bumper:
hi lads, harry, brownlees had a 3 scammell’s tractor units and one 8 legger, the gear box on the 8 legger was a nightmare, it would jam in 3rd or 4th gear when going up the box used to make you look a right fool, no problem coming down, they stripped it down but could not fined anything wrong,tried it with the gate off made no difference, had it back to scammell’s they couldn’t find the problem ether, got rid of it as nobody would drive the b-----y thing, bumper
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My old man used to let me drive these things, (empty) when he worked for a large company out of Teesport, I always got to drive them back to the gatehouse when I went with him to Workington Steel. I somehow think the same would’nt happen today!!! I’d love have a drive of one now.
My old dad was the same with me in the 50s and I then drove one in the 60s and looking at the photo it is fitted with religious brakes ( 3 pumps then a prayer )
cheers Johnnie
Les we had about 4 hand downs at Forth from Cooks when Tayforth took them over, all our leylands and AECs went back to Falkirk,and we were left with the Scammell’s,and they were a nightmare with that gate job.Vic
hi lads, i drove this thornycroft at times when i worked for h smails, the regular driver was jimmy shepherd, it was on the berwick bottle run most of the time, this photo is from Neil Spowart collection, bumper
Cracking photo Bumper 1947 Thorny. How is old Neil getting on ? its a canny bit since I last spoke to him, we were at a drivers night out at Warkworth, The Hermitage Place, Les Baston set it all up, we had a great night, Regards Larry
Lawrence Dunbar:
0Moot Law Quarry, moth balled at present, Ed on the bridge was smashing lad couldn’t get away with Fred on the shovel
Old Fred was ok. young Fred, well he was something else, not like his old man at all. Regards Larry.
i remember freddie 2 scoops at moot law, god help you if you delayed him on his way to work .his fav trick was to wait at the heep with a bucket of dust up in the air with the sun behind him and if you couldn’t reverse right under the bucket he would tip it out and load somewhere else. he often snapped springs on the old trailers we had even blew tyres if he could get enough height.
Dennis my man you remember him very well, I often wonder what went on in his head, Did he have a grudge against us, or was he he just, well now I cant think of a word right now, to describe him but Im sure theres a one about, Regards Larry
The late Kylie could put 22Tonne in two buckets onto this trailer , when my cuppa was on the bonnet & my cup never moved, he was great, nowt was a problem to him, I think the other bloke Mr,F was comming to work, Regards Larry
Lawrence Dunbar:
The late Kylie could put 22Tonne in two buckets onto this trailer , when my cuppa was on the bonnet & my cup never moved, he was great, nowt was a problem to him, I think the other bloke Mr,F was comming to work, Regards Larry
your dead on, kyle was a lovely loader much easier day when he was on got the six to the gill no bother,i think it was arther richardson from the gap threatening fred with g.b.h. that put him off us at nichols or it could have been he was just a miserable sod… dennis
Yes I think you are quite right when you say he was a sod, I think he must have been born like that, because his old man Fred was a true gent I new him when I was a boy, I lived in the same street during the war years, He is a bit older than me but he allways joined in whith us as younguns, Happy Days Eh. Larry.
I no this is a bit off track, But when I was a boy there were sayings that we used to laugh at, IE. If you want to be a film star stand outside in the winter, & you could be Googie Withers, Now you could stand in front of the fire & become a butcher Called Freddie Burns ? Thats what he did when he first left school / old Fred worked for the local Butcher called Fred Slater at Seaton Burn, He then went on to driving in later years for Davey Landau in Heber Street a scrap merchant, He then went to Baxters on the Quayside, Andersons of Westerhope & so on, & ended up at Moot Law, a very happy ending cos old Fred is still about. Regards Larry.
i didn’t know moot law was mothballed we did loads up to leaplish when they were building the resevoir .the first time was in a 8 wheel foden with the round cab and the range change on the dash boy did i play some tunes on the way up , a lad called joe moore showed me how to use it but i was never that good with it .then i got a square cab with the lever on the gear stick i was ok with that had one for years on a brick motor mind the 180 gardner was hard work mind you barrasford used to sort them out that hill even the so called modern mercs come to grief on the way out of there.
dennis
Lawrence Dunbar:
The late Kylie could put 22Tonne in two buckets onto this trailer , when my cuppa was on the bonnet & my cup never moved, he was great, nowt was a problem to him, I think the other bloke Mr,F was comming to work, Regards Larry
Fred could also put 22tonne on in two buckets but he used to do it to 8wheelers only wanting 20 just for not backing inch perfect under his bucket, the tipping off heap was the biggest in the quarry
Lawrence Dunbar:
0Moot Law Quarry, moth balled at present, Ed on the bridge was smashing lad couldn’t get away with Fred on the shovel
Old Fred was ok. young Fred, well he was something else, not like his old man at all. Regards Larry.
i remember freddie 2 scoops at moot law, god help you if you delayed him on his way to work .his fav trick was to wait at the heep with a bucket of dust up in the air with the sun behind him and if you couldn’t reverse right under the bucket he would tip it out and load somewhere else. he often snapped springs on the old trailers we had even blew tyres if he could get enough height.
I wanted to throttle him when he dropped the bucket and smashed the arms onto the top of the body spilling my coffee all over. Should of put his sierra off the road
bumper:
hi lads, harry, brownlees had a 3 scammell’s tractor units and one 8 legger, the gear box on the 8 legger was a nightmare, it would jam in 3rd or 4th gear when going up the box used to make you look a right fool, no problem coming down, they stripped it down but could not fined anything wrong,tried it with the gate off made no difference, had it back to scammell’s they couldn’t find the problem ether, got rid of it as nobody would drive the b-----y thing, bumper
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My old man used to let me drive these things, (empty) when he worked for a large company out of Teesport, I always got to drive them back to the gatehouse when I went with him to Workington Steel. I somehow think the same would’nt happen today!!! I’d love have a drive of one now.
My old dad was the same with me in the 50s and I then drove one in the 60s and looking at the photo it is fitted with religious brakes ( 3 pumps then a prayer )
cheers Johnnie
Hello Johnnie, yes I remember my old fella was’nt too impressed with the brakes on the Scammel, but the firm he worked for had at the time S21 Fodens as well and if he could pick his truck in the winter he always took a Scammel. Regards, Mizzo.
Diesel-truckin:
Hi all… my first post on this site.
Would any of you guys know the name Thomas ‘tommy’ Duffy? I believe he drove for sadlers/stiller way back when!
Hiya Adam,welcome,i dont recall the name,i was at stillers 39 years ,the last 10 years taking in Sadlers but i didnt know all those employed as it was a big company by then .Vic.
Thanks Vic, Im afraid i don’t know any more details other than his name. He was my great uncle, and i am led to believe he was fairly long serving. (for how long exactly i am not sure). Thanks.
Diesel-truckin:
Thanks Vic, Im afraid i don’t know any more details other than his name. He was my great uncle, and i am led to believe he was fairly long serving. (for how long exactly i am not sure). Thanks.
He may of been a Saddler man in which case i might not have met him,maybe Stanfield (John)who is on here and worked for them would have known him,Vic.
Diesel-truckin:
Hi all… my first post on this site.
Would any of you guys know the name Thomas ‘tommy’ Duffy? I believe he drove for sadlers/stiller way back when!
Hello Adam, I worked for Sadlers for about 4 years up to 2000, and I do not recall a Tommy Duffy, welcome to the the forum by the way, I’m one of the grumpy old gits!! Regards, Mizzo.
