prattman:
just come across these two pages plus the front cover of one of my scrapbooks. regards prattman.
Well done Prattman, shame you have no more.
prattman:
just come across these two pages plus the front cover of one of my scrapbooks. regards prattman.
Well done Prattman, shame you have no more.
bestbooties:
Guesty44:
Alan reeves Guesty going over the H4
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guesty
H4Erm,don’t remember any mountains or telegraph poles last time I crossed H4!
wondered how long it would be before anybody noticed it “bestbooties” well done.
Its like the newbies that went to dover and back they had all been to kashanaki
in Pakistan and the british legion club on the h.4 shaped as the fort “eh”
Great love it.
guesty.
What you reckon cool or what.( pick them out easy )
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.
Hi Dave, my father ran a number of these over the years with fridge bodies on them. As a young teenager I was allowed to drive them around the yard on weekends if I cleaned them in and out. We also had one with a small drop-side tipping body on it.
On school holidays I went all over the South Wales valley’s with him or one of his drivers. By the time I was 17 they had all gone, so never got to drive on the road much, well not legally anyway.
I may call the ex in a minute and tell her this was the reason I never heard what she said, deaf from the years spent in a threepenny bit Lol.
Regards Paul.
wonder if this is where leyland got the idea for the roadrunner kerb window from?
moomooland:
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I think the pic of the Leyland Steer is southbound on the M6 (Preston By-Pass, as it then was), just north of J31 - those would be Courtaulds chimneys, wouldn’t they?
LeeJ:
wonder if this is where leyland got the idea for the roadrunner kerb window from?
Probably so Lee. You know in all fairness those FGs were good workhorses, cheap and easy to run and maintain. For local deliveries, great vision all around, easy in and out and they could go if you played with the fuel pump or governor a bit.
A good insulated engine cover, or blanket or two made the engine decibels easier to deal with.
I must admit to having many a good day out in a FG, be it Austin, Morris or the latter BMC badged version.
Paul.
Ford cargo
Daf
Hi Jakdaw
When I said these are the last few pages from my scrapbook on Fodens I was referring only to Foden trucks, I still have pages on ;
Atkinson (7 pages), Bedford ( 20 pages), DAF (15), Dodge (5), ERF (21), Fiat (8), Ford (11), Guy (9), Leyland (17), Mack (5), MAN (12),
Magirus-Deutz (10), Mercedes (13), Roman (1), Scammell (9), Scania (16), Seddon (21), Volvo (21) and lastly White (1).
I hope to eventually get all this material onto here it will take time as my printer only accepts A4 size paper and my scrapbook pages are bigger than this so at the moment I am scanning them at work onto A3 paper which I then reduce to an A4 image. Here are some pages I have done on Leyland trucks. regards prattman.
prattman:
Hi JakdawWhen I said these are the last few pages from my scrapbook on Fodens I was referring only to Foden trucks, I still have pages on ;
Atkinson (7 pages), Bedford ( 20 pages), DAF (15), Dodge (5), ERF (21), Fiat (8), Ford (11), Guy (9), Leyland (17), Mack (5), MAN (12),
Magirus-Deutz (10), Mercedes (13), Roman (1), Scammell (9), Scania (16), Seddon (21), Volvo (21) and lastly White (1).
I hope to eventually get all this material onto here it will take time as my printer only accepts A4 size paper and my scrapbook pages are bigger than this so at the moment I am scanning them at work onto A3 paper which I then reduce to an A4 image. Here are some pages I have done on Leyland trucks. regards prattman.
Hi Prattman, Thank`s for the reply keep em coming.
Some cuttings from a few years ago.
more pages from my scrapbook on Leyland and Bedford, I have more pages on these two manufactures which I will post in the next few days. regards prattman.
prattman:
some more pages from my scrapbooks a continuation on Foden trucks. the Salkelds photo I took myself in the mid 70’s. regards prattman.
Wonder if that foden of citymeats was based at Hordley near Ellesmere thank you Trevor
moomooland:
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I never heard or saw anything of these Leyland “Steer” tractor units,were they in direct competion with the AEC Mammouth Minor ? I wonder how they fared with the 680 Power Plus engine compared to the overheating/cooling problems of the AEC.IMO I think the Leyland version would have been the better proposition but then I am biased Cheers Bewick.
moomooland:
3210 Now thats what i call a load!
Why did they give Bedfords those different titles?
They were all Tk"s with various gvw wasnt they?