ghosttrain:
yep my first unit was a mandator with a fuller range change and i’m only 54
My first unit was also a Mandator,with the 6 speed box and the Park Royal cab,and I’m only 65!
Elmo
When I get a day off in the week we will have to discuss my age over a beer you’ve bought me.
fantastic thread. loved the cawthorn and sinclair f88 and 1418. my dad worked for them for years. spent every school holiday travelling all over europe in similar wagons
heh twinsplitter maybe you can find a f88 to replace your soon to go scania eh
chalkey:
question is “where is gay lad” would love to find her??
I spoke to Bill friday about “gay lad”,he said to his dad at the time “im not driveing that with that name on it” the name was changed to “jack the lad”.The lorry was sold to a driver called walsh who was in erith kent,he did germany with the lorry in the same colours as when bill had it.What happened to it after this Bill does,nt know.I showed Bill this post with the pitures of him and his dad and he loved it and says thanks to bubbleman for putting this on here.
Hello all,
Firstly thanks to boyzee for taking the trouble to show Bill jnr the Humphries cuttings,they certainly knew how to tart a motor up 
Todays bitz 'n bobs…1st pic, a pretty rare shot of dockers working,but in the days of common sense…not a hard hat ,yellow jackets or safety boots in sight.
The last pic of Loades Albion is great…look no twistlocks just a bit of rope…you cant buy stuff like this at Tescos!!! 
Cheers for now,Marc
And I bet it never fell off.Mind you I would have taken it steady round the bends 
Some good stuff there Marc,thanks.
Spire Transport Chesterfield,Key Warehousing Hull,Templemans(Stamford I think),Daniel Stewart Blairgowrie,Robertson Buckley all blasts from the past.
We used to carry new 40ft containers out of Cravens,Sheffield like the Loades for Loades Albion.Just roped on and away to Renfrew or wherever.Still on the trailer when you got there.
I too often carried containers like that in the early days, not new ones but
loaded ones in the normal course of business. 
Mind you I sometimes had at least one twistlock to connect to, say if it was a
30ft on a 40/20ft trailer, but I never roped them like that. Always backwards and
forwards from the twistlocks with short double hitched ropes.
BTW what a great sleeper cab that White’s Albion would have
made. 
love the thomas allen picture marc cheers…pete
Hello everybody,how about some Scanias then.
Dont those early X reg 2 series Scanias look naked without their sunvisors.
Hope these are of interest
Cheers Marc.
ps Wirralpete, I didnt find any Castrol 400 Sed/atks…sorry mate.
This CM cover was asked for by euromat by PM…A real good pic,so I thought we’d all share it.
Cheers Marc
top pictures yet again marc…
thanks marc,really enjoyed that.
Elmo
Didn’t Bob Lewis (and before him Geoff Blakely) have an X reg 112m on the nuclear contract?
Geoff
Hello again,
Firstly to answer Ghostrains question,Bob did have a 112 it was HHW428X, theres a pic of it on the WT thread ok
…54!!! I cant take that in!!!
Right then ,back to business…A few Dafs
The last pic is quite interesting,something for everyone…
Cheers Marc.
that last picture is a breath of fresh air from the past,so many different marques.
bubbleman…
this thread is one of the best i have ever read mate…
loved the Daf of robson’s border transport earlier … anymore?
and to think i just got rid of 2 years worth of T &D and Trucking mags just last week as my wife was needin the bloody space … 
as someone said earlier mate i think u have got a great archive here mate of the british truckin industry … keep it up mate 
Hello once more,
Thanks to man-tga for your nice comments,I’ve still loads to put on here mate.
Believe it or not ,I’ve found another box full of clippings,this next lot are from it.
I bet somebody got a b*llocking for dropping the 88 the last pic. 
Cheers for now,Marc
thanks very much for the chambers & cook photos… I am ttying to get as many of these as I can… hadn’t got these ones
chris