toshboy:
0 A rare visit to my BRS album these days but this Jensen i thought was worth a mention , my memory is of aluminium construction and with a 3O ft overall length giving a body of 26 ft and within the under 3 ton unladen allowing the 30mph limit of the day . They were largely used by Coventry depot for Massey Ferguson tractor deliveries which were loaded across the body, With a Perkins P6 and a Eaton two speed axle they did not hang about either ! – –
Toshboy
Great photo toshboy
I always thought it surprising that a maker of such prestigious sports cars should turn their hands to wagons as well. Or was it the other way round. 
Les Sylphides:
Looking at this picture, when BRS introduced the new area liveries and the new logo in about '73, they must have been running some fairly old kit still in good nick to have gone to the trouble of re-painting them!les
BRS had a 10 year replacement programme for artics
toshboy:
0 A rare visit to my BRS album these days but this Jensen i thought was worth a mention , my memory is of aluminium construction and with a 3O ft overall length giving a body of 26 ft and within the under 3 ton unladen allowing the 30mph limit of the day . They were largely used by Coventry depot for Massey Ferguson tractor deliveries which were loaded across the body, With a Perkins P6 and a Eaton two speed axle they did not hang about either ! – –
Toshboy
That shot is of a West ■■■■■■■■■■ based Jensen ( ■■■■■■■■■■ Reg) which looks like it was the subject of Nationalisation and it’s work out of West ■■■■■■■■■■ would have been for High Duty Alloys which in later years was handled by Dolton Transport IIRC Cheers Bewick.
toshboy:
A rare visit to my BRS album these days but this Jensen i thought was worth a mention , my memory is of aluminium construction and with a 3O ft overall length giving a body of 26 ft and within the under 3 ton unladen allowing the 30mph limit of the day . They were largely used by Coventry depot for Massey Ferguson tractor deliveries which were loaded across the body, With a Perkins P6 and a Eaton two speed axle they did not hang about either ! – –
Toshboy
Toshboy,
Nice pic of a Jensen Freighter, and heres an advert from 1956.
Norman Ingram:
Frenchy my old mate, when you have a dodgy, you should have left your wagon, at J hills and hitched home, are you what some would say, " A Cowboy" ha ha ha. Sandman Norman
What did you call a proper ‘dodgy’ . ? to me it was going off route to spend a night at home ,hiding the wagon , claiming the night out money and resume the trip next day - out of order and to suffer the consequences if caught.
Myself i never done that (hic). I invariably parked up in a brs depot about 25 miles away , time up ,and hitched home , most wagons those days a BRS one so lifts were easy to get .i used to ring up my depot to request picking up but they never obliged so i never bothered again .i just argued i could do as i liked in my own time and claimed the night out money!---- fair do ? ---------- toshboy
Toshboy,
When working for the Oxford depot I managed plenty of Dodgy’s most wer parking in the depot and claiming the night expense ! some were when I was on the York,Harrogate,Leeds deliverys for Habitat ,if you had the drawbar on you could get back to Cherwell Valley Services for the night ,but if no trailer on you could get to Headington 
parked in my dads yard .
toshboy:
A rare visit to my BRS album these days but this Jensen i thought was worth a mention , my memory is of aluminium construction and with a 3O ft overall length giving a body of 26 ft and within the under 3 ton unladen allowing the 30mph limit of the day . They were largely used by Coventry depot for Massey Ferguson tractor deliveries which were loaded across the body, With a Perkins P6 and a Eaton two speed axle they did not hang about either ! – –
Toshboy
I have messed up this posting ,its like talking to myself —nothing new there ! thought this one is worth an airing though – toshboy
toshboy:
0toshboy:
1 A rare visit to my BRS album these days but this Jensen i thought was worth a mention , my memory is of aluminium construction and with a 3O ft overall length giving a body of 26 ft and within the under 3 ton unladen allowing the 30mph limit of the day . They were largely used by Coventry depot for Massey Ferguson tractor deliveries which were loaded across the body, With a Perkins P6 and a Eaton two speed axle they did not hang about either ! – –
ToshboyI have messed up this posting ,its like talking to myself —nothing new there ! thought this one is worth an airing though – toshboy
Renolds Tube Co, IIRC They made a product Renolds 531 tubing For push bike frames. 
I see this Mk5 Ferrymasters AEC is pulling a BRS trailer. What was the relationship there? Or was it just a bit of dock traction?
Les
Les Sylphides:
I see this Mk5 Ferrymasters AEC is pulling a BRS trailer. What was the relationship there? Or was it just a bit of dock traction?Les
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Are my eyes deceiving me or is this container held on by ropes?
Dennis Javelin:
Are my eyes deceiving me or is this container held on by ropes?
It certainly looks like rope with the added piece of wood to tighten & hold the rope tight.
Dennis Javelin:
Les Sylphides:
I see this Mk5 Ferrymasters AEC is pulling a BRS trailer. What was the relationship there? Or was it just a bit of dock traction?Les
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Are my eyes deceiving me or is this container held on by ropes?
Probably an empty box 
[Oh, that’s alright then! ]
There isn’t any weight on those tyres so likely an empty box, I know today when viewing loaded lorries from the past we tend to be horrified at what we see but looking at a photo doesn’t give the full picture or circumstances at the time. The majority of drivers knew their job inside out and knowledge and experience of what they moved around was second nature. Franky.
Geordielad:
There isn’t any weight on those tyres so likely an empty box, I know today when viewing loaded lorries from the past we tend to be horrified at what we see but looking at a photo doesn’t give the full picture or circumstances at the time. The majority of drivers knew their job inside out and knowledge and experience of what they moved around was second nature. Franky.
Indeed, but I was always nervous of roping such cargoes and was fortunate to obtain my own sets of chains and stretchers which I guarded jealously. Mainly for backloading steel though when I was tramping for Midland Storage.
Indeed, but I was always nervous of roping such cargoes and was fortunate to obtain my own sets of chains and stretchers which I guarded jealously. Mainly for backloading steel though when I was tramping for Midland Storage.
Salut, David.
Yes, my Father passed all his Chains and Warricks over to me when I started driving, even his chrome pipe used to pull them down. I also had a new coil of Sisal rope he had in a bag and I used that (with other nylon ones too) right up until I packed driving in, it was brilliant and lasted for years. During doing some work moving Coles Crane’s they had parts come in from the US on flat trailers and they all had brand new Warricks (as we call them upt North), these trailers never seemed to return with the same amount they arrived with! All gone now but I did hold onto that chrome pipe for a while. Franky.
Another worth a few comments surely ? —Toshboy
toshboy:
0Another worth a few comments surely ? —Toshboy
Hiya,
I think I’d be putting a bit more “string” on that lot, I certainly
wouldn’t take it like it is.
harry_gill:
toshboy:
0Another worth a few comments surely ? —Toshboy
Hiya,
I think I’d be putting a bit more “string” on that lot, I certainly
wouldn’t take it like it is.
Not that it really made any difference I wouldn’t think, but blowing up the image shows that there are actually two chains over that lot. The whip in all those loose ends and the front stack, even at 20 mph, would shake everything loose surely. And how did the driver get up there to put the chains in place? he won’t have thrown them!
