Buckleylayabout:
Well Dennis we on the same station now I remember you with Eric and his brother did he do a spell in the office?
I presume you still in touch with the young un born with a silver spoon that one was the sports car for his 17th a white Triumph spitfire they were a crap car anyway but the apple of his dad’s eye was there not a younger brother?
We get up that way quite a bit as we have shares in the pub in Crosby Ravensworth a community pup owned by the locals the sister in law farms in the village we have an apartment there great when sunny but not when wet as you may remember my wife came from Shap so always been about up that part of the world we had our wedding reception at the Greyhound our 25th at Haweswater our 40th at the Greyhound and when it came to the 50th 3yrs ago I said sod it fed up feeding and watering al, the family we went to the West Indies for a month STKI great but bloody hot in November I was looking for some old Brady wagons
Looking at some pics did they ever have a unit as is depicted in the one spotted at Stoke the Leyland tractor unit,I have a few pics about from HEO631H a Scania with no sleeper just passenger seat taken out and a single bed fitted,they will be in a drawer somewhere
Either Leyland Beaver FEO 628 first reg 24/6/60 or Leyland Beaver first reg 11/1/61. Cheers Bewick.
This is a very bad photo of FEO 628 when it was retired to a on the road shunt motor which I used to shunt with smokey Joe had it as a distance motor the photo is taken at the wire work,s (oddis)
The Leyland comet is Brady first LAD cab motor Tommy Benson is the driver who moved to live at Felixstowe
HEO 333 cannot see the driver but it would be Albert Coward Also in the back ground on the left hand side is Jack Brady !!! The Boss
Remember Tommy Benson he had a magnificent trash did The Woodman move away as well seem to recall talking to Mike Lancaster at the Pops one day parked up in his V8 Scania we had them at Hoyer nice motors to drive but only day cabs the 460 engine if I remember did,not need sleepers even when we were running the Optimax fuel to Scotland as far as Inverness it was always a hotel invariably in BP Grangemouth as we picked up return loads of petrol for all points south either that or Aberdeen that was a Four day job with six pots of Optimax six garages
I suppose now Frank you are well retired and looking after maybe grandkids we have 5 grandsons between now 11 and 24 the eldest has just started doing his masters at UCL in architecture he got his BA at Manchester then worked in Santiago Chile 9 months then he got a placement in Geneva Switzerland for six months costs money but will be worth it when he gets qualified my second one has his Class 1 but told him not to bother the way lads nowadays have to chase their tail the others are at college,school etc
Nice to speak to you Frank ??you still live on Walney ■■
John West:
The GT6 had that independent rear suspension, which tended to tuck under if you over cooked it and as I remember the engine was too heavy for the body as well. Bob rolled his in the switchback bends heading towards Barrow, just before Greenodd.
Let’s face it us lesser mortals would never have been able to insure it in the first place!
John.
You’ve jogged my memory cell John and Frank, IIRC it would be early 67 'ish and Possy and me came up Duke St. back to the depot and as we were passing the car showroom there was a GT6 in the window, so Possy says something like " Oh! dear it looks like The Young’un has transgressed again and incurred his Father’s displeasure (which he often did!) so he has had the car removed and placed back into the showroom" But don’t worry when the Big’un has calmed down Uncle Jack will extract it from the showroom and reunite The Young’un with his motor" Cheers Bewick.
so he has had the car removed and placed back into the showroom" But don’t worry when the Big’un has calmed down Uncle Jack will extract it from the showroom and reunite The Young’un with his motor" Cheers Bewick.