Mrsteel:
Mezzo,
Good afternoon,
I used to load methanol out Billingham for Coates brothers in Machen South Wales back in the seventies,
Thanks for the memory.
Regards, Allan
Happy to stir the memory, as an aside about 20 years ago I used to run down to Cray Valley at Machen regularly with a horrible sticky resin like liquid from Seal Sands.
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Interesting Buzzer I think RFL is a Kiwi company but didn’t now they pulled 2 trailer combos behind single drive prime movers.
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BuzzerInteresting Buzzer I think RFL is a Kiwi company but didn’t now they pulled 2 trailer combos behind single drive prime movers.
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RFL is a Kiwi outfit, commonly nicknamed Running ■■■■■■■ Late, according to my mate who drove for them. 
The Churchill Tank ARV (Armoured Recovery Vehicle) now needs its own ARV! Bit of a mess but not surprising when a Tank Transporter gets into trouble. This is how the Churchill looks the right way up. Franky.
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Browns of Grimsby,were a large contractor running out of Immingham pulling Scandinavian timber,plywood and particle boards had to be treated with the utmost respect……or else!
SoM used to bring down loads of Caberboard from Scotland which was just as lethal,terrible stuff.
David
First trip i did when on traction for Ferrymasters was Teesport -Fleetwood with return trailer off ferry from Ireland caberboard bound for Scandinavia. I had been pre warned treat with respect and they had by that time started to Signode steel band load at factory. Ferrymasters had at least lost 2 loads off in the previous year, one at the bottom of the steep bank just before getting into Kirby Stephen from Tebay, when we used to be able to use that route.
Never took any chance’s with that stuff as you could still see it had moved, on a couple of occasions picking up a trailer at Heysham or Fleetwood.
I’ve had the same thing happen when carrying melamine surfaced sheets of the stuff on Lancashire flats from Kronospan at Chirk to Garston dock in the 70s .
Ratchet straps were unheard of in those days , or they were by me at any rate , just ropes , and the roll resonance on encountering the adverse camber at the bottom of the sliproad exiting the M56 for the Runcorn bridge caused the load to shift an alarming 10 to 15 degrees out of vertical .
Carrying on regardless over the Mersey and up the Ford road , with the plastic mudguards scraping on the nearside tyres I managed to make it to the Railfreight terminal at Garston where an obliging fork lift driver pushed the load upright again using a loaded 20´ container and I arrived at the Irish Sea Ferry terminal with a perfect load and no one any the wiser .
It could however have all ended quite differently.
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Sudden Accident
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What’s the make of the last one? It looks Perkins powered.
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BuzzerWhat’s the make of the last one? It looks Perkins powered.
Froggy55 it does look like a Perkins badge on the grill and I think it may be a Vulcan but someone will confirm IIAW Buzzer
