Ex West Midlands Travel, preserved at Aston Manor Road Transport Museum
Ford D by richellis1978, on Flickr
I ran a couple or three d800s in the 70s,good little workers on local muck jobs etc,too slow on distance.guy I was pulling for bought a 6 wheel d100 with 360 turbo biggest load of ■■■ ever made,kept knackering turbos and then seizing up.tried a couple of none turbos but wouldn’t pull your cap off at this weight.engine blew one day whilst we were demolishing old paper mill at Walton le dale for harry Parkinson who let us use one of the storage sheds to keep tackle in and do repairs,so one Saturday afternoon this motor is in this shed waiting for a track rod to be fitted Monday a.m. when we get a phone call from steeplejacks that a chimney they were demolishing for us had dropped wrong way and gone through shed and flattened said d1000.my mate was exstatic couldn’t wait for payout went out next day and bought a Leyland.best end to that pile of zb .
This one is up for auction this coming weekend 30/11/13 @ Stalybridge.
I think this photo belongs to Paul (moomooland) 
passed my Class 1 in a D,and drove them at NCL,Leicester.spotted a few yesterday in a yard at Burton on Trent 
Stanfield:
This one is up for auction this coming weekend 30/11/13 @ Stalybridge.1
I think this photo belongs to Paul (moomooland)
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What did the preserved one fetch■■? Just love those knobbly tyres on the Dart tractor, goes so well with the gorgeous D-Series - phwoar…!!
Saviem:
Evening all, mrken, I really do like the look of your lorries, very, very smart. Cheerio for now.
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Kenny is that right that Les Sampson used to buy a big batch of non runners straight out of Langley and make a decent lorry or two out of them?
Yes Mark your correct he used to buy 4 at a time use one for spares and reincarnate 3.I am afraid he had this perception that because
they had such a low unladen weight you could get a legal 20 ton on them which in fact you could and gain the benifits of low tax
What he didnt get was they couldnt pull it and were always blowing up. He always said there the same power as a 1418 .
sdg1970- You have PM.
sdg1970:
Stanfield:
This one is up for auction this coming weekend 30/11/13 @ Stalybridge.1
I think this photo belongs to Paul (moomooland)
32What did the preserved one fetch■■? Just love those knobbly tyres on the Dart tractor, goes so well with the gorgeous D-Series - phwoar…!!
Back in the day,they were called cross ply tyres, 
newmercman:
Saviem:
Evening all, mrken, I really do like the look of your lorries, very, very smart. Cheerio for now.
Kenny is that right that Les Sampson used to buy a big batch of non runners straight out of Langley and make a decent lorry or two out of them?
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That is absolutely gorgeous!!!
Young Memett brought a whole new perception to the name spacecab
mrken:
Young Memett brought a whole new perception to the name spacecab
I remember taking that photograph on Malta years ago 
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
The photo’s of the old fords reminds me of a job I had thirty odd years ago. I worked in scotland at torness power station just down the road from Dunbar. This was for Robert mcalpine they had about 15 -20 of these ford trucks carrying concrete day and night. They called them dumpcrete trucks, I don’t know what weight they were but they carried 3 metres of concrete. That’s about 9 -10 ton I think. I drove one for about 18 months on night shift, health and safety wasn’t as keen then as it is now so as long as you had a driving licence you were ok, this was all on site and was a great job, they had 6 gears and for lad of 21 were a joy to drive they were battered and bruised ad if the heater worked it was a real bonus especially on the cold winter nights sorry if this rambles on a bit but the pictures bring back some memories of a great time for a young bloke.
first tipper I drove d 750 muck away day work
some times drop the sideboard and shovel on by hand
reliable waggon some had air brakes and diesel tank was to
rear mounted inside chassie good on a tip irish firms like green and grey
murphys had loads of them . good old days
hi tippertom.we bought 3 of murphys d800s in the early 70s.picked them up in London.went down in a Volvo 144 car in just over 4 hours, took nearly 9 hours to get them back.no good on motorways.we ran them for about 3 years on hard demolition and muck jobs.no trouble except normal wear and tear.good days ,you would struggle with a small 4 wheeler today unless it was for your own work. 
hi shirtbox they were reliable waggon bit better than tk
also bought couple of them from the grey murphy in
Manchester late 70s easy to maintain and drive
progressed to 6 and 8 wheelers after them
