Just to bring it back to life for the BRS boys
adr:
Not quite this clean going up Shap in the 50s, but lovely to see them restored like this!
hiya,
Have seen this old girl in the flesh so to speak and she looks really well, drove one identical in the early 60s when doing my bit for the old “red and rust” good reliable old bus and well capable of handling the weights of the day, i liked them.
thanks harry long retired.
I would love to do a trip to scotch in that truck ( only once ) but it would be so cool . 
Hi All, Did a few trips to Inverness in an old octopus like SUB 701 in 1964/5 28 MPH jeez thought id never get there,Dont know so much about it being cool Jakey,more like bleeding freezing ,after the octopus i got an 8 legger Foden that did 31 MPH so that made it OK then,like hell,good old days eh? cheers Ted.
toxic gas man:
Hi All, Did a few trips to Inverness in an old octopus like SUB 701 in 1964/5 28 MPH jeez thought id never get there,Dont know so much about it being cool Jakey,more like bleeding freezing ,after the octopus i got an 8 legger Foden that did 31 MPH so that made it OK then,like hell,good old days eh? cheers Ted.
the job
hiya,
TGM i’ll bet you found the old Octopus went well down Shap mine always did, heart in the mouth though they did’nt have very good anchors did they, but at under thirty MPH i suppose they did the job.
thanks harry long retired.
An other nice looking Bristol Harry.vic.
v7victor:
An other nice looking Bristol Harry.vic.
hiya,
looks like a Bristol’s own manufacture trailer that’s how they was delivered from the maker had one or two brand new ones over the years and when you had a Bristol you had a very dependable motor.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
v7victor:
An other nice looking Bristol Harry.vic.hiya,
looks like a Bristol’s own manufacture trailer that’s how they was delivered from the maker had one or two brand new ones over the years and when you had a Bristol you had a very dependable motor.
thanks harry long retired.
The trailer looks very close to the cab of the unit,unless it’s an optical illusion.
Cheers Dave.
And one more that dos’nt bend.
v7victor:
And one more that dos’nt bend.
Were they single drive axles on those Bristol 8 wheelers,I know they used both Gardner and Leyland engines. Dennis.
All the 8 wheeler Bristols were I believe powered! by the Leyland 600 124 bhp engine , the units had this engine also and then progressed to the Leyland 680 150 bhp (the best) and lastly the Gardner LX 150 bhp. Its a shame that they picked the Leyland engine rather than the AEC but as has been said, a good drive for its day and reliable…Tony.
I think think this Roller was a Darlington fleet no,but not sure!
Harry did you look at that video, the old contract I was on, a glimspe shot of the camping gaz wagon.Yes to the chap who would love a trip up to scotland in the old wagon, but on the old roads like the A9, the fun & games getting under the low bridges you met after leaving Perth behind you heading up to Inverness, many a time you would help a trucker out, at that time we was called lorry drivers, with guiding them under with a high load, some had to let their tyres down to get under and then only scraped through, it was a era of get the load there in one piece, and a helping hand was always around the corner if you got into trouble, and not many drivers can say they never had a trouble free free life. 
toxic gas man:
Hi All, Did a few trips to Inverness in an old octopus like SUB 701 in 1964/5 28 MPH jeez thought id never get there,Dont know so much about it being cool Jakey,more like bleeding freezing ,after the octopus i got an 8 legger Foden that did 31 MPH so that made it OK then,like hell,good old days eh? cheers Ted.
hey some peoples memories are fading as what about when you were able to get into “Aberdeen overdrive” they did quite a bit more and shook the living daylights out of you, coming over Brough you could have fun and the vibration should have qualified for that white finger claim 
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
toxic gas man:
Hi All, Did a few trips to Inverness in an old octopus like SUB 701 in 1964/5 28 MPH jeez thought id never get there,Dont know so much about it being cool Jakey,more like bleeding freezing ,after the octopus i got an 8 legger Foden that did 31 MPH so that made it OK then,like hell,good old days eh? cheers Ted.hey some peoples memories are fading as what about when you were able to get into “Aberdeen overdrive” they did quite a bit more and shook the living daylights out of you, coming over Brough you could have fun and the vibration should have qualified for that white finger claim
cheers Johnnie
hiya,
Bet you would’nt have missed those days for a gold clock Johnnie, but if somebody had offered me two i might have given the old days a good coat of looking at which in turn might have encouraged me to do a proper job i do suffer vibration white finger for which i receive the grand sum of nowt, most likely a bit of a leftover from punching those old rattlers about.
thanks harry long retired.
i think the white finger thing came with the job harry , along with the bad back, bad knees , etc etc . when you are young you never feel it , then when you get older , it all comes back to haunt you . just so long as we are still here to feel the pain . cheers , dave
rigsby:
i think the white finger thing came with the job harry , along with the bad back, bad knees , etc etc . when you are young you never feel it , then when you get older , it all comes back to haunt you . just so long as we are still here to feel the pain . cheers , dave
hiya,
Yes Dave blessed with all of the above, but i often wonder how much of our aches and pains we brought about by our own errors ie did we ever when younger climb down from the cab, i did’nt it was always throw the door open and jump and get a soaking when securing the load you know “you’ll have to pull off the bay to sheet up driver” and when wet through have to drive a couple of hundred miles with your clothes drying on your back, but as you say Dave just so long as you can still feel the soreness you must still be alive, that must be the bonus do you think.
thanks harry long retired.