Does oil leaking from a '50s Austin count as an accident toshboy? 
Ha ha, probably the oil connection for the PTO tail lift, nothing new in a drop of oil from a Saurer
BTW ,i was only mucking around with this new fangled forum and surprised myself that something has worked so i’ll press reply and see if i can get a few brownie points ----- toshboy
You’re doing well just getting onto the site mate! Keep 'em coming 
Many thanks for your encouragement ,i can now see that some things are an improvement ,but there probably will be a few mistakes along the way, i shall keep my L plates on for a while though !
Toshboy
May I ask you what the letters “nmp” at the end of each of your posts stand for? Thanks!
nmp = ‘not my picture’ 
ERF-NGC
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Thanks! So I should have mentioned that on 99% of my own posts!
bad day for our TK NEP222L , not his fault, Simca went head to head , bit of a draw score NEP’s front axle knocked out as i recall , simca lost the front end .
lMHO - no! Putting NMP is no substitute for acknowledging the photographer but as we’ve said before, most of the time we have no idea who to acknowledge so why bother putting anything
For example, this pic appears all over the internet in many guises. You’d never know I was both the driver and the photographer because it was copied off TN donkeys years ago. And do I care? No. 
[Unabashed fancier of Middle-East spec ERF NGCs with spready TIR-tilts!]
Seems like in a convoluted sort of way we were involved in the same company many years ago.
I worked for Headley Shaw Haulage of Stapleford, Nottingham, they were bought out by C.E. Dormer of Leytonstone, London whose main contract was Calor Gas/ BOC (were they the same?), who bought out G.L. Baker, their main haulier and, for all I know BOC bought Charlie Dormer too.
Shaw’s was my first general haulage job after paying off from Wimpey’s building the M1 at Sandiacre, who stood us down one rainy night so we jumped ship, my mate George Milner and me.
In fact I never actually worked for Headley, when I started he was in hospital after accidentally setting himself on fire while squirting paraffin at the ‘rest room’ stove to get it started. It was Dormer’s man Kerry Spencer from Matlock who set George and I on. He later became a big cheese at the RHA and was a very nice chap. Perceptive too, well he gave me a job, didn’t he? Circa 1960 something or other. 
Sorry no pics from those days, but there was an accident, will that qualify for the thread? Oh and Headley kept an old Comet with a bashed in front end in the yard. 2 for the price of one. 
Not sure Calor were involved with BOC. All I do know is that GL Baker’s depots were taken over by BOC Transhield, all on Marks & Sparks work. Then GIST took over. At what point it ceased to be contracted out work and became own-account work, I can’t remember - or it might be been in-house all along - someone on here’ll know! I only drove for BOC Euroshield for a Summer in the early '90s because I was hired to them by a neighbouring haulier. A decade later I worked for GIST for a Summer out of the same depot.
PS GL Baker ran a couple of these. Let me know if anyone knows of them or remembers them!
The only memory I have of G.L. Baker is Guy Big Js.
I got to drive one, but only as a yard shunter! I80 Gardner and a six-speed box - a TET I think.
I loved mine from when I was driving for Rod Closs, preferred the cab of its predecessor though, the Invincible.