oiltreader:
Two more from a while back.
Oily
Great photos Oiltreader, I used to drive one of those Austin 3 way loaders for Tudor Crisps in Newcastle in the earley 50s, Regards Larry.
In my short stint in the MN with Maersk I used to live in South Shields. We would be racing against the DFDS ships of a morning. If it was in front we was very late. If it was behind we was just late.
Loved it up there! I was there the time the QE2 was doing her farewell tour of the UK!
Thanks Oily
Yes the kid on the packages was a famous symbol cos it was Wrights who ‘invented’ (if that’s the right (no pun intended) word)
Delicious they were too with a nice cup of char for dunking
Lawrence Dunbar:
oiltreader:
Two more from a while back.
OilyGreat photos Oiltreader, I used to drive one of those Austin 3 way loaders for Tudor Crisps in Newcastle in the earley 50s, Regards Larry.
Ahhh Tudor Crisps 
remember them well The plain crisps came with a little blue twist of salt. Had to rummage in the packet to find it before pouring it over the crisps. Smiths crisps who took over wanted to reintroduce the twist because of their novelty but someone had thrown out the plan/schematic for making the machine that produced them. Some folk never learn just because its old technology doesn’t mean its no good
Incidentally do you chaps know that the 2 stroke diesel has been 're-invented and an air cooled super charged engine is being developed for the US Army to put in their tanks. Its been found that the 2 stroke is much more fuel efficient, more powerful (more power strokes) half the size and weight together with cleaner emissions. So good in fact that its expected to meet even anticipated 2020 emission standards.
In other words we shouldn’t be so keen to ditch technology that works
Drove a Commer 2 stroke tipper for a short while and what a great sounding din it made
Further to my last post and to illustrate what I mean about technology. The Americans spent over a million dollars inventing a pen that would work in zero gravity 
The Russians they took pencils 
kevmac47:
These sculptures are in the redeveloped Market Dock at the mouth of the river. Regards Kev. 3210
Is this the original site of Brighams and Cowans Dock? which I know has been redeveloped for some years now
On the Newcastle harbour side there was a firm running 3 wheeled auto hitch Scammell’s Can anyone remember their name?
Clayton St pic and the Number 62 Bus we used to get to and back from the town when I lived in Longbenton and would have got that bus to get to Burtons the Tailors seen in the first pic, bought my first Full Monty for less than twenty quid (still only paid £1 10 a week though on my meager apprentice wages), don’t suppose young chaps even bother with a suit these days, me and three mates all got measured up the same day and couldn’t wait to collect them and get back to the Toon for a first pint of Tartan in Simpsons, happy days! Cheers Oily.
joncris:
Lawrence Dunbar:
oiltreader:
Two more from a while back.
OilyGreat photos Oiltreader, I used to drive one of those Austin 3 way loaders for Tudor Crisps in Newcastle in the earley 50s, Regards Larry.
Ahhh Tudor Crisps
Incidentally do you chaps know that the 2 stroke diesel has been 're-invented and an air cooled super charged engine is being developed for the US Army to put in their tanks. Its been found that the 2 stroke is much more fuel efficient, more powerful (more power strokes) half the size and weight together with cleaner emissions. So good in fact that its expected to meet even anticipated 2020 emission standards.
In other words we shouldn’t be so keen to ditch technology that works
Drove a Commer 2 stroke tipper for a short while and what a great sounding din it made
Don’t mention the two stroke!
I mentioned it once and think I got away with it…
John.
John West:
joncris:
Lawrence Dunbar:
oiltreader:
Two more from a while back.
OilyGreat photos Oiltreader, I used to drive one of those Austin 3 way loaders for Tudor Crisps in Newcastle in the earley 50s, Regards Larry.
Ahhh Tudor Crisps
Incidentally do you chaps know that the 2 stroke diesel has been 're-invented and an air cooled super charged engine is being developed for the US Army to put in their tanks. Its been found that the 2 stroke is much more fuel efficient, more powerful (more power strokes) half the size and weight together with cleaner emissions. So good in fact that its expected to meet even anticipated 2020 emission standards.
In other words we shouldn’t be so keen to ditch technology that works
Drove a Commer 2 stroke tipper for a short while and what a great sounding din it madeDon’t mention the two stroke!
I mentioned it once and think I got away with it…
John.
Why? I thought they were great but then I was quite young & daft now I’m just old & daft
joncris:
On the Newcastle harbour side there was a firm running 3 wheeled auto hitch Scammell’s Can anyone remember their name?
That would have been Baxters Road Services, They had two petrol engine ones JVK 44, GPT540, the other two were diesel engines, 569 HBB, 173 LVK, These latter ones had the old gate change gear box, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
joncris:
On the Newcastle harbour side there was a firm running 3 wheeled auto hitch Scammell’s Can anyone remember their name?That would have been Baxters Road Services, They had two petrol engine ones JVK 44, GPT540, the other two were diesel engines, 569 HBB, 173 LVK, These latter ones had the old gate change gear box, Regards Larry.
This was Baxters Garage on the Quayside, Regards Larry.
Thanks Larry very kind of you
That’s them drove a 3 wheeler but only for few weeks Can’t remember much about the vehicle itself other than the auto coupling & the 2 close together support wheels which folded up once you pushed back.
Incidentally I’ve been asking this on the forum without success but Do you know if Sweetleaf is still about as he posted that he knew many of the Peter Slater drivers and I was one in the 60’s
Incidentally someone named Slater has recently requested we become friends on FB I’ve yet to respond
Regards John
(formally known as Scottie when at Slaters)
joncris:
Thanks Larry very kind of youThat’s them drove a 3 wheeler but only for few weeks Can’t remember much about the vehicle itself other than the auto coupling & the 2 close together support wheels which folded up once you pushed back.
Incidentally I’ve been asking this on the forum without success but Do you know if Sweetleaf is still about as he posted that he knew many of the Peter Slater drivers and I was one in the 60’s
Incidentally someone named Slater has recently requested we become friends on FB I’ve yet to respond
Regards John
(formally known as Scottie when at Slaters)
Sorry cant help you on that one, Regards Larry.
An old photo from the late 50’s of St Peters and the Hawthorn Leslie works which is now the St Peters Marina, I was born in a house on the right hand side of the group of houses facing the works, Walbrook Terrace which became the site of the Reclamation Plant there today, the Riverside Railway ran just in front of the street with St Peters station and Goods Yard to the right in the picture, this line ran from Manors to Percy main, opened in 1879 it was reduced to just Shipyard service by the Sixties and that ended in 1973, a big mistake was to not open this line up when the Metro system arrived to aid regeneration of the areas it passed through. Of course the other branch line from Manors the Quayside line has been mentioned on here, hard to believe now that trains ran along the length of the Quayside as there is little evidence of that today. The Hawthorn works latterly built many engines for the ships that were built on the Tyne and other dockyards, huge industries that have now all gone.
My Dad who was a ships engineer when he came ashore he worked at HL. He also worked for Parsons Marine building ships turbines. At PM He operated a huge machine cutting the turbine blades
