The later V8 Mandators used the high-datum Ergo cab in an attempt to improve the cooling issues by creating room for a slightly bigger radiator. If you look at pictures of these motors, you’ll see the radiators sticking out below the front bumper.
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Top stuff again Bubbs - as always.
That NCL Buffalo brought back the memories. An awful lot of folk around my age got their start with NCL or BRS Parcels, usually on ‘threepenny-bits’.
Units like that Buffalo were rare as hens’ teeth and only used by the trunkers, which of course all we youngsters wanted to be.
There must have been some fire-sale when they were wound-up, they had huge fleets.And yeah, an F86 or a Borderer does it for me when it comes to defining a ‘lorry’.
Thanks again, you’ve no idea how much fun I have looking through this thread. Happy memories indeed
Hello there, I s’pose I’ve been a bit selfish lately by putting up loads of 60s stuff…here are some Scanias from not that long ago 
There,that should be of interest to the younger chaps who view the scrapbook.
Cheers Bubbs. 
Interesting to see the TURK Plant Hire 112, when I put a few lines on recently about the Rutherford Brothers Atkinson and how my two mates (all apprentices at AW Ellis at the time) had gone to work for the two other companies that used the same yard as Ellis, one went to Rutherford’s and the other Phil Webster went off to work for Turk Plant. I didn’t realise that Turk later had their own transport to move the plant around, nice looking outfit too. Phil, after some good years at Turk, bought himself an old Ford D series and started moving plant himself, I haven’t seen him for a few years but Websters have a nice fleet today mainly Volvo FH’s in the same place as Murray Hogg in the Northeast. You keep coming up with surprises Bubbs, cheers Franky.
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rapidgem:
ainacs:
Hi FergieThis was the best Scania 110 I had bought off Brian Oliver(RIP) from Rochdale went everwhere in Europe brilliant unit
Regards Pat
Hi Pat. Thanks for sharing the piccy of your 110 Scania on the site, I thought I recognised her, here she is with West Derby Transport, Liverpool :-
It’s one our good friend Bubbs kindly sent me. I think she was new to Williams Bros (Wales) at Queensferry - the number plate fixed to the grill was a typical Williams’ practice.
I’m, interested in all the old Flintshire and Chester area firms, which is how I come to have a piccy of the ex-Williams 110.
Cheers - Rob)
Hi Rob
Thanks for that although Marc had already sent it to me but was “For my eyes only”
This was just after I had bought EDM137J in about 1979 Brian Oliver had recently put in a Scania recon engine and previously had the sleeper cab conversion done, alongside my first ever Scania WKW528K another 110 this time with a factory sleeper bought from a Roy Tolley from Hereford late 78ish.
Another pic loading a Sea Route Ferry box at Yate near Bristol (I think)
In my yard on the far right around 80/81
Regards Pat
Cheers Pat, Oops! My Appolgies. I’d forgotten about F-Y-E-O! So I’ve just removed the piccy. What eventually became of the ex- Williams 110?
rapidgem:
Cheers Pat, Oops! My Appolgies. I’d forgotten about F-Y-E-O! So I’ve just removed the piccy. What eventually became of the ex- Williams 110?
Hi Rob I sold EDM137J to a father and son from Bedford.
Regards Pat
Hello again,time to go back in time.
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs.
Nice shot of the radio in the Southern Cross, Retriever, had one fitted just like it in my Mercedes 306 back in 73.
Hello again,a mixture today.
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs.
bubbleman:
Hello again,a mixture today.
Another Northern Ireland Trailers pic you’ve managed to work in! A shot of it when new, but with the names blanked out on the tractor and box. MRN 382K is preserved now, by the way. Lots of photos of it here: users.totalise.co.uk/~thetyke/id30.htm but you have to scroll down to get to them.
240 Gardner:
Fergie47:
Bubbleman.Of all the pic’s that you’ve put up, don’t you think that this Guy Invincible epitomises the Lorry.
It’s in perspective, it looks right, well balanced with the trailer, nice lines, purposeful, and tough, no frills, yet ready to do a good days work. ? So I’m biased, I’m a driver of the 60’s, and although I later enjoyed the comfort and power of the later “trucks” I don’t think they looked in perspective. Too big, and ■■■■■■■■■■■ out of proportion.
So, below the Invincible, neat tidy lines, and below that a Scania, like a block of flats, and must be strange to drive with all that space, like driving your front room., Hooked up to a low or semi-low loader it just wouldn’t carry the same neatness.Getting old, and grumpy, and probably get stonned for the above comments, but …………………….!!
So, what wagon do you, and the other lads think reflects a “lorry” as opposed to a “truck”
It’s always a “lorry”, unless it’s a “wagon”. A “tr*ck” has forks on the front.
And, similarly old and grumpy, a Mk.1 or 2 Atkinson does it for me.
(although I do quite like an F7, or a B Series or an FL10 or an F12…
In my mind they’re lorries, although since I’ve moved across the big pond I now have to use truck as nobody knows what a lorry is! They’re never wagons though, a wagon is what a train or a horse pulls along
For looks, I think from the 40s up to the late 60s the Atkinsons were the best looking, the Ergo cabbed AECs were a challenge both in looks & engineering, but then came the foreigners & my favourite of all time, the F88 & there it’s a toss up between the original stainless steel grille version or the last of the line 290s, especially if they’re pulling a tilt & covered in dirt looking like they’ve just come back from some far flung destination (although surely your destination is always home, no matter how far you go to deliver ) since then the only 2 designs that will look good in years to come have been the Scania 3 series Topline Streamline & the series 2 Volvo FH.
Hello once more,another look back in time.
This Pollocks ERF would have really looked a bit different in 64 with all those fairy lights.
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs.
bubbleman:
Hello once more,another look back in time.Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs.
hey, it’s cruel to give us those pics of the Scammell Trunker and not give us the tale 
And complete with a dolly on it too - Scammell Samson eat your heart out!
And those mirrors, west coast ford D series I bet, roobar, and by the look of the signpost in the second pic, heading for Italy maybe?
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my ole dad drove for Spurlings around 1960 ish, could even have driven one of these ole girls, lovely thanks Bubbs
dieseldog6:
And those mirrors, west coast ford D series I bet, roobar, and by the look of the signpost in the second pic, heading for Italy maybe?
Or ‘Wingard’ mirrors, as per Atkinson Viewline, perhaps?
Hello once again,The old Scammell Trunker pics from yesterday is a perfect example of my stupidity of not saving the complete article 
,when I cut up the mags how was I to know that I would be sharing these old clippings with so many people…all I can do is to tell 240 and anyone who’s interested that the Scammell belonged to Monks International Transport who I believe were part of the Calor gas group,the 2 man crew of the Scammell took the crane to Italy and the job took a couple of weeks…well it would do in that old girl. Tc glad the Thames Traders brought back memories for you.
Ok ,a big J day
Hope some of these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs.
bubbleman:
Hello once again,The old Scammell Trunker pics from yesterday is a perfect example of my stupidity of not saving the complete article
I think we can forgive you, in the circumstances!
Of course, I should have recognised the M.I.T. headboard But I didn’t know that they were part of the Calor group. What became of Monks, does anyone know?