bubbleman:
Hi Wheelnut,John Golding was Walt Goldings son mate,my restored F86 was first owned by Walt and looked like the ones in the line up…
Bubbs.
Cheers. I was just confused by the W G.
William (Bill) Golding was based in Stapleford Abbots and ran food tankers from Van den Bergh and Jurgens.
Ta, great pictures again by the way 
Hello,another mixture,I bet Dave the Renagade will remember the 1st one.
I know its the wrong writing 
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs. 
LOL at that last one, the ministry would love that nowadays
easy enough to take the rear box off. undo the ropes hit reverse,brake and bobs your uncle, a dropped box…lol
With that last picture it was not unknown around the port of Hull, most hauliers were still using the more common 33’ trailers, later ones had removable pins,(twistlocks) set at 20’ and 30’. The 40’ trailer was a rare sight in my area. most lancashire flats and containers used ropes to secure the unit. my memory of the Lancashire flats was that they had a major shortage of ropehooks too, either through damage or used to hang chains on.
In this case a 7’ overhang was the norm, you still see trailers carrying 2 units, occasionally a pair of 7.65 swap-bodies or even a 7.82 unit paired with a standard 6m (20’)
Memories are made of this
Hi Marc
Can’t say I remember that particular lorry,but remember the Fodens. Bulmers ran a fleet of 180 vehicles back in the sixties, from four wheelers delivering to pubs,scammell Scarabs delivering inter plant in Hereford plus the artics going nationwide. Sadly all gone now,all the vehicles are run by Wincanton or one of the other big logistic companies.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Loaded out of Bulmers several times in the 60s usually handball into tilts, good work but in the warm weather the wasps (which i’m terrified of) were always present and i spent more time running out of the way of the things than loading the motor.
thanks harry long retired
Hi Harry,
Seagulls are as big a problem as wasps at Bulmers nowadays,there’s hundreds around Hereford,they must be cider drinkers ,although I Think its the apples they are after. Whoever owns Scottish and Newcastle breweries owns Bulmers now,are shifting a lot of the work to Ledbury where they have set up, its handy to the M50. Hereford is losing out bigtime, due to there being no decent roadlink to the moterway network.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave another pick-up of mine when in the Hereford area was a company by the name of Painter’s or something like that, used to construct/manufacture pylons used to get them mainly for Scotland, good traffic, two chains and off you go, happy days.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi another few of pics from a 1966 Commercial Motor
An air suspension triaxle Dyson Trailer with rear steer and Viberti axles.
An Atkinson eight-legger tipper fitted with a Spenborough all aluminium body and twin ram underbody gear.
Two Ten Transporter owned by Autocars & Transporters Ltd with Austin F.J tractor
A Scania Vabis 255-b.h.p from an advert for B & W Motors Ltd of Wolverhampton.
Regards Pat
High Bubbs. thanks for the Leicster B series, a big favorite of mine 
. Despite the caption, the B series was actually plated for 170ton and regulary exceeded that weight i beleive!. Dont know what became it, any idea?? They had the largest export MW built, it was on an R plate, and i think it was plated for 135ton. this motor is being restored , and was said to have a brand new cab waiting to be fitted.
regard’s Chris.
Hello again,Good stuff from Pat…I’m glad he’s putting up stuff…the scrapbook is for everyone to put stuff on,not only me
Another mixture. Heres a car transporter like Pat put up.
The last pic,remember the days when someone would come out and gun the derv in for you
Straight 8…dont know what happened to that ERF…sorry
Cheers Bubbs.
I remember in the 60s and70s trls the same design as the dyson I.E. tri axle,single wheels were nick named mickey mouse trls.anyone know the reason why?.
regards dave.
Great pic of the Kenning wagon and pup, don’t suppose you have any of the Morton’s/Rootes, Commer wagon and pups, they were popular in the late 60’s early 70’s because you didn’t need a second man with you.
Hi some more old Commercial motor pics
From 1966
Crane Fruehauf showing an all welded alloy tipping trailer with a 5 extension ram.
A mini artic based on a Morris J4 pickup
A four in line trailer
A four in line tanker. Anyone remember VIP (very important petrol?)
This was an Ernest Holmes Co recovery crane on an AEC with a Ford Thames Trader on the hook!!
And from 1970
A pic under the heading “Advice on transport problems” anyone recognise the road by any chance?
Pic says it all
And from a September 1970 Commercial Motor
The new Foden twin-steer tractor 38 tons with a Gardner 8LXB engine.
Exhibited on the Scania Stand an LB140 with a 350 bhp engine
Finally Pickfords Scammell Samson 8X4 with a gross combination weight of 75 tons
Regards Pat
Hi Pat the Pickfords Scammell Samson was 85 tons gross as I drove it quite a bit when it first came to to Pickfords and I can recall running at over 90 tons gross as a 60 ton piece turned out to be just over 70 tons and it tared about 26 tons cheers Johnnie
Hi Pat,
Cartwrights of Wolverhampton used to run those four in line trailers,they hauled sand to the South Wales Steelworks in the early sixties,there was a driver in Kington near where I live,he had a Dodge Kew tractor unit pulling one of those trailers as a tipper.
Cheers Dave.
Hi I remember the Kennings truck the bodywork was built by Carter it has an electric lift which lifted one car at a time, the third car was left on thye lift. I also used a pup on the rear of my Leyland Carrimore for some jobs or when the second man was not available, they were supposed to weigh under a ton & the other big problem with the drags then was the 30MPH limit. Not all the traffic police new this, I was pulled a few times but never done.
dieseldog6:
Great pic of the Kenning wagon and pup, don’t suppose you have any of the Morton’s/Rootes, Commer wagon and pups, they were popular in the late 60’s early 70’s because you didn’t need a second man with you.
sammyopisite:
Hi Pat the Pickfords Scammell Samson was 85 tons gross as I drove it quite a bit when it first came to to Pickfords and I can recall running at over 90 tons gross as a 60 ton piece turned out to be just over 70 tons and it tared about 26 tons cheers Johnnie
Hi Johnnie don’t shoot the messenger I only put what was in the article
Here,s a pic of when Tony Kimber had it here in Southampton at Netley Marsh Steam rally.
Regards Pat
No problem Pat it was a great tool when we first got it I think it would be one of the first artics to have a steerable rear bogie when it first came it was geared down to about 42 mph and in the deep reduction gears you could hardly see the wheels moving on tickover but it went back and was fitted with a bit higher speed dif and would then do about 55 mph and even that load of over 70 tons bottom five gears were never needed but the D/D was a very thirsty old girl and they fitted an extra fuel tank on the cat walk at the same time regards Johnnie