Busy Bee in the 60s.
Dagenham Dustbins, Thames Trader at Thames Board Mills Purfleet.
hiya,
Benny those four in line trailers was rubbish, used to drop them in layby’s hoping some kind person would nick them.
thanks harry long retired.
I am new to picture postings.
Can anyone please tell me why Photobucket has removed my pictures from the earlier posting.
John S.
wessexman:
I am new to picture postings.Can anyone please tell me why Photobucket has removed my pictures from the earlier posting.
John S.
Hi John,
They threatened to remove mine,because the bandwith is full. Try tinypic. I have been using them the last week.
Cheers Dave.
Thanks Dave - I will try that.
John S.
HiHarry
Your right the Four in Lines were a terrible thing,remember when i was on Monkton Motors of Uxbridge we had some that were Tankers on contract to Esso at there Terminal at London Airport,it was said at time we only got them because the Esso Drivers had them first and refused to work with them said they had the Tank set to high on the Chassis and were liable to turn over easily,then there was the terrible Job of changing a Wheel if needed.
Benny
Hello again,I’ve had a chance to look at all the stuff that was put on while I was away,all I can say is fantastic pics and once again thanks to all who kept the thread going. 
Heres some more old cuttings then.the first is for moomooland
Hope these are ok
Cheers Bubbs. 
hiya,
There was a young guy who worked as a traffic clerk in the J&E depot in lochee back in the 60s, he was called Philip Ridgeway his dad was the TM for the same firm, could it be the same guy mentioned in the post above the age would be about right he’ll be pushing 70 now, always gave me a good backload at good rates according to my then boss.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Marcus,
Thanks for the picture you wont believe this but my wife’s brother worked there in 1978/9 
Will post the picture on the Northwest Trucks during the week.
Thanks again Marcus and welcome back 
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hiya,
Jim did’nt the Riggend cafe go by the grand title of the Riggend Transmotel at one time a bit posh really but it was clean and warm, long time since i was in there, is it still on the go??, back to the dreaded four in lines i had one go over on the Hunters Moon roundabout Brum when a roped on container decided to move when “white van man” decided to shoot up my nearside and i had to lock over hard right the lot went over, WVM was seen by a police patrol car driver and was stopped and done for dangerous driving i never heard anything more although it took a while to get recovered and there was plenty of traffic hold-ups, and the old Atki Borderer (not very old then) only needed a new mirror, the windscreen popped back in and the paint touched up.
thanks harry long retired.
Ref.four in line trailers.Iremember changing a wheel on one in a lay by just south of Abington.I jacked up the axle and removed the n/s inner wheel forgetting that when the inner wheel came off the outer dropped down causing the inner hub to point upwards .it took me ages and lots of swearing before getting the wheel back on after repairing a puncture.I’ve found a couple of photos from I think late seventies or early eighties of a recovery I done at Daer road end on the A702 south of Elvanfoot.It was a council shovel that was clearing the road and got stuck in a snow drift.It’s ages since I posted a photo,hope it works.
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hat seemed to work ok.This was taken out the back of our house at Duneaton Bridge 1 mile north of Abington on the original A74.Same year.
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Hi Jim.
They are great photos,I really like the Youngs Express photo at Douglas Castle Lodge. An Scottish pal of mine over here in the IOM will be interested in the photos,he lived in the area as a kid in the 40s and his dad was a gamekeeper on a huge estate owned by Lord Douglas Hume years ago.
I’m buggered if I can remember the name of the transport motel at Chapelhall,only that Genefax had a brick works nearby and Spalding Haulage and Finneys from Tyldesley,Manchester trunked from there.