here’s a good one transporter man,if you’d designed it nowadays,who knows ?.
oiltreader:
I can remember seeing a transporter or transporters (1960s) like this one, kinda looks like an BMC FJ unit, possibly BRS.
The cars were meant to be “hidden” new models for the press and magazine testing and appraisal, I guess. Anyone else got a clue.
oiltreader
These were for carrying car bodies, there were a lot ferrying jag bodies from Castle Brom to Browns La, in the late 60’s Harpers of Liverpool ran some taking bodies into Speke.
transporter man:
Dieseldogsix:
transporter man:
Dieseldogsix:
Just realised I have a photo with the caption, although it is wrong, they could only carry 6 Jags and 3 of them had to be E-Types, for the bottom deck, at least until they brought out the drop down well, and the only carried 7 normal cars and 9 mini’s, I have another news cutting on this trailer somewhere.
Just as an after though, I learned to drive in one of these around the docks, before I ever drove a car, and yes I could reverse it as well, at the tender age of 14.Hi Dieseldog, this trailer was a Mk6 the step frame trailers were Mk9s. I can remember been in the Carrimore Factory at Stanley and there would be two lines full of these trailers been built for Cartransport they must have taken big numbers at the time. We used to deliver ‘E’ types up to Glasgow Docks for Cartransport it was a good tip, as soon as you were on the dock there were plenty of dockers to help as they were allowed to drain the petrol off as the cars had to be dry for shipment. In them days cars were lifted on the ship by crane.
I think part of the reason for there being so many Cartransport ones, is because they were designed by Cartransports chief engineer a Mr Faulkner in conjunction with Carrimore, if my memory serves me right I don’t think they were allowed to sell them to anyone else for the first 12 months, but I may be wrong, it’s a long time ago.
I am not sure either, the chief designer at Carrimore was Alan Cooper I reckon he was the best cartransporter designer in the country through the 50s & 60s. I can remember going to the factory in Finchley about 1964 & He showed us the new Mk 4 on the drawing board. We ordered one from just seeing the drawing this was the first of a new generation of tandem axle trailers. Alan moved from London to Co Durham when the factory was relocated.Alan went onto work at Tolemans as Technical Director and was one of the leading lights in the design of the Lohr Mk 5 which was years ahead of its time.
Transporter Man… here’s the rest of the cutting
i found this photo of this thames trader and carrimor,the last time i saw it,it was parked at chaul end,luton.
glenny54:
here’s a good one transporter man,if you’d designed it nowadays,who knows ?.
Heres another one for you Glenny, Hoynor loaded with knock down tipper bodies from Carrimores going either for export or down to the Anthony Hoist factory at Tottenham.
Dieseldogsix:
transporter man:
Dieseldogsix:
transporter man:
Dieseldogsix:
Just realised I have a photo with the caption, although it is wrong, they could only carry 6 Jags and 3 of them had to be E-Types, for the bottom deck, at least until they brought out the drop down well, and the only carried 7 normal cars and 9 mini’s, I have another news cutting on this trailer somewhere.
Just as an after though, I learned to drive in one of these around the docks, before I ever drove a car, and yes I could reverse it as well, at the tender age of 14.Hi Dieseldog, this trailer was a Mk6 the step frame trailers were Mk9s. I can remember been in the Carrimore Factory at Stanley and there would be two lines full of these trailers been built for Cartransport they must have taken big numbers at the time. We used to deliver ‘E’ types up to Glasgow Docks for Cartransport it was a good tip, as soon as you were on the dock there were plenty of dockers to help as they were allowed to drain the petrol off as the cars had to be dry for shipment. In them days cars were lifted on the ship by crane.
I think part of the reason for there being so many Cartransport ones, is because they were designed by Cartransports chief engineer a Mr Faulkner in conjunction with Carrimore, if my memory serves me right I don’t think they were allowed to sell them to anyone else for the first 12 months, but I may be wrong, it’s a long time ago.
I am not sure either, the chief designer at Carrimore was Alan Cooper I reckon he was the best cartransporter designer in the country through the 50s & 60s. I can remember going to the factory in Finchley about 1964 & He showed us the new Mk 4 on the drawing board. We ordered one from just seeing the drawing this was the first of a new generation of tandem axle trailers. Alan moved from London to Co Durham when the factory was relocated.Alan went onto work at Tolemans as Technical Director and was one of the leading lights in the design of the Lohr Mk 5 which was years ahead of its time.
Transporter Man… here’s the rest of the cutting
Thats answered the question diesel dog
glenny54:
i found this photo of this thames trader and carrimor,the last time i saw it,it was parked at chaul end,luton.
I had a good look around this in Autologics yard at Faversham a few years back, Mick Santa had been taking it around the shows, even on the Bighton commercial run. It was a foggoten assets when Autologic took over Tolemans years ago, It must have cost thousansd to referb. It been lying in the Griffen musuem in Ellesmere for years.
this is the lohr ehr 300 i had at walon when pulling out of bmw thorne,it only had just over 80,000k’s when i got it at exactly a year old.apparentlyit stood at kirk sandal after it came,it was forgotten about, for over a month it stood ,until a day mans wagon broke down,he was told there was no spare wagons,so he asked about the new one in the yard.the office did’nt know it was there.
KOE was used as a spare motor until i got it,just goes to show bmw traffic was always the best gear,mind you walon had all the traffic then.
I’ve just looked at my log I kept from the 60’s, yes I know it’s sad, but there you go. Anyway the 3 previous Regs CRW 162 to 164 were all AEC Mercury’s, not the Ergo type.
Just been having a closer look at this, the bodywork on the lorry, look like one of the old body carriers as you can see the hole for the fork lift, must have been a bit of a mish mash.
Not long after we got these new August 2002 on Medway, Sunday night, as we worked the weekend shift.
Colin Hodgson, during my loading trials, Sheerness dock, the ship in the back ground, is the one that sunk in the channel.
This is what happens when the screws wear out, I was loading in Land Rover, Solihull, I had just put 2 Rang Rovers on the Trailer, lifted it up and was just about to step underneath, when bang. we managed to get the 2 vehicles off the trailer, even at that angle with no damage to them, I then took it back to the yard, where we drove the other 2 over the front on to another transporter.
Dieseldogsix:
I’ve just looked at my log I kept from the 60’s, yes I know it’s sad, but there you go. Anyway the 3 previous Regs CRW 162 to 164 were all AEC Mercury’s, not the Ergo type.
Just been having a closer look at this, the bodywork on the lorry, look like one of the old body carriers as you can see the hole for the fork lift, must have been a bit of a mish mash.
I think you are right the body looks demountable and the trailer is definitely a Carrimore could have been a semi with a dolly, bet it was a handfull to load good job they were double manned!
wow you was lucky there Dieseldogsix great pics ,dont remember me Dad driving a guy ,but do remember seeing them around rowleys drive
Buist No 3 Glendinnng No 6 BMC Carrimore Mk2. BMC 5.7lt engine ENV 5 speed box Eaton 2 speed axle. One of four painted in Buist livery
Nowadays there are so many transporter firms from multi fleet to one man band outfits , during my time in the 60s the TGWU had a big say, in fact stranglehold in who was allowed to collect and deliver cars. None of of the original transporter firms survived some takeover or another. Some of you may have knowledge of who took over who to become the larger fleets today.
Again someone may know who the wagon in the picture belongs to.
oiltreader
oiltreader:
Nowadays there are so many transporter firms from multi fleet to one man band outfits , during my time in the 60s the TGWU had a big say, in fact stranglehold in who was allowed to collect and deliver cars. None of of the original transporter firms survived some takeover or another. Some of you may have knowledge of who took over who to become the larger fleets today.
Again someone may know who the wagon in the picture belongs to.
oiltreader
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