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Just found this pi in my box, no idea where I took it, smart though!
oh mate that pic brings tears to my eyes that crosby doors TM is “egc155x” i had “egc157x” and there was “egc159x” when I worked for Abdee transport late 80s both had 290 ■■■■■■■ and 10 speed spicer splitter g/box abdee colours were dark blue but I recall the 2 TMs were orange and white before being painted, I bumped into “egc155x” a couple of times and the driver told me he did italy every week in her they were flyers nice motors to drive although old when I got mine, I wonder if they were owned by crosby doors or just painted in their colours but owned by another company, got anymore pics like that oh happy days. cheers fred m
hi wheel nut ,
i noticed your comments about united carriers not having any tm bedfords , in the mid seventies when they first came out they did indeed have a unit on long term demonstration , it was the model with the v6 dd, the driver who drove it was used to the slow reving gardner engine in the erf , so all he did was complain that it wouldnt go very well , it must have been a very early one as i hadnt ever seen one or a pict of one , as you rightly say ucl stuck with erf untill they couldnt get any more with the gardner engines ,
cheers diesel,
midlands electricity board had a distribution depot in green lane walsall.they had 4 + 4 drawbar demoutables with detroits in them,think they were double shifted aswell.they used to sound great turnin into green lane by the police station then that long pull upto their depot…
The detroit had a lovely sound when the power was requested, on new trucks the gear box was terrible till warmed up,but once on the go the truck was a flyer, the dd was used in very large coal/quarry dumper trucks, I recall going to fix a few of those where you needed ladders to access the engine
Has anybody got a photo of the TM that penfolds of arundel used to run in the late 70’s. It was a day cab painted in a variation of John Deere colours and if I remember rightly it had a crane behind the cab. The driver used to live down the road from me and had it outside his house most evenings.
Also from the sussex area were Topaz kitchens who ran a fleet of 5 or 6 TM tractors plus a few rigid s. The tractors were narrow cabs with hatcher sleeper conversions. My mate’s dad had POW 439S and I still remember the sound of the detroit engine. IIRC it was trimmed in black rather than the check that most interior shots show.
By the time I read all that Garbage my head was spinningand my teeth were itching!!! I bet that abortion couldn’t pull the skin off of a rice pudding!!! Anyway I heard you had gone to live on the “dark side of the moon” Carryfast? But we will allow you back onto the thread as we have just got rid of a b****r t**t than you ever were!!! The new slogan now is “come back “Carryfast” all is forgiven” providing of course you quit slavering about DDs and let us educate you about “proper motors” OK! Cheers Bewick.
Why no Bedford TM 's in the Bewick fleet? I note that WA Glendinning had one.
By the time I read all that Garbage my head was spinningand my teeth were itching!!! I bet that abortion couldn’t pull the skin off of a rice pudding!!! Anyway I heard you had gone to live on the “dark side of the moon” Carryfast? But we will allow you back onto the thread as we have just got rid of a b****r t**t than you ever were!!! The new slogan now is “come back “Carryfast” all is forgiven” providing of course you quit slavering about DDs and let us educate you about “proper motors” OK! Cheers Bewick.
Why no Bedford TM 's in the Bewick fleet? I note that WA Glendinning had one.
IMHO “George” I quickly realised that above 16 ton gvw,Fords and Bedfords were out of their depth and the parameters applied to the mass production of smaller vehicles were not ,in any way, relevant to the heavy commercial sectors.The nearest I ever got at Bewick Transport to lowering our established standards was to allow a couple of Iveco demos and the odd a.n.other of similar spec into the fleet(with no possibility of us ever weakening our resolve not to purchase any) The Fords/Bedfords were not just up to the demands of an intensive maximum weight operation similar to ours.I rest my case! Dennis.
ramone:
There`s a TM for sale in Classic Commercials this month which is very low mileage and the cab is mint,its got a L10 ■■■■■■■ in it
Get your bid in “ramone”!!! Dennis.
Carryfast rates them over Scanias!
There was a firm in West ■■■■■■■ had a very large fleet of them.
Im not a fan of them Dennis id prefer an AEC but im outta work as of 2pm tomorrow
BOC had a large fleet of them in the late 70`s on Marks and Spencer
Does anyone ever take any notice of Carryfast?
By the time I read all that Garbage my head was spinningand my teeth were itching!!! I bet that abortion couldn’t pull the skin off of a rice pudding!!! Anyway I heard you had gone to live on the “dark side of the moon” Carryfast? But we will allow you back onto the thread as we have just got rid of a b****r t**t than you ever were!!! The new slogan now is “come back “Carryfast” all is forgiven” providing of course you quit slavering about DDs and let us educate you about “proper motors” OK! Cheers Bewick.
Why no Bedford TM 's in the Bewick fleet? I note that WA Glendinning had one.
IMHO “George” I quickly realised that above 16 ton gvw,Fords and Bedfords were out of their depth and the parameters applied to the mass production of smaller vehicles were not ,in any way, relevant to the heavy commercial sectors.The Fords/Bedfords were not just up to the demands of an intensive maximum weight operation similar to ours.I rest my case! Dennis.
If that’s the case why were the Italians ordering the 4400 instead of V8 Scanias let alone Gardner powered Atkis Maybe because there was as much of a connection between what the Italian guvnors were calling for (and provided by Bedford and Fiat),than what their British counterparts were calling for,as chalk and cheese.Which is why the Brits are mainly just basing their experience of the TM on just the Brit versions made to suit Brit guvnors tastes and ideas which of course consigned Bedford forever to be associated with the TK and relatively underpowered versions of the TM using mainly small 7 and 9 Litre bus spec Detroit motors to run at 32t .But the Italian experience seems to show that,given some decent specs on the order sheet, the TM (and the Fiat/Iveco V8) were both more than a match for anything made by Scania let alone Gardner powered Atkis,at least from a driver’s point of view,and they also were’nt known for bankrupting their operators in that market either.
The Iveco engines were bullet proof the rest was a joke we had a fleet of Turbo Tecs and Turbo Stars in the late 80s and early 90s the engines never missed a beat but everything else fell apart.The Italians found their niche in the manufacturing of pizzas,ice cream and white flags
