hiya,
bubbs like the cadzow multi wheeler would have made life a lot easier in my heavyweight days.
thanks harry long reired.
hiya,
bubbs like the cadzow multi wheeler would have made life a lot a lot easier in my heavyweight days.
thanks harry long retired.
bubbleman:
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Didnt give driver much room in the cab 
Looks a fair size top pod though
Hello again,Hey page 40…who’d have thought that we’d get this far…thanks to everyone who have replied and those who have said they enjoy the thread 
Atkinsons today.
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs. 
Lovely old pics bring back a lot of good memorys,wish id a pound for every mile ive done in a borderer.Remember getting one of the first power steered ones with the lower black steering wheel.Oh what joy instead of that red wheel you nearly had to stand up to turn when in a confined space.Keep em coming bubbs.
regards dave
Lovely. I have spent many a happy hour rubbing the cabs down on these ready for paint, normally in my school uniform 
pass us another bit of wet and dry
bubbleman:
Hello again,Hey page 40…who’d have thought that we’d get this far…
40 pages of exellence… 
wonder who the old boy standing beside this unit is… 
Wheel Nut:
Lovely. I have spent many a happy hour rubbing the cabs down on these ready for paint, normally in my school uniformpass us another bit of wet and dry
And this particular motor is one of the exhibits at the 1970 Commercial Motor Show, when the complete new model range was announced, this being the 34 ton Borderer. The Mk.2 cab had had its debut at the 1968 Show.
bubbleman:
Hello again,Hey page 40…who’d have thought that we’d get this far…thanks to everyone who have replied and those who have said they enjoy the threadAtkinsons today.
Hope these are of interest.
Oh yes, thank you!! 
This particular Mk.1 tractor was used on the Continent by Rutherford’s (from North Shields, I think), carrying chilled fresh fish to continental markets. Apparently they used to run in convoy with a rigid to the Channel port, tranship that into the trailer, and then run the Atki into Europe at 38T gross. 1964!!
How effective was the power steering when it was fitted ? always got the impression the steering was still heavy with it fitted.
Big Bear:
How effective was the power steering when it was fitted ? always got the impression the steering was still heavy with it fitted.
Not at all - it’s nice and light. Having said that, a manually-steered tractor wasn’t as bad as you might imagine - unless you were in a tight spot and you were trying to back it up a hill!! I was taught, though, not to try to put on armfuls of lock, just a little and often. A company I worked for had the cunning scheme of selling off some power-steered Borderers, and then spending money fitting hydraulic lift plates to some manual-steered ones for yard shunting
240 Gardner:
Wheel Nut:
Lovely. I have spent many a happy hour rubbing the cabs down on these ready for paint, normally in my school uniformpass us another bit of wet and dry
And this particular motor is one of the exhibits at the 1970 Commercial Motor Show, when the complete new model range was announced, this being the 34 ton Borderer. The Mk.2 cab had had its debut at the 1968 Show.
Unless I’m very much mistaken, that picture was taken in the yard of Thos Guy in Burscough - who transported the Atkinson display vehicles to the motor show. I have some pictures of them on a motorway service area somewhere, on the way down.
marky:
240 Gardner:
Wheel Nut:
Lovely. I have spent many a happy hour rubbing the cabs down on these ready for paint, normally in my school uniformpass us another bit of wet and dry
And this particular motor is one of the exhibits at the 1970 Commercial Motor Show, when the complete new model range was announced, this being the 34 ton Borderer. The Mk.2 cab had had its debut at the 1968 Show.
Unless I’m very much mistaken, that picture was taken in the yard of Thos Guy in Burscough - who transported the Atkinson display vehicles to the motor show. I have some pictures of them on a motorway service area somewhere, on the way down.
Having been painted at Hull’s at Tarleton, presumably??
man-tga:
bubbleman:
Hello again,Hey page 40…who’d have thought that we’d get this far…
40 pages of exellence…
wonder who the old boy standing beside this unit is…
Thats Alfie Noakes.
Superb Bubbs - keep posting Atkis and you’ll probably get another forty pages of replies.
That Rutherford unit looks the business huh? Wonder what the wheelbase was on that?
And ‘Atki 1971’ - well, that’s just perfection. Keep your Swedish wagons, if I won the lottery, that’s the one I’d buy.
Thanks again Marc, you’re making a lot of people very happy you know 
Hello,Atki’s are always popular …the bad news is I’ve very little of them left 
.Got loads of Sed-atks but that a’int the same is it 
Will put something on later today
Cheers Bubbs.
Hi again,Ok lets do Sed-Atks then.
The last 1 is for Steve(mushrooman)
Cheers Marc.
macdangerous:
Superb Bubbs - keep posting Atkis and you’ll probably get another forty pages of replies.That Rutherford unit looks the business huh? Wonder what the wheelbase was on that?
And ‘Atki 1971’ - well, that’s just perfection. Keep your Swedish wagons, if I won the lottery, that’s the one I’d buy.
Thanks again Marc, you’re making a lot of people very happy you know
Not sure about the wheelbase on the Rutherford unit, but it had a 250 ■■■■■■■■ which really was big power in 1964.
bubbleman:
Hello,Atki’s are always popular
Not really
But thanks anyway! We’ve had some real gems along the way 
hi ya bubbleman that photo of rutherford atki brought back some memories, also of some drivers that work for them a very young george foster, big ray thompson, stuart cartwright, don’t know if ray or stuart ever drove that atki, as they both had dodge motors , running fish from aberdeen to n/shields, very early 60ty , keep them coming bumper