Can anyone identify the fire engine that couldn’t have broken down at a worse time? The fire is in Witney at Cook and Boggis December 1964.
Austin
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dieseldog6:
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dieseldog6:
6 on artics only up till 68, then with the lenght increse, it started to move up, although you could get 9 on a wagon and drag. Great pic of the Lathams Big J, Martin Latham the son , was my boss at Cartransport BRS in the late 80’s early 90’sLathams were the leaders in big engined car transporters they were running 180 Gardners when most others were using the low powered Leylands, BMCs, Bedfords & Fords. The trailer in this photo is a Hoynor Mk2 modified to carry general cargo as well as cars.
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You dont get loading ramps like them now, they had to be carried from the middle of the trailer to the rear.I don’t think Lathams ever carried genral freight on them as it was frowned upon in the midlands, although I can remember Glendennings doing it.
The give away is the box section in the midle of the top deck, the slide down the front pillar & the box holding the back legs up if you remember standard Mk2 Hoynors used to have a big pivot at the front end. I have some photos of one of these loaded with general. Silcock & Collin bought a number of these but I dont think that they were allowed to use them.
We had 2 dual purpose trailers new in 72, Roy Tilling got the first one and I got the other, they were Carrimore chassis carriers Roy had a scania 80 and I had a Guy big J 180, we used to load cars from fiat Warrington, or the yard at Penwortham to either Croal and Croal, Edinburgh or Ritchies, Sheilds road, Glasgow then mt to Bathgate to load BMC chassis or 2 EA vans for the gas board Liverpool we did that for 3 years in all that time we never carried anything else, although Glendennings had similar trailers. h186j
this takes me back to skiving off school and going up the road with me dad
happy days!
bubbleman:
What a fantastic picture, nice one Bubbs 
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Austin
Austin Lodestar?
kindle530:
this takes me back to skiving off school and going up the road with me dad
happy days!
That is a good interior shot of the Volvo cab
Hello lads,heres some Scanias again,1st one for mechanic77 
Cheers Bubbs,
I remember McKenna from Wheatley running those air cooled Maggie D’s; I’m sure I remember seeing some old ones used by Crappers of Swindon as dumpers on one of the embankment tips on the M4 near Swindon-minus tailgates.
Muckaway:
I remember McKenna from Wheatley running those air cooled Maggie D’s; I’m sure I remember seeing some old ones used by Crappers of Swindon as dumpers on one of the embankment tips on the M4 near Swindon-minus tailgates.
what about the Maggies owned by Millar bros of lechlade ,driven by the late Dennis Hatton and Eric Little ?.
shakysteve:
Muckaway:
I remember McKenna from Wheatley running those air cooled Maggie D’s; I’m sure I remember seeing some old ones used by Crappers of Swindon as dumpers on one of the embankment tips on the M4 near Swindon-minus tailgates.what about the Maggies owned by Millar bros of lechlade ,driven by the late Dennis Hatton and Eric Little ?.
I don’t remember those Shaky, I remember Chris Miller running a Leyland that used to run out of Wooton Bassett sidings, later Scania 8wheelers. Talking of Wiltshire tipper ops, what happened to H.Hibberd? I remember they did a lot on the M4 in the Swindon area before Churchs’ got it. They had a Hino on a G reg with a poxy little body on that I used to hate loading with shingle. I could get 18tonnes of 40mm on it, but I think it got to site with 16 on 
Muckaway:
shakysteve:
Muckaway:
I remember McKenna from Wheatley running those air cooled Maggie D’s; I’m sure I remember seeing some old ones used by Crappers of Swindon as dumpers on one of the embankment tips on the M4 near Swindon-minus tailgates.what about the Maggies owned by Millar bros of lechlade ,driven by the late Dennis Hatton and Eric Little ?.
I don’t remember those Shaky, I remember Chris Miller running a Leyland that used to run out of Wooton Bassett sidings, later Scania 8wheelers. Talking of Wiltshire tipper ops, what happened to H.Hibberd? I remember they did a lot on the M4 in the Swindon area before Churchs’ got it. They had a Hino on a G reg with a poxy little body on that I used to hate loading with shingle. I could get 18tonnes of 40mm on it, but I think it got to site with 16 on
Chris Miller is still in operation,remember his relation Steve Miller O/D with Hills of Swindon ?Hibbards closed a while ago ,Mr Hibbard still counting his millions ,more details of the Hino ,who and where did you load !