oiltreader:
Thanks to Punchy Dan, Buzzer and DEANB for the pics
April 2008 on the M62, can remember watching a Fred Dibnah programme and him having to get some sort of permission to cross Scammonden Bridge with traction engine and hut.
Oily
When the drought was on back in the 90’s we were running tarmac up to Scammonden Dam to make an apron for tankers to park and discharge water into the dam, I think they brought it from the eastern counties and tacho’s and driving hours for the tanker driver’s all went out of the window until the dam was replenished!
A very striking example of how things have advanced in the modern era, is that Siddle/Elddis picture. I was always an advocate of relaxing length limits to allow drivers the ‘privilege’ of not sharing their workplace with a very noisy engine. My campaign was made redundant by the very welcome development of higher cabs which were above, rather than around, the engine.
So that picture says it all, although the Highwayman driver would hardly notice on that score, he was already at one remove from the nasty machinery.
Which is why I really loved my time in such a wagon at Ilkeston Haulage. A nice relaxing 38 mph and no need of a sleeper cab, hardly was granted long enough to benefit from one. But I did learn the lesson of how to construct multiple log sheets.
Shut up !!! I didn’t say I approved, just got on with it. As a young and fit driver I could do it, didn’t stop me when I was older and wiser standing up to such employers and refusing to go beyond the limits.
Am I alone in finding the Transwhite Volvo grotesque? It appears to be the toy of a rich man.
No! I think is horrendous too and why the scaffolding on the front, completely pointless. Franky.
Frankydobo:
Am I alone in finding the Transwhite Volvo grotesque? It appears to be the toy of a rich man.
No! I think is horrendous too and why the scaffolding on the front, completely pointless. Franky.
Actually Gents if you read it quickly like I did at first thought it said transhite, maybe it would be better if the W was omitted, The scaffolding on the front belongs to Australia to protect the motor from straying kangeroo’s but dont think that applies where that motor comes from, Buzzer
Frankydobo:
Am I alone in finding the Transwhite Volvo grotesque? It appears to be the toy of a rich man.
No! I think is horrendous too and why the scaffolding on the front, completely pointless. Franky.
Actually Gents if you read it quickly like I did at first thought it said transhite, maybe it would be better if the W was omitted, The scaffolding on the front belongs to Australia to protect the motor from straying kangeroo’s but dont think that applies where that motor comes from, Buzzer
Dipster:
Am I alone in finding the Transwhite Volvo grotesque? It appears to be the toy of a rich man.
No. Ridiculous doesn’t even cover it. You can’t have a working motor AND a show pony in one vehicle. (although I’d be embarrassed to take it to a show).
Each to his own though.
It was hard graft ■■■■■■■ those galvanized dustbins all day and every day, the lads who did it certainly earned their money.
Nowadays it’s a wheelie bin to the back of the bin lorry and press a button.
grumpy old man:
It was hard graft ■■■■■■■ those galvanized dustbins all day and every day, the lads who did it certainly earned their money.
Nowadays it’s a wheelie bin to the back of the bin lorry and press a button.
When I was a kid in Primary school my Mum and Dad both had to work to pay the family’s way. So they arranged for me to have my midday meal at Albert’s Cafe that was just a short walk from the school. At lunchtime (I think we called it dinner time then!) I shared the cafe with loads of workers, many of whom were the blokes, the council workers, who had spent their morning lifting those galvanised bins mentioned. They were rough and ready, a bit smelly, but the salt of the earth who treated me, a little kid amongst them, with great respect and kindness. 60 odd years later that kind of memory is the image of the Britain I grew up in.
grumpy old man:
It was hard graft ■■■■■■■ those galvanized dustbins all day and every day, the lads who did it certainly earned their money.
Nowadays it’s a wheelie bin to the back of the bin lorry and press a button.
When I was a kid in Primary school my Mum and Dad both had to work to pay the family’s way. So they arranged for me to have my midday meal at Albert’s Cafe that was just a short walk from the school. At lunchtime (I think we called it dinner time then!) I shared the cafe with loads of workers, many of whom were the blokes, the council workers, who had spent their morning lifting those galvanised bins mentioned. They were rough and ready, a bit smelly, but the salt of the earth who treated me, a little kid amongst them, with great respect and kindness. 60 odd years later that kind of memory is the image of the Britain I grew up in.
It isn’t clear in that picture, but didn’t they have a thick leather pad on the shoulder to stop those sharp edges digging in?
oiltreader:
Thanks to Punchy Dan, Buzzer and DEANB for the pics
April 2008 on the M62, can remember watching a Fred Dibnah programme and him having to get some sort of permission to cross Scammonden Bridge with traction engine and hut.
Oily
When the drought was on back in the 90’s we were running tarmac up to Scammonden Dam to make an apron for tankers to park and discharge water into the dam, I think they brought it from the eastern counties and tacho’s and driving hours for the tanker driver’s all went out of the window until the dam was replenished!
Pete.
My lad did a bit of tanker driving on the water job, a lot of drivers earned a lot of money. IIRC my lad was running from Keilder to Scammonden…
Our Kid was up at Scammonden delivering some kind of plant machinery when they were building the tanker park.
I remember that Hanson’s from Huddersfield had a few tankers running water 24/7 also from Kielder Water.
Interesting cab on the far left Dennis, Homalloy by the look of it. Seen them on all sorts of chassis, but don’t think I’ve ever seen one on a Dennis. I saw a lot of Dennises as a kid, our local council and a lot of local breweries favoured them and my primary school was near a wharf on the Thames where Dennis sent export vehicles to be crated up for shipping.
Bernard
IIRC that SOM D1000 would have had the ■■■■■■■ V8 engine prior to Ford switching over to the Perkins V8 so I wonder how long it withstood the battering it would have got at Smiths ! Cheers Dennis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8iVgm_zFg
But I did learn the lesson of how to construct multiple log sheets. 
