harry_gill:
hiya,
Them being confused Dave i think i’m confused i’m beginning to think i’m the guy who got s""t and putty mixed up and only realised my mistake when all my windows fell out, i’ve actually driven better performing 180s than that 240.
thanks harry long retired.
As I didn’t drive either Harry I can’t comment on the performance of them.I remember when the 180’s came around the drivers thought they were King of the road after having 150 Gardners.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Them being confused Dave i think i’m confused i’m beginning to think i’m the guy who got s""t and putty mixed up and only realised my mistake when all my windows fell out, i’ve actually driven better performing 180s than that 240.
thanks harry long retired.As I didn’t drive either Harry I can’t comment on the performance of them.I remember when the 180’s came around the drivers thought they were King of the road after having 150 Gardners.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
A chap called John Killingbeck of a transport company of the same name I worked there in the 60s now he could work his magic on the old 150 and you could swear you had a much more powerful motor he could make them sing but someone said he was’nt flavour of the month at Patricroft.
thanks harry long retired.
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Them being confused Dave i think i’m confused i’m beginning to think i’m the guy who got s""t and putty mixed up and only realised my mistake when all my windows fell out, i’ve actually driven better performing 180s than that 240.
thanks harry long retired.As I didn’t drive either Harry I can’t comment on the performance of them.I remember when the 180’s came around the drivers thought they were King of the road after having 150 Gardners.
Cheers Dave.
The 180’s we had were gutless, they didn’t seem to have any more power than the 150’s, which I always thought sounded a sweeter motor.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Them being confused Dave i think i’m confused i’m beginning to think i’m the guy who got s""t and putty mixed up and only realised my mistake when all my windows fell out, i’ve actually driven better performing 180s than that 240.
thanks harry long retired.As I didn’t drive either Harry I can’t comment on the performance of them.I remember when the 180’s came around the drivers thought they were King of the road after having 150 Gardners.
Cheers Dave.hiya,
A chap called John Killingbeck of a transport company of the same name I worked there in the 60s now he could work his magic on the old 150 and you could swear you had a much more powerful motor he could make them sing but someone said he was’nt flavour of the month at Patricroft.
thanks harry long retired.
I’m not familiar with your neck of the woods Harry,but I know some of the hauliers around here had 150 Gardners and the blokes that drove them just got on with the job.Not many worried about the amount of power or whatever,they accepted their lot and went with the flow,a different day and age.
Cheers Dave.
SHY GUY was a 180 remember we towed it off the Team Vally, 1st job for the DVT after it was converted into a wrecker, the only 5 cylinder in the fleet was the ERF 4 wheeler SER 805k
paw123:
hi
naa the Guy Big J had a 5 Potter in !!!
hiya,
Just got on with it i’ve pulled some funny old weights around with 4 and 5 pot Gardners and as you say just got on with it always jealous of the depot blue eyed boys who always had the powerhouse’s and you was expected to do the same work as them but i always got there.
thanks harry long retired.
HI
Just seeing if Bewick was going to bite !!!
paw123:
HI
Just seeing if Bewick was going to bite !!!
He’s probably gone to play bingo !
paw123:
hi
it was because of the unions that different liveries came into being
cream band general haulage
powder blue band car/vehicle transporters
transporter units were not to do general haulage and vice versa
Hi paw123,
Why did the WAG colours change again in the mid 90s, to a brighter red and deeper blue band?
Dave the Renegade:
paw123:
HI
Just seeing if Bewick was going to bite !!!He’s probably gone to play bingo !
hiya,
He has’nt far to walk to the Gala it’s on the front nearby to where he lives i’ve been dragged there “screaming” by my old lady when we’ve overnighted in Morcambe, “Hoose” .
thanks harry long retired.
hi transporter man
can’t think of the drivers name,he came in one day with his head shaved. came from Stanley or Sunnieside
got it Randol Johnson !!! very strange fellow.
You are correct he came from Sunniside used to work at CIC, not wired up properly.quote=“paw123”]hi transporter man
can’t think of the drivers name,he came in one day with his head shaved. came from Stanley or Sunnieside
got it Randol Johnson !!! very strange fellow.
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hi tango trucker
paint supplier was Massons of wakefield, original base colour was Maroon the new
base colour was Mercedes red with a mix of clear varnish
paw123:
hi tango trucker
paint supplier was Massons of wakefield, original base colour was Maroon the new
base colour was Mercedes red with a mix of clear varnish
Thanks for that paw123, But was’nt Mercedes red, a maroon colour too, I was referring to the bright red wirh deep blue stripe?
Hi Paw
If you remember the colour was changed from crimson back to the red because the crimson was going off (fading) quickly. The red was roughly the fleet colours in the 50’s.
paw123:
hi tango trucker
paint supplier was Massons of wakefield, original base colour was Maroon the new
base colour was Mercedes red with a mix of clear varnish
hi tango trucker
later units could well have being factory finishes, after my time! trasporter man is quite right the maroon faded badly
traffic film remover through pressue washes did not help.
hiya,
Does anybody remember one of Glennys trailers the one with the chassis members onthe outside it was always short of hooks i remember one day going out of the yard and forgetting i had it on and i touched the parapet of the bridge and knocked a coping stone into the river old Archie took £30 out of my wages for that no damage to the trailer it was about half my pay for that week another time we had words and i was right as it happened Archie took the radio out of ETY 666L after i’d gone home just a hole in the headlining next morning we had a love hate relationship, i don’t think i ever tuned the radio to a station anyway it just used to crackle into life occasionally and give traffic warnings more use to him than me, Glenny’s was a firm i’d rather forget i worked for Kenny was the only one of them who was approachable.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Does anybody remember one of Glennys trailers the one with the chassis members onthe outside it was always short of hooks i remember one day going out of the yard and forgetting i had it on and i touched the parapet of the bridge and knocked a coping stone into the river old Archie took £30 out of my wages for that no damage to the trailer it was about half my pay for that week another time we had words and i was right as it happened Archie took the radio out of ETY 666L after i’d gone home just a hole in the headlining next morning we had a love hate relationship, i don’t think i ever tuned the radio to a station anyway it just used to crackle into life occasionally and give traffic warnings more use to him than me, Glenny’s was a firm i’d rather forget i worked for Kenny was the only one of them who was approachable.
thanks harry long retired.
Archie was before my time,
Like you say Harry, Kenny was spot on, but his brother Gordon was bent as 9 bob bit!
hi harry
it was a Carrimore , if loaded wrongly it would dip the crossmembers and flooring down
Trailer 16 I think.allways moans about it being a heavy trailer to pull.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Does anybody remember one of Glennys trailers the one with the chassis members onthe outside it was always short of hooks i remember one day going out of the yard and forgetting i had it on and i touched the parapet of the bridge and knocked a coping stone into the river old Archie took £30 out of my wages for that no damage to the trailer it was about half my pay for that week another time we had words and i was right as it happened Archie took the radio out of ETY 666L after i’d gone home just a hole in the headlining next morning we had a love hate relationship, i don’t think i ever tuned the radio to a station anyway it just used to crackle into life occasionally and give traffic warnings more use to him than me, Glenny’s was a firm i’d rather forget i worked for Kenny was the only one of them who was approachable.
thanks harry long retired.
WAG were probably not as large as I thought they were, I was always under the impression that they were similar in size to Robsons of Carlisle. I remember a article about them in Truck magazine around 1992-94 it said they had had 75 vehicles of which 55 were transporters and 45 were ERF’s. I believe that they also had a depot in Sheffield.