essexpete:
Buzzer:
BuzzerJust thinking back but I don’t think I have ever seen a mixer on a TK?
What is the brewery 8 wheeler?
Re the TK mixer , i’ve never seen one ever, I’m thinking it was just a Demonstrator ,the mixer was made by Ransomes and Rapier of Ipswich as the markings on the barrel ,a TK would not have been a serious vehicle for that work and doubt it was a double drive for site work ? — toshboy
Spardo:
BTW, I put in at least 9 commas in that massive sentence above, so hope you, as a bit of an old codger yourself, took the chance to take a few breaths.
Even if I read that as 9 Commers, it’s still very unlikely.
ParkRoyal2100:
Spardo:
BTW, I put in at least 9 commas in that massive sentence above, so hope you, as a bit of an old codger yourself, took the chance to take a few breaths.Even if I read that as 9 Commers, it’s still very unlikely.
Which? The commas, the Commers, the sentence, the hope, the old codger, or the breaths? 
toshboy:
essexpete:
Buzzer:
BuzzerJust thinking back but I don’t think I have ever seen a mixer on a TK?
What is the brewery 8 wheeler?Re the TK mixer , i’ve never seen one ever, I’m thinking it was just a Demonstrator ,the mixer was made by Ransomes and Rapier of Ipswich as the markings on the barrel ,a TK would not have been a serious vehicle for that work and doubt it was a double drive for site work ? — toshboy
I was going to mention that TK mixer also. Definitely a rarity and I have never seen one before.
The one in the photo is B reg so about 1964. There was plenty of Bedford 4wh TK tippers running around then, we had about ten. Six wheelers were usually a York trailing axle conversion better suited to flat work. We had one on livestock.
Tyneside
Spardo:
ParkRoyal2100:
Spardo:
BTW, I put in at least 9 commas in that massive sentence above, so hope you, as a bit of an old codger yourself, took the chance to take a few breaths.Even if I read that as 9 Commers, it’s still very unlikely.
Yes 
tyneside:
toshboy:
essexpete:
Buzzer:
BuzzerJust thinking back but I don’t think I have ever seen a mixer on a TK?
What is the brewery 8 wheeler?Re the TK mixer , i’ve never seen one ever, I’m thinking it was just a Demonstrator ,the mixer was made by Ransomes and Rapier of Ipswich as the markings on the barrel ,a TK would not have been a serious vehicle for that work and doubt it was a double drive for site work ? — toshboy
I was going to mention that TK mixer also. Definitely a rarity and I have never seen one before.
The one in the photo is B reg so about 1964. There was plenty of Bedford 4wh TK tippers running around then, we had about ten. Six wheelers were usually a York trailing axle conversion better suited to flat work. We had one on livestock.
Tyneside
The TK looks overloaded in the photo with it’s 8 stud wheels.
ERF-NGC-European:
Dipster:
[Or just a forlorn hope…
[/quote]
Surely it would be impossible to start a big diesel in the Leyland handle?
[/quote]
It must have been there for a purpose, no? If not starting the beast what else?
[/quote]As someone suggested: three chaps and a rope. If it had been a Gardner you’d have used the decompression levers to take some of the slog out of it.
We had a stationary Gardner 6LW generator set at Stirlands which was used when we had power cuts there was a driver Vic Lloyd (forearms like Garth) who could swing with a rope like nobody I’ve ever seen
I don’t know if Spardo can remember him ?
gazsa401:
ERF-NGC-European:
Dipster:
[Or just a forlorn hope…
[/quote]
Surely it would be impossible to start a big diesel in the Leyland handle?
[/quote]
It must have been there for a purpose, no? If not starting the beast what else?
[/quote]As someone suggested: three chaps and a rope. If it had been a Gardner you’d have used the decompression levers to take some of the slog out of it.
We had a stationary Gardner 6LW generator set at Stirlands which was used when we had power cuts there was a driver Vic Lloyd (forearms like Garth) who could swing with a rope like nobody I’ve ever seen
I don’t know if Spardo can remember him ?No mate, after my time there I think, I was there in '72 for a year I think.
I remember few names but certainly would have remembered him. Were you and he night trunkers Gazsa? I was and so knew few people, names very few too, Jeff Stanley (his brother Johnnie too, but that was later at Bulkliners) and Colin, the manager. George Milner, my long time mate and Johnnie Lambert. I can’t even remember my day driver or even what he looked like, hardly ever met him.
gazsa401:
ERF-NGC-European:
Dipster:
[Or just a forlorn hope…
[/quote]
Surely it would be impossible to start a big diesel in the Leyland handle?
[/quote]
It must have been there for a purpose, no? If not starting the beast what else?
[/quote]As someone suggested: three chaps and a rope. If it had been a Gardner you’d have used the decompression levers to take some of the slog out of it.
We had a stationary Gardner 6LW generator set at Stirlands which was used when we had power cuts there was a driver Vic Lloyd (forearms like Garth) who could swing with a rope like nobody I’ve ever seen
I don’t know if Spardo can remember him ?I can’t find the picture I posted on here some years ago of a Leyland 8.6 engine to confirm it but IIRC it had a decompression lever.
@ Buzzers galleries above (keep 'em coming Buzzer!):
this one appears to be an ex-Beresford’s ERF
And as for this one: I hope the gent with the cap wheeling a bicycle was a member of the crossing security patrol; and not some deaf old bugger about to be knocked over by a saddle-tanked shunter!
Hi everyone, The ERF with balers on was owned by Berresfords transport, H and R Johnson based in Tunstall ,Stoke made ceramic tiles,Berresfords did a lot of their transport , hence the name on the headboard .
chrisv:
Hi everyone, The ERF with balers on was owned by Berresfords transport, H and R Johnson based in Tunstall ,Stoke made ceramic tiles,Berresfords did a lot of their transport , hence the name on the headboard .
Thanks for the info, Buzzer
Buzzer:
chrisv:
Hi everyone, The ERF with balers on was owned by Berresfords transport, H and R Johnson based in Tunstall ,Stoke made ceramic tiles,Berresfords did a lot of their transport , hence the name on the headboard .Thanks for the info, Buzzer
But why would it be heading for Italy, and not with tiles? It might not be similar but when I was TM at Toray the warehouse manager was also the export delivery manager (yes, I know ) and concluded what he thought was a great deal with an owner driver. This was that the driver would supply a tilt in Toray colours and exclusively deliver our rolls of fabric throughout Europe running back empty all the time. Great deal? There’s more, he would be doing it cheaper than any international competition making the most of their wagons to keep costs down. He really believed he had pulled off a great deal, until that is, the day this driver arrived to load his ‘exclusive’ Toray product with a trailer emblazoned with the logo of Toray’s biggest, and possibly only, European competitor. He might have got away with it but for the fact that, in order to get to our warehouse to load, he had to run down the main yard right in front of all the managerial offices. At that point it wasn’t fabric that hit the fan.
This might have been the reason why this WM/EDM fell out with me. I had expressed my incredulity about this in the first place but then I was asked by our biggest Northern Ireland customer (I of course dealt with that as not export, err we didn’t consult Boris Johnson about that ) if we could start deliveries there with our own wagons and drivers after some well known names had let them down too often. I decided to see if it was reasonable and took it upon myself, when a regular driver was on holiday, to do a test run with a wagon and drag delivering throughout NI but also the Republic too, sussing out possible backloads as I did so. He was not amused.
Looks like a Borderer with a Gardner 8LXB and Fuller 9sp 'box to me 
; oh, and twin-steer to boot!
ERF-NGC-European:
Looks like a Borderer with a Gardner 8LXB and Fuller 9sp 'box to me0
The caption is incorrect,it’s definitely a Big J
David
5thwheel:
ERF-NGC-European:
Looks like a Borderer with a Gardner 8LXB and Fuller 9sp 'box to me0
The caption is incorrect,it’s definitely a Big J
David
Wrong type batteries for it to be a Big J
