moomooland:
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Obviously the guy in overalls is counting all eight cylinders are still there
Spud1960:
moomooland:
0Obviously the guy in overalls is counting all eight cylinders are still there
…,.,nice one Spud!!!lol
David
5thwheel:
Spud1960:
moomooland:
0Obviously the guy in overalls is counting all eight cylinders are still there
…,.,nice one Spud!!!lol
David
made me chuckle too !!
thames trader weren’t the only lorry in the late 1950s that were very fast with poor brakes. The Leyland comet up till around 1961 didn’t have air brakes with an eaton two speed axle could do 60mph easily.
robinswh:
thames trader weren’t the only lorry in the late 1950s that were very fast with poor brakes. The Leyland comet up till around 1961 didn’t have air brakes with an eaton two speed axle could do 60mph easily.
They were all the same then, Bedfords, BMC’s and the like had servo brakes, you could stand on them and not much happened. 
When my Old Fella’s firm ran Thorneycroft Sturdys with Livestock containers it was common practice to pull the handbrake on a couple of notches before descending a steep hill. They had a runaway in the distant past and subsequently were very careful. In those days brakes were for slowing down- a “stop” meant preparing for it well in advance!
When you hit the brakes and they were cold, the front went down for a while, then the brakes got warm, the front came back up, and you just carried on. 
The last lorry that I drove with really horrible brakes was a 28-tonne Ford Cargo pulling a tandem axle powder tanker. When the brakes were cold it tried to tip you through the windscreen but when they warmed up a bit there was almost nothing happening. Scary!
Retired Old ■■■■:
The last lorry that I drove with really horrible brakes was a 28-tonne Ford Cargo pulling a tandem axle powder tanker. When the brakes were cold it tried to tip you through the windscreen but when they warmed up a bit there was almost nothing happening. Scary!
I drove a D 1000 that was a bit like that.
So did I, but I expected the Cargo to have been a bit better. WRONG! 
Aaah, trying to stop a D1000…never a dull moment…plan well ahead if possible, if not possible…PRAY.
I had one with a 360 turbo in it and one with a ■■■■■■■■ they both went like ■■■■, but stopping them…no chance.
This Daf 2100 was on the Habitat contract at Wallingford for Brs Oxford , Driven by ■■■■ Comnee this day when a Wagon hit him , HE lIVED JUST .
He was lucky to get out of that.
Yes he was found , fireman saved his life , fire man was invited to all there family events after that and I spoke to him on Dicks retirement party .
At that time ■■■■ was a Shunter but was sent out in a spare wagon and drag to Northhampton , ■■■■ wewnt through Brackley on the old road and another lorry came round a bend on his side and hit him .
He did get back behind the wheel on a brand new 2500 wagon and drag , but sadly got parkinsons bought on by the horrific accident .
This picture was on Dicks last wagon and drag F186 JTV, bloody rubbish day cabbed Daf with no pod .
Hell Drivers?
moomooland:
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They should have read the name on the front of both these lorries crowbar 
crowbar:
moomooland:
10They should have read the name on the front of both these lorries crowbar
Or change the name to Dodgem’s