SNAP, I also passed my test in 100E, in 1967. It was passed it’s best by then.
Dozy, if you watch Titanic backwards, it’s a heartwarming tale about a ship that comes out of the sea and saves loads of people from drowning.
I also had a Ford Popular 100E.They had 3 speed boxes and side valve engines,the windscreen wipers were worked by a vacuum tank.I had to reverse up some hills because you got a lower gear that way.
Was the Woolworth fairy in charge of the " pick and mince" ?
Dozy, if you watch Jaws backwards, it’s about a shark that vomits up so many people they have to open a beach.
I prefer to watch my wedding video backwards, at least that way it’s got a happy ending.
Contraflow:
Dozy, if you watch Titanic backwards, it’s a heartwarming tale about a ship that comes out of the sea and saves loads of people from drowning.
Contraflow:
Dozy, if you watch Jaws backwards, it’s about a shark that vomits up so many people they have to open a beach.
…and those horrible Gremlins turn into fuzzy wuzzy little mogwais.
Did anyone have the seafood buffet on the ferry, last time i went on , they had a famous French chef cooking up for the freight drivers, the lobster and crab was the best part of the voyage, followed by a chilled glass of Muscadet and Liebfraumilch white wine.
Upon docking, the policeman chalked off my wheels with green chalk and told the Captain not to blow off his hooter all night which would disturb my sleep and cause an accident, got to think of the children.
I can see the headlines now in the Daily Fail of " Monster sized juggernaut causes havoc and rampage afer rogue driver falls asleep at the wheel of the 120 ton two axle beast ."
Dozy, did you make the ferry, some of us on here are getting a tad anxious and worried now, that you may have one too many in the bar, and decided to take part in a midnight swim ?
truckyboy:
That made me laughWoolworth Fairydidnt know if it was about a fairy, or woolworths…anyway the lorry over the edge was owned by Hiltons Transport services, a company where i learned to drive, rope and sheet, it put me on my career path, a Charlton firm based on the site of the old UGB ( united glass ) factory ( where i also worked as a carton stitcher ha ha true !! ) before i got my driving licence,passed my test in a Ford Anglia 100E…oh oh waffling again…memories flooding back…I actually started my truck driving career for HTS in Eltham, but 2 weeks after we moved to our new site in Charlton. I worked for a while onShip to Shorein a Thames trader, then promoted to a proper lorry…a Bedford TK…moving timber off the ship on to shore, where i learned to do a dolly knot, but that was after i lost my first load of timber ( 6 sets ) in the little canal on a bend at the side of the road ha ha …better stop now i`ve woken up the brain cells.
I worked for Ralphy boy at Anchor and Hope Lane too. Good mob as I remember. That one coming off the ferry must’ve been trying to deliver that box to United States Lines home depot. 
There’s a lot of ole ■■■■■ coming up on this thread, I also worked for HTS but before Ralph took his enforced ‘holiday’. The first time I used the Woolwich crossing the vehicles drove onto the side of the ferry. ( for the HTS boys I was on the Sheerness dock Martell brandy run)
Who remembers the chap in the transport office who was a dead spit for Bernard Bresslaw?
switchlogic:
I do love riding on a fairy #BoomTish
Credit where do, you have to admire Luke
Raymundo, i used to do the Cotrali wine tanks, 3 of them on a 27ft trailer, single axle…maximum length then i believe, and had a Magirus Deutz column change for a bit, but heres another little story as to how i got on artics, i was chatting outside the transport office one day with a group of drivers, anda planner…anyway a conversation came up about who could drive artics, so it went round the group as each one said he could, when it came to me i didnt want to be the odd one out so i said i could…anyway the planner about 2 weeks later called me into the office, you can drive artics cant ya he said, so i said yeah so he then told me that Joe Jiggins wasnt coming in that day and could i take his motor out…what an experience, i had 2 car wash machines going croydon, to be delivered up a narrow alley off the main A23…so after an hour, and causing huge queues, a fellow driver got out of a morris minor, and offered to put it in for me, The trailer keeps going the wrong way towards the wall i said, Oh dont worry Ill show ya, just watch me in those days we used the rear window in the back of the cab which all lorries seemed to have…this old driver gave me some valuable tips on reversing which i never forgot, and i was only 19 yrs old at the time, but had some great times at HTS, yes shame Ralph ran off with the wages, and went to the hilton hotel for his troubles…ha ha
raymundo:
There’s a lot of ole ■■■■■ coming up on this thread, I also worked for HTS but before Ralph took his enforced ‘holiday’. The first time I used the Woolwich crossing the vehicles drove onto the side of the ferry. ( for the HTS boys I was on the Sheerness dock Martell brandy run)
Who remembers the chap in the transport office who was a dead spit for Bernard Bresslaw?
Do you mind ! It took me years to graduate from a young ■■■■ to an old one with many a ■■■■ up on the way.
Can’t say as I remember the Bernard Bresslaw look alike. I would have been on around '68/'69… I think. It might have been '67 
peterm:
It took me years to graduate from a young ■■■■ to an old one with many a ■■■■ up on the way.
You must have bypassed the young whipasnapper stage somehow … 
Reverse on
hitch:
Reverse on
Don’t know about you but I’ve been going backwards for most of me life.