These were never ten a penny.
Unbelievable.
2nd Gen Driver:
gingerfold:
Demountable chemical tanks carried on a flat, not that uncommon back in the day. The Octopus belonged to E.P. Potter & Co. Ltd. of Little Lever, Bolton, a division of A.C.C. Chrome & Chemicals, and it was a lorry I was very familiar with as a teenager. Potter’s was managed by the family for its entire existence of 101 years, closing in 1969 and they were world leaders in the manufacture of chromium based chemicals, but also produced Sulphuric and Hydrochloric acids. There is a lot of attention to detail in the way the tanks were carried and secured if the photo is studied closely. And, can anyone identify the location? The photo was taken on 21st December 1966.0
Hello Gingerfold the location is in Glasgow junction of mount vernon avenue ,london rd and hamilton rd A74
That’s absolutely correct, just at the end of the old A74 at Mount Vernon. It’s also a very rare photograph of a lorry on the move taken by an official Leyland photographer. Normally they were posed in static settings for publicity brochures etc. It was one of several official Octopus and other Leyland model photos taken by their photographer in Glasgow on that date and all the others are static poses. I reckon that the photographer had overtaken Potter’s Octopus on the A74 and he had just time to get himself into position to make the photo. He was probably fortunate that it turned left off the A74 and didn’t go straight on at the traffic lights.
Hiya Ginge so it’s a Potters motor from Potters brew Little Lever I’ll tell you what Ging I strained my eyeballs on that photo.I think I’de read somewhere that Roscoe carried for a chemical company and that the octopus might have been his I was straining the old minces try to see if it was me pappy behind the wheel cos he would have been on for Roscoe at that time but on the info you gave I can stop straining em now…Ta ra for now ginge thanks again P.S it’s good to see the use of the word lorry I can’t be doing with that over used americanism…
mushroomman:
Unbelievable.0
I can believe it I reckon the majority of people who employ a window cleaner are of the female type.
mushroomman:
Unbelievable.0
We have the same firm in Calgary
Boatchaser:
mushroomman:
Unbelievable.We have the same firm in Calgary
Yea, I spotted that one on Vancouver Island two months ago. Even if they were real Scotsmen then they would still need thermal undercrackers. 
Unimog for Ray Smyth. 
United Glass. That registration number looks familiar for some reason 
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TruckNetUK.Old Time Lorries.A To Z Transport Miscellaney.The Letter U stands for…QV below,please VALKYRIE.Thursday,31th August,2017 -
20th Anniversary of the passing on to The Other World of Diana - Princess Diana - Princess Of Wales. I believe in the Afterlife
Underwater Ghost Motor Vehicles… prepare yourselves for some poignant,haunting and eerie images…
ZENOBIA is a freight ship that went down and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea near the island of Cyprus.
The ship had a lot of Swedish export motor trucks on board,including Scania’s,which obviously
went down with the ship…
Here is excerpt from the Divernet Internet website:-
QUOTE:The wreck of the Zenobia is the exception that proves the rule. It now has lots of large Mediterranean grouper and “false grouper” living on and around it, and shoals of bream flit in silvery gangs around it.
The Zenobia was a huge Swedish-built roll-on roll-off ferry that encountered problems with its buoyancy / ballast tank system during a voyage to the Middle East ports of the Mediterranean in 1980.
The captain intended to put into Larnaca during this emergency but was refused entry by the harbourmaster. The ferry sank shortly after and not very far outside the harbour. It has been the keynote dive for the island ever since – to visit Cyprus and not the Zenobia is to miss the whole point.
The ship lies on its side, and its cargo of trucks, which used to be held in place by the chains that restrained them during the voyage, has mostly tumbled to the lower reaches of the vessel and onto the seabed.UNQUOTE.
Scania LB111 4x2 Drawbar Lorry-Motor Truck at the bottom of the Mediterranean Ocean,near Cyprus.It’s been there since 1980,because the Zenobia freight ship that was transporting it sunk:-
The SS Thistlegorm shipwreck, a British munitions ship sunk by German aeroplane bombers in 1941 off the coast of Egypt, lays undisturbed.
It’s now a real treasure trove of history for divers-underwater explorers-historians-enthusiasts and so on,QV photographs below:-
Bedford OYD Normal Control 3-Ton 4x2 GS Military Lorry,a victim,and an historic treasure,of it’s freight ship,SS Thistlegorm,now a shipwreck,sunk by German aeroplane bombers off the coast of Egypt in 1941:-
Albion BY Forward Control 6x4 Military Lorry on board the sunken SS Thistlegorm - the shipwreck has been in the Red Sea since 1941.A diver sits on the driver’s seat:-
Fordson WOT1 V8 3-Ton 6x4 Military Lorries - at least three of them were on board the SS Thistlegorm:-
BSA M20 and Norton 16H 500 CC SV Single-Cylinder Military Motorcycles loaded in the bodies of some military lorries - possibly those Fordson WOT1’s - on the sunken SS Thistlegorm:-
Albion AM463 4x2 Zwicky Aeroplane Refuelling Lorry keeping company with all the other military vehicles on the sunken SS Thistlegorm:-
Fordson WOT3 V8 30 CWT 4x2 Lorries on the sunken SS Thistlegorm.Eerie:-
Atkinson Uniflow Steam Lorries. Atkinson began producing steam lorries in 1916.They were powered by duplex steam engines.In 1918 Atkinson
began producing USA-designed Uniflow Steam Engined-steam lorries,which were produced in to 1929.
Atkinson Uniflow Steam Lorry.Atkinson & Co,predessors of Atkinson Lorries - and later Atkinson Vehicles.Atkinson Uniflow 10-Ton Rigid Six-Wheeler Steam Lorry.J.Bibby & Sons,Seed Crushers,Liverpool:-
Underfloor Engined Motor Vehicles.
Büssing 12000 U13,Sleeper-Cabbed,Büssing Horizontal Underfloor 180 BHP 132 Kw Diesel-Engined,Covered Fixedside-Bodied,6x4,Covered Fixedside 6-Wheeler Drawbar Trailer Outfit Lorry-Motor Truck,1951-1954,Fehrenkoetter-Rolf,West Germany:-
Alvis-Unipower Specialist Motor Vehicles.
Alvis-Unipower M-Series 8x8 Heavy Haulage Ballast Diesel Road Locomotive,P547 HNT. Abnormal Load Engineering - A.L.E:-
VALKYRIE
V8 Scania! (Bet you lot didn’t think I’d flag that one up 
!). Here’s a pic of one of those fantastic machines I took of the lorry I was driving that day at Leicester Forest East in the mid-'90s. IIRC, that was a regular run from Faversham to Rotherham, returning via Loughborough. With an unlimited 142 you could legally do Faversham to Rotherham in just under four and a half hours - try doing that now! They were a great drive, those 142s. Robert
Volvo
Variable Self weigher - not a success
VXT
I spent around the first 5 years of my life living near to their Winery in Kingston and never forgot the great interesting smell that it created and always hung over the vicinity.Long gone now like most of the local industry the site turned into another commuter dormitory block. 
“V” for Vauxhall. It looks like a Renault Master, but it is a Vauxhall Vivaro, Reg.No. W509 KMS,
parked on the lay-by on the A66, next to Bassenthwaite Lake. Ray Smyth.
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Remember pulling several of these or something similar from Dammam port back to the yard in about 1980. May not have been this model, but certainly a stairway to the cab.
I didn’t deliver any on to the final destination, can’t even remember where it was - somewhere a few hundred miles away in the desert. The lads that took them said you got fed up with the see-saw motion empty.
What I loved was the huge ticket attached to the keys. ‘It’s fun to find out how it works by trying it, but it’s much cheaper to read the instruction manual first!’
Right!
Turn the key, into gear, bounce down the port road.
Happy Days!
John.
