oiltreader:
glenny54:
Different way to load prime mover,takes the height away nicely with these awkward buggersHi glenny54, with neck bones buggered and long past doing handstands I had to get a proper look, nice one.
oily
Cheers oiltreader,
Didn’t realise at 45 I could still do a handstand but found it the easiest way
to view Peter’s original post …
Regards Davey …
oiltreader:
Hello Paul,
In some of my earlier posts on this thread I have mentioned a Ken Booker, who I worked with in the '60s, any relation? He had all the skills of a general haulage driver, specially reversing a wagon and drag, he was on BRS at Sandy Lane before coming on Progressive Cartransporters, I learned a lot from him.
Oily
Ken worked for me when I was depot manager for Silcock Express on Milton Park around 1986. He was very experienced but getting a bit lazy in his old age: Austin Rover standard then was 4 chains per car, front and rear towing eyes, (we were doing Maestro & Montego exports to Southampton). Ken (driving a Leyland Roadtrain with a MkII Hoynor) would put them on but not bother tightening them, much to the annoyance of the plant: he insisted he’d never lost or damaged a car as a result and wasn’t going to change. So one evening the shop steward and I went over the load and nipped them up for him, though must have overdone it a bit 'cos when he got to Southampton he couldn’t undo them and had to get one of the younger guys to help him> 
daveymk:
Hi Glenny54 ,
Which ones yours lol
I’ll be last Davy,I,m in the bad books again,something to do with Facebook lol
Terry Gilbert:
Another bunch from me.
N725 is the baby sister of one of my old motors, by the time I got it the whole thing had been extended with bits welded on here and there, the peak would sag with anything bigger than an astra and limit the roll in the cab springs. Coming out of Bruntingthorpe was a hoot with the camber on the back road, once the cab got pinched by the peak you just felt the whole thing roll on the road springs.
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Terry Gilbert:
Another bunch from me.
Terry ,the Foden OHR ,who was it new to ,any idea ? Steve.
Mick Annick:
oiltreader:
Hello Paul,
In some of my earlier posts on this thread I have mentioned a Ken Booker, who I worked with in the '60s, any relation? He had all the skills of a general haulage driver, specially reversing a wagon and drag, he was on BRS at Sandy Lane before coming on Progressive Cartransporters, I learned a lot from him.
OilyKen worked for me when I was depot manager for Silcock Express on Milton Park around 1986. He was very experienced but getting a bit lazy in his old age: Austin Rover standard then was 4 chains per car, front and rear towing eyes, (we were doing Maestro & Montego exports to Southampton). Ken (driving a Leyland Roadtrain with a MkII Hoynor) would put them on but not bother tightening them, much to the annoyance of the plant: he insisted he’d never lost or damaged a car as a result and wasn’t going to change. So one evening the shop steward and I went over the load and nipped them up for him, though must have overdone it a bit 'cos when he got to Southampton he couldn’t undo them and had to get one of the younger guys to help him>
When I first started at Carfax, Tom Strange (ex BJ Henry) told me to only put three chains on every car - one pulling forward, one pulling rearward and one pullling down. “Oh! - and don’t pull 'em tight,boy - just enough to take the slack out!”.
If memory serves this was a Swindon motor being transferred to Bathgate via the usual torture of collections and drops, this one went something like load Coventry, tip and load Sheerness, tip and load Corby, tip and load Doncaster before heading off to Bathgate, as usual a couple of stops for repairs needed, usually to rams that hadn’t seen the light of day at Swindon and seized up trying to load through the middle.
STVA UK BD 02 OAL by Glen TK, on Flickr
Gouls:
If memory serves this was a Swindon motor being transferred to Bathgate via the usual torture of collections and drops, this one went something like load Coventry, tip and load Sheerness, tip and load Corby, tip and load Doncaster before heading off to Bathgate, as usual a couple of stops for repairs needed, usually to rams that hadn’t seen the light of day at Swindon and seized up trying to load through the middle.
STVA UK BD 02 OAL by Glen TK, on Flickr
This truck looks like it was one of the very first Plus 11’s one of a batch of 4 or 5. WTC had the first ones on the road & these followed from memory the regs were BD02.
transporter man:
Gouls:
If memory serves this was a Swindon motor being transferred to Bathgate via the usual torture of collections and drops, this one went something like load Coventry, tip and load Sheerness, tip and load Corby, tip and load Doncaster before heading off to Bathgate, as usual a couple of stops for repairs needed, usually to rams that hadn’t seen the light of day at Swindon and seized up trying to load through the middle.
STVA UK BD 02 OAL by Glen TK, on FlickrThis truck looks like it was one of the very first Plus 11’s one of a batch of 4 or 5. WTC had the first ones on the road & these followed from memory the regs were BD02.
Sorry just noticed the reg no is mentioned, they were held up before going on the road for the bunks because the cabs had been lowered by T Vac.
thevint:
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Peter have you seen the Glendinning truck & trailers on face book with Tony Usher.
Transporterman
I got this new it was one of 4 do you no where they ended up ?
daveymk:
Transporterman
I got this new it was one of 4 do you no where they ended up ?
Think they were one of our hire fleet I know one ended up on its side at Corbridge when a drive axle tyre blew out. I can remember doing the training on one at BCA Longbenton.
transporter man:
daveymk:
Transporterman
I got this new it was one of 4 do you no where they ended up ?Think they were one of our hire fleet I know one ended up on its side at Corbridge when a drive axle tyre blew out. I can remember doing the training on one at BCA Longbenton.
Aye OKF went over on the 69 Mark was lucky to get out of that it had a new cab fitted.
Think Lawson ended up with some of them …
daveymk:
transporter man:
daveymk:
Transporterman
I got this new it was one of 4 do you no where they ended up ?Think they were one of our hire fleet I know one ended up on its side at Corbridge when a drive axle tyre blew out. I can remember doing the training on one at BCA Longbenton.
Aye OKF went over on the 69 Mark was lucky to get out of that it had a new cab fitted.
Think Lawson ended up with some of them …
Davey I was wrong I did the training on an 06 Plus 11.
transporter man:
daveymk:
transporter man:
daveymk:
Transporterman
I got this new it was one of 4 do you no where they ended up ?Think they were one of our hire fleet I know one ended up on its side at Corbridge when a drive axle tyre blew out. I can remember doing the training on one at BCA Longbenton.
Aye OKF went over on the 69 Mark was lucky to get out of that it had a new cab fitted.
Think Lawson ended up with some of them …Davey I was wrong I did the training on an 06 Plus 11.
Should have mentioned it was a Renault
transporter man:
transporter man:
daveymk:
transporter man:
daveymk:
Transporterman
I got this new it was one of 4 do you no where they ended up ?Think they were one of our hire fleet I know one ended up on its side at Corbridge when a drive axle tyre blew out. I can remember doing the training on one at BCA Longbenton.
Aye OKF went over on the 69 Mark was lucky to get out of that it had a new cab fitted.
Think Lawson ended up with some of them …Davey I was wrong I did the training on an 06 Plus 11.
Should have mentioned it was a Renault
Paul did get 2 Renaults so it must of been one of them …
transporter man:
Gouls:
If memory serves this was a Swindon motor being transferred to Bathgate via the usual torture of collections and drops, this one went something like load Coventry, tip and load Sheerness, tip and load Corby, tip and load Doncaster before heading off to Bathgate, as usual a couple of stops for repairs needed, usually to rams that hadn’t seen the light of day at Swindon and seized up trying to load through the middle.
STVA UK BD 02 OAL by Glen TK, on FlickrThis truck looks like it was one of the very first Plus 11’s one of a batch of 4 or 5. WTC had the first ones on the road & these followed from memory the regs were BD02.
BDO2 OAE, OAF(?), OAJ & OAL which is the one in the pic. The lowered cabs were a pain in the backside, slightest airleak on the cab suspension and the whole thing dropped down and sat on the expansion tank, they ran that tight it used to rub anyway and everyone had coolant loss problems at one time or another.
