Punchy Dan:
What is anyone’s preferred 2 speed change method ,I like the electric motor because you can watch the ameter dip to see if it’s in ,a bit like watching the Rev counter bounce with a twin splitter .
Electric for me as well, those BMC’s with cable operated vacuum shift were very hit and miss as the cables went out of adjustment a lot.
Pete.
DAF 2500 with a 30 foot (I think) tandem trailer in 1995.
perkins engined ford D series 30ft single axle at galashiels (jim shanks)
Another D Series Ford here. Coupled to a tandem axle flat. I think it was 33ft? Test centre at Botley near Southampton.
First unit was an ERF with 150 Gardner uprated to 180 for 32tons. 5 speed plus two speed axle.
Next an Atki 180 again but with a straight 6 speed David Brown. Another Atki Borderer but this had a 220 ■■■■■■■ and Fuller Road Ranger 10 speed. Only problem: no power steering, but I used to be young ‘n’ fit.
After that fairly civilised Volvos Mercs etc.
Oldest truck I drove was a 1958 Austin. It started as a Class 111 but had the end of the bed cut off to get the ULW down to qualify as a non-HGV. That was a noisy pig.
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A lot of D series here. I know theyre old and like a lot of oldies not nice to drive but personally think the D series has just got to be the worst ■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ever! I had one myself a 2817 with the 8.8l perkins V8 and 2 speed axle. Everything about it was bad, from the steering to the on/off brakes. The 540 V8 was a revvy old thing with zero torque and loaded to 28t meant you never went anywhere fast and uphill at that weight was a feat in itself 
Did not take a test but I was given a class 1 because I was driving a 1960 two stroke Commer artic with a single axle tank trailer when licences were first issued.
Does this count.
Sand Fisher:
eddster1979:
Follow on from…when did u pass class 1,what truck did u do it in,ford cargo for me with single axle flat trailorFord D series with single axle trailer. IIRC the handbrake looked like a door handle that you cracked to the left to release. Trailer one of those ex BR type things with an automatic landing leg and wheel.
You were about the same height as a van. Pretty low down, not like climbing into an Actros these days where you ■■■■ near need an air bridge.
Passed with the RITB on the Isle of Wight. Test station was at Rookley. Think the examiner may have been a Pat Boyd. Trainer was a guy called Bill, ex Brummie who smoked a pipe!
Also did the PSV which I passed on a Lodekka FS a few months later complete with crash gear box.
The old Scammel coupling I think you mean
scania 81 , 5 speed + splitter, cant remember the trailer , think it was a 30’ tandem flatbed ,
AndrewG:
A lot of D series here. I know theyre old and like a lot of oldies not nice to drive but personally think the D series has just got to be the worst piece of [zb] ever! I had one myself a 2817 with the 8.8l perkins V8 and 2 speed axle. Everything about it was bad, from the steering to the on/off brakes. The 540 V8 was a revvy old thing with zero torque and loaded to 28t meant you never went anywhere fast and uphill at that weight was a feat in itself
But compare them to the competition. Power steering! Synchromesh boxes! Quiet (relatively) Easy access.
Nothing romantic about them, but good tools.
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Letting my age out now,never took a test,gained my licence on “grandfather rights”
Self taught really,when my Boss said you wanted your chance on artics, take the trunk motor for loading,all I had was few verbal pointers from other Drivers that was it.
A Leyland Badger that had such a slow gear change you could light a ■■■ before getting the next gear,trailer was 33ft with a high headboard,which took me nearly an hour to get on the loading dock (40 plus trailers were unknown)
Over the next 6 months it was a Leyland Comet followed by a Guy Warrior which in those days had big bore exhaust so noisy you would need ear muffs these days because of H&S
AndrewG:
Bedford TM with Detroit 2stroke V6 with 40ft flat…
Beast of an engine!..
Drove one for about 6 months in a TM, sounded like a sports car on a race track.
God only knows what it was getting to the gallon.
FL10 with a 38ft flatbed twin axle trailer.
Scania 80 Super and 33ft cattle box from start to finish 40 minutes . Went from swyertton stone to a34 up hanford roundabout down to motorway island back up to the a34 back to the test centre reversed in to a box . Asked me one queston . Then said you have passed good old days.
Merc Axos, thank god I’ve never driven one since. Was advised it would take 20hrs including the test, passed first time after 9hrs including test. Then took me about 8 months to find a job.
Ford Cargo day cab with single axle 20’ trailer.
Scammed Crusader. Similar to one of these…
Thorneycroft Antar complete with Chieftain tank laden drawbar trailer.
(Wish I knew how to put pictures in this thing 
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Grossly underpowered piece of …
AEC Mandator V8 with a 40ft tandem with RTITB at Darlington,we all actually qualified at BOC,but our transport manager thought itd be a good idea!!
Pretty sure it was in a Leyland Cruiser.
TK Bedford and 30’ single axle trailer with Wallace’s Driving School in Nottingham.