Scottish & Newcastle dray, think the photo was taken in Scotland, sure someone will identify the location.
Tyneside
tyneside:
Scottish & Newcastle dray, think the photo was taken in Scotland, sure someone will identify the location.Tyneside
You are right, it is just over the Scottish border…in Inverness city centre !! 
Regards John.
Who wants to climb into this motor & GEL on to the ferry for a trip abroad even if it were today, Buzzer.
old 67:
tyneside:
Scottish & Newcastle dray, think the photo was taken in Scotland, sure someone will identify the location.Tyneside
You are right, it is just over the Scottish border…in Inverness city centre !!
Regards John.
A few years on and a wee bit different.
Oily
Thanks to Suedehead, tyneside, Buzzer and pyewacket947v for the pics 
Oily
A cracking F88 all credit to Joe Ruscoe for the photo.
I had at first thought the extension on the front of the semi-trailer was a refrigerating group, but it finally rather looks like a sleeping bunk! Will anyone tell more about this outfit, the driver of which is obviously having his mid-day pause on the side of a French road (the car behind is a Peugeot 403)? Thanks.
Froggy55:
I had at first thought the extension on the front of the semi-trailer was a refrigerating group, but it finally rather looks like a sleeping bunk! Will anyone tell more about this outfit, the driver of which is obviously having his mid-day pause on the side of a French road (the car behind is a Peugeot 403)? Thanks.
Hi Froggy.
The company was called Fridged Freight from Diss in Norfolk,originally Wyatts.They were pioneers in European work,even with Scammell Highwaymen,the outfits being craned onto the ships.
They built their own trailers and that is a sleeping compartment on the front.They ran a lot of AECs over the years,both artics and drawbars before buying Volvos and Scania - Vabis.These are not my photos,when I was in RAF I got a lift in one of their AEC wagon and drags - reg was 2700 VF - from King’s Lynn to Sheffield,1961/62.
Chris Webb:
Froggy55:
I had at first thought the extension on the front of the semi-trailer was a refrigerating group, but it finally rather looks like a sleeping bunk! Will anyone tell more about this outfit, the driver of which is obviously having his mid-day pause on the side of a French road (the car behind is a Peugeot 403)? Thanks.Hi Froggy.
The company was called Fridged Freight from Diss in Norfolk,originally Wyatts.They were pioneers in European work,even with Scammell Highwaymen,the outfits being craned onto the ships.
They built their own trailers and that is a sleeping compartment on the front.They ran a lot of AECs over the years,both artics and drawbars before buying Volvos and Scania - Vabis.These are not my photos,when I was in RAF I got a lift in one of their AEC wagon and drags - reg was 2700 VF - from King’s Lynn to Sheffield,1961/62.
They were awesome looking truck’s Chris but they look like they had heavy bodies and with a draw-bar trailer
you imagine they were slow.
A mate sent me these 2 pics a while back.
NMP
DEANB:
Chris Webb:
Froggy55:
I had at first thought the extension on the front of the semi-trailer was a refrigerating group, but it finally rather looks like a sleeping bunk! Will anyone tell more about this outfit, the driver of which is obviously having his mid-day pause on the side of a French road (the car behind is a Peugeot 403)? Thanks.Hi Froggy.
The company was called Fridged Freight from Diss in Norfolk,originally Wyatts.They were pioneers in European work,even with Scammell Highwaymen,the outfits being craned onto the ships.
They built their own trailers and that is a sleeping compartment on the front.They ran a lot of AECs over the years,both artics and drawbars before buying Volvos and Scania - Vabis.These are not my photos,when I was in RAF I got a lift in one of their AEC wagon and drags - reg was 2700 VF - from King’s Lynn to Sheffield,1961/62.They were awesome looking truck’s Chris but they look like they had heavy bodies and with a draw-bar trailer
you imagine they were slow.A mate sent me these 2 pics a while back.
NMP
Hi Dean,yes overloading was quite common according to some ex drivers.I remember when that AEC stopped for me in King’s Lynn how impressed I was,not many wagon and drags about in them days.Here’s a pic of the very wagon…
Just an afterthought about that lift I got in the Fridged Freight AEC wagon and drag.There was no second man in the cab which was mandatory in those days and when I mentioned it to an ex driver he said “that’s why it ran in the dark and you would be second man from Lynn to Sheffield”. 
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I notice that the d is missing from the trailer,or were there 2 companies with almost identical names?
Fridge Freight and Fridged Freight?
David
5thwheel:
I notice that the d is missing from the trailer,or were there 2 companies with almost identical names?Fridge Freight and Fridged Freight?
David
Hi David.Same company.
An interesting series of picture of Fridged-Freight there, and I remember them well, Some comments:
I am surprised that trailer mates were still required with drags as late as '61, Chris, was that really the case or was he pulling your leg?
I like the older one with the Chinese 6 tractor, trade plates on the vehicle and a man well overalled up, is that a wheel hiding round the back of the trailer and is he taking a break from changing it?
Finally, I can’t see any steps up to that sleeper pod over the cab, how did he scramble up there and enter what looks like a little door in the end? 
Certainly a young man’s game. 
“I am surprised that trailer mates were still required with drags as late as '61”
We had trailer mates in '68 Spardo and I think it was '69 when they went.
Oily
Fridged Freight thread viewtopic.php?t=66120
15 pages.
Oily
oiltreader:
“I am surprised that trailer mates were still required with drags as late as '61”
We had trailer mates in '68 Spardo and I think it was '69 when they went.
Oily
Thanks Oily, I am surprised, I always think of it as a 1950s or earlier thing. My first personal involvement with drags was as the last 2 trailers of a triple in Oz, and, enthused with the concept, introduced them to my fleet at Courtaulds/Toray in the 80s/90s.
We didn’t do a great deal of reversing with road trains, possibly just backing 2 onto one for a final coupling in the yard, but I studied the principles involved and used this knowledge to train my own drivers in the art. A couple were brilliant, naturals, including one old boy, (who always spoiled it by showing off, blind side reversing when not necessary for example 
) but then there were others who really struggled. I remember taking a holiday shortly after the first 2 were introduced and asking my ATM how things had gone on my return. ‘Ok,’ she said, ‘but Johnny’s has been at Hyde the whole time, he got in such a tangle that it was left where it was.’ 
does anyone know when the two man rule for pulling trailers was repealed ?