Punchy Dan:
0cairnsmore of carsphairn today ,no Scanias allowed without a towing eye fitted
Now now Dan’l no need for the snide remarks just because you’d have to do three trips with the Foden on the same job and then have to handball every bag off into a wheel barrow ! 
Cheers Denz’l. PS All Scanias have towing eyes on them because in the unlikely event that they do fail to proceed they are worth recovering whereas the reason that Foden/DAF’s don’t have a towing eye is that they aren’t worth recovering so they are usually cut up where they are and thrown into a scrap skip ! 
Thanks to Lawrence Dunbar, Buzzer and Oily for some great photos and memories. If I hadn’t driven most of those, I’d been in them with my old dad, long departed.
BigG-Unit:
peterm:
Dipster:
tyneside:
one or two bits and piecesPic 2-a Ford Thames 400E I reckon.
I thought the same.
I had one of those, in van form, about 1970…ish. I thought it was a great little motor, with the column gear change. When you got it wound up, it reminded me of riding on the tube!
I had one too. Great (but crude!) little motor that served me very well. They stopped production about 1965 when the Transit came along. I got to drive on of the very first made, a twin-wheeled 2 litre petrol, and thought it revolutionary. Very notchy gearchange initially though.
Nice little motor if a bit light on the back end when empty , brake pedal needed to be treated with respect on a wet road . Ours got written off by a lead footed driver .
rigsby:
Nice little motor if a bit light on the back end when empty , brake pedal needed to be treated with respect on a wet road . Ours got written off by a lead footed driver .
Your comment reminded me of my first acquaintance with a 70´s front wheel drive Peugeot J7 van. I was surprised to find two blocks of what I think were concrete, one each side behind the rear wheel arches, just in front of the doors. I presume they were to keep the rear end under some measure of control!
Nice set of photo’s, the Jakey Adams T45 looks like it has a load from the EIMCO factory on the Team Valley in Gateshead who specialised in mining equipment, I was once on my way South on the AIM early one morning out of Newcastle and had to avoid a number of large fabrications in the lane, they had come off the back of one of Adams Roadtrains but he had pulled into the hard shoulder before I’d got to him so must have become aware of it, bet it took some sorting though. Franky.
Thanks to Buzzer, Bewick, Punchy Dan and Lawrence Dunbar for the pics
Oily
A fine AEC example from Victoria Australia, guessing Militant in civvies, all credit to Bruce Paroissien.
It looks McMullan truck’s front wheels are made of solid concrete!
Froggy55:
It looks McMullan truck’s front wheels are made of solid concrete!
That’s just to stop it rearing up with all those cows in the back.
Are they all roped down btw? And what is that hanging down over the rear wheel? Is it a makeshift ladder?
Love the BRS Scammell, looks like one of those short tractors that used to be married permanently to tanks by Crow and others. A very short arsed trailer for a tandem, perhaps it used to be/carrying a tank?
Buzzer:
A mixed selection, Buzzer.
The Leyland Comet Square Grip is Gloucester reg any one remember where they were from ?regards Keith
kingswinford kit:
Buzzer:
A mixed selection, Buzzer.The Leyland Comet Square Grip is Gloucester reg any one remember where they were from ?regards Keith
It says Slough on the door but they also had a place in Eastleigh near Southampton in later years, Buzzer.