Trailer ready to go for blasting .
Bewick:
Punchy Dan:
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A square Denzil type load although he’d have them remove the top pack to sheet easyThat shot looks suspiciously like it has been photo shopped unless Dan’l has just coupled up to someone else’s loaded trailer to take the shot
A shot of a proper load of timber !
0
Looks over weight and insecure
Punchy Dan:
Bewick:
Punchy Dan:
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A square Denzil type load although he’d have them remove the top pack to sheet easyThat shot looks suspiciously like it has been photo shopped unless Dan’l has just coupled up to someone else’s loaded trailer to take the shot
A shot of a proper load of timber !
0Looks over weight and insecure
And there speaketh the voice of experience 
just one of many similar loads of packaged timber we hauled over many years and I would confirm that some of them came in at a tad over 38 tons 
but funny thing Dan’l we never " shed" a load of timber over all those years So it was just probably our good luck I suppose eh! 
paul motyka:
oiltreader:
A Queen Mary, all credit to kitmasterbloke for the photo.
Oilyoiltreader was this taken at Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre?If it was I had a great day out for my 50th Birthday back in 2007.Had a taxy ride in the Lanc.
Yes Paul snapped August 2013 at East Kirkby.
Oily
pv83:
Does anyone on here knows more about this? Apart from this prototype, were their actually plans of putting out a MAN-based Pegaso range?
A nearly venture that didn’t happen Patrick.
excerpt from Wikipedia
“After a joint takeover by Daimler-Benz and MAN aborted at the last hour, Iveco bought Enasa in 1990. At that time, Pegaso offerings included the Ekus (a light truck, actually a re-badging of the Volkswagen LT and MAN-VW G ranges)”
The history here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegaso
Oily
oiltreader:
pv83:
Does anyone on here knows more about this? Apart from this prototype, were their actually plans of putting out a MAN-based Pegaso range?A nearly venture that didn’t happen Patrick.
excerpt from Wikipedia
“After a joint takeover by Daimler-Benz and MAN aborted at the last hour, Iveco bought Enasa in 1990. At that time, Pegaso offerings included the Ekus (a light truck, actually a re-badging of the Volkswagen LT and MAN-VW G ranges)”
The history here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegaso
Oily
Ta Oily, bit of speculation, but would it have been as successfull now if Iveco didn’t stepped in at the time?
Froggy55:
Buzzer:
Here you go plus a couple from me, Buzzer.I love the 716 PFF van (probably Bedford); so uniquely British! Any idea where the picture was taken? Rather looks like France.
Bedford CA, 3 speed column change, soft suspension,
and thats Cheddar Gorge, here in Somerset, if I’m not mistaken,
Spardo:
gazsa401:
A AEC my Dad drove for Midland Motors they were taken over by Allisons of Dundee this AEC and it’s sister were taken to Dundee and were replaced with a pair of of GUY Invincibles
I never could understand the fashion for single windscreens, ok, they avoided a small blindspot in the centre, but to me that was far outweighed by the advantages. This was brought home to me one storm lashed night when driving home in my Mk 1 Atki. The passenger windscreen blew in with an explosive bang, but still, despite the wind and rain in the cab, enabled me to drive home in relative safety thanks to the clear view I still had through my screen of course swept by the remaining wiper.
When one of the screens shattered on the split screen Invicible i drove, it was always the one in front of me.!!!
26 June 1985
Beeston
Nottingham
Notts, Eng,
Sainsburys car park
A Bedford ex ambulance, no doubt with conversion into a
camper van in mind…
pyewacket947v:
When one of the screens shattered on the split screen Invicible i drove, it was always the one in front of me.!!!
You should have had a left ■■■■■■ PeeDubya, , and I know that car park at Beeston very well, if not mistaken that is Ariel Pressings in the background and just about on that spot where the ambulance is was my ■■■■■■■■■■■■ for my MAN when I drove for Cheverall’s of Luton. Of course in those pre Sainsbury’s days it was a piece of waste ground opposite the fire station.
I would go there on a Sunday morning to put all of my stuff in ready for the evening or Monday departure. My stepson Stephen came with me and sat in the driver’s seat as I pottered about doing all my checks. The next thing I know is that there was an ear splitting scream as he pulled on the air horn lanyard.
A very rapid retreat was made on that otherwise peaceful Sunday morning.
BTW, I too had an Invincible, wonderful cab with wonderful panoramic vision and as for that exterior metal sun visor, excellent, not like those delicate plastic things that shatter on the first bird strike. 
oiltreader:
Froggy55:
Buzzer:
Here you go plus a couple from me, Buzzer.I love the 716 PFF van (probably Bedford); so uniquely British! Any idea where the picture was taken? Rather looks like France.
Bedford CA van and various conversions, 3spd steering column gear change later 4spd, draughty sliding doors and that one looks like it’s parked at Cheddar Gorge.
Oily
Ads from '59 and '61.
Thanks! Thats what we had in France in the same days.
Powered by a 1290 cc engine, and 3 or 4 speed box with floor lever
I was so pleased to see this picture of a Royal Air Force Bedford with Queen Mary trailer
from Kitmasterbloke, and posted on here by Oily. Throughout World War 2, my Dad was
a lorry driver with the Royal Air Force. In 1940, 307 Squadron was formed, this squadron
was one of several " Nightfighter " squadrons with Polish flying officers. During 1940, Dad
was posted to 307 Squadron and remained there until the end of the war and drove many
types of lorries, including Bedford Queen Mary Artics.
Ray Smyth.
oiltreader:
paul motyka:
oiltreader:
A Queen Mary, all credit to kitmasterbloke for the photo.
Oilyoiltreader was this taken at Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre?If it was I had a great day out for my 50th Birthday back in 2007.Had a taxy ride in the Lanc.
Yes Paul snapped August 2013 at East Kirkby.
Oily
Thanks Oily.
Ray Smyth:
I was so pleased to see this picture of a Royal Air Force Bedford with Queen Mary trailer
from Kitmasterbloke, and posted on here by Oily. Throughout World War 2, my Dad was
a lorry driver with the Royal Air Force. In 1940, 307 Squadron was formed, this squadron
was one of several " Nightfighter " squadrons with Polish flying officers. During 1940, Dad
was posted to 307 Squadron and remained there until the end of the war and drove many
types of lorries, including Bedford Queen Mary Artics.Ray Smyth.
It is amazing what you find when you start having a nosey about a subject. Dads time with
307 Squadron was mainly in the Southwest of England at Predannack near The Lizard in
Cornwall, and Exeter in Devon. I have just learned that he spent about 6 weeks at RAF Colerne
which is 7 miles from Bath in Somerset, from March 26th 1941. At this time, Dad was in his
late 20s, and along with some of his RAF pals, would go to Bath city centre for a few beers.
It was here in Bath that he met my Mother, they married in January 1942, Brother Kenneth
appeared in February 1943, and Yours Truly showed up in April 1944, so because of this short
posting, I am sat here typing this. Dads origin 2 generations back is Newry in Co.Down in
Northern Ireland, Mothers origin is Somerset and Wiltshire, so I am a bit of a " Dolly Mixture "
Cheers, Ray.
The craic’s going well also thanks to gazsa401, Punchy Dan, Bewick, pv83, pyewacket947v, Froggy55 and Ray Smyth for the pics.
Bedford was the main tractor unit for Queen Marys but Commers were also used.
Oily
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My great uncle drove those, he collected the plane that Rudolph Hess landed in Scotland with. Of course post war Bedford S Types were used, a chap from Birmingham I knew was based in Singapore with the RAF on National Service and they used to have races on base with them!
Pete.
windrush:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^My great uncle drove those, he collected the plane that Rudolph Hess landed in Scotland with. Of course post war Bedford S Types were used, a chap from Birmingham I knew was based in Singapore with the RAF on National Service and they used to have races on base with them!
Pete.
Pete I have recollection in my teen years of my dad’s version of what happened in 1941 no end of excitement and the more the story got told the more embroidered it got Hess ran out of fuel and baled out.
His captor’s interview:-
youtube.com/watch?v=nXraBNZzdg4
Oily
Had the wrong clip link now sorted.
Spardo:
pyewacket947v:
When one of the screens shattered on the split screen Invicible i drove, it was always the one in front of me.!!!You should have had a left ■■■■■■ PeeDubya,
I would go there on a Sunday morning to put all of my stuff in ready for the evening or Monday departure. My stepson Stephen came with me and sat in the driver’s seat as I pottered about doing all my checks. The next thing I know is that there was an ear splitting scream as he pulled on the air horn lanyard.
A very rapid retreat was made on that otherwise peaceful Sunday morning.
BTW, I too had an Invincible, wonderful cab with wonderful panoramic vision and as for that exterior metal sun visor, excellent, not like those delicate plastic things that shatter on the first bird strike.
It was a sparrow that broke the o/s screen the first time, in a rain storm, near Newhaven on the Buxton - Ashbourne Rd, about 60 miles from home,!!
Ray Smyth:
Ray Smyth:
I was so pleased to see this picture of a Royal Air Force Bedford with Queen Mary trailer
from Kitmasterbloke, and posted on here by Oily. Throughout World War 2, my Dad was
a lorry driver with the Royal Air Force. In 1940, 307 Squadron was formed, this squadron
was one of several " Nightfighter " squadrons with Polish flying officers. During 1940, Dad
was posted to 307 Squadron and remained there until the end of the war and drove many
types of lorries, including Bedford Queen Mary Artics.Ray Smyth.
It is amazing what you find when you start having a nosey about a subject. Dads time with
307 Squadron was mainly in the Southwest of England at Predannack near The Lizard in
Cornwall, and Exeter in Devon. I have just learned that he spent about 6 weeks at RAF Colerne
which is 7 miles from Bath in Somerset, from March 26th 1941. At this time, Dad was in his
late 20s, and along with some of his RAF pals, would go to Bath city centre for a few beers.
It was here in Bath that he met my Mother, they married in January 1942, Brother Kenneth
appeared in February 1943, and Yours Truly showed up in April 1944, so because of this short
posting, I am sat here typing this. Dads origin 2 generations back is Newry in Co.Down in
Northern Ireland, Mothers origin is Somerset and Wiltshire, so I am a bit of a " Dolly Mixture "Cheers, Ray.
My Dad was also a RAF driver during WW2, He spent time at Weston super Mare, Kinloss, and in Eygpt, He had a number of tales to tell,I have a collection of Crown Copyright photos taken in Eygpt of various RAF vehicles…
