Basilbrush:
We had a Thames 4D as a cattle truck, it came to us 2nd hand & I remember thinking it was big, when you look at them now you realise how things have moved on.
My late brother went on to drive a forward control Thames Trader for Troughtons Transport, they were cattle hauliers & ran two of them, for some reason I seem to remember one was quite a bit bigger than the other. Were there different models of the Thames Trader other than the 4D & 6D for engine size.
BB
Hello Basil ', can remember those Thames 4Ds very well they seemed to be popular as cattle trucks . There should be a thread just for livestock hauliers regards kk
These two beauty’s were still running full time while 1957 the top one was based at Sheffield and the other was at Glasgow depot and I even had a day in it as a lad
These two beauty’s were still running full time while 1957 the top one was based at Sheffield and the other was at Glasgow depot and I even had a day in it as a lad
Now now Johnnie I wouldn’t expect you and “H” to face the elements in one of these old girls ( well I know for a fact that “H” would tell me to stick my job where the sun don’t shine!)plus the fact that these were “mens” motors and you were only a lad!!! Dennis.
Basilbrush:
We had a Thames 4D as a cattle truck, it came to us 2nd hand & I remember thinking it was big, when you look at them now you realise how things have moved on.
My late brother went on to drive a forward control Thames Trader for Troughtons Transport, they were cattle hauliers & ran two of them, for some reason I seem to remember one was quite a bit bigger than the other. Were there different models of the Thames Trader other than the 4D & 6D for engine size.
BB
Hello Basil ', can remember those Thames 4Ds very well they seemed to be popular as cattle trucks . There should be a thread just for livestock hauliers regards kk
There was an old saying that “wherever there was a cafe,you’d find a Pickfords” and here they are again,in Yarm on the old A19,parked up with a Rankin Octopus and a Harold Wood AEC taking up the rear.
Were you driving it Sammie,about your era,early 1950s…
Hi Jim,
I was guessing about the Priestman.Brisbanes from Knighton had a Priestman Cub which by the time I drove for them in the late 60’s was parked in the corner of the yard forgotten about.An ex Italian prisoner of war Joe Conrado drove it for them and was a good 360 driver,he later set up on his own with a Cat Traxcavator,he was hopeless on that,a totally different machine to what he was used to… I remember plenty of O type Bedford around here,both tippers and flatbed,good little lorries in their day.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Hi Jim,
I was guessing about the Priestman.Brisbanes from Knighton had a Priestman Cub which by the time I drove for them in the late 60’s was parked in the corner of the yard forgotten about.An ex Italian prisoner of war Joe Conrado drove it for them and was a good 360 driver,he later set up on his own with a Cat Traxcavator,he was hopeless on that,a totally different machine to what he was used to… I remember plenty of O type Bedford around here,both tippers and flatbed,good little lorries in their day.
Cheers Dave.
Then a Priestman it is Dave until 3300John, canaldrifter and the rest who humphed these things puts us wise
Not trying to turn these pages into anything other than Truck ones but the fact is there are loads of sub interests that can give us the bigger picture of transport and if we digress too much someone will quite rightly say so.
So, for all the machine men who turned driver and driver who turned machine man or even just the rest of us who enjoy a nosey to see pics of the wagons that transported them, here’s one such site. They even show an earlier Kelvin marine engine, not a few of which I carted from Glasgow to Barrow-in-Furness, Devonport; in the 70s 80s, and there’s a pic of a 6 wheel british Dodge with an unusual split screen. But that was '76 so too modern for this thread …jim
Hi Jim,
I can’t guarantee that it is a Priestman,just a guess,does look more like a Ruston Bucyrus after looking at your pics.But as you say the fella’s that are into plant such as the members you mention,plus Keith Dessert Driver and Graham gah1950 who are both heavy haulage men will have a better idea.As for being to modern for this thread Jim,I’m the most guilty member for posting modern lorries on here,but as Magnus Magnusson said “I started so I’ll finish” .
Cheers Dave.
