Oops a daisy! Nmp
coomsey:
Oops a daisy! Nmp
How the hell did that happen on that road â â ? 
Dennis Javelin:
âCome on push harder.âYou did tell him to let the hand-brake off, didnât you"
NMP
Nice pic Dennis of Sunters Constructor seen in your pic brand new being used on a road test in 1955
with a Crane of Dereham trailer. 
Heres another pic of it working.
Buzzer:
Couple of stonking Volvoâs here, Buzzer.
That F89 is still working in Greece i believe Buzzer,there is a video of it on utube.
âHow the hell did that happen on that road â â ? â
Hi Dean and coomsey that pic is in Witney old A40 Wales London at the Oxford Woodstock Bicester jct why that tipped â â ? thoâ does look like a bit of frost, mightâve been giving it a bit of pedal.
London reg AEC heading out of Witney on the Oxford Road and at the bottom of a slight incline and good camber, in my time in around Witney there was traffic lights there is now a mini roundabout.
Oily
Thanks to pyewacket947v, Dennis Javelin, coomsey, Buzzer and DEANB for the pics 
Oily
Estonian at Southampton all credit to Eddie(eastleighbusman) for the photo.
Lawrence Dunbar:
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D&D, brings back memories, I used to back load out their depot on Clepington Rd. (Dundee) early seventies. Then to the best digs in Scotland, Mrs Blackburns , overlooking the Tay bridge.
Regards Kev.
Chesterfield town centre 1962. I used this road,the A61,many many times from Sheffield to West Midlands before M1 was opened through to J28 South Normanton and then into Alfreton.The logo on the front o/s of the Leyland is familiar but I canât think who it was.
Going back to the days before services when you needed a little break while on your way to your holiday you just pulled up and had a picnic and a snooze afterwards if you felt like it but is there anyone on here who remembers this maybe with there parents, Buzzer.
Chris Webb:
Chesterfield town centre 1962. I used this road,the A61,many many times from Sheffield to West Midlands before M1 was opened through to J28 South Normanton and then into Alfreton.The logo on the front o/s of the Leyland is familiar but I canât think who it was.
Going in the opposite direction you could cut the sharp left hand bend off by going straight across and down the steep but narrow passage to the Midland station and then out to Tapton and Brimington. My pal, who later drove for Waters, was a trailer mate on Shand Constructions 1940âs ERF low loader in the fifties and the thing only had a five pot Gardner and hardly any brakes and they were transporting a machine from Clay Cross to an opencast site at Staveley. They had a Police â â â â â â , a nice new Ford Zephyr, and they went down that narrow passage to save going around the town. At the T junction at the bottom the copper stoppedâŚonly the ERF couldnât! The starting handle punched a nice neat round hole through the rear boot of the Ford. 
Pete.
windrush:
Chris Webb:
Chesterfield town centre 1962. I used this road,the A61,many many times from Sheffield to West Midlands before M1 was opened through to J28 South Normanton and then into Alfreton.The logo on the front o/s of the Leyland is familiar but I canât think who it was.Going in the opposite direction you could cut the sharp left hand bend off by going straight across and down the steep but narrow passage to the Midland station and then out to Tapton and Brimington. My pal, who later drove for Waters, was a trailer mate on Shand Constructions 1940âs ERF low loader in the fifties and the thing only had a five pot Gardner and hardly any brakes and they were transporting a machine from Clay Cross to an opencast site at Staveley. They had a Police â â â â â â , a nice new Ford Zephyr, and they went down that narrow passage to save going around the town. At the T junction at the bottom the copper stoppedâŚonly the ERF couldnât!
Pete.
That reminds me of the time on Midland Storage when I was loaded with steel from Sheffield to Matlock with my Mk.1 Atki. I stopped at the top of that steep hill with an S bend in the middle to the valley near Matlock. I knew the brakes werenât great so stopped at the top and then gently inched forward. Nope, they werenât holding, so I propped it against the kerb and walked all the way down to the bottom where I found a police car stationary. I asked the coppers if they would stay there as I inched down in crawler and, if they saw me round the last bend with headlights flashing, would they please stay clear and stop all the traffic so I could roll straight across into the road almost opposite. They agreed so off I set back up the hill to the motor and lowered myself down with trembling knee. All was going well as I rounded the last bend but I knew I couldnât stop it so started the flashing signal. I could see the traffic still moving along the A 615 at the bottom and wondered where the police car was. Fortunately the slope eased off near the junction and with foot braced and handbrake on I managed to roll to a stop at the line. No police car anywhere in sight. Can anyone remember the risks we were prepared to go to in those days to get the job done? I canât imagine anything that would persuade me nowadays. 
Is that ERF reccer preparing to right the overturned tipper on the left of the picture?
Spardo:
Is that ERF reccer preparing to right the overturned tipper on the left of the picture?
Well spotted .If it stayed there too long, it would of ended up in the crusher 
Suedehead:
Spardo:
Is that ERF reccer preparing to right the overturned tipper on the left of the picture?Well spotted .If it stayed there too long, it would of ended up in the crusher
It might have been destined for there anyway, but if so I think it would have been better left upright. And, with the body half raised and the tailgate open I reckon it is a mishap. 
Buzzer:
Going back to the days before services when you needed a little break while on your way to your holiday you just pulled up and had a picnic and a snooze afterwards if you felt like it but is there anyone on here who remembers this maybe with there parents, Buzzer.
I remember as a kid in the mid sixties when on trips up to London from the Brighton area, we would always have a stop at the long lay-by at Virginia Water for a picnic and a Dad snooze, on the way back it was the lay-by just before Brighton on the A23 where there was a cafe & an AA box, Happy & care free days.
Buzzer:
Going back to the days before services when you needed a little break while on your way to your holiday you just pulled up and had a picnic and a snooze afterwards if you felt like it but is there anyone on here who remembers this maybe with there parents, Buzzer.
Now this is obviously a shot from the Davies family album and âThe Bossâ looks none too happy either and the two Lads were probably locked in the car !
