Punchy Dan:
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More electrical equipment on the move ,rope & sheets merchants need not apply[/quote Well done Dan The Man,It looks like a bit of good gear, Take care & stay safe my friend,Regards lARRY.
Well done Dan,impressive bit of kit that looks to benefit from a great design to make life quicker and easier to load and unload.
David
dave docwra:
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.
That caff was one we stopped at too, on the way to Brighton in our 1940 something Pontiac left behind after the war. Nan and Grandad were with us one day and me Grandad flicked the cherry off the top of his cake for which I got a dirty look from some old ■■■■■■■ another table. How many Grandads got kids in trouble?
Thanks to Lawrence Dunbar, Chris Webb, Buzzer, Suedehead, Punchy Dan and robthedog for the pics 
Oily
A bit OTT for the size of the blade.
Re-cabbed, re-engined Mack at the Grampian Transport Museum, credit to Jaimie Wilson for the photo. And a sister wagon in original canvas cab petrol engine form in 1947, they were a sight to behold and that engine noise was something else.
Oily
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.
Sure do remember, Birmingham to Devizes to visit relations. Either in a Ford Anglia, just like the Popular/Anglia in the photo, or a Austin 10. Always stopped in Cheltenham for toilets then a lay by somewhere and the Gaz camping stove would appear and tea produced, Same again on the way back.
My brother and myself, fascinated by buses of different colours, and bulk milk tankers from Wilts Co-oP.
The sun didnt always shine, but happy journeys nontheless.
Suedehead:
0The tankers were probably from the CWS creamery at Latton
Yes they where, Funnily enough while working at Christian Salvesen late 70s/early 80s, we had a artic breakdown near Latton. The driver,the late Alan Ramsey, arranged for his reefer trailer to be parked at the creamery while his tractor was dealt with, The Co-oP kept the fridge running, checking on it and topping up the fridge fuel…Some time later they quite reasonably requested reimbursement for the fuel used… Instead of sending cash or cheque our Transport Manager at the time , sent a drum of diesel, i know i took it on my way to Basingstoke, in a Leyland Clydesdale.
The guys at the creamery where not amused and declared they would not assist a Salvesen motor in the future .
pyewacket947v:
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.Sure do remember, Birmingham to Devizes to visit relations. Either in a Ford Anglia, just like the Popular/Anglia in the photo, or a Austin 10. Always stopped in Cheltenham for toilets then a lay by somewhere and the Gaz camping stove would appear and tea produced, Same again on the way back.
My brother and myself, fascinated by buses of different colours, and bulk milk tankers from Wilts Co-oP.
The sun didnt always shine, but happy journeys nontheless.
Funny how one thing revives memories of another event, Long ago somewhere North of Bristol on our way to Weston super Mare we stopped for the traditional brew up and where treated to the sight of the ill fated Bristol Brabazon flying overhead. Many years later i saw, from a distance, Howard Hughes Spruce Goose in the open at Long Beach…
I wish i could have seen the Saunders Roe Princess flying boat, that would have nice hat trick.
Here is a photo of the Aberdeen Council Mack snowplough cab interior. Note the Leyland style instrument panel and AEC steering wheel.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
tyneside:
Armstrong - Saurer (Samson??) built in Newcastle somewhere in the 1930’s.Tyneside
think this was the one that when launched was heralded as ‘the worlds largest lorry’ , its in one of my books somewhere alongside the ‘worlds smallest pick up’
tony
tyneside:
Armstrong - Saurer (Samson??) built in Newcastle somewhere in the 1930’s.Tyneside
Cracking photo Tyneside and it looks way before its time imo.
Tyneside, I can vaguely remember the local fairground family setting up hee in Wigton with two very similar multi wheel wagons which I am almost certain were Armstrong Saurers, I was too young then to know what they were but the large radiators and the word Armstrong seems to be the answer. Next time I see one of the family with whom I am acquainted I will ask him if his father or grandfather ran them.
Cheers, Leyland 600.