remember my first solo attempt at the old severn bridge the early part of 1988,in an old leyland terrier.we were nose to tail stop and start all the way across in galeforce winds,very unerving. 
Keep em comin 
The last pic,no hard hats or hi viz in sight . . . shocking 
Hello again ,a mixed bag today lads.
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Marc. 
Great pics marc i never new that RT Steward ever had ERFs
Thanks marc great pics again mate, keep um coming. 
Carna:
Great pics marc i never new that RT Steward ever had ERFs
I dont remember them B series either, thought the only ERF’s they ran were the ECT’s they had before they shut up shop.
Hello again,Bubbs here with the big A today.
Can anyone recall this last Atki ever actually working for Pickfords…I cant 
CheersMarc.
bubbleman:
Hello again,Bubbs here with the big A today.
CheersMarc.
Great selection today, Marc, thank you!!
Interesting to read the caption to the photo: Bill Bowker always reckoned that they were the first to operate PSK trailers, unless anyone knows of any built before 1967?
The tractor in your photo is still owned by W. H. Bowker, and has been exhibited at the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland for the last few years
Here’s the front shot:
And here’s a pic of the same motor, coming ashore in Sweden on its way to a rally there about 4 years ago.
It still has the same engine, gearbox and axle that Atkinson fitted to it in January 1967 and, apparently, the original Hardy Spicer couplings on the propshaft! Oh, and it’s the original Knight’s head on the radiator too, Sadly, the original Big A was nicked by some scumbag when I parked it overnight in Bournemouth in 1987 
bubbleman:
Hello again,Bubbs here with the big A today.
Can anyone recall this last Atki ever actually working for Pickfords…I cant
CheersMarc.
This is the 1968 Earls Court Show, and I believe that this lorry never actually went to Pickford’s. There were tales at Walton-le-Dale of skullduggery on the part of Scammell, who were reckoned to have legged-up the Pickford’s/Atki deal in some way. Word was that it went to be an internal heavy haul shunter at a steel works, possibly in South Wales. A few similar motors were built around that time, but this is the only crew-cab example I know of. It was rated at 100 tons gross train weight.
bubbleman:
Hello again,Bubbs here with the big A today.
CheersMarc.
This motor, and its training group at Failsworth, are featured in the North Manchester Hauliers thread. I bought it for spares and cut it up 
that bryan hornsby F10 pic is almost making me hard… wot is that guy doing at the rear… a quick ham shank…■■?
look at the smoke stack at the rear … lol…
keep them coming marc…
incendtly…just thinking out loud … how many pics is that you have posted in this thread now… 33 pages long … WOW !!!
just hope you got plenty more mate …
Hello again friends,thanks to 240 for the input…I remember taking a pic of your old Atki in Bath on the occasion of the lowlife pinching your big A…it looks great on my bedroom wall
Dont know how many pics I’ve put on here MAN TGA but theres still a few left…maybe the bestist ones are on here now so the quality might start to go down
from here 
Seddons today.
The last ones for Steve (mushrooman)
Cheers Marc.
p.s 240…I was only kidding
bubbleman:
This is an amazing pic Bubbs, as it was taken in my hometown of Buxton, Derbyshire on the short spur of dual carriageway where London Road becomes Ashbourne Road. The scene of many fatalities, there are now chevrons and single lane both ways. Also simply unpassable in a wagon in the winter.
PS. Picked up a pic of Johnny Cantrell’s Seddon last year at Gaydon. It looks pictured when new at the year’s tipping exhibition. Possibly at Blackpool.
GREAT SITE, WOULD YOU HAVE ANY MORE HALL AGGREGATES PICS
Hi again,great info and pic from Bonkey,Gaz…will put your request with the others
DAFs today.
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Marc.
240 Gardner:
bubbleman:
Hello again,Bubbs here with the big A today.
CheersMarc.
This motor, and its training group at Failsworth, are featured in the North Manchester Hauliers thread. I bought it for spares and cut it up
I hab a drive at one of these on a HGV driver training course at the RTITB at High Arcal they only had the one Atki could be the same vehicle, it wasnt a good ride, I think the Mk 2 was a better vehicle.
dieseldog6:
6 on artics only up till 68, then with the lenght increse, it started to move up, although you could get 9 on a wagon and drag. Great pic of the Lathams Big J, Martin Latham the son , was my boss at Cartransport BRS in the late 80’s early 90’s
Lathams were the leaders in big engined car transporters they were running 180 Gardners when most others were using the low powered Leylands, BMCs, Bedfords & Fords. The trailer in this photo is a Hoynor Mk2 modified to carry general cargo as well as cars.
transporter man:
dieseldog6:
6 on artics only up till 68, then with the lenght increse, it started to move up, although you could get 9 on a wagon and drag. Great pic of the Lathams Big J, Martin Latham the son , was my boss at Cartransport BRS in the late 80’s early 90’sLathams were the leaders in big engined car transporters they were running 180 Gardners when most others were using the low powered Leylands, BMCs, Bedfords & Fords. The trailer in this photo is a Hoynor Mk2 modified to carry general cargo as well as cars.
PS
You dont get loading ramps like them now, they had to be carried from the middle of the trailer to the rear.
dieseldog6:
There you go, as you can see some longer extentions on the back, straining abit under the weiight of that Hillman Minx Estate
This is a Carrimore Mk2 trailer, the extensions were a standard fitment by Carrimore, They were actually a cheat to gain extra length, in those days the law allowed operators to use the tailboad as load bearing giving extra bed length, the law was changed which allowed the vehicles to travel with the tailboad down but was not allowed to be load bearing.
This trailer was jack knifed to load because the full top deck used to come down to the bottom, if you reversed a car on the front of the top deck it would bump into the back of the cab.