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Thanks to Gaz for the Scania pics,Leylands today.
Hope these are of interest
Cheers Marc.
Awesome Leyland pics mate, have a soft spot for Marathons and Leylands, Especially like the Longton Trnasport pic 
I wish that I could find my dads old order books and quotations. He was a salesman for a Leyland dealer in Goole.
I remember once when he picked me up in the car and he decided to have a run up to see a customer he was dealing with at the time.
The deal was almost done over the phone for a couple of new Bisons iirc. We left my mums house and headed off towards Malton & Pickering. My dad told me stories about my Grandad who came from Lastingham.
We got close to the address on his sales order and my dad stopped a local & asked for directions, he got quite a few blank stares, he was sent along one road, back along another but no sign of a haulier. Eventually he gave up and went into a pub. He came out rather red faced and suggested we may as well have a pint here.
We were in a little village called Hutton le Hole and to this day E N Ritchie never opened a depot there 
It always makes me laugh when i see these books at the heritage shows.
Hello again,a mixture today.
The last one is for Mark R
Cheers Marc.
Hello,todays selection is Bedfords…l’ve done thousands of miles in a TK and have a soft spot for them…here goes then.
Anybody remember scammell couplings? didnt they have 2 copper contact strips to make the lights work…my old man had an S type like the one above and remember him reversing at a great speed to get a heavy trailer up the early risers…ah schoolboy memories!
Cheers Marc.
Yes I remember Scammell couplings, when I was an apprentice fitter in the '60’s most BMC “Prime Movers” (as BMC liked to call them!) were fitted with them as well as Bedford, Ford, Dodge, Commer, Seddon etc. I think that they were used up to 22 tons GTW and then 5 th wheel’s took over for heavier weights. The curved guide between the forks often got bent and there was a wooden template issued to reset it to the correct profile. The turntables on the trailers used to wear as well and there were horseshoe shaped shims between the legs and the tuntable which could be removed to adjust the clearence. I still have the info in a book somewhere. As you say, the electrics were passed through contact strips which were rubber mounted. They were ideal for the railway’s and brewery’s who were doing short trips and could have a rapid tournaround from dropping off an empty trailer and swapping to a laden one, it could be done without leaving the cab apart from changing the number plate!
I am guessing that weight and braking regulations finished them off, the same for the Scammell three wheelers of which there were literally thousands in use by the railways and their carriers.
Showing my age again 
Pete.
any body got any more pic s of kildonan macbrayne
windrush:
Yes I remember Scammell couplings, when I was an apprentice fitter in the '60’s most BMC “Prime Movers” (as BMC liked to call them!) were fitted with them as well as Bedford, Ford, Dodge, Commer, Seddon etc. I think that they were used up to 22 tons GTW and then 5 th wheel’s took over for heavier weights. The curved guide between the forks often got bent and there was a wooden template issued to reset it to the correct profile. The turntables on the trailers used to wear as well and there were horseshoe shaped shims between the legs and the tuntable which could be removed to adjust the clearence. I still have the info in a book somewhere. As you say, the electrics were passed through contact strips which were rubber mounted. They were ideal for the railway’s and brewery’s who were doing short trips and could have a rapid tournaround from dropping off an empty trailer and swapping to a laden one, it could be done without leaving the cab apart from changing the number plate!
I am guessing that weight and braking regulations finished them off, the same for the Scammell three wheelers of which there were literally thousands in use by the railways and their carriers.
Showing my age againPete.
An early mentor of mine, Bill Andrews of W.E Andrews & Son of Nottingham offered to sell me A Leyland Redline Tractor with a 30ft stepframe van trailer back in the mid 70s. As we did a lot of furniture work it would have been ideal but we turned him down. It had a Scammell coupling and we were worried what we would do to continue with the trailer if the unit broke down far from home, and, we could hardly afford the £500 he was asking, £100 down and £100 a month for 4 months. 
I’ve helped my Dad load many of those early Carrimore trailers, after the C&U changes in 64 they had extentions on back and front and you had to jacknife the unit round to lower the top deck, I have a photo somewhere I’ll see if I can find it.
There you go, as you can see some longer extentions on the back, straining abit under the weiight of that Hillman Minx Estate
Hello again,a few M.A.Ns today
Hope theyre ok
Cheers Marc.
great pics as ever Marc! Many thanks.
Mark.
Briliant snips Bubbleman, you do a darn fine job for us all mate
I will second that,the onlything that bothers me is im so old i remember most of them,keep em coming mate.
Dave
Hi there,me again,a mixed bag today
These may bring back memories for somebody.
Cheers Marc.
bubbleman:
Hi there,me again,a mixed bag todayThese may bring back memories for somebody.
Cheers Marc.
Another great selection! Thanks for taking so much trouble to scan & post.
(I was pleased to see the photo of my pair of Atkis together a couple of days ago, too!)
bubbleman:
Hi there,me again,a mixed bag today
Cheers Marc.
That look’s very much like Truckworld at Thurrock in the background.
bubbleman:
Cheers Marc.
Ah, the 360 Turbostar, a much under rated truck. OK the steel in cab turned to something resembleing Jacobs cream crackers after 5 years!! but all in all a very well spec’d truck that pulled very well and was super reliable. I’ve driven hundreds of thousands of miles in the Turbostars I’ve owned and spent weeks away at a time in, air con as standard (when it worked) and a roomy cab for it’s day.
My last one (a J reg 1992) had it’s pump up rated and I could pass my mates 143 400 coming over Teruel with identical loads of onions from Valencia, fantastic memories bubbleman, many thanks.
Ross.
Never thought I’d see this appear on here… that brings back memories. This is the very first 38T unit Salvesen’s took on as a long term demonstrator from Mercedes Benz. It was a 2028 and the first of it’s type in the UK. It was driven by an absolute gem of a man called Jimmy Macdonald out of the Blairgowrie depot. Jimmy sadly passed away a few years back. I went on a few trips with him over three successive summers whilst at school and was with him the day he picked this unit up from MB at Wentworth Park. He was proud as punch of it as there weren’t many 6x2’s around at that point and it got a lot of attention. It replaced an S reg 1626 L cab which he’d had from new and loved. I remember the journey back up to Blairgowrie and stopping off at Salvesen’s Edinburgh HQ on the way through. The Alcoa wheels on it were overheating due to a braking issue. I went with Jimmy on it’s first European trip and ended up in Brindisi in Italy. Great memories…thanks.