.Oh MaggieD youve let the cat out of the bag far too early!
Didnt think youd forget that name Tony. Ive only just found this forum so will be catching up with a lot of people by the looks of it. I wont be able to post any fotos yet cos Im just about to come back to UK for the summer. When I get back here I’ll get scanning some fotos and post 'em up.
Scania 450 and a tttttttttipper trailer dontcha know. I might even take a CB with me!
1-9 for da Monkey Spanner!
Later
MaggieD Thanks for that mate, i should,ve guessed.
Gazza Hi Gary, long time no see mate,we did a few k,s together aye
Dont wanna remember how many years ago though.
give me a ring when you get over here Gary. will PM you my phone no.
look forward to hearing from you soon
Regards Tony
Fergie47:
ainacs:
I remember Tony when he was on for Sea Route Ferry didn’t he put a truck over a bridge Glasgow way very lucky not to have been killed? I think he broke his leg or hip. It was a Seddon Atkinson I seem to remember!Regards Pat
Correct Pat, he had a front wheel blow out on an overpass in the centre of Glasgow, The truck ( S.A.) went over the safety barrier and ended upside down, flat as a pancake some 50’ below. Tony will no doubt have the newspaper cuttings from what was certainly a miracle escape.
Here goes. It was,nt my fault, honest.
I reckon he was lucky it was 20 years ago. Today plod would stand back and wait for the h&s man and his “partner agencies” to turn up before going anywhere near. Lucky bloke though. Blame it on Sea Route for buying cheap remoulds.
Hi ex haulier
i,m still here to tell the tale & it was in July 1979
Regards Tony
■■■■ lucky boy Tony, He was looking down on you that day…
mappo:
Hi ex haulier
i,m still here to tell the tale & it was in July 1979
Regards Tony
Remember those pictures well Tone. You were lucky for sure, and Jimmy Carlin? another lucky driver . Head first into the dock at Le Harve with his Foden / 40’ tilt , and 20 tons of candles? he must have been looking down on all those Ex Smith of Maddiston drivers at the time eh !
I guess every day must be a bonus for you .
PS. You still as ugly to-day as you were then !!! 
he only came out of the crash cos he landed on his head. im amazed he hadnt been strung up for his hair and sideburns.
Fergie47
Hi Dave, could have been very similar to Jimmys.Another 50 Yds. & i would
have landed in the Clyde. Who knows whar would have happened then?
Perhaps i would,nt have been around to take these bloody insults 
from yourself & that git Kwozzy 
Tone is the only surviving Sed Atk crash test dummy! 
Tone…the only surviving Sed Atk crash test dummy!
I seem to remember one of John Russells of Grangemouth going through the barriers on the Kingston Bridge in a Scania. The poor guy was killed.
The camber changes as the road turns on to the bridge from the south. You did, indeed, have a lucky escape, all the more amazing since it was a Seddon-Atki 400.
Good health to you.
Alex
alexsaville:
I seem to remember one of John Russells of Grangemouth going through the barriers on the Kingston Bridge in a Scania. The poor guy was killed.
The camber changes as the road turns on to the bridge from the south. You did, indeed, have a lucky escape, all the more amazing since it was a Seddon-Atki 400.
Good health to you.
Alex
Alex.
Do you remember one of Smith’s 4 wheelers ( TK ? ) going throught the Bridge at Alloa , around the late '60’s early '70’s.?
I believe they found his body a week later, many miles down stream.
Fergie
Would that be the Kincardine Bridge? I have a vague (very!) memory of something happening there.
Alex
alexsaville:
Fergie
Would that be the Kincardine Bridge? I have a vague (very!) memory of something happening there.
Alex
Alex,
I believe your right. There use to be a transport cafe at the end of the bridge, on the south side. We would stop there after loading bottles at Alloa bottleworks. ( Is that company still going I wonder !! ) And those special bottle sheets ,that use to weigh a ton, and worse when wet !!! Ah, those were the days eh ?
Fergie
Fergie47:
alexsaville:
Fergie
Would that be the Kincardine Bridge? I have a vague (very!) memory of something happening there.
AlexAlex,
I believe your right. There use to be a transport cafe at the end of the bridge, on the south side. We would stop there after loading bottles at Alloa bottleworks. ( Is that company still going I wonder !! ) And those special bottle sheets ,that use to weigh a ton, and worse when wet !!! Ah, those were the days eh ?Fergie
nah the bottleworks has gone, long time ago, now its an asda and train station
alexsaville:
I seem to remember one of John Russells of Grangemouth going through the barriers on the Kingston Bridge in a Scania. The poor guy was killed.
The camber changes as the road turns on to the bridge from the south. You did, indeed, have a lucky escape, all the more amazing since it was a Seddon-Atki 400.
Good health to you.
Alex
Hi Alex,
yes i was lucky. Apparently mine was the first truck ever to have come
off the Kingston bridge,but i did hear later that others were less fortunate
than myself and sadly lost their lives.
Fergie47
Hi Dave,
I remember those jobs mate, U.G. Alloa B.A. Falkirk & I.S.R. Grangemouth
Those sheets still used to touch the ground, even over double stacked pallets of bottles aye. Bottle sheet then fly sheet was,nt it.
I would,nt be able to lift one today though. Sod that
Flip
Nice to see you on ,ere mate. Not sure about your comments though.
You been speaking to that bloody Kwozzy ?
Here,s another pic
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Fergie47
Hi Dave,
I remember those jobs mate, U.G. Alloa B.A. Falkirk & I.S.R. Grangemouth
Those sheets still used to touch the ground, even over double stacked pallets of bottles aye. Bottle sheet then fly sheet was,nt it.
I would,nt be able to lift one today though. Sod that
…
AND, you still had your normal 2 sheets + perhaps some tatty ones for oiled sheet steel, or machinery.
So, for the younger guys who have never had to rope and sheet ( luck you ) you could carry on a '40 ft trailer :- 2 normal sheets, 1 fly sheet, 1 bottle sheet, 2 old " steel" sheets, corner boards, 6 chains and tensioners ( dogs, ■■■■■■■, dwangs, ) a dozen ropes of various size, electric triangle for anything hanging over the back, and some dunnage. Have I forgotten anything ? All this had to shifted before you started loading, and most that you weren’t using, ended up chucked up on the top of the load, if you we’re very lucky, you’d get a fork lift to do it for you !!
For those who don’t know, a bottle sheet had build in ropes all along the sides / front / back, and would cover a '40ft trailer, 2 pallets of bottles high.The top was re-enforced double thickness, the ropes sewn in under the top side so as not to damage the bottles, and when they got wet !!!
So, when the boss said “a load of bottles out of Alloa,” you went sick !!!
mappo:
Here,s another pic
Still can’t believe you got out of that Tony !! bloody miracle. There was an angel on your shoulders that day mate !!! 