesty44:
Alan reeves Guesty going over the H4
guesty
H4
Erm,don’t remember any mountains or telegraph poles last time I crossed H4!
prattman:
Hi PaulHere’s some more photo’s taken at Tip-Con, sorry but I do not have any photo’s of Butlers. regards prattman.
Hi Prattman
Thanks for looking,regards paul.
Hi Mick
Dougie gave me the photo’s of AUP 280L and AUP 281L see enclosed photo’s plus the other two colour photo’s, he says he can’t recognise the person standing in front the AEC can you put a name to him if not I will ask my brother-in-law Frank White as he worked there for about six years, he left Grady’s and went to work for Gordon Seymour.I returned the photo’s to Dougie today and asked him if he had any more and he said he had and so he will try and sort some out. regards prattman.
prattman:
Hi MickDougie gave me the photo’s of AUP 280L and AUP 281L see enclosed photo’s plus the other two colour photo’s, he says he can’t recognise the person standing in front the AEC can you put a name to him if not I will ask my brother-in-law Frank White as he worked there for about six years, he left Grady’s and went to work for Gordon Seymour.I returned the photo’s to Dougie today and asked him if he had any more and he said he had and so he will try and sort some out. regards prattman.
cheers prattman
i started for grady hall in 1974 as an apprentice but dont recognise that person he must have left before i started. they were two great motors and can remember driving them when i passed my test. i worked for them until 1990
cheers
mick
I drove two of these Morris lorries from the age of 19 until I was nearly 21.They were one the heaviest lorries on the steering that I have driven and that includes an AEC Matador. They were cold in the winter and very noisy with a four cylinder diesel engine. I was doing 1,500 miles a week with the second one.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
I drove two of these Morris lorries from the age of 19 until I was nearly 21.They were one the heaviest lorries on the steering that I have driven and that includes an AEC Matador. They were cold in the winter and very noisy with a four cylinder diesel engine. I was doing 1,500 miles a week with the second one.
Cheers Dave.
I agree with you about the steering & the cold Dave we used to top new chassis cabs down to our depot from Bathgate then plate the last 10 miles to the dealer. Normally you had plenty of volunteers in the yard to do these jobs but not with these trucks they would run a mile. Cannot believe how heavy the steering was & that was empty.
Hi, Folks we ran 3 of them 2 bull nose 6 cylinders and 1 4 cylinder it ran on fresh air but the steering was some thing else ,Cheers Barry
We had one at Thomas Ingles with the 3.8 4cyl BMC, no one liked driving it for all of the above reasons so it sat at the side of the yard with railway sleepers underneath the chassis and the diesel storage tank on the back of it ! The threepenny bit BMC was the runabout originally so it was replaced with a little Ford D0707 which was ten times better and was one of the most reliable on the fleet.
Trev_H:
We had one at Thomas Ingles with the 3.8 4cyl BMC, no one liked driving it for all of the above reasons so it sat at the side of the yard with railway sleepers underneath the chassis and the diesel storage tank on the back of it ! The threepenny bit BMC was the runabout originally so it was replaced with a little Ford D0707 which was ten times better and was one of the most reliable on the fleet.
Hi Trev
We had a few FG’s and believe it or not in about 1974 I drove the one below to Naples and back. Steering was not good but not as bad on a long run when not too much manovering to do. In most of ours we specified the 3.8 4cylinder engine instead of the standard 2.3 normally fitted in the one and half ton chassis, and like you say the noise particularly going over the Alps was almost unbearable
Carl
