Here’s a couple for you bubbs,hope you’re ok and still keeping em peeled for gjt photos for me 
teleconsteve glyn john one of the best looking fleets in south wales regards rowland
Yes Rowland they were smart, I quite like this truck hire decision one as well,cheers Steve
Nice to see the photo of this in the tribute to Martin Phippard at Warminster. I first drove this 47 years ago. The tar distillery I worked at had seven of these in the fleet when I passed my car test aged 21 although I only had a motorbike.
As it was in those days it was not long before I was asked do you think you could bring a six wheel Commer TS3 back to Bristol from Gloucester. This is when the A38 was a three lane widow maker but it was a quick learning experience. Next time it was could I take one of these AEC,s to the gasworks for a load and I can still remember trying to work out a route where I would not have to stop on a hill because the ratchet on, knock off, handbrake frightened me to death.
Several years later the old boy that did the servicing left the oil level plug out of the rear diff on the above AEC with the result it seized up out on the road. He was also good at trying to pump grease into the bleed ■■■■■■■ on the Commer brakes.
All seven AEC,s had a rear tow hook and I took another one out to the breakdown. I though rather than tow it I will take the half shafts out and remove the rear prop shaft and it could be driven back on the front diff. This is what I did and also when I found out this does not work so I had to tow it anyway.
I also drove it on its last trip for the firm when the clutch burnt out in South Wales. Again I went out with another AEC and pumped the load over leaving me to get it back to Bristol. It was only a five speed box with a top speed of about 35 mph and I just managed to get over the old Severn Bridge with the clutch slipping, its quite a hump on that bridge.
The firm sold it as it was to a firm for further use as a tanker out of Southampton and it ended up as this breakdown truck and its survival.
Off to put a new rubber on my walking stick now. Still a use for them at my age.
Cheers All Phil.
HI, CWM, That pic of old Atki cattle wagon a proper lorry those were the days keep them coming cracking phots CWMAN ,Cheers BARRY
mhiya,
I might have put this on somewhere at an earlier date but at my age 77
you are allowed to forget stuff, just looking at the F88 with the aircraft
fuselage loaded takes me back to the late 50s I did a similar job from
the Bristol area, and in those days routeing and police escorts were the
norm the load starting at Bristol and finishing at Barton aerodrome near
Manchester I think the load was 13 foot 6 inches at the widest point and
it being Saturday mid morning it would be Sunday teatime or thereabout
when I came in to land at the destination, I remember the Bristol motor-
cycle policeman (who was doing the first bit of escorting) how fast would
I be able to make that thing go it being Saturday and Rovers were home
how fast was about 32 mph with an old Leyland that should have put out
to grass long before I took to the road, oh and it was pouring down, but
got it there in decent time “without clipping the wings”.
thanks harry, long retired.
Numbum:
Nice to see the photo of this in the tribute to Martin Phippard at Warminster. I first drove this 47 years ago. The tar distillery I worked at had seven of these in the fleet when I passed my car test aged 21 although I only had a motorbike.
As it was in those days it was not long before I was asked do you think you could bring a six wheel Commer TS3 back to Bristol from Gloucester. This is when the A38 was a three lane widow maker but it was a quick learning experience. Next time it was could I take one of these AEC,s to the gasworks for a load and I can still remember trying to work out a route where I would not have to stop on a hill because the ratchet on, knock off, handbrake frightened me to death.
Several years later the old boy that did the servicing left the oil level plug out of the rear diff on the above AEC with the result it seized up out on the road. He was also good at trying to pump grease into the bleed ■■■■■■■ on the Commer brakes.
All seven AEC,s had a rear tow hook and I took another one out to the breakdown. I though rather than tow it I will take the half shafts out and remove the rear prop shaft and it could be driven back on the front diff. This is what I did and also when I found out this does not work so I had to tow it anyway.
I also drove it on its last trip for the firm when the clutch burnt out in South Wales. Again I went out with another AEC and pumped the load over leaving me to get it back to Bristol. It was only a five speed box with a top speed of about 35 mph and I just managed to get over the old Severn Bridge with the clutch slipping, its quite a hump on that bridge.
The firm sold it as it was to a firm for further use as a tanker out of Southampton and it ended up as this breakdown truck and its survival.
Off to put a new rubber on my walking stick now. Still a use for them at my age.Cheers All Phil.
Let’s hope the blue smoke is just Cold Engine Syndrome, not another clutch giving up the ghost!
How many years is it since I saw the phrase, “banana ripeners” on a lorry? Used to be quite common at one time.
I can’t believe how that Kestral driver managed in those days without his hard hat and hi viz vest!
moomooland:
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How on earth did that Kestral driver manage in those days without his hard hat and hi-viz vest?
sorry I’ve managed to mess that right up!
Dieselcowboy:
sorry I’ve managed to mess that right up!
hiya,
Just reading your bit on the bottom about the job opportunities guy
at the time I left school age 15 in 1951 there was a guy we had to
see went by the title of youth employment officer or something
like that, now what a cushy number he had in those days a school-
leaver already had a job to start on the following Monday, all this
fellow had to do was make a note of the fact that you had found
yourself work, I myself left school on Friday and was down the pit
the following Monday, a bit different nowadays, some young-uns
reach adulthood and have families and never had a job.
thanks harry, long retired.
when I was a teenager my hobby was collecting information on lorries from manufacture etc. from around the world, I had replies from most of the major American manufactures along with replies from Russia, Chinia and numerous other countries, sadly I disposed of my collection eventually giving quite a lot to a mate of mine including a life size Freightliner name plate, I think I may still have some info on Marmon trucks I will have to have a search and see if I still have it, anyhow I have posted my wallchart depicting all the firms who took the time to reply to me. regards prattman.
This one ticks all the boxes. Just cannot make out the name on the cab as the neg has aged. Taken by Arthur Ingram.
retriever:
This one ticks all the boxes. Just cannot make out the name on the cab as the neg has aged. Taken by Arthur Ingram.
Looks if it could be one of Hansons, or perhaps G Lawty . thank you Trevor
No number plate?
harry:
No number plate?
Harry,isn’t it BWR 8H,spaced all wrong? I thought it might be one of Cowgills from Skipton, Bradshaws from Kirby Lonsdale or Dawsons from Hellifield? I’ll go for Dawsons. 
i’ll second that chris , looks like a hydrated lime tank , loaded out of ici houghton quarry .