If you look carefully you can see a pile of Gardner 8s stacked at the back of that barn. It was a simple job to swap the engines for the ■■■■■■■ lumps by removing the Big J cab & using that block and pulley suspended from the beam. Yet more evidence of Bewick’s tricks. No wonder he was able to retire while he was still young!
Luckily he didn’t get hold of all of them…
Evening all heres a photo of one of our guy warriors taken in 1966 it had the aec470 and an eaton 2speed axle ,the trailer was a new northern 30ft ,better suited to our mandators.
Cheers Richard.
Cheers Richard.
Retired Old ■■■■:
If you look carefully you can see a pile of Gardner 8s stacked at the back of that barn. It was a simple job to swap the engines for the ■■■■■■■ lumps by removing the Big J cab & using that block and pulley suspended from the beam. Yet more evidence of Bewick’s tricks. No wonder he was able to retire while he was still young!
Luckily he didn’t get hold of all of them…
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Did you say “young” ROF■■?
David
robert1952:
A brave Guy doing the Middle-East run. Robert0
Looking at the size of the silencer it’s got a Gardener under the bonnet.
OK, who’s going to guess what he’s loaded on that six-wheeler Guy?
Retired Old ■■■■:
OK, who’s going to guess what he’s loaded on that six-wheeler Guy?
So ROF,you obviously know because that is probably you stood on the cab,I reckon that “westcut” your wearing could do with stitching up a bit on the back ! 
Bewick.
Retired Old ■■■■:
OK, who’s going to guess what he’s loaded on that six-wheeler Guy?
Well I would say bales of some sought of light material going be the clearance of the rear mudguards, Comparing the empty vehicle on the previous photo of course that just my humble opinion, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Retired Old ■■■■:
OK, who’s going to guess what he’s loaded on that six-wheeler Guy?Well I would say bales of some sought of light material going be the clearance of the rear mudguards, Comparing the empty vehicle on the previous photo of course that just my humble opinion, Regards Larry.
Aye they havn’t gone down so far have they Larry,also I wonder what engine it would have had as I believe those Otters used the 4 LK and the Meadows I recall that the firm from Sedbergh I got a couple of “A” licences from ran Otters with both types of engine,their last one was a nice little 4LK sweet as a nut! And one with a Meadows engine was parked in the back corner of the garage and had bitten the dust years previously.Cheers Dennis.
Some survivors that made to the fairground, wonder if they then were saved for preservation
robinswh:
Don’t know the origin of this photo…Chinese sixes weren’t very common as bulk tippers0
A firm based in Flookburgh,W. Keith & Son, in the 50’s and 60’s used to run a number of these Guy Warrior chinese six’s hauling pig Iron out of Millom Iron works some of them had little sideboards probably only a foot or so high I believe they would backload with scrap moulds etc for re smelting.They had the Leyland Comet engines and an Eaton 2 speed axle,they were converted from a four wheeler by Primrose Engineering of Blackburn who’s sister company was TGB Motors of Clithroe who were Guy Distributors at the time.Bewick.
At least some of W Keith’s motors had Gardner 150s in. The ministry took pity on them when the Millom ironworks closed and converted their contract a licences to a licences.
Bill Keith converted the Chinese 6s to units. I thought he’d done the work himself, but may be wrong. I seem to remember he did quite a lot of timber from the Penrith area. He also did a fair bit out of Bowaters in Barrow.
Remember one of the drivers - a Millomite, told me he’d had his Guy from new. I think he said it did 42 flat out and he had once had 24 ton 14 on it, which says something for the Gardener. It had never broken down.
If I’m wrong on any of that I’m sure you’ll put me right Dennis
robert1952:
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Now then Robert you will have set the true “believers” off and they’ll be trekking to the East looking for this mystical beast that never existed! Well at least they’ll be in the right area,Mecca,Jerusalem the Three Wise men etc etc. Bewick.
Bewick:
robert1952:
0Now then Robert you will have set the true “believers” off and they’ll be trekking to the East looking for this mystical beast that never existed! Well at least they’ll be in the right area,Mecca,Jerusalem the Three Wise men etc etc.
I heard they built a shrine/mosque for it by the road-side, but the I.S. destroyed it because they don’t believe in shrines - so now the evidence is lost for ever… Robert
John West:
At least some of W Keith’s motors had Gardner 150s in. The ministry took pity on them when the Millom ironworks closed and converted their contract a licences to a licences.Bill Keith converted the Chinese 6s to units. I thought he’d done the work himself, but may be wrong. I seem to remember he did quite a lot of timber from the Penrith area. He also did a fair bit out of Bowaters in Barrow.
Remember one of the drivers - a Millomite, told me he’d had his Guy from new. I think he said it did 42 flat out and he had once had 24 ton 14 on it, which says something for the Gardener. It had never broken down.
If I’m wrong on any of that I’m sure you’ll put me right Dennis
Aye John,Kruger sure was a character or as Jack Brady used to tell me “Billy would make a fine fleet engineer as long as you kept him away from the traffic office and the rates schedules” !!! Your right he did run some 8 wheeler Invincibles that had the 150 LX engines and when Millom finished he cut the 8wheelers down to steer units only problem was when they were tested for the first time they got knocked back to circa 24 ton gvw down from 32 ton which basically was their death warrant as they only had air over hydraulic braking.The ones I was on about were the steer Warriors that had the Leyland 375 engines.Kruger was also geared up at Flookburgh for transhipping pig iron,I believe that as well as a ramp to tip from he also had a magnet on a jib on the front of a Fordson major tractor,he wasn’t averse to tipping two Steers onto one 8 wheeler !!! Well for the rates they run for out of Millom he would need all the advantages he could use! Cheers Dennis.