can someone please help paul (moomooland) to get his northwest trucks site up and running again.i keep looking but it doesn,t return,and he has a wealth of info and pics that some day may be lost forever if not recorded properly.so please someone help get this job done. best regards, jack preston.
Stanfield:
Also added this on the Companys from North Manchester thread.0
Hipwood and Grundy were regulars at monsanto ruabon thank you Trevor
shirtbox2003:
can someone please help paul (moomooland) to get his northwest trucks site up and running again.i keep looking but it doesn,t return,and he has a wealth of info and pics that some day may be lost forever if not recorded properly.so please someone help get this job done. best regards, jack preston.
I am sure most people who enjoy this particular site would be willing to make some form of financial donation etc to have this subject up and running again .
shirtbox2003:
can someone please help paul (moomooland) to get his northwest trucks site up and running again.i keep looking but it doesn,t return,and he has a wealth of info and pics that some day may be lost forever if not recorded properly.so please someone help get this job done. best regards, jack preston.
Many thanks for your comments and support.
Unfortunately the Northwest Trucks site is well and truly dead in the water.
The Fotopic platform that it was on was ideal but since it’s demise i really cannot find another server that has the flexibility and layout that Fotopic had.
At the moment the best i can do is put a few images on Flickr HERE which really is not the ideal solution.
Regards Paul
Broadhurst Transport DAF 95xf once again winner of the best dress float at the Stalybridge carnival 2013.The theme being Dukinfield youth junior football club.
moomooland:
shirtbox2003:
can someone please help paul (moomooland) to get his northwest trucks site up and running again.i keep looking but it doesn,t return,and he has a wealth of info and pics that some day may be lost forever if not recorded properly.so please someone help get this job done. best regards, jack preston.Many thanks for your comments and support.
Unfortunately the Northwest Trucks site is well and truly dead in the water.
The Fotopic platform that it was on was ideal but since it’s demise i really cannot find another server that has the flexibility and layout that Fotopic had.
At the moment the best i can do is put a few images on Flickr HERE which really is not the ideal solution.
Regards Paul
Few photos taken in and around Lancs, may be of interest to some.
Barry/Gloves
harry_gill:
moomooland:
On Wednesday 9th March Fotopic the host server of Northwest Trucks went offline.
This wasn’t entirely unusual as it’s performance over recent weeks and months had been increasingly unreliable
With over 5000 pictures on the site, in 76 separate galleries all with detailed information built up over the last two years, i had been hoping that Fotopic would come back on line.
Unfortunately now after almost a week off line this now seems highly unlikely.
The lack of information from Fotopic has also been very frustrating as they have not released a statement of any kind as to why the their site has gone down.
One ray of hope rests with the original creator of Fotopic, Joel Rowbottom,
who is currently building a new site Pikfu.
This is being created along similar lines to Fotopic, but with various modernisations.
Until this gets off the ground, or until Fotopic miraculously returns, I, like thousands of other dissatisfied Fotopic users are left reflecting on all the time and effort put into the site just to see it disappear at the flick of a switch.
Thank you all for all your support over the last two years
Regards Paul Anderson
Heres one for the road
hiya,
As a North West ex-pat now living in the North East i look in most days at the great “Northwest” site now what am i going to do without my “fix” might have to take to the drink, several firms on there that i’ve driven for and quite a few motors that i’ve driven i’m certainly going to miss it, help.
thanks harry long retired.
Edmondsons did a lot of work out of Preston dock along with Leyland comet artics thank you Trevor
gloves:
Few photos taken in and around Lancs, may be of interest to some.Barry/Gloves
Nice selection, Barry! Any more, please?
Just bringing this thread back to page 1 (photos by colinfpickett flickr)
I remember these running around Manchester like flies years ago.
Dennis (Bewick) will be checking that R&S later lads so beware
Have we had this one MooMoo,found the picture for sale on the dreaded ebay.
Stanfield:
Have we had this one MooMoo,found the picture for sale on the dreaded ebay.
Hi John,
Yes i have quite a number of pictures Beck’s S20 Foden.
The two pictures above were taken at Foden Sandbach when it was new.
A couple of shots showing it in action.
More images on the Edward Beck & Son Ltd website
hi stanfield,what truck is the mort and taylor from Blackburn,never heard of them but hill st was where the dog track used to be. now Tesco. regards, jack preston. p.c was it a maudsley?
shirtbox2003:
hi stanfield,what truck is the mort and taylor from Blackburn,never heard of them but hill st was where the dog track used to be. now Tesco. regards, jack preston. p.c was it a maudsley?
Not sure about the truck model Jack and like yourself havent heard of the company as i can remember,maybe harry_gill knows them as he did a bit around that area years ago i believe.
Stanfield:
shirtbox2003:
hi stanfield,what truck is the mort and taylor from Blackburn,never heard of them but hill st was where the dog track used to be. now Tesco. regards, jack preston. p.c was it a maudsley?Not sure about the truck model Jack and like yourself havent heard of the company as i can remember,maybe harry_gill knows them as he did a bit around that area years ago i believe.
hiya,
I lived in the Blackburn area from the early 60s and know of Hill St, but
Mort and Taylor don’t register or ring any bells, sorry.
thanks harry, long retired.