Clubs and Dances, Pubs, were truckers delight

dave_the_renegade · 28 April 2014 20:34

harry_gill:

Norman Ingram:
Com’on Harry don’t be shy, answer my posts. When you was standing in front of that Castrol tanker, was you singing " Ole be your sweetheart if you will be mine".

hiya,
No Norm I was keeping warm on that particular day the old ERF had starting problems
so the engine had to be kept running and I was just standing there keeping myself to
myself and warming my arse with the heat from the ■■■■■■■ engine.
thanks harry, long retired.

You would probably be warmer stood in front of some of the plastic cabbed motors,than sat inside them Harry.
Cheers Dave.

harry_gill · 28 April 2014 21:09

hiya,
Dave I found the ERFs wasn’t bad when ■■■■■■■ engined it’s when the Gardners
were installed that you risked hypothermia.
thanks harry, long retired.

dave_the_renegade · 28 April 2014 21:12

harry_gill:
hiya,
Dave I found the ERFs wasn’t bad when ■■■■■■■ engined it’s when the Gardners
were installed that you risked hypothermia.
thanks harry, long retired.

A firm I worked for only had an ERF with a Gardner 150 in it Harry. I know the driver said it was cold, and the thing was brand new back in 1968.
Cheers Dave.

norman_ingram · 8 May 2014 21:56

If I remember I am sure some of the old lorries had a leathe or canvas shutter fixed at the top of the radiator so you could blank it off.

windrush · 8 May 2014 22:15

Norman Ingram:
If I remember I am sure some of the old lorries had a leathe or canvas shutter fixed at the top of the radiator so you could blank it off.

Luxury!! We used cardboard…

Pete.

dave_the_renegade · 9 May 2014 08:22

windrush:

Norman Ingram:
If I remember I am sure some of the old lorries had a leathe or canvas shutter fixed at the top of the radiator so you could blank it off.

Luxury!! We used cardboard…

Pete.

Or an old hessian sack Pete.
Cheers Dave.

harry_gill · 9 May 2014 11:57

Dave the Renegade:

windrush:

Norman Ingram:
If I remember I am sure some of the old lorries had a leathe or canvas shutter fixed at the top of the radiator so you could blank it off.

Luxury!! We used cardboard…

Pete.

Or an old hessian sack Pete.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
Or If one of us poorer brethren like myself the previous days Daily Mirror
did the job OK but was crap if it rained.
thanks harry, long retired.

lawrence_dunbar · 9 May 2014 14:15

I must have been one of the lucky ones My old Foden had a Kysor Shutter fitted, I sometimes wonder why they stopped fitting them, ■■, Regards Larry.

norman_ingram · 10 May 2014 18:37

Larry did you have a remote control the same as your TV now.

lawrence_dunbar · 10 May 2014 20:53

Norman Ingram:
Larry did you have a remote control the same as your TV now.

■■?

lawrence_dunbar · 10 May 2014 20:56

Lawrence Dunbar:

Norman Ingram:
Larry did you have a remote control the same as your TV now.

■■?

Sorry I know nowt aboot TV,s Only aboot wagons & whisky, Which Im savouring this very minute before I retire to my warm bed, Regards Larry.

norman_ingram · 15 May 2014 15:13

Perhaps I got you a little confused, I ment did you have remote control on your shutters on your high class shutters on your radiator.

lawrence_dunbar · 15 May 2014 15:21

Norman Ingram:
Perhaps I got you a little confused, I ment did you have remote control on your shutters on your high class shutters on your radiator.

I see what you mean now, The Kysor was controlled with its own thermostat & opened & closed automatictly, I thought they were great, but the didn’t seem to catch on, Regards Larry.

harry_gill · 15 May 2014 19:19

Lawrence Dunbar:

Norman Ingram:
Perhaps I got you a little confused, I ment did you have remote control on your shutters on your high class shutters on your radiator.

I see what you mean now, The Kysor was controlled with its own thermostat & opened & closed automatictly, I thought they were great, but the didn’t seem to catch on, Regards Larry.

hiya,
The “old days” Larry they was expensive and robbed the gaffer of a bit less carrying capacity
they was quite heavy and every bit counted, I can remember a boss not letting me put a pair
fog/spots on an Albion because the headlamps had become so poor, he did however put some
new reflectors in the originals which did help, but because of the illumination he tried to put
me on the London night trunk, saying nowt wrong with the headlamps now, you’ve no excuse.
thanks harry, long retired.

norman_ingram · 18 May 2014 21:56

Some of the lorries in the 80/90’s had more lights they looked like christmas trees comming towards you. I know a few during the middle east trips, had horns fitted and extra spot lights, to help in bad weather. but those who had lights all over front an back, must have needed a extra batteries and alternator.

norman_ingram · 25 May 2014 19:14

Do you remember " Ice Cool Alex" John Mills, Richard Attingborough, Sylvia Sims, she was a slim slip of a girls, she was on telly making a comment on someone who had just died, I was shocked, she was so bloated she made me wait a while to find out who she was !

harry_gill · 26 May 2014 08:51

Norman Ingram:
Do you remember " Ice Cool Alex" John Mills, Richard Attingborough, Sylvia Sims, she was a slim slip of a girls, she was on telly making a comment on someone who had just died, I was shocked, she was so bloated she made me wait a while to find out who she was !

Hiya,
Yes Norm some of the “crackers” we used to drool over years ago are now " right horrors"
Father Time hasn’t been kind to them at all, saw a rare and recent picture of the one
and only Brigitte Bardot a young lady who incidentally I was at one time madly in love
with ( weren’t we all ) she hasn’t half let herself go, but I guess so have a lot more and
maybe they’re happy to be that way, just themselves and out of the limelight.
thanks harry, long retired.

dave_the_renegade · 26 May 2014 18:07

harry_gill:

Norman Ingram:
Do you remember " Ice Cool Alex" John Mills, Richard Attingborough, Sylvia Sims, she was a slim slip of a girls, she was on telly making a comment on someone who had just died, I was shocked, she was so bloated she made me wait a while to find out who she was !

Hiya,
Yes Norm some of the “crackers” we used to drool over years ago are now " right horrors"
Father Time hasn’t been kind to them at all, saw a rare and recent picture of the one
and only Brigitte Bardot a young lady who incidentally I was at one time madly in love
with ( weren’t we all ) she hasn’t half let herself go, but I guess so have a lot more and
maybe they’re happy to be that way, just themselves and out of the limelight.
thanks harry, long retired.

Sophia Loren is one, that still looks good for her age. 79 I think, but as you say, a lot of them look their age now, and probably worse if you saw them first thing in the morning.
Cheers Dave.

norman_ingram · 26 May 2014 18:35

Yvonne de Carlo was voted the most beautiful women, last time I saw her a few years ago, she was in a film with Roy Rogers. He was in his 80’s she must have been the same age, it was a horror film and she was horriffic.

windrush · 26 May 2014 18:42

Norman Ingram:
Yvonne de Carlo was voted the most beautiful women, last time I saw her a few years ago, she was in a film with Roy Rogers. He was in his 80’s she must have been the same age, it was a horror film and she was horriffic.

Oh and I suppose that all of you Ronald Colman lookalikes still look the same as you did back in 1950 then?

Pete.