Lawrence Dunbar:
windrush:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well none of the bags burst open at least, But what are they doing there in the first place ? Did they fall off or what, Regards Larry.
That’s what I cannot fathom Larry, they appear to be too far back to have fallen off? No harm done anyway.
Pete.
Hi Pete Ive just had a closer look & there appears to be a sack barrow between the wagon & the wall ?, Regards Larry.
Yes Larry, I spotted the barrow. My old man was on bagged flour and animal feed for years and would only unload it as far as the tailboard, not a chance of him taking it any further for the customer and his gaffer didn’t expect him to either. He had a sack lifter on one lorry, don’t recall him using it though! 
Times change though.
Pete.
FLOURPOWER:
HEYGATES FODEN CLASSIC MOTOR
Hi Flourpower , Heygates back then had had a very smart Foden fleet . Pure nostalga thanks Keith .
windrush:
Lawrence Dunbar:
windrush:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well none of the bags burst open at least, But what are they doing there in the first place ? Did they fall off or what, Regards Larry.
That’s what I cannot fathom Larry, they appear to be too far back to have fallen off? No harm done anyway.
Pete.
Hi Pete Ive just had a closer look & there appears to be a sack barrow between the wagon & the wall ?, Regards Larry.
Yes Larry, I spotted the barrow. My old man was on bagged flour and animal feed for years and would only unload it as far as the tailboard, not a chance of him taking it any further for the customer and his gaffer didn’t expect him to either. He had a sack lifter on one lorry, don’t recall him using it though! Times change though.
Pete.
“You-know-who” is being very quiet about this, isn’t he?
Retired Old ■■■■:
windrush:
Lawrence Dunbar:
windrush:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well none of the bags burst open at least, But what are they doing there in the first place ? Did they fall off or what, Regards Larry.
That’s what I cannot fathom Larry, they appear to be too far back to have fallen off? No harm done anyway.
Pete.
Hi Pete Ive just had a closer look & there appears to be a sack barrow between the wagon & the wall ?, Regards Larry.
Yes Larry, I spotted the barrow. My old man was on bagged flour and animal feed for years and would only unload it as far as the tailboard, not a chance of him taking it any further for the customer and his gaffer didn’t expect him to either. He had a sack lifter on one lorry, don’t recall him using it though! Times change though.
Pete.
“You-know-who” is being very quiet about this, isn’t he?
Looks like the driver has overloaded the sack truck and the bags have fallen off 
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Retired Old ■■■■:
NAME AND SHAME 
Not guilty! 
That looks like the 06 reg but can’t see the reg clearly on my phone. It was my turn to do Grange the last time it went (2 weeks ago). I was in Scotland Tuesday and Wednesday. It looks like the driver made the basic mistake of loading the sack truck with it facing downhill.
…Just checked the rota for this week and I’ll bet when that lot fell over there were lots of Slovakian swear words filling the sea air.
Hi “Muckaway” ,
Glad if it wasnt you , lad !! :smiley: :smiley: You had many of us worried for a few days . :open_mouth: Just think of all the flack youd have been given by “Bewick” for failing to
securely rope and sheet the load on your sack truck when in ■■■■■■■■
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
right enough ginger fold , sack trucks are for jessies . if there were no stairs involved i carried 2x32kg bags at a time . delivery done twice as quick leaving ample time for a brew .
Rigsby you sound like one of our drivers; Carry everything, the drivers’ mates’ nightmare. Theagency guys like working with me, stick a set of wheels under it if it means less effort. Return split bags to the mill? Nope they make a mess of the lorry; write the bag off and give the customer a freebie as an apology for mal ng a mess. This does tend to bring a coffee and cake my way though, occupational hazard.
The fallen bag photo’s raised a few chuckles.
Hi all, just found this thread and thought that you might like these, we used to live just around the corner from Simmons mill in Leighton Buzzard, I can remember the AEC’s and Commer’s from when I was a nipper, the horse & cart and Sentinels are just a bit before my time though!! There was a public weighbridge there and when I first started work, we used to take the new lorries to have them weighed to get the tare weight for the road tax, of course, everything that could be taken off was and with just enough diesel to get you there and back to get the weight as low as possible. They also had a bakery at the mill, the trading name was Snowwis, which you can see is Simmons backwards with the m’s turned upside down, quite clever, this became Mothers Pride. Unfortunately the mill and bakery closed and it is now an industrial site. The last 2 pics’ are from when I was driving for R K Browning in Leighton Buzzard in the 80’s, we had a contract with Croxton + Garry, running out of their works at Steeple Morden, Hertfordshire, one of the jobs was delivering to a lot of the mills in southern England, it was chalk powder, called Creta Preparata and had been added to flour to boost the calcium intake since the 2nd World War, I bet not many people know that they are eating chalk in their flour!! I presume that it is still added to this day.
All the best for now, Andy.
Xdriver:
Hi all, just found this thread and thought that you might like these, we used to live just around the corner from Simmons mill in Leighton Buzzard, I can remember the AEC’s and Commer’s from when I was a nipper, the horse & cart and Sentinels are just a bit before my time though!! There was a public weighbridge there and when I first started work, we used to take the new lorries to have them weighed to get the tare weight for the road tax, of course, everything that could be taken off was and with just enough diesel to get you there and back to get the weight as low as possible. They also had a bakery at the mill, the trading name was Snowwis, which you can see is Simmons backwards with the m’s turned upside down, quite clever, this became Mothers Pride. Unfortunately the mill and bakery closed and it is now an industrial site. The last 2 pics’ are from when I was driving for R K Browning in Leighton Buzzard in the 80’s, we had a contract with Croxton + Garry, running out of their works at Steeple Morden, Hertfordshire, one of the jobs was delivering to a lot of the mills in southern England, it was chalk powder, called Creta Preparata and had been added to flour to boost the calcium intake since the 2nd World War, I bet not many people know that they are eating chalk in their flour!! I presume that it is still added to this day.
All the best for now, Andy.
Nice selection Xdriver thanks for sharing Keith flourpower
old Carmichael pic READS OF NORWICH
ALLIED MILLS CRANFIELDS IPSWICH DOCKS
OLD CARMICHAEL PIC WENT TO A LINCOLN MILLER UNKNOWN
