mrken:
Pure class MrKen…You ran one very smart fleet in your day
A few more photo`s of my old Transcon
Picture with Jimmy from ferry freighting filling up at john brown keyfuel st omer
Whitehaul:
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Is that a deep button headlinig I spy above Como Girl’s head?
it certainly is, also the back panels were done in velour needed to be to keep the cab warm in the winter 
You don`t have VGH 845R, GDH 4T of LFK24V do you ■■?
ford4428:
This transcon is alive and well in Norfolk and my other half has 4 restored with others in the pipeline.
no sorry he has none of those regs
Thanks it was a long shot, i sold VGH to Essex Scrap metals in 85 ish no for scrap it had been refurbished had a 355 NTC in it.
Hi all! found this werry good slideshow,And about 6.30 ish there is what i Think a UK Transcon maby some one recognice it 
youtube.com/watch?v=lHtDHO30 … detailpage
Dirty Dan:
Hi all! found this werry good slideshow,And about 6.30 ish there is what i Think a UK Transcon maby some one recognice it
youtube.com/watch?v=lHtDHO30 … detailpage
Hi DD don’t recognise the Transcon but found it fascinating as I used to drive for Torben Jorgensen who hails from the village of Sollested on the Island of Lollund in Denmark. Thanks
Hi Laurie! Small World isnt how come you work for a dannish Company?
I still see the lorrys here in Sweden somtimes.But i Think some mayby had a Eastern block reg plate,mayby some he sold.Do you know if he still trading?
Reg danne
Dirty Dan:
Hi Laurie! Small World isnt
I still see the lorrys here in Sweden somtimes.But i Think some mayby had a Eastern block reg plate,mayby some he sold.Do you know if he still trading?Reg danne
Hi Danne, The firm I worked for in the UK were taken over by a large multi national conglomerate and I chose not to work for them. At that time (1990’s) I had several friends working in Denmark where the wages were good and exchange rates favourable. I first got a job with a company in Padborg called Hammertrans which was owned by Elvin Jensen. The work was pulling trailers for Blue Water Shipping from Esbjerg ,mostly hanging meat from Danish Crown meat plants in Denmark to Italy. However Mr Jensen frequently had too much month left at the end of the money and forgot to pay me! I approached several other hauliers in Denmark trying to find a job but they were not busy. Torben got to hear that I was available and called me ,so I set off to Sollested and got the job. The work I did for Torben was mostly fish for Johs Lunde from Norway all over Europe. Regards Noel
thats sounds like a great job and did he have all lorrys like that?They look great Well almost all Dannish do 
Reg Danne
Laurie Dryver:
Dirty Dan:
Hi Laurie! Small World isnt
I still see the lorrys here in Sweden somtimes.But i Think some mayby had a Eastern block reg plate,mayby some he sold.Do you know if he still trading?Reg danne
Hi Danne, The firm I worked for in the UK were taken over by a large multi national conglomerate and I chose not to work for them. At that time (1990’s) I had several friends working in Denmark where the wages were good and exchange rates favourable. I first got a job with a company in Padborg called Hammertrans which was owned by Elvin Jensen. The work was pulling trailers for Blue Water Shipping from Esbjerg ,mostly hanging meat from Danish Crown meat plants in Denmark to Italy. However Mr Jensen frequently had too much month left at the end of the money and forgot to pay me! I approached several other hauliers in Denmark trying to find a job but they were not busy. Torben got to hear that I was available and called me ,so I set off to Sollested and got the job. The work I did for Torben was mostly fish for Johs Lunde from Norway all over Europe. Regards Noel
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I bought this from Bryan Bros in Bristol. It went all over Europe and the Middle East.
Big problem was the accelerator. In right hand drive versions it was operated by a cable that ran down just behind the front panel and radiator grille. In cold weather the cable would freeze. This required a special driving technique. For example, when heading up Mont Blanc in the winter you would have to hold the throttle part open as you crossed the snowline. The cable would freeze in that position and you depended on being in the right gear to get to the top (no synchromesh on the Fuller box!). The cable would thaw out again in the tunnel, and freeze up when you came out of the other side. You’d think the throttle would have to be closed for the downward journey, but it’s surprising how many short uphill sections there are on the way down! So, again, you had to anticipate this when leaving the tunnel - making sure you had the throttle part open when the cable froze. Once below the snowline, it thawed out and you could resume normal driving!
Other than that, this Ford Transcontinental performed faultlessly.
I had one for many a year and my old boss put the foam lagging off of pipes on our ones and unless extream cold that seemed to cure it
Also had the brake calble freeze once as well near the batterys Thats a very smart one there.
I’ve just come across this topic I don’t know if anyone has posted this before but Boots the Chemist used to run several Transcontinentals on shunting in the Beeston HQ in Nottingham imagine having to keep climbing in and out of them all day !!!
Just trawled through all the Transcon threads and am surprised that not one mention of Tyldsley Wilkinson from Glossop. They ran about 6 or 7 Transcons in a fantastic blue and white paint job. They also ran a Mack F700 and a Roman (!!). I took the Roman to Holland and Germany a couple of times. Column gearchange was a dream but absolutely no guts. (Struggled to get up the ramp onto the ferry). The company changed it’s name to Wilkinson Freight and pulled trailers for MAT Transport. Billy Tingle, Pat Hunter, Tony Jeffries, Stan Mills are but four names, but Dave Hollinghurst was a subbie for them for a while with a smart F88. They had 290 ■■■■■■■■ motors but one was a left ■■■■■■ with a 355 in it. All ex demos. Eddie Hawksworth was the fitter and went on many recovery trips with Ted the old Ford D series wrecker. Pat Hunter did a u turn in Oostend one weekend and smartened a tram driver right up. The tram hit the trailer about mid way down and derailed the tram as well as bending the trailer. Trouble is, a faded picture is better than a faded memory.
Hi I remember t wilkinson very well when they were working for mat transport i was loading them with groupage back to the uk.i was working then at mat transport ( Jansen Meyer) zwijndrecht holland.that was1980 till about 1985 .after that I became an o/d meself for mat transport in Manchester mift.rob mookhoek
Big Dorris:
Just trawled through all the Transcon threads and am surprised that not one mention of Tyldsley Wilkinson from Glossop. They ran about 6 or 7 Transcons in a fantastic blue and white paint job. They also ran a Mack F700 and a Roman (!!). I took the Roman to Holland and Germany a couple of times. Column gearchange was a dream but absolutely no guts. (Struggled to get up the ramp onto the ferry). The company changed it’s name to Wilkinson Freight and pulled trailers for MAT Transport. Billy Tingle, Pat Hunter, Tony Jeffries, Stan Mills are but four names, but Dave Hollinghurst was a subbie for them for a while with a smart F88. They had 290 ■■■■■■■■ motors but one was a left ■■■■■■ with a 355 in it. All ex demos. Eddie Hawksworth was the fitter and went on many recovery trips with Ted the old Ford D series wrecker. Pat Hunter did a u turn in Oostend one weekend and smartened a tram driver right up. The tram hit the trailer about mid way down and derailed the tram as well as bending the trailer. Trouble is, a faded picture is better than a faded memory.
I worked for an Irish haulage company 1971 until 1976 Williames Transport Group. They were at Warren road Trafford Park, moved to the old Manchester garages Didsbury and had a purpose built warehouse next to Timpson shoe factory Sharston Whythenshawe. We had AEC mandaters F88s Scammell Crusaders, Marathons, Ford Custom cabs. They had a demo Ford transcontinental from Quicks trucks Trafford Park. They closed down and Frans Maas had taken over the site. Tyldsley Wilkinson from Glossop had done many runs such as nights Williames depot at Renfrew. My next job was at Mat Transport MIFT Trafford Park and remember Tyldsley Wilkinson pulling tilts and containers.