flatman001:
Have gone on to Tinypic as ainacs suggested, but how do you post more than one pic at a time, not same as Photo B
Fascinated by this photo - Stakes Hall became a trailer park for W. H. Bowker and the building in the background is Bowker’s depot in Hollin Bridge Street. I suppose Blackburn Parcels disappeared into BRS? Maybe Harry Gill will know!
flatman001:
Have gone on to Tinypic as ainacs suggested, but how do you post more than one pic at a time, not same as Photo B
Hi Flatman once you have uploaded a pic you should get a little blue Upload More +on the righthand side of the page just above the small image of the pic you have just uploaded if you left click on that you can upload 5 pics at a time
Regards Pat
flatman001:
HomoFaber:
excuse my ignorance, but what vehicle is this:■■?
Found in one of those 70+ pages…
It’s a Dennis Maxim this one is one of three operated by Leonard Green from Parkgate Rotherham. They had Perkins V8’S.
Thanks. At a first glance the grill area reminded me Skoda 706, but those recesses… Then I though of Krupp cabs then Graf&Stift but nothing really matched… Now I know.
hiya,
240 have’nt clue about them first time i’ve seen one never even saw them about when a youngster, does Bill or Ken know anything, maybe just a small firm, i can remember Wilkinsons of ginormous proportions when they only had a couple of motors at the old tram shed in a place called Britannia in Bacup where i lived as a youngster my dad drove the night trunker for them.
thanks harry long retired.
ainacs:
flatman001:
Have gone on to Tinypic as ainacs suggested, but how do you post more than one pic at a time, not same as Photo BHi Flatman once you have uploaded a pic you should get a little blue Upload More +on the righthand side of the page just above the small image of the pic you have just uploaded if you left click on that you can upload 5 pics at a time
Regards Pat
Hello Pat
what I meant was how do you transfer more than one pic from Tinypics onto a post on T-net. On Photo B you ticked as many pics as you wanted then clicked on the HTML & IMG code, but you don’t seem to be able to do that on tinypics.
John
The Maurice James 6 legger, was most likely the same Maurice James that went into car delivery and was then taken over by Tolemans.
Yes it is an AEC prototype for the American market
Wheel Nut:
Well obviously that self raising flour is useless
It looks like someone did’t tab the lock nut on that wheel bearing. Unless he’s gone down a man hole.
I wanted to say that untill about 1967/8 there was no MOT on lorries, so if operators did’nt do any maintainence SO WHAT Just panic if they broke down.(DIY)
This is why older drivers know more about trucks and how they work. Then todays trucks are to technical to fix but better maintained better engineered.
A company nr Stoke was doing Scotch work in 1966 with 30 year old trucks 38 MPH.And this was’nt unusual.Can anyone remember that 8 legger 1950s Leyland
it was Blue. It run from the black country to St Helens area 1974/5ish it only did 40ish MPH. He made your eyes pop open if you was doing 60MPH.
Before Plating (MOT) There was ministry men doing road side checks, If your truck was not road worthy they would make you tranship a load before you could carry on to a garage and get things fixed . Can you add to this Harry ■■ you have a bit more experance than me. I’an surprised this ha’nt been mentioned before. Somthing else not mentioned. If the ministry stopped you and give you a GV9 you had to walk and find a phone to tell your boss, and there could
be a queue at the phone box HA HA.
John
Cracking pics flatman001, where was the pic of Worcester Farmers Commer,with the Clee hill Leyland taken.
Cheers Dave.
3300John:
Wheel Nut:
Well obviously that self raising flour is useless
It looks like someone did’t tab the lock nut on that wheel bearing. Unless he’s gone down a man hole.
I wanted to say that untill about 1967/8 there was no MOT on lorries, so if operators did’nt do any maintainence SO WHAT Just panic if they broke down.(DIY)
This is why older drivers know more about trucks and how they work. Then todays trucks are to technical to fix but better maintained better engineered.
A company nr Stoke was doing Scotch work in 1966 with 30 year old trucks 38 MPH.And this was’nt unusual.Can anyone remember that 8 legger 1950s Leyland
it was Blue. It run from the black country to St Helens area 1974/5ish it only did 40ish MPH. He made your eyes pop open if you was doing 60MPH.
Before Plating (MOT) There was ministry men doing road side checks, If your truck was not road worthy they would make you tranship a load before you could carry on to a garage and get things fixed . Can you add to this Harry ■■ you have a bit more experance than me. I’an surprised this ha’nt been mentioned before. Somthing else not mentioned. If the ministry stopped you and give you a GV9 you had to walk and find a phone to tell your boss, and there could
be a queue at the phone box HA HA.
John
Hi John,
It was the same Transport Bill that brought in the Heavy Goods License,that brought in the plating,it was a big thing at the time,a lot of drivers finished because they couldn’t pass the medical to get a HGV license,even though they were exempt from taking a test,providing you had driven that class of vehicle between 1968 and 69,for six months. I knew a lot of blokes who got class one licenses who had never driven an artic,expect you do as well,also it put the wages up,mine went up abot 40%. I think in real terms the few years that followed were probably the best for pay for drivers,the wages seem to have fallen right behind in comparison to a lot of jobs.
Cheers Dave.
The picture at a sugar factory plenty going on there but can’t recognise the place and have been to a few. Same as Dave I like the Commer in the corn mill.
Its good to see bag loads nobodys daft enough to do it now a days,And i don’t blame them it has’nt got me any where and I’ve done plenty.
I suppose we did’nt need a gym membership so that saved us i few quid.
John.
Dave the Renegade:
Cracking pics flatman001, where was the pic of Worcester Farmers Commer,with the Clee hill Leyland taken.
Cheers Dave.
It’s a Roger Kenney photo Dave, all I know wasa that it was taken at their own depot? On the side of the Commer it says Worcester County Mills.
John
Hi dave yes i know people who had a class 1 issued and never drove a lorry before and after.Become transport managers then told me i was doing it wrong.
I did’nt become old enough to get my class1 till 1972 but i was practising for a good 4 years before if you know what i mean only evenings and weekends.
I worked at Jennings/ERF before panal beating, It was good building allsorts of cabs and a bit of EXP. Then we had a bad spell like at the moment nothing was selling 3 day week so i got out and ended up driving full time. Always had good paying jobs and finished at 55. Job and knock.
John
3300John:
Wheel Nut:
Well obviously that self raising flour is useless
It looks like someone did’t tab the lock nut on that wheel bearing. Unless he’s gone down a man hole.
I wanted to say that untill about 1967/8 there was no MOT on lorries, so if operators did’nt do any maintainence SO WHAT Just panic if they broke down.(DIY)
This is why older drivers know more about trucks and how they work. Then todays trucks are to technical to fix but better maintained better engineered.
A company nr Stoke was doing Scotch work in 1966 with 30 year old trucks 38 MPH.And this was’nt unusual.Can anyone remember that 8 legger 1950s Leyland
it was Blue. It run from the black country to St Helens area 1974/5ish it only did 40ish MPH. He made your eyes pop open if you was doing 60MPH.
Before Plating (MOT) There was ministry men doing road side checks, If your truck was not road worthy they would make you tranship a load before you could carry on to a garage and get things fixed . Can you add to this Harry ■■ you have a bit more experance than me. I’an surprised this ha’nt been mentioned before. Somthing else not mentioned. If the ministry stopped you and give you a GV9 you had to walk and find a phone to tell your boss, and there could
be a queue at the phone box HA HA.
John
hiya,
John not much i can add to the above you’ve just about covered the lot and refreshed my memory with the dates, can just add i had to get three hauliers to sign my exemption form changed my job a few times during the qualifying period redundant at BRS,short time at
Killingbecks and Bowkers were i was when i got the licence, tell you what how do you remember all that dates and all.
thanks harry long retired.
hi everyone, this scrapbook memories just get better every day, the sugar beet factory photo is kirkcaldy, think it closed in the 70ty, the sentinel reminded me of a guy who back up onto the pavement and drop the back wheels in to a pub cellar, we had to transship the load,jack it back up then timber across the cellar doors to get him free, pub manager didn’t even offer us a pint 
in the early 60ty if you did northern ireland you had to have an mot for that lorry, you got one free trip into n/ireland after that it had to have a green sticker on the windscreen this lasted a year,if it failed you could do your deliveries and return home, but the next trip over you went straight to the test garage and it had to pass before you could deliver, i have tried to post photos without success, must be doing some thing wrong 
keep up the good work lads, regards bumper
HI Bumper Well i never new about that sugar factory did’nt even know they grew sugar beet in Scotland that shows how thick i am. I did pick up on the reg plates of the tractor and the commer sp (letter s on last 2 letters Scotland).
thanks John.
Looks like there are some wheel polishers in the Humber Warehousing garage too 
That 15cwt Thames van brings back a memory too, When I was small, my dad had one as a company car and I remember falling out of it, I ended up on the road, crying, the neighbour picked me up and took me in for squash and sympathy 
My mum used to remind everyone, Malc cried and told everyone “Blood on road, went to Junes and got blood on carpet” A bit embarrassing when you are twenty and she was telling all my mates
I was on market work in 1969,worst money I was ever on and even worse hours,but I hung on and got that exemption form signed with all the wagon reg numbers on plus dates,sent it off to Leeds Traffic Area,got my licence,and then was away like a rat up a pipe 
I had got my name down at A.E.Evans on tankers and they insisted on class 1 holders only even though they only had three artics out of Sheffield in 1970.
And here it is. 
Earned me some brass,but not enough.
And there were some older drivers I knew that could have wangled the class 1 but didn’t want it,preferring to stay on rigids,and some fitters who had never driven a wagon got a licence,simples…tshiik! 
Hi Chris,
It was possible to wangle a license for four people on one lorry,it had to be 6 months between March 1st 1969 and the end of Febuary 1970. There was all sorts getting them,one pub landlord was filling them in for some blokes. Genuine drivers who hadn’t done a full six months and were honest had to go for a test,some firms paid,some wouldn’t. My Dad was sent by his firm to get a class one,because he had been there all his working life(apart from wartime in the army)as they knew he wouldn’t leave,where as some of the younger blokes would,they got him to do it,so that he could ride shotgun and learn the newby’s.
Cheers Dave.
Wheel Nut:
Looks like there are some wheel polishers in the Humber Warehousing garage too
That 15cwt Thames van brings back a memory too, When I was small, my dad had one as a company car and I remember falling out of it, I ended up on the road, crying, the neighbour picked me up and took me in for squash and sympathy
I drove a Ford Thames van as well on a milk round.I was in the RAF and used to thumb it back to Sheffield at night from near Thetford,usually a friday.Give the intended bride a big kiss then away to the Express Dairies depot about 0400,in her uncle’s Thames van UET 55,load up and away delivering round the Hackenthorpe estate.
Here’s a photo of UET 55 at the back of a good-looking RAF lad on a Norton,Lathkill Dale Derbyshire 1961.
And I did marry the intended and I’ve still got her after 47 years.
