Sunday selection, Buzzer
Buzzer:
Sunday selection, Buzzer
Its strange to see a mix of vehicles on same production line, but in about 1969 I went to (then) BMC’s Bathgate plant to see FGs Lairds & Mastiffs following each other along, and I asked how they got the correct components for the right vehicles, but knowing BMC at the time perhaps they didn’t & were left with a 26 ton gtw Mastiff tractor unit chassis coming along to a FG cab to be fitted.
Darlows who used to have a yard just off the A1 at Sandy but I believe moved to somewhere near Peterborough, haven’t seen their motors around for a while now so I assume they are no longer around.
Lawrence Dunbar:
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A Ford V8 Pilot. Lovely cars.
Buzzer:
New week, Buzzer
i cant remeber who’s idea it was at the time on the hc davis F43 , probably i’m to blame, but it worked, sort of , i think we did 2 of them .
tony
tonyj105:
Buzzer:
New week, Buzzeri cant remeber who’s idea it was at the time on the hc davis F43 , probably i’m to blame, but it worked, sort of , i think we did 2 of them .
tony
And the ‘why’, Tony? Can’t have been for long steel, you would have been decapitated at the first left hand turn. 
And why do I think it is an F86? 
H.C.Davis always ran a tidy fleet.
Lawrence Dunbar:
One from Turkey:-
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Kempston:
H.C.Davis always ran a tidy fleet.0
i did 1982 to 1989 , driver to transport manager, he made me redundant one monday morning , get to to the office at 7 , redundant at 7:15, probably did me a big favour , 15 years at swifts / christian salvesen northampton followed
Spardo:
tonyj105:
Buzzer:
New week, Buzzeri cant remeber who’s idea it was at the time on the hc davis F43 , probably i’m to blame, but it worked, sort of , i think we did 2 of them .
tony
And the ‘why’, Tony? Can’t have been for long steel, you would have been decapitated at the first left hand turn.
And why do I think it is an F86?
it is an F86 , he liked F86’s (and DAF 2100)as shunters , extremely light for the weighbridge, as long as it was legal when loaded with a shunter. 27250 kgs was a normal load in 1984 out of the corby works (we used scania 92 and ERF c10/250 on the road) , lose half an f86 cab and even more weight for the load . the cabs on all the shunters took a battering and these 2 were really bad , so we had a look and somebody came up with the 'lets chop most of the cab away and make whats left sound’idea . we had quite a few scania 110/111 as shunters but they donated rear axles to the Scania 92’s which kept banging half shafts out as they couldn’t cope with 38 tonnes continously. i was transport manager a the time , so i know the motor and the theory behind it . happily he made me redundant and i went onto swifts at northampton for the next 15 years , and saved my CPC .