Scrapbook Memories (Part 1)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Wheel Nut:

Chris Webb:
Nice photos Phil.I especially like the AEC refueller line -up,any idea when it was taken? They are probably ex RAF Akrotiri which is still operational.And the ERF with the silencer ■■■■■■■… :laughing: that livery looks familiar but I can’t place it.

I was thinking Bloomer’s, Chris.

Not this Bloomer Malc…

I thought about Bulkhaul?

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Numbum:
Something for Bubbs thread while he is in Holland. I wonder if he will come back with a collection of dutch caps.

Heading back to the Mendips from Bristol.

Same with this one.


Catching the sun in a Cyprus scrapyard.


Commer in Turkey with a quickly detatchable container.

Aust services.

South west tar distillers, Southampton.

Malta. Still with the english owners name. Miller of Preston.

Typical Malta tanker.No hazard markings and the silencer ■■■■■■■ with rope

Cheers Phil

I remember a tanker delivering a load of derv to the Bewick depot that was in worse nick than the Malta one.Our supplier was BP and the tanker was a “subbie” for Tankfreight and had transhipped the load in the T/freight depot!! When I had finnished B***ING BP and promising that if they ever sent a "bag of S" into our depot again I would get a vehicle examiner from the MOT centre next door to put the tanker in question off the road!!! I understood that the MD of Tankfreight was called into BP at Hemel Hempstead and given “the full treatment”!!! If I was paying for cheap derv fair enough but I was paying top dollar for what was quality Derv!!Bewick.

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fair comment

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Numbum:

Malta. Still with the english owners name. Miller of Preston.

This pic was on E-bay a little while ago (the same machine, I think):

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I think that ERF tanker could have been an old "Bulkhaul " wagon from Teeside as it is very similar colours there is one on page 6 of the tanker thread
cheers Johnnie

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Answers to some questions,
Chris. The scrapyard in Cyprus is on the main road east out of Larnaca next to the oil refinery, there was a lot of British lorries in there.
I have been back to Cyprus since but was with the wife so I do not know if it is still there.
UBYM 344. The photo of the Volvo is taken coming into Bristol city centre from the north on the A 38. About half mile further on the road goes under a high metal railway arch.

Some more of the AEC,s in the yard. I only managed to take a few photos before I was ejected from the premises.

Phil.

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Posted by Numbum


South west tar distillers, Southampton.

Here is a couple of older pics of a Totton Tar AEC’s

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And an even older one Pat…maybe Charlie drove it? :laughing:

I only went there once,from BSC Chemicals Orgreave about 1970.An AEC MK5 MM,tipped and back to Leicester Forest empty for a dodgy.

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Numbum:
Answers to some questions,
Chris. The scrapyard in Cyprus is on the main road east out of Larnaca next to the oil refinery, there was a lot of British lorries in there.
I have been back to Cyprus since but was with the wife so I do not know if it is still there.
UBYM 344. The photo of the Volvo is taken coming into Bristol city centre from the north on the A 38. About half mile further on the road goes under a high metal railway arch.

Some more of the AEC,s in the yard. I only managed to take a few photos before I was ejected from the premises.

Phil.

Thanks for that Phil.I haven’t been to Cyprus for a few years but there were a lot of mixers and tippers parked,or rather dumped on the beach near Paphos in the late 90s.I took loads of photos and lost them,don’t know how to this day. :unamused:

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Chris Webb:

Wheel Nut:

Chris Webb:
Nice photos Phil.I especially like the AEC refueller line -up,any idea when it was taken? They are probably ex RAF Akrotiri which is still operational.And the ERF with the silencer ■■■■■■■… :laughing: that livery looks familiar but I can’t place it.

I was thinking Bloomer’s, Chris.

Not this Bloomer Malc…

I thought about Bulkhaul?

Yes, only the colours have run a bit :blush:

I think it is a bit light for Bulkhaul but the colours are closer than my guess :stuck_out_tongue:

I never even looked at George Bloomers livery, just thought. I know those colours! Doh…

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Chris Webb:
And an even older one Pat…maybe Charlie drove it? :laughing:

I only went there once,from BSC Chemicals Orgreave about 1970.An AEC MK5 MM,tipped and back to Leicester Forest empty for a dodgy.

Well done Chris but not even Charlies that old

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Bubbs is on tour, we can have a photographic tour.

40,000 pints today please.

Yugoslavia just befor war broke out. Tatra with central spine chassis and independent front suspension.

Gibraltar.

Egypt.

Bulgaria. A Kraz.

Iceland

Turkey. International bitumen tanker.

Czech Republic. A Liaz, There is a serious gnome problem in that country they are everywhere.

Morocco.

Cheers Phil

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NZ JAMIE:
Here’s a few that I took yesterday,hope they are of interest,we run at 44 tonne here and still have log books.

Cheers Jamie

**NZ JAMIE …**What’s with the gismo between the two rear axles, and the pair of lines running to the
Wheels / hub ?

Axle weight sensors ?

Another question :- Is there a special company in NZ / Ausse, that converts all Yankee trucks to R.H.D.

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Fergie47:

NZ JAMIE:
Here’s a few that I took yesterday,hope they are of interest,we run at 44 tonne here and still have log books.

Cheers Jamie

**NZ JAMIE …**What’s with the gismo between the two rear axles, and the pair of lines running to the
Wheels / hub ?

Axle weight sensors ?

Another question :- Is there a special company in NZ / Ausse, that converts all Yankee trucks to R.H.D.

lines running to the wheels are tyre self inflation lines.

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Numbum:
Bubbs is on tour, we can have a photographic tour.

40,000 pints today please.

That’s not Chideock is it■■? :wink:

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Dieselcowboy:
lines running to the wheels are tyre self inflation lines.

OK, … Do you know how they work ? automaticly, keeps them at the correct pressure from the compressor via a gismo ? or manualy operated ? They look helish vunerable hanging out the sides like that, especially on forest work, I should think …dunno… :blush:

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Dieselcowboy:

Numbum:
Bubbs is on tour, we can have a photographic tour.

40,000 pints today please.

That’s not Chideock is it■■? :wink:

What year do you all recon that happened. 20mph sign, the clothes the men stood around are wearing, reg number !

I’d take a guess the mid fifties ■■

Hope the driver was OK !!

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Fergie47:

Dieselcowboy:

Numbum:
Bubbs is on tour, we can have a photographic tour.

40,000 pints today please.

That’s not Chideock is it■■? :wink:

What year do you all recon that happened. 20mph sign, the clothes the men stood around are wearing, reg number !

I’d take a guess the mid fifties ■■

Hope the driver was OK !!

To help you location detectives here is a photo of two wreckers pulling the tanker back up the hill that it must have run away down.
The trade plate on the first one was issued to Hertfordshire.

Phil

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Dieselcowboy:

Fergie47:

NZ JAMIE:
Here’s a few that I took yesterday,hope they are of interest,we run at 44 tonne here and still have log books.
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'Course you do - how else can you count the logs?)

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harry:

Dieselcowboy:

Fergie47:

NZ JAMIE:
Here’s a few that I took yesterday,hope they are of interest,we run at 44 tonne here and still have log books.
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'Course you do - how else can you count the logs?
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like it harry never thought of that one, fred m)