Carl Williams:
Here’s a few from Taylor Transport & Removals
Even with the plywood down that must have taken a few shunts to get the Volvo on the drive,fair play.
Edit.
Looking at the pic of the two Tks,paint still wet(no number plates) different bodies and the name badges not in the same posistion,(spolling)
foglights on one,not the other . . yes . . i should get out more. 
Thats a neat artic Carl , although would not fancy unloading this on a friday afternoon after a long wait . 
JAKEY:
Thats a neat artic Carl , although would not fancy unloading this on a friday afternoon after a long wait .
Hi Jakey
I agree. I like how the tractor is boxed in and with the close coupling it makes it look like a proper remova van.
We ran a lot of artics and a few drop frame trailers, one of which, built by Marsden was 35 ft single axle and used a lot on large removals or with part loads.
with this drop frame especially with only one axle apart from two large wheel boxes at rear,makes the body very close to the road giving you massive height inside, until you reach the front where the frame goes up to mount the tractor, which gives a massive ‘luton’, which in fact is at that point about the internal height of an average van. We got many very large removals on this that wuld otherwise needed two vans, and made our quote very competitive. Also on occasion when we had an average removal going out of store down south, we could load this onto te front of the trailer, and leave ourselves a good 2000 cu ft to load another removal for a similar area, enabling us to deliver the storage removal after the other removal had been completed.
With it being a long trailer with single axle right at the rear it would not have been the easiest vehicle to negotiate, but I never heard of a driver complaining.
Carl
Hi Carl , singleaxle trailers are diffrent to reverse to a tandem axle trailer but you can get them in some tight areas to which a rigid with a long over hang struggle to get in .
Another artic on removal work, although I would question the wisdom of using a six wheel tractor unit bearing in mind the cost and economy, particularly fuel consumption in doing so
Yes Carl ,I cannot see why they are using a six wheeled unit , but may be they have a retun load contract with haulage .
ParkRoyal2100:
suedehead & jdc thanks for the stories chaps. Interesting to see a few people popping up who did a lot of continental work, something I never got the chance to do. Was there much backload work or was it mostly UK → Europe? @ jdc were the 45’ trailers rigged out for furniture work or were you packing crates inside the trailers?The mob I was with had just started with furniture crates when customers were just putting stuff in storage - after years of packing lorries I found it difficult to get the hang of packing big crates, and not long after I left anyway.
BTW feel free to post pics of wagons you worked with - good and bad.
A starter for ten:0
Bedford TK860, Turner 5-speed box. Aerodynamics? Pah!Steve
Was this photo taken in harrow just outside london?
Here Carl , cut this out of “the mover” mag , this firm was taken over by Camp hopson Newbury .Note the demount body what some companies are now buying, they will not be that strong or the weight would be to high for this job .
JAKEY:
Here Carl , cut this out of “the mover” mag , this firm was taken over by Camp hopson Newbury .Note the demount body what some companies are now buying, they will not be that strong or the weight would be to high for this job .
In the seventies Coachskill, our body building side, built a number of 27ft demountabe boxvans which we used with Bedford and Leyland Redline chassis cabs lengthened to accomodate these bodies.
At the time we had thought we would standardise our rigids in this format and an artice was written in ‘Motor Transport’ sumerising our thoughts.
The advantage was that we could build bodies on stands and save a chassis cab sitting underneath about a month whilst it was buit and painted and lettered. Also the vehicle Excise Licences in those days were based on the unladen weight and the law allowed that the vehicle could be weighed with the demountable equipment fitted without the body which was classed as part of the load, saving about £100 in taxation costs each year.
The problems were that the Leylands were useless and the Bedfords were subject to cab rot. You can aso imagine that our best drivers didn’t want them prefering to keep their comfortable integral Marsdens.
Also when our van were loaded they needed to be straight away, not on a box waiting for a chassis cab to return, and where our customers wanted us to leave trailers the demountables were not as adaptable so artics won the day.
Here is a photo of a Bedford and BMC with Coachskill 27ft demountables (If I can load them onto the site)
Carl
Hi Carl,In the early seventies Speights removals from sheffield had demounts, one of the tks had a 1800 cu ft body and because the cab and chassis weighed less than 3 ton so
no h g v licence needed to drive it.
Their smallest van with a fixed body about 12 or 1300 at the most needed a h g v licence to drive it.
Carl Williams:
A tidy van from Burton & Smith
I used to drive this motor. I put the air horns on it, going over the passes in Norway on the wrong side of the road to ovoid the overhangs. to tall for the tunnels. ray
Hi Callme, was they nice seeing your old motor again ? are you still on moving ?
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