Dave the Renegade:
JAKEY:
Now this Guy looks like it was loved more , I think I know the driver but I wont say until I see him to ask .
I hope you didn’t mind Jakey. I re-sized this one, as its a nice pic.
Cheers Dave.
Did they do much TIR work with the Guys?
BRS FH66:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Apart from the Low Bridge danger, why not? It wouldn’t have weighed much more than 7 tons, even with the weight of the cases.I wouldn’t like to take it across a high bridge on a windy day either.
No sense of adventure, these youngsters. Back in my day… 
beaver 680:
was this legal on the highways?
It would certainly attract the attention of VOSA today. No straps (I know there were only ropes in those days) and no crossing on back and front.
Hi Suedehead
I presume they did ! , but these pictures were before I started on Oxford Depot , there was only one middle east cabbed Marathon but not sure if it ever saw the middle east .
beaver 680:
was this legal on the highways?
They might have been empties? Anyway as an old driver used to say to “its all yours “up there” lad”.If the crates were full I wonder what weight they might have been 3 or 4 to maybe ? Cheers Bewick.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Apart from the Low Bridge danger, why not? It wouldn’t have weighed much more than 7 tons, even with the weight of the cases.
I doubt if this load was ever on the highway, I would say it was for internal use only a the factory, The height IMO could be up to 19ft, plus it would have pulled telephone lines down for a start, IIRC, The legal height was 16ft in those days & Tautliners to-day are below that regulation, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Apart from the Low Bridge danger, why not? It wouldn’t have weighed much more than 7 tons, even with the weight of the cases.I doubt if this load was ever on the highway, I would say it was for internal use only a the factory, The height IMO could be up to 19ft, plus it would have pulled telephone lines down for a start, IIRC, The legal height was 16ft in those days & Tautliners to-day are below that regulation, Regards Larry.
Hi, Lawrence Dunbar , well I can tell you from first hand experience as I was at Oxford BRS early fifties that this was the normal load for cased cars for export via most docks in England and Wales ,the height was around 14ft on a Seddon Carrimore artic ,the cars were morris minors and oxfords ,some routes required diversions but Liverpool and London were ok ,I used to use the Rotherhithe tunnel for east London docks for example , my ropes used to be crossed front and back , the worst bit was having to get on top to spread the sheets as I didn’t like heights! . I cannot recall any mishaps and hundreds of these loads were dispatched monthly ,remember we had no reason to take risks ,hourly paid ,16 mph average, no pressure from above ,definitely the best employer at the time . toshboy
beaver 680:
was this legal on the highways?
Very legal, my Dad carried those many times, what you have to remember is they only weighed a ton at most, if that sometimes.
I also carried them out of Oxford, nice load, light.
A little bit higher, thats me taking the Ropes off, yes rope off an 18’6’’ high load a Gravesend, I was the second man on this one, the route was something else from Birmingham, no motorways could be used.
toshboy:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Apart from the Low Bridge danger, why not? It wouldn’t have weighed much more than 7 tons, even with the weight of the cases.I doubt if this load was ever on the highway, I would say it was for internal use only a the factory, The height IMO could be up to 19ft, plus it would have pulled telephone lines down for a start, IIRC, The legal height was 16ft in those days & Tautliners to-day are below that regulation, Regards Larry.
Hi, Lawrence Dunbar , well I can tell you from first hand experience as I was at Oxford BRS early fifties that this was the normal load for cased cars for export via most docks in England and Wales ,the height was around 14ft on a Seddon Carrimore artic ,the cars were morris minors and oxfords ,some routes required diversions but Liverpool and London were ok ,I used to use the Rotherhithe tunnel for east London docks for example , my ropes used to be crossed front and back , the worst bit was having to get on top to spread the sheets as I didn’t like heights! . I cannot recall any mishaps and hundreds of these loads were dispatched monthly ,remember we had no reason to take risks ,hourly paid ,16 mph average, no pressure from above ,definitely the best employer at the time . toshboy
Well for a start the height limit in the Rotherhithe is 4.4mts, This load looks much higher than that IMO, the body would have been 24ft, And 4ft high from ground level, So this makes the load hight only 8ft or is it my eyesight ■■?, Regards Larry.
I know I should’nt post shots of a decent firm on here 
but it’s just for the load this artic was coupled to.This was a fabricated septic tank for somewhere in Kent and it’s shot here prior to leaving the engineering firm in Kendal that built it.IIRC it was just on the 16ft limit so we let it go and it made it all the way down ( on night trunk!) but the following day the second man down in Kent who rode shotgun said they pulled a few telegraph wires down on the last leg of it’s journey into “the sticks” ! Cheers Bewick.
You’re right Dennis, you SHOULDN’T post the pic on here and it seems that you HAVEN’T!!! 
Pete.
windrush:
You’re right Dennis, you SHOULDN’T post the pic on here and it seems that you HAVEN’T!!!Pete.
No-Bodies perfect 
When I was a young man (long time ago), I was a Junior Trainee at Hayes & Slough Branch, at Springfield Road, Hayes. Now one day in about 1958, the Depot Superintendent John Morley, advised me that a tramp vehicle from Newport would be arriving next day, loaded with a consignment for Heathrow Airport, which was going to be offloaded direct into the aircraft. Since I had a camera, I could (would!) accompany the said vehicle to the airport, and there take some pictures. The vehicle duly arrived, a Leyland Beaver no less, and the driver, I think his name was Evans, told me he usually pulled a trailer, which I suppose he would with a Leyland Beaver, yes ? All went ok, and the photos were later published in the BRS house magazine,(anyone remember that ?), albeit with a caption that the illustrations were courtesy British Airways !
Hermit:
When I was a young man (long time ago), I was a Junior Trainee at Hayes & Slough Branch, at Springfield Road, Hayes. Now one day in about 1958, the Depot Superintendent John Morley, advised me that a tramp vehicle from Newport would be arriving next day, loaded with a consignment for Heathrow Airport, which was going to be offloaded direct into the aircraft. Since I had a camera, I could (would!) accompany the said vehicle to the airport, and there take some pictures. The vehicle duly arrived, a Leyland Beaver no less, and the driver, I think his name was Evans, told me he usually pulled a trailer, which I suppose he would with a Leyland Beaver, yes ? All went ok, and the photos were later published in the BRS house magazine,(anyone remember that ?), albeit with a caption that the illustrations were courtesy British Airways !
hi herm i was with newport depot early 60s . remember a driver evans on nights at the time they called him puffer evans allways had a ■■■ on the go . this could be him not shore he got a ■■■ on the go ? . (otto)
Hi, All
Here’s how it used to be done ,as some of us of a certain age will remember only too well.
This was the easy bit, don’t think of the other end, 90% certain to be handball.
Your starter for ten, What depot is he from , where is he loading and whats the number on his delivery notes?
Bassman
Bassman:
0Hi, AllHere’s how it used to be done ,as some of us of a certain age will remember only too well.
This was the easy bit, don’t think of the other end, 90% certain to be handball.Your starter for ten, What depot is he from , where is he loading and whats the number on his delivery notes?
Bassman
2F425 was new in July 1953 delivered to Bedminster depot where it stayed all it’s life later recoded 5G221 and finally RA18.
Location I think is Bristol docks. Can’t remember the the other number!! Peter
