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Hiya Steve…always megga good loading in downings around 1977 /8 /9 in and out in 20mins the fleet was pale blue
and white then. later they was creamish with Downings in Black.
have you any photo’s of danial platt motors i,ve done a few loads from there in the 70’s.
John
Hi John, I found that photo on google, I’d love some of the later ones I used to spend a lot of time there myself. Going up and down with a couple of their drivers, keith Harrison, Geoff eardly, was in a bad smash with him in that 8 wheeler kv, the one that never had a crane on used to go like a train. Wasn’t our fault bloke in a car lost it just as we came off the m6 going for m5, we slow down a kv artic behind couldn’t stop pushed us into a lamp post, on my side I ended up on his knee. The bloke behind lucky got out and u could see where he’d held the roof up. With his hands, he then told us he’d only started 2 hours before for the firm remember the Micky mouse cabs and kv 6 wheelers then onto b series which Trevor had. They had 2 6 wheeler tipper b series as well then stopped them for the foden fleetmaster or haulmaster with foden 12 speeds in, brill times. I haven’t got any Plattsburgh but I’m mates with jimmy warbos son, he might have some as they did the work out of there, I’ll go see him and have the crack, cheers john
just a couple from my mobile home / bungalow moving days. both early 80’s . the FIAT was a short sunday morning job to the next town about 5 miles away , but at 19’ 8" high was quite entertaining, we didn’t have a 2nd lowloader trailer available.
the ERF was a twin unit bungalow to Belfast, the original haulier let them down, as the firm he was borrowing the trailer from refused to let him have it once they found out he was going to Belfast with it, well it was 1981.i rented the 2 trailers from Rush Green motors, that place was an eyeopener, and they had actually built the trailers.
Also take a look at the windscreens they have those heaters what used to be stuck on with suckers for defrosting remember them.Quite a lot of cars had them attached to the rear windows for demisting.
My old chap’s first car, a 1939 Ford 8, had one of those on the windscreen. It was the only form of heating in the vehicle! A few of our drivers forked out for them to mount in their lorries but most resorted to the old trick of a sheet of burning newspaper held up to the windscreen. I had to struggle to remember my first heater-equipped lorry- I think it must have been an LAD cabbed Albion Chieftain. My first car with a heater was a Vauxhall 14 which had been fitted with a Smith’s heater out of a bus.
Telekonsteve:
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I live on the estate behind Twigg’s farm which can be seen on the horizon.I bought my house when it was not quite finished in 1969,on what was called the Twigg’s farm estate,now just known as the “New” part of Bradwell.
What used to be Twigg’s farm became a brick crushing plant,but is now a care home,(So I don’t have far to go when it comes time to move on!).
At the bottom of the dip in the road is the roundabout at Parkhouse,with my present employer,(FedEx),on the corner.
I can’t put a date on the pic,but this was pretty much how I remember it in 1969/70.
The picture is taken from in front of High Carr farm,and where the spoil tip is shown is now High Car Industrial estate.
