When I had my old Atkinson Borderer, I regularly had ‘know it all’s’ who would point at the ■■■■■■■ badge and proceed to tell me that Atki’s were only ever fitted with Gardner engines! Ignorant fools!
Immigrant:
waynedl:
Immigrant:
Some Time ago was Fluid in the Brakes,like on cars.There was air over hydraulic, not sure about fluid all the way though, lose quite a bit dropping and swapping trailers I think, that’d be costly.
Trailers after the war build had Air-pressure Brakes.
Fluid was like on a Car,but as Cars used Vaccum from the Engine Lorries got help from Air-Pressure helping to press the Pedal.
In 1950 (brs) our new Carrimore trailers were rods to the axles fed from auto coupling vac pipe from the tractor unit into changeover cylinder -vac tank to rods on trailer-- the tractive units were vacuum / hydraulic – iirc the trailer brakes came on first which tended to straighten up the combination to help prevent jack knifes ------------toshboy
OVLOV JAY:
Had another driver tell me my brake lights weren’t working on the last 3 roundabouts. I had slowed it with the retarder and blended onto the roundabouts like I was taught to do
a few years ago i had finished work in the early hours and on my way home i passed a plod car sitting at the roadside, he pulled out after me and tailed me for a mile or so, even down a steep hill, i deliberately never used the brakes, just slowed it down with the gears. any ways the blue lights came on, i stopped, plod comes over, "
you’ve got no brake lights driver" "
"They only work when i press the brake pedal "
“show me”
“Hows that, ■■?” (while pressing pedal)
How i stopped myself from laughing i will never know…
Immigrant:
Some Time ago was Fluid in the Brakes,like on cars.
Yaaaaaawwwwwn 
The army issue Arrows trailers did use hydraulic overrun brakes.