In the final year of school, 1972/3, there was the Careers Education class that was designed to steer you to your preferred/ability career.
I won’t say vehicle mechanic was my preferred career as all i wanted to do was drive trucks and I thought that being a truck mechanic would put me onto that route.
So, those with a mechanical aptitude were “treated” to a visit to the Wadham Stringer Commercial vehicle workshop on the corner of Hill Lane and Commercial Road. I think by then the fuel pumps out the front had gone. I collected many vehicle promo pamphlets on the current vehicle range (green line/red line/Guy) which IIRC I still have today somewhere. The place was dingey and didn’t impress me at all!
Didn’t stop me doing the job tho’.
Buzzer:
W & where Chris, Buzzer
Hi John
I can’t remember the year , it was originally moved from Portland Dockyard to Portsmouth Dockyard, where it was restored it was a bit of mess as it had lane in the water for many years. It was then transported from Portsmouth to the Submarine Museum at Gosport.
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Buzzer:
W & where Chris, BuzzerHi John
I can’t remember the year , it was originally moved from Portland Dockyard to Portsmouth Dockyard, where it was restored it was a bit of mess as it had lane in the water for many years. It was then transported from Portsmouth to the Submarine Museum at Gosport.
1972 or later as motor bike is a suffix L reg
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Buzzer:
W & where Chris, BuzzerHi John
I can’t remember the year , it was originally moved from Portland Dockyard to Portsmouth Dockyard, where it was restored it was a bit of mess as it had lane in the water for many years. It was then transported from Portsmouth to the Submarine Museum at Gosport.1972 or later as motor bike is a suffix L reg
This looks to me like HMS Holland which was the first RN sub (the twin rudder and length indicates this). However according to the records she was raised from the sea bed in 1982 before being taken to Portsmouth which doesn’t seem to fit in with the vehicles used to transport her unless Hills kept their fleet for a long time.
Another possibility is that it is X24 which is also at Gosport Submarine museum but it doesn’t seem to be long enough. If anyone can tell the length of the trailer it will identify it. HMS Holland was around 20m, X24 was 15m.
Hi All
Happy New Year.
Scaling up from the wheel diameter I would say 15m.
Cheers Rich
tribsa:
Hi AllHappy New Year.
Scaling up from the wheel diameter I would say 15m.
Cheers Rich
Dont start with the HNY crap or you will get this thread dumped in Bully’s, Buzzer
Sub is an X craft,Trailer is a Scheurle modular made under contract by King Trailers for G W Sparrows extendable and adapted to be used as a semitrailer. I believe it had 8.25 tyres but not sure
Great shots of the Victory Guy Light 8 ! I knew a chap called Ernie Edwards who lived at Natland a village near Kendal who drove a Light 8 with the same spec in the 60’s for a single vehicle firm from Kendal called Furness Roadways. The owner of the firm was called Jim Tolfrey who’s day job was Chauffer for the Chairman of Lakeland Laundries based in Barrow so Ernie more or less just got on working with the “A” licenced Guy whose regular traffic was out of Barrow Steel Works mainly to the Birmingham area. Ernie told me that he regularly hauled 17ton payloads particularly loads of Basic Slag from Corby back to the Furness area. The Furness Roadways Guy came new in 1959 and Ernie drove it from new until it was parked up and the firm ceased trading in December '66. Ernie then got a job in a local engineering works in Kendal and in 1969 I tried to acquire the “A” licence as it was still current at the time but it had been dormant for too long so it was unfortunately a non starter ! Ernie must have been a steady Driver as he managed to run the motor trouble free for it’s entire life which I reckon would have been something of a record considering the very cheap and light spec of these Light 8 's . Cheers Bewick.
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Bewick:
Great shots of the Victory Guy Light 8 ! I knew a chap called Ernie Edwards who lived at Natland a village near Kendal who drove a Light 8 with the same spec in the 60’s for a single vehicle firm from Kendal called Furness Roadways. The owner of the firm was called Jim Tolfrey who’s day job was Chauffer for the Chairman of Lakeland Laundries based in Barrow so Ernie more or less just got on working with the “A” licenced Guy whose regular traffic was out of Barrow Steel Works mainly to the Birmingham area. Ernie told me that he regularly hauled 17ton payloads particularly loads of Basic Slag from Corby back to the Furness area. The Furness Roadways Guy came new in 1959 and Ernie drove it from new until it was parked up and the firm ceased trading in December '66. Ernie then got a job in a local engineering works in Kendal and in 1969 I tried to acquire the “A” licence as it was still current at the time but it had been dormant for too long so it was unfortunately a non starter ! Ernie must have been a steady Driver as he managed to run the motor trouble free for it’s entire life which I reckon would have been something of a record considering the very cheap and light spec of these Light 8 's . Cheers Bewick.
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Spec sheet for the Guy Light 8 Dennis, not the fastest motor in the world although i suppose it would have been on a par with other trucks of the period.
I mentioned before that B.J Waters had a Guy Lightweight with the AEC engine, apparently it blew headgaskets monthly. A flyer on the level but hopeless on hills. My pal in a Gardner engined one was following it loaded on the A449 up the bank from Monmouth towards Ross after leaving the cafe and his mate suddenly stopped and he hit it up the arse! He heard two BANGS and went to see what happened, the driver had managed to bag two Pheasants on the bank side with his shotgun through the open passenger window and was just loading them up. When they reached Ross there was a logbook check, the official opened the passenger door and saw the birds “I will have one of those and forget all about what I saw in your logbook” and the deal was done! 
Pete.
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Bewick:
Great shots of the Victory Guy Light 8 ! I knew a chap called Ernie Edwards who lived at Natland a village near Kendal who drove a Light 8 with the same spec in the 60’s for a single vehicle firm from Kendal called Furness Roadways. The owner of the firm was called Jim Tolfrey who’s day job was Chauffer for the Chairman of Lakeland Laundries based in Barrow so Ernie more or less just got on working with the “A” licenced Guy whose regular traffic was out of Barrow Steel Works mainly to the Birmingham area. Ernie told me that he regularly hauled 17ton payloads particularly loads of Basic Slag from Corby back to the Furness area. The Furness Roadways Guy came new in 1959 and Ernie drove it from new until it was parked up and the firm ceased trading in December '66. Ernie then got a job in a local engineering works in Kendal and in 1969 I tried to acquire the “A” licence as it was still current at the time but it had been dormant for too long so it was unfortunately a non starter ! Ernie must have been a steady Driver as he managed to run the motor trouble free for it’s entire life which I reckon would have been something of a record considering the very cheap and light spec of these Light 8 's . Cheers Bewick.
.Spec sheet for the Guy Light 8 Dennis, not the fastest motor in the world although i suppose it would have been on a par with other trucks of the period.
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Compliments of the season to you and yours Dean ! Thanks for the info on the Guy Light 8 and as far as 8 wheelers went the Guy Light 8 was really built to a lightweight spec as well as having an extremely keen price. The trailing axle was produced and fitted by Primrose Engineering of Blackburn and the completed chassis were marketed through their sister company TGB Motors then Guy Distributors of Clitheroe on behalf of Guy Motors . Cheers Dennis.
Hi John
I will say what I like pop your head back where the sun don’t shine.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Cheers
Rich
Bewick:
“DEANB”Spec sheet for the Guy Light 8 Dennis, not the fastest motor in the world although i suppose it would have been on a par with other trucks of the period.
Compliments of the season to you and yours Dean ! Thanks for the info on the Guy Light 8 and as far as 8 wheelers went the Guy Light 8 was really built to a lightweight spec as well as having an extremely keen price. The trailing axle was produced and fitted by Primrose Engineering of Blackburn and the completed chassis were marketed through their sister company TGB Motors then Guy Distributors of Clitheroe on behalf of Guy Motors . Cheers Dennis.
Happy New Year Dennis. 
You probably know but they also did a light 6 wheeler as well. Primrose certainly did alot of conversions adding axles and
steer axles. Never knew about TGB thats intresting.
Buzzer , where did Townsend Thoresen ferries actually dock. Was it where the car park is on the town quay where the Red Jet ferry goes
to the Isle of Wight ?
1967 advert.
Hi Deanb, i believe it was on 30/33 berth in through dock gate 4 and turn left follow road to the end but i could be wrong. 
tribsa:
Hi John
I will say what I like pop your head back where the sun don’t shine.HAPPY NEW YEAR
Cheers
Rich
You totally missed the point there Rich, It was meant to be a sarcastic dig at a certain moderator who because he see’s fit removed the “Christmas” thread into Bully’s not as a dig at you personally, if you were up to speed you would have understood that. As soon as a thread gets a little heated discussion it gets put in Bully’s no freedom of speech anymore or banter, everyone has different opinion’s and should have the right to express them as long as it is not direct slander
PS. wont be doing what you said any time soon as I like my head where it is thanks JD