Numbum:
Hello John,
Interested in hearing of your travels in India. My trip was in 1996, I flew into Bombay with a rail pass for a month and a flight booked back from Delhi. I went via Puna and Hyderabad to Madras and up the east coast to Calcutta and then over to Delhi. Spent over 80 hours on a train sometimes with a bunk or else I had to find to a hotel. Stayed in some right pits. Train travel seems a bit dodgy as well with all the damaged stock in some of the sidings. I do not know if it was reassuring or not when the train passed a signal box and a bloke was stood outside waving a green flag.
A police tow away truck.
Note the shacks at the roadside where whole families live. Some have not got a shack even.
the parrot nose looks a good truck…The last photo reminds me of the 70’s when trucks lined up outside the docks in Liverpool
waiting to unload.
If anyone fancy’ed a trip to India and was’nt shore about traveling around India… The trip i did was to see Tigers(don’t hold your breath)
but we was very gently hearded around by very pleasent guides we started in the middle of Delhi poped into a temple then did a 100 mile
stint and stayed in a hunting lodge then into Jaipur looked around Agrha(taj mahal christmas day) to a Marble quarry and so on. there was a verity
of Indian life to see, we shared the roads with these trucks and did 2300 kliks in 3 weeks and everything seemed really safe.I was 46
the last time i went but some folk on our trip was nealy 70 and managed very well… its really worth a trip…we had time to ourselves
like going out at night to a restarunt and having a couple of hours to roam around a town in the daytime.
John
Pebbles 74:
I had the pleasureof a week in India in April 2004. I was in Dehli for the first half, then internal flight down to Pune for second half, then a scary 4 hour bus trip to Bombay to fly home. Most of these photos were taken in & around Dehli.
Hiya… I see the back axle on the trailer has got a problem lineing up with the cut out in the chock rails.
you see the container is on the trailer with the doors at the front i’ll bet the idea of that is so after droping the trailer
they wind the legs in so to unload the trailer without a ramp to walk up and down.pitty the 7 stone chap who
has to wind the legs out again to get his unit back under the rubbing plate.
John
Thanks for posting some interesting pics 
I’m surprised to see how smooth the roads look or are these an exception and everyone seems to leave their doors open, they must be a bunch of honest people over there. What a great way to live
remy:
Thanks for posting some interesting pics
I’m surprised to see how smooth the roads look or are these an exception and everyone seems to leave their doors open, they must be a bunch of honest people over there. What a great way to live
I don’t think people have alot In India so theving from each other is out of bounds. the thing i was warned about was two rates to charge
people. locals one price and another for Visitors. and always check your change. mr Perella told me to becareful of pickpockets (kids)
then left his car unlocked with the keys in the ignition. I told him in London his car would be stolen. he replied not where the Queen lives.
John
A couple more from India,
A loo with a view in the centre of Hyderabad
Phil 32 years on tankers what is a rope.
More great pics thanks numbum,just found another disk with a whole lot of pics of one of our road trips from Goa to Kashmir
upto indian/tibet border in our little Maruti Zen 1000cc in 2006 you will see our little maroon maruti in many of the pics
.most of these was taken on that 6 month trip,but there not in order,only posting mostly the transport ones.
Still have some left on the disk so will post more later and see us brake down on one of the worlds highest motorable roads.
hiya … i take it you’ve seen the charcoal and 2 clutch plate load on bubblemans page 113. that takes some working out it looks like a ashok shok ashok
convertable. any way where have you bin (spelling HA HA) i hav’nt had my treatment for a week but now you’ve put some more picci’s on i’ll be ok for
a while. i take it thats you steering the car down the stones.■■? and you questioned my face Ha Ha…can’t wait to long for moor picci’s. My mates lad
is going over there to work for six months (JCB) and will be traveling so i’ll see if he can get some snaps his dad is a Bedford fanatic 2 TMs 1KM 1TL
1 QL and a Diamond T so we might be in with a chance
cheers John
3300John:
hiya … i take it you’ve seen the charcoal and 2 clutch plate load on bubblemans page 113. that takes some working out it looks like a ashok shok ashok
convertable. any way where have you bin (spelling HA HA) i hav’nt had my treatment for a week but now you’ve put some more picci’s on i’ll be ok for
a while. i take it thats you steering the car down the stones.■■? and you questioned my face Ha Ha…can’t wait to long for moor picci’s. My mates lad
is going over there to work for six months (JCB) and will be traveling so i’ll see if he can get some snaps his dad is a Bedford fanatic 2 TMs 1KM 1TL
1 QL and a Diamond T so we might be in with a chance
cheers John
Hi John, yea saw that pic,but iv never seen nothing like that before,it was really striped down,yea you could be right ,and be half a Ashok, 
pity there wasnt any more pics of it. Thought id run out of my pics ,then found another disc with these on.Got a few more left now 
Ya Mates son should have a laugh then and take plenty of pics for us,Hope his not going over during monsoons,will be starting soon… Take a look on bubblemans thread pg 108 Theres a dozen or so pics i put on there and my first truck was one of the very first UK 32 ton bedford detroits still had the old KM cab, done my first few euro trips in that . wonder if your mate had seen them,we had 3 of them,but mostly on uk traction work.
By the way booked our flights back yesterday for 24th oct,have ya booked yours yet John.
Thought id post Revmans pic here aswell,think it fits right in on this thread
hiya mate just been on bubbs pages. i had looked at the bedfords and did’nt relate it to you. berresfords at stoke had a dd KM doing
locals around stoke( had a drive when it was in my way)then a chap who needed a truck in a hurry bought her to pop out east with
he was the talking point with the stoke lads but i can’nt remember his nane or just how far he went but it came back in one peice.
my mates lad has no option when he goes to India i think its in 2 or 3 weeks hes doing some sort study on work at the JCB factory
out their.hes hopeing to do some traveling in his own time. will it be really bad■■? i only go at christmas (don’nt mention that word
yet its still summer)as you know the climate is right for us then.
John
hiya,
In the words of Oliver Twist “please Sir I want some more” it would be a shame to see this one fade away.
thanks harry long retired.
Yes i agree Harry,i have some pics of some real heavy haulage in India,and for these abnormal loads they have now
slowly been buying some modern trucks,mostly Volvo’s that ply the width and length of India ,Theres are mostly run by the same company,who have depots all around India hope you enjoy the pics
hiya,
Some canny movements there,i was an army driver in the Far East in the 1950s and came across some funny old motors in my 2 years out there usually aiming straight at you on the wrong side of the road, one road i used regularly led from Ipoh up to the Cameron Highlands of Malaya the killer fruit drivers were notorious on that terrible road those guys had wings and most of the stuff resembled the Indian motors.
thanks harry long retired.
Well not a lot changed in the way they drive today in India then Harry Even some of the older trucks are still on the road even now
Sorry heres Some more Heavy stuff will get back on the olduns again next
