gingerfold:
Hello Norman, thank you, I searched out a copy for you last night, and it is the last copy of the first edition. I still have a few second editions to spare.
Hello gingerfold
Thankyou for your reply
If its to mutch trouble for you
please send on 1st & 2nd
Thankyou for your kind help
Very mutch Appreciated
Norman Croad,Torquay.
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gingerfold:
Hello Norman, thank you, I searched out a copy for you last night, and it is the last copy of the first edition. I still have a few second editions to spare.Hello gingerfold
Thankyou for your reply
If its to mutch trouble for you
please send on 1st & 2nd
Thankyou for your kind help
Very mutch Appreciated
Norman Croad,Torquay.
Hi gingerfold,did u get my details via pvt message!!
Norman Croad,Torquay.
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Hiya Dennis,
The Ford D1000 I drove Had a Perkins V8, 5speed box,2speed Eaton Axel,It was a J reg,1972 I think!
It was so heavy ,the payload capacity i could carry was just under 10 Ton
Norman Croad,Torquay.
I’ve got to keep you straight Norm ! if your D1000 was J reg it was a 70/71 motor, on the other hand if it was a 1972 reg it may have been a 72/73 L reg ! J or L, similar I suppose ! 
Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
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Hiya Dennis,
The Ford D1000 I drove Had a Perkins V8, 5speed box,2speed Eaton Axel,It was a J reg,1972 I think!
It was so heavy ,the payload capacity i could carry was just under 10 Ton
Norman Croad,Torquay.I’ve got to keep you straight Norm ! if your D1000 was J reg it was a 70/71 motor, on the other hand if it was a 1972 reg it may have been a 72/73 L reg ! J or L, similar I suppose !
Hiya Dennis
It was Deffinitly a J Reg,I reckon if it had a ■■■■■■■ in it,Might have performed better!
Norman croad,Torquay…
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Bewick:
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Hiya Dennis,
The Ford D1000 I drove Had a Perkins V8, 5speed box,2speed Eaton Axel,It was a J reg,1972 I think!
It was so heavy ,the payload capacity i could carry was just under 10 Ton
Norman Croad,Torquay.I’ve got to keep you straight Norm ! if your D1000 was J reg it was a 70/71 motor, on the other hand if it was a 1972 reg it may have been a 72/73 L reg ! J or L, similar I suppose !
Hiya Dennis
It was Deffinitly a J Reg,I reckon if it had a ■■■■■■■ in it,Might have performed better!
Norman croad,Torquay…
Hiya Norm, I ran both the ■■■■■■■ and a couple of Perkins V’s and all three gave good service but if I was to choose between the two engines I would have to choose the ■■■■■■■ which IMHO was the better of the two ! But having said that the Perkins did me OK and of course they had to work harder as they ran at 26ton and 28ton respectively whereas my ■■■■■■■ only ran at 16ton which was a doddle for it ! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
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Bewick:
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Hiya Dennis,
The Ford D1000 I drove Had a Perkins V8, 5speed box,2speed Eaton Axel,It was a J reg,1972 I think!
It was so heavy ,the payload capacity i could carry was just under 10 Ton
Norman Croad,Torquay.I’ve got to keep you straight Norm ! if your D1000 was J reg it was a 70/71 motor, on the other hand if it was a 1972 reg it may have been a 72/73 L reg ! J or L, similar I suppose !
Hiya Dennis
It was Deffinitly a J Reg,I reckon if it had a ■■■■■■■ in it,Might have performed better!
Norman croad,Torquay…Hiya Norm, I ran both the ■■■■■■■ and a couple of Perkins V’s and all three gave good service but if I was to choose between the two engines I would have to choose the ■■■■■■■ which IMHO was the better of the two ! But having said that the Perkins did me OK and of course they had to work harder as they ran at 26ton and 28ton respectively whereas my ■■■■■■■ only ran at 16ton which was a doddle for it ! Cheers Dennis.
Hiya Dennis
The perkins V8 in mine i drove kept on blowing injector pipes,Remember when setting off on a sunday morning got as far as Taunton,Next thing diesel leaking onto Exhaust Manifold,smoke everywhere,old Bill appeared,they made a song & dance about it,in the end one of the fitters came out,Time i Lost,
The Handbrake was Naff,All niggleys things!!Thats life,
Norman croad,Torquay.
I accept that both the ■■■■■■■ and the Perkins V 's had a bad reputation but as I have said in an earlier post I can’t complain but I sure wouldn’t have wanted to run a fleet of them and I was glad to get into a position where I could start buying Atkis and the odd ERF ! Cheers Dennis.
Norman, your books will be in the post today, Friday. Enjoy the reading.
Bewick:
I accept that both the ■■■■■■■ and the Perkins V 's had a bad reputation but as I have said in an earlier post I can’t complain but I sure wouldn’t have wanted to run a fleet of them and I was glad to get into a position where I could start buying Atkis and the odd ERF ! Cheers Dennis.
My Perky V8 used more oil than derv, but it had been to the moon & back a few times when I was “persuaded” to buy the ■■■■ thing! And I suppose 26/28 tons is OK for a Northern outfit- us Southern Softies liked to put a full load on ours.
My Boss,Mr Brian Harris,With a 4 Wheeler Commer 2 Stroke TS3
By the yard,in Bovey Tracey S,Devon.
Norman Croad,Torquay.
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0My Boss,Mr Brian Harris,With a 4 Wheeler Commer 2 Stroke TS3
By the yard,in Bovey Tracey S,Devon.Norman Croad,Torquay.
Hiya Norm that’s a great shot of Brian in his younger days, would that Commer have been the motor he drove, I seem to recall his first motor was a Trader ? Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
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0My Boss,Mr Brian Harris,With a 4 Wheeler Commer 2 Stroke TS3
By the yard,in Bovey Tracey S,Devon.Norman Croad,Torquay.
Hiya Norm that’s a great shot of Brian in his younger days, would that Commer have been the motor he drove, I seem to recall his first motor was a Trader ? Cheers Dennis.
Hiya Dennis
Brian"s Father, Jerry Harris Brought Brian a 4 Wheeler Albion Chieftain in 1960 to start off with,Then a Thames Trader…
Norman Croad,Torquay.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Bewick:
I accept that both the ■■■■■■■ and the Perkins V 's had a bad reputation but as I have said in an earlier post I can’t complain but I sure wouldn’t have wanted to run a fleet of them and I was glad to get into a position where I could start buying Atkis and the odd ERF ! Cheers Dennis.My Perky V8 used more oil than derv, but it had been to the moon & back a few times when I was “persuaded” to buy the ■■■■ thing! And I suppose 26/28 tons is OK for a Northern outfit- us Southern Softies liked to put a full load on ours.
Some of us northerners tended to load nearer 30 or even 32! Kraft cheese to Scotland in a 40’ box made the mastiffs grunt a little! But I never got pulled over with a van, whereas with round timber you always looked overloaded. Charnleys of Longtown with their 6 wheel unit Big J’s and pole trailers did look the business!
As far as oil consumption went, a gallon a day kept the fitters away! I always thought that if they’d had a better system of returning it to the sump, instead of spraying it up the back of the cab, it would have been a lot more economical. I spent weekends spraying Heavy duty cleaner on the cab and trying to keep the exhausts mated to the outlets!
Unless of course - if you sold them before they had 100,000 miles on the clock, you would wonder what later owners were talking about!
John.
I never did discover whether more oil was leaking or being burnt! Before I bought the Ford I had been of the opinion that Gardners were a “mucky” engine but they had nothing on a worn out Perkins V8. 
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0My Boss,Mr Brian Harris,With a 4 Wheeler Commer 2 Stroke TS3
By the yard,in Bovey Tracey S,Devon.Norman Croad,Torquay.
proper distance motor with big twin tanks rip brian
Hey Norm, how do you explain those big tanks on that Commer Brian is stood by ? surely enough derv to run to Scotch and bacg to Devon ! but you only had an “egg cup” on the side of your Comet ! Cheers Dennis. 
Bewick:
Hey Norm, how do you explain those big tanks on that Commer Brian is stood by ? surely enough derv to run to Scotch and bacg to Devon ! but you only had an “egg cup” on the side of your Comet ! Cheers Dennis.
Hiya Dennis
Yes i wonder at times!!,If i tanked up at Penrith, Then Say i was Goin to S/hampton, Id tip S/hampton,Load sum Bits & peaces & then head back to yard,i was alright,I think i ran out twice since i had the Comet.
Now on my Ford D1000, i had twin Tanks, Think i could do about 700 or 800 miles before i had to fill up,i had no Worries there.
Norman Croad,Torquay.
This was my first new motor Norm, and it came with a single 40 gal tank so I bought and fitted a second hand 20 gal ex Trader tank which was an exact match as you can see. My main operation as an O/D was down to London and back so I had plenty of derv to do the round trip, I never bought any derv down the road ! The biggest set of tanks we ever had was on an 8LXB Sed/Atk sleeper which came with an 80 or 88 gal tank as standard and I had another identical one fitted on the other side. This motor could go up and down to the S. East twice without re-fueling and still have plenty in reserve. Cheers Dennis.
There will be a third and revised edition of “From Moorlands to Highlands” published in mid-July by Old Pond Publishing. I understand that it will contain over 80 photos that have come to light since the second edition was published. I hope that it is well received.
Lovely bit of roping and sheeting Bewick!
David
