no i didnt work for him mark he was a friend of the family and as i had just passed my test he gave me a ride out down to barcelona (funny thing at the time i didnt tell our lass i was goin as we were just courtin and when i rang her from spain she didnt see the funny side ) great bloke good crack and good experience for a young lad
nice one jasper 
jimmy and his brother are both nice guys have known them for years if you see them tell them stans fahys son from freeways was asking after them.
regards
mark
will do but havnt seen jimmy 4 ages often see billy as i live in same place
Waughs yard .
Kevin i think the borderer with the red grill is your old NTY 683M Reg 220-■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ group axle, (with optional
longer rear axle wheel studs 
)
HJR 451L with its winter heater installed on the front grill.
was a bit of Kimberly Clark’s slip sheet cut down made a nice neat job, did it make much difference just a little.
Went down to covent garden with some spuds with Stevie in the winter it was that cold inside the cab the
Gaz stove he had to boil water etc that i had lit to get some heat in the cab the little valve froze up so no heat from that,
had to break the rope Dolly’s with two hammers as they had all frozen solid when we came to tip.
SIMPSONS 86
heres another one of the same f7 looking a bit better
hi lads, the swirl cafe was next to the CWS & UNION union cold store, jimmy cafe open after the swirl closed, someone was asking about H Walton tippers, harry was yard foreman at cawthorn, started his own outfit after cawthorn sold out, he was a great guy to work with, some great photos on this site , minto’s timber, was that the same outfit that had a yard near felton,we used to fill your own sack’s of saw dust also do the cattle decks out with it, in them days they could’nt get rid of the stuff, my how thing have changed it like gold dust now, here is a few more from GORDEN MITCHELL’S collection, from brotherton cafe, bumper 
Hi bumper the h walton you talk about was he from birtley had green daf tippers did brewers grains for davidson and adamson nice man had his sons on as well.
it was me who asked about Harry Walton with the green tippers. My father worked out of ARC Houghton le spring in the early 80s with a blue f86 6 wheeler and i used to go with him in the school holidays and i can remember Harry having a daf 4 wheeler and his two sons having new 6 wheeler hinos which were very rare at the time and often wonder what happened to harry and his two sons. Other firms working out of there at the time were GTS with yellow and black leyland bisons, A B Maw had some very tidy dark blue f86 6 wheelers as well as a few owner drivers.
f7sidd
Hello harry worked as subbie for d@a he was a good hard working man got the daf of d@a as well as the hinos i left about 1990 did not hear much about them after that think harry is long gone now .bob
PTY 334M, ■■■■■■■ 220, David Brown 6-speed, Group rear axle.
Martin Harrison got this new,
The above spec must have been the worst combination Atkinson supplied to its
customers it just didn’t work together at all.
8LXBV8BRIAN:
PTY 334M, ■■■■■■■ 220, David Brown 6-speed, Group rear axle.
Martin Harrison got this new,
The above spec must have been the worst combination Atkinson supplied to its
customers it just didn’t work together at all.
Absolutely agree! The 220 ■■■■■■■ (only 204 bhp, actually) develops its maximum torque at 1500 rpm, and it drops away quite sharply below that. If you go up to max revs and then change up, it drops you straight into the next gear at 1500 rpm, which is just fine. But… the gap between 4th & 5th is greater, so you arrive in 5th at below max torque, and the whole concept falls apart if you change up whilst climbing a hill, as the road speed decays before you get the next gear.
By contrast, the Gardner develops maximum torque at 1000 rpm, and the torque remains almost constant right up to the governed speed, and so it can handle the wide ratio gaps much better. Across country, rather than on A roads, the Gardner will leave the ■■■■■■■ for dead if they both have a 6-speed box.
ERF offered the same combination too. (Not with the Group axle, obviously! )
marcus 22:
nice one jasperjimmy and his brother are both nice guys have known them for years if you see them tell them stans fahys son from freeways was asking after them.
regards
mark
Mark, Jimmy Lister now lives in Ireland, I met his son a few years ago at Rainton I actually thought I was talking to Jim Snr
he is so like his dad was 30 years ago. I think Billy still lives in the Consett area.
8LXBV8BRIAN:
Waughs yard .
Kevin i think the borderer with the red grill is your old NTY 683M Reg 220-■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ group axle, (with optional
longer rear axle wheel studs
Thanks Brian, really fascinating about the wheel studs. Do you remember when “crackers” Dynair fan came off and went through
the rad? We had been running together and he had mentioned it was noisy when it kicked in. Was it something to do with the
housng having a a longer neck than it should have had? I dragged him to the Red House at Donny and helped Ralph Scott with the
repairs. I think “cracker” must have taken my tracter cos I don’t recall anything crazy happening as it usually did when Dougie
was around.