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
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 .
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
What happened to swifts Tony? They were a sizeable outfit.
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
What happened to swifts Tony? They were a sizeable outfit.
merged/sold to christian salvesen (basically for the swift IT system) , who sold out to norbert who flogged it to XPO , i left just before the norbet takeover .
tony
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
What happened to swifts Tony? They were a sizeable outfit.
merged/sold to christian salvesen (basically for the swift IT system) , who sold out to norbert who flogged it to XPO , i left just before the norbet takeover .
tony
I picked up in the yard the north side of Northampton, moulton park or round spinney iirc and they seemed like a decent outfit.
Wow,.The Jungle cafe A6 Shap.
I used to go in there with my Dad as a young kid many times.
I’d like to think that is us parked up in that old Albion, but I doubt it.
I reckon the picture of the Ford dealership was taken between '57 and '61. All the cars on display are low roof Mk lls, which were superseded by the Mk lll in early '62.
Sorry, the pedant in me couldn’t leave it alone.
