robinswh:
does anyone know when the two man rule for pulling trailers was repealed ?
I do know it was before 1979 as I was on drawbars then.
Chris Webb:
robinswh:
does anyone know when the two man rule for pulling trailers was repealed ?I do know it was before 1979 as I was on drawbars then.
IIRC Chris it was sometime in 1968 when Barbara Castle introduced the new Transport Act which brought in Testing and Plating at the newly built MOT centres and HGV licences and tests were kicked off as well. I left Bradys as a Trailer mate in January '68 and there was still a requirement for a mate on a waggon and trailer but when the new act came into force about mid year IIRC that was the end of mates !! I believe Bradys kicked the Octopus and trailer into touch shortly after I left and Eric my mate on the Octo went to work at the new Bowater Scott mill and the Octo finished it’s days running solo out of Felixstowe into London delivering Tuborg bulk tanks ! Hope I’ve got right ! Cheers Dennis.
I would go along with your remarks on this Dennis, It was 1959/60 when I came off the wagon & drag, I had the old Atki running solo for a while, before going onto artics, The happy days, Regards Larry.
oiltreader:
Fridged Freight thread viewtopic.php?t=66120
15 pages.
Oily
Bloody hell Oily, that’s 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back, but worth every minute of it. 
What a fascinating thread. 
Thanks to Froggy55, Chris Webb, DEANB and Lawrence Dunbar for the pics , and the craic’s going well
I like this
Oily
Thanks everyone for their timely relies to my question
Been going through some old correspondence(snappers I wrote to) all favourable replies(99.9) this from the John Wakely collection. 1974 Middlesborough reg Atki snapped 1980 South London.
Oily
Double post. 
oiltreader:
Been going through some old correspondence(snappers I wrote to) all favourable replies(99.9) this from the John Wakely collection. 1974 Middlesborough reg Atki snapped 1980 South London.
Oily
I expect they were all Middlesboro’ reg, Oily, but at first I thought that that might be a Leicester motor as only those had the sleeper conversion. But not so sure now, as narrow as the sleeper was, I didn’t think it was that narrow. 
Not my motor though, not my reg and once when I was delivering on a new roundabout on the N. Circular I got bogged and a dozer pulled me out and took my crash bar with him. 
But it is clearly a Tom Llewellyn motor. Why? Because of the lack of any names on the grille, no Atkinson or ■■■■■■■ badges. When they refused to pay him to advertise he had them all stripped off.
A further stingyness. No whirligigs on the top of the cab, just 2 ordinary turn indicators which flashed together, but slowly and not very bright. A mate of mine fell ill parked up in Croydon and was just able to reach from the bunk to flick the switch as a help call. It took 24 hours for a police patrol to realise something was wrong and call an ambulance.
When I get my external hard drives connected up I’ll check my Atki out, it was the only one in the Leicester fleet with power steering. Very useful as the first job I did with it was an over wide Portakabin through a farm gate off a narrow lane. Needed every single inch of swing to thread that through.
Chris Webb:
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.
Thanks Chris,suspected the same.
David
It was 1970 when the ‘Trailer man’ or ‘Statutory Attendant’ rule was rescinded, although even before then brake power from the Wagon to Drag had improved so the footbrake applied trailer braking too. The 1968 changes to Testing and Plating which also did away with the mechanical braking on the likes of the Scammell Scarab outfits etc, would no doubt of spelt the death knell for older Wagon and Drag outfits that relied on the second man because the required braking efficiency would not have been met. Franky.
Lawrence Dunbar:
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My late brother drove one just like that on Harrods in 1957 when he came out of the REME. Soon after he was allocated a brand new BMC LD with bodywork built in Harrods own workshops. He drove one of their famous home-made electrics for a few days when the driver was off sick, not impressed, and was seconded to the removal department for a couple of weeks where he drove a 127 Albion, like mine but a furniture van where the 4 x porters sat across the cab on a long bench with the driver, one of them on the driver’s right hand side, had to stick his hand out to signal when the driver told him.
Bernard
coomsey:
New one on me. NMP off FB
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For their big depot in Brussels. Father started working working for Stowells of Chelsea (Whitbread group) in the late 50’s, his 5 ton Morris FE van was fitted with a GB plate and LHD yellow headlights for trips to Belgium.
Bernard
coomsey:
New one on me. NMP off FB
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Left ■■■■■■ too!..rather nice for the year.
David