Fortes. Newport Pagnell 1960
Hi Malc , Thats how rush hour looked back then.
Numbum:
Hi Marcus, I hope you are still able to shout at the class on Saturday night. I was going to put some pics on but photobucket have they say improved thier
site and made it easier. I cant paste any photos like I always have done. Old dog and new tricks comes to mind anyone else got the same trouble.Phil.
I also wish photobucket wouldn’t keep changing their format,if it ain’t broke,don’t fix it!.It does all I want it to and probably more.But there again,there must be geeks about that are always wanting more facilities.
3300John:
Hiya …i think its Leicester forest noth side.the trans con is traveling south bound. Maybe wrong.
The bass crusader looks intresting double drive(They never went off the black stuff) twin stacks (DD)
twin headlights(unusual)better than square…lower than usual roof…no plates possible demonstrater.
John
That Crusader must be an early one.
Cross ply tyres on the unit and trailer .
coca cola kid:
Fortes. Newport Pagnell 1960
Hi Malc , Thats how rush hour looked back then.
Even back then when there was so little traffic about,some pratts still drove in the middle lane!
There was a photo a few weeks back in our local rag of the M6 in the mid '60’s around J15,only one car in each direction,and they were both in the middle lane!
bestbooties:
coca cola kid:
Fortes. Newport Pagnell 1960
Hi Malc , Thats how rush hour looked back then.
Even back then when there was so little traffic about,some pratts still drove in the middle lane!
There was a photo a few weeks back in our local rag of the M6 in the mid '60’s around J15,only one car in each direction,and they were both in the middle lane!
Isnt it in the outside lane of two ? 
Lane 1 is ■■■■■■ off 
I said coned off didnt i ?
Suedehead:
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coca cola kid:
Fortes. Newport Pagnell 1960
Hi Malc , Thats how rush hour looked back then.
Even back then when there was so little traffic about,some pratts still drove in the middle lane!
There was a photo a few weeks back in our local rag of the M6 in the mid '60’s around J15,only one car in each direction,and they were both in the middle lane!Isnt it in the outside lane of two ?
Should have gone to specsavers
bubbleman:
Hello again,Fodens today…a bit of a treat for the “older” lads…heres a few from my pal Adrian Cypher,the first few were taken on the A4 before the M4 was built…all shot through the windscreen of his old Austin…he’s parked in the lay-by opposite the old Ridgeway cafe (who remembers that) near Marlborough.
One for Muckaway at the end.
Cheers Bubbs,
The only secondhand lorry on the fleet, new to S.J Phipps Haulage. It’s run by the plant engineering dept as a welders lorry, used normally for picking up buckets, engines etc for repair or commonly for setting up/dismantling stuff like crushing and screening plant.
heres one of the sabrina at work-alan
3300John:
Wheel Nut:
[Fortes. Newport Pagnell 1960
Hiya…nice photo,s wheel nut…I see theres a standlewick double decker in the newport pagnal photo. i see its in the outside lane…
i have noticed the roadworks(no queue to get in lane)I,ll bet he,s still in that lane at the M10.
John
I think the Ferry masters F88 must be a early one. the paint shop haven,t got the tongue around the sweedish truck names yet
Aye,Standerwick always in the fast lane John,and was it SMT-Scottish Motor Traction that were low-flyers late 60s on the A1/M1?
When I was on nights I thought the AEC Marshall I had was a fast motor but those Standerwick DDs were quick.Faster going south as everybody wanted to get out of Lancs I suppose (tin hat on),they used to dawdle going northwest,no sod wanted to go back to Lancs.
Opposite way round for Yorkshire Traction - empty south,loaded coming back,day and night.
Tin hat on again… 
Think the fastest was the Midland red, them things could hit the ton, B’ham to London 2hrs.
Trev_H:
Think the fastest was the Midland red, them things could hit the ton, B’ham to London 2hrs.
I’d forgotten about the Midland Red Trev,they made their own bodies and maybe even chassis years ago.I keep meaning to buy the book about them,they really could trap on.Was it BMMO - Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company?
Might have opened a bus thing here - sorry lads. 
Parks of Hamilton were never shy of hitting big numbers in what ever lane was available
sammyopisite:
Parks of Hamilton were never shy of hitting big numbers in what ever lane was available
And what about Souter’s Stagecoach service from Perth,they could rock on a bit (posing barstewards).
Chris Webb:
Trev_H:
Think the fastest was the Midland red, them things could hit the ton, B’ham to London 2hrs.I’d forgotten about the Midland Red Trev,they made their own bodies and maybe even chassis years ago.I keep meaning to buy the book about them,they really could trap on.Was it BMMO - Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company?
Might have opened a bus thing here - sorry lads.
And even their own engines!! And turbo-charged ones at that.
Suedehead:
That Crusader must be an early one.
Cross ply tyres on the unit and trailer .
How on earth could you tell they are cross-plies? 
Split rims, yes.
Suedehead:
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coca cola kid:
Fortes. Newport Pagnell 1960
Hi Malc , Thats how rush hour looked back then.
Even back then when there was so little traffic about,some pratts still drove in the middle lane!
There was a photo a few weeks back in our local rag of the M6 in the mid '60’s around J15,only one car in each direction,and they were both in the middle lane!Isnt it in the outside lane of two ?
Lane 1 is [zb] off
I said coned off didnt i ?
The carriageway coming at you is 3 lanes,and there is a car in the MIDDLE lane.
Trev_H:
Think the fastest was the Midland red, them things could hit the ton, B’ham to London 2hrs.
As London to B’ham is 100 miles,I think 2 hours would be hanging about!
I was a young squaddie in the early '60’s and did a lot of hitch hiking in the early days before having my own wheels later on,and I well remember being blown off the road by the Midland Red coaches.
Hiya…midland red was single deckers, where standlewick was double deckers. stage coach and parks came later with the one and a half deckers.
to get around the double decker ban in the early 70,s.
It was after a high speed crash at watford that dd,s was banned from useing motorways. one of standlewicks flopped on its side an slid into
another bus coming the other way. no centre barrier in those day,s.
John
Can always remember when I was a kid going with my Dad in the holidays he used do to coca cola from St Austall on Brains with his new invincalble
with a ■■■■■■■ and air filter in cab and he used to say elbows in here they go and it was the Royal Blue coaches they flew down that 303
Trev_H:
Think the fastest was the Midland red, them things could hit the ton, B’ham to London 2hrs.
Aye i think yer right there trev,my mate got done trying to race one in a leyland comet 4 wheeler early 70s,that could do over 70 and it passed him no probs.
regards dave.