Retired Old ■■■■:
It seems incredible that we all used to load stuff like that. Doesn’t it make you feel old?
Proper lorries when men drove them that could load and lift better than the youngsters, because there was no other way.
Cheers Dave.
pete smith:
mr flourpower i have few pictures of j n millers wolverhampton,who where flour millers until 1960,from foden steamers to lad cabbed albions got to find a way to copyright em,
Look forward to seeing those photos sounds interesting stuff cheers flourpower.
Dave the Renegade:
Retired Old ■■■■:
It seems incredible that we all used to load stuff like that. Doesn’t it make you feel old?Proper lorries when men drove them that could load and lift better than the youngsters, because there was no other way.
Cheers Dave.
Some bakeries from that era are, sadly, still around. Evershot in Dorset is not one any of us relish doing. One tonne of flour up a ricketty old wooden ladder after pumptrucking the pallets down the street, and down an alleyway.
I’m sure the bakers at these places put their shopping in their bedrooms. 
I used to do one not too far from you, Nathan. The village baker’s in Marston Meysey (long gone, you’ll be glad to hear!) was two and a half tons of Hovis up the granary steps.
Dave the Renegade:
Retired Old ■■■■:
It seems incredible that we all used to load stuff like that. Doesn’t it make you feel old?Proper lorries when men drove them that could load and lift better than the youngsters, because there was no other way.
Cheers Dave.
Are you getting at the “youngsters” , Dave ?
Now that is discrimination , coming from someone who recently told me it wasn`t acceptable . 
On a different subject,… a very neatly stacked load , clearly done by a professional ( a better word).
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
cattle wagon man:
Dave the Renegade:
Retired Old ■■■■:
It seems incredible that we all used to load stuff like that. Doesn’t it make you feel old?Proper lorries when men drove them that could load and lift better than the youngsters, because there was no other way.
Cheers Dave.Are you getting at the “youngsters” , Dave ?
Now that is discrimination , coming from someone who recently told me it wasn`t acceptable .On a different subject,… a very neatly stacked load , clearly done by a
professional( a better word).Cheers , cattle wagon man.
He’s a Lib Dem CWM !!! Says one thing one moment and then the opposite when it fits a particular thread,but thats democracy for you CWM it’s a free country Cheers Dennis.
When I was a young man in my twenties along with another driver we unloaded 20 tons of Hovis in 140lbs sacks in three quarters of an hour late one Friday afternoon when we were in a hurry to get finished. I wouldn’t want to do it now. 
On a related matter I hadn’t been at Turners very long, it would have been about 1990, when we took a few thousand tons of sugar in 1cwt sacks into stock. We used a large barn on Wal Turner’s farm at Soham and a gang of Welsh lads were contracted to stack the sacks. It seems that they were professional “stackers”. I must say they made an absolutely brilliant job of stacking, I’ve never seen anything as straight and secure before or since. Has anyone else ever come across a gang of sack stackers, Welsh or otherwise? 
heres the first pic flourpower originally built with albion petrol engine but converted to gardner 5 pot,got loads more to post but just took me ages to get this on,its worse than going to work!!
Cracking photos Pete thanks for putting them on cheers Flourpower.
pete smith:
heres the first pic flourpower originally built with albion petrol engine but converted to gardner 5 pot,got loads more to post but just took me ages to get this on,its worse than going to work!!
first pic [not a good un sorry] is in same spot as the 3 albion kl127’s are in,took in 2003 second pic is of albion hd57l when brand new,note two none tipping bodies on it,pic three a log book from above mention truck,pic four how she looks today,she was converted to tipper if u look closely u see body made up of one of the original tanks extended
heres one for Trev H i think he mention in a previous thread he worked at bradburn and wedge,well here is 377UK new and the invoice for it,this was the first pnuematic discharge that millers bought
Brilliant pictures Pete, nice to see those old Albions and yes you are right I did work at B+W motors but a while after that when they became Scania Vabis agent’s.
this is another supplied by B+W and the body was built by a firm at the top of all saints road,i think was owned by B+W,can u remember their name please Trev?
pete smith:
this is another supplied by B+W and the body was built by a firm at the top of all saints road,i think was owned by B+W,can u remember their name please Trev?
Pete, I remember the place it was at the rear of Bradburn+ Wedge BMC dealers, I even walked through their yard but I’m blowed if I can remember their name. Grey cells have failed me
P.S. It was John Nicholls, a timber merchant before Bradburns bought them out.
Looking at that invoice for 377UK I notice that the front bumper was an optional extra for six-&-a-half quid. Knowing the policy of some (most?) hauliers, I’m surprised that I can’t recall seeing an Albion with no front bumper.
You can imagine the conversation between the salesman and the customer- “Six pound ten? Are you joking?”
hello ROF,what surprises me on invoice is heater £13,my dad and myself having worked for them drivers comfort was bottom of list.How spiteful or tight they where sums it up when they ordered a leyland freighter[BRS contract hire] they had radio removed!
Trev,your bang on again mate it was called John Nicholls ta Pete