Thanks to Buzzer, Ray Smyth, pyewacker947v and tyneside for the photos
Oily
Turner’s ERF 100th in 2000 on the Donny bypass 2009 credit to Richard Says for the photo.
Belonging to a couple of Campervan forums and reading an increase in campervan and motorhome theft, it’s always been going on but appears now to be on the increase, not much of a problem in the Highlands and when further afield I’ve used a a double hook on the steering, watched a video of a few seconds with a hacksaw cutting through the steering wheel so to the drawing board and during this last couple of days I have a prototype with a more robust model in the pipeline, already had the padlock so cost nil so far and yes a bolt cutter would snap the 8mm of shackle shank so aiming for at least 12 or 15mm . The van is already fitted with immobiliser and an alarm system
Oily
Ray Smyth:
pyewacket947v:
Ray Smyth:
A Tate & Lyle ERF in Liverpool with a full load of bagged sugar during World War II. I imagine that
most of todays drivers would " Throw A Wobbler " if they had to load & unload it by hand. The ERF has
wartime headlights and white painted mudguards to help it to be seen in the dark of night. NMP.Ray Smyth.
Lovely pic Ray.
I believe the driver of that ERF, who’s name escapes me, survived long enough to receive a telegram from HRH…!Thank you for you comments, At least the driver had a second man with him, the older chap with the flat cap.
Perhaps the driver did many journeys down to your neck of the woods, where half of my origin is from, Mother
was from Bath, Somerset. My other half is from Newry, Co.Down, Peel, Isle Of Man, and a bit from Liverpool
where I was born. I am a bit of a " Dolly Mixture ".Cheers, Ray.
Due to the current trend of researching ancestry via the internet. i expect quite a few have discovered they are a bit of a ‘mixture’.! Not all of it welcome. Oxon, Birmingham and the North East seem to figure in mine.
Thanks Buzzer I shall endeavour to tell you a little about Temples transport a Western Australian company.
The 8 wheeler Volvo and the B double container trailers were a first in Australia.
Temples won a contract with the Western Mining company to haul twenty ton 20 foot containers from the mining companys site to the Fremantle wharf with special permits to travel on a set route from mine to wharf and as the containers were 20tons each it was a first to move a load of this weight as a single unit.
I can only assume the freight rate only made sense if the unit carried 2 containers per trip.
Temples have several 8 wheelers in their fleet and now operate out of a Kewdale yard which is the main container hub for rail containers in Perth plus there is also a rail link between Kewdale and the Fremantle wharfs.
Some of their units as below cart in the bulk product industry.
Dig
Buzzer:
Easter special, Buzzer
In Australia, I reckon, but which land border could this outfit have crossed with its TIR plates? Thanks!
Froggy55:
Buzzer:
Easter special, Buzzer0In Australia, I reckon, but which land border could this outfit have crossed with its TIR plates? Thanks!
Is it possible that containers on rail journeys do so under TIR? In which case the side placements make more sense.
ISO shipping containers travel the world so the TIR plates would only be relevant for road journeys through countries belonging to the TIR convention. I suppose it’s possible they have been erroneously fitted, as normally they would be placed fore and aft, not on the sides; but I’ve seen it elsewhere so there has to be sensible reason.
When not in use they should have a black cancellation line diagonally through them.
VALKYRIE:
TruckNetUK . Old Time Lorries . Past Present And In Between In Pictures .857-858. Foden and ERF Lorries,1930s-1940s . Easter Saturday,16th April,2022. VALKYRIEPyeWacket947v:
Ray Smyth:
A Tate & Lyle ERF in Liverpool with a full load of bagged sugar during World War II. I imagine that
most of todays drivers would " Throw A Wobbler " if they had to load & unload it by hand. The ERF has
wartime headlights and white painted mudguards to help it to be seen in the dark of night. NMP.Ray Smyth.
Lovely pic Ray.
I believe the driver of that ERF, who’s name escapes me, survived long enough to receive a telegram from HRH…!With respect gentlemen,the ‘ERF’ is actually a Foden
Foden DG6/12,Flat-Bodied,R6x4,Lorry,FLV 315,Liverpool 1939,Tate & Lyle,No.101.TNUK,OTL-PP&IBIP,857-858.Ray Smyth,4-2022.3#
2NOTE: The Saloon Cab was standard from 1933 to 1938 for the ERF heavy lorry range,and optional along with the Streamline Cab from 1938.
2.
ERF CI.682,Saloon-Cabbed,Flat-Bodied,R8x4,Lorry,CN.1334,DTC 308,Lancashire,6,7-1938,Keirby & Perry,Blackpool.P.N.Nick Watts.TNUK,OTL-PP&IBIP,857-858.Robert Knight-Flickr,4-2022.3#
1
ERF Streamline CI.562 or CI.662,Streamline-Cabbed,Dropside-Bodied,R6x2 or R6x4,Lorry,late 1930s -early 1940s.TNUK,OTL-PP&IBIP,857-858.IMDB-SunBar,4-2022.3#
0VALKYRIE
Loved the 6 legger Tate and Lyle Foden with its starting handle , nothing that 2 men and a rope could not sort out on a frosty morning ! , --toshboy
toshboy:
VALKYRIE:
TruckNetUK . Old Time Lorries . Past Present And In Between In Pictures .857-858. Foden and ERF Lorries,1930s-1940s . Easter Saturday,16th April,2022. VALKYRIEPyeWacket947v:
Ray Smyth:
A Tate & Lyle ERF in Liverpool with a full load of bagged sugar during World War II. I imagine that
most of todays drivers would " Throw A Wobbler " if they had to load & unload it by hand. The ERF has
wartime headlights and white painted mudguards to help it to be seen in the dark of night. NMP.Ray Smyth.
Lovely pic Ray.
I believe the driver of that ERF, who’s name escapes me, survived long enough to receive a telegram from HRH…!With respect gentlemen,the ‘ERF’ is actually a Foden
Foden DG6/12,Flat-Bodied,R6x4,Lorry,FLV 315,Liverpool 1939,Tate & Lyle,No.101.TNUK,OTL-PP&IBIP,857-858.Ray Smyth,4-2022.3#
2NOTE: The Saloon Cab was standard from 1933 to 1938 for the ERF heavy lorry range,and optional along with the Streamline Cab from 1938.
2.
ERF CI.682,Saloon-Cabbed,Flat-Bodied,R8x4,Lorry,CN.1334,DTC 308,Lancashire,6,7-1938,Keirby & Perry,Blackpool.P.N.Nick Watts.TNUK,OTL-PP&IBIP,857-858.Robert Knight-Flickr,4-2022.3#
1
ERF Streamline CI.562 or CI.662,Streamline-Cabbed,Dropside-Bodied,R6x2 or R6x4,Lorry,late 1930s -early 1940s.TNUK,OTL-PP&IBIP,857-858.IMDB-SunBar,4-2022.3#
0VALKYRIE
Loved the 6 legger Tate and Lyle Foden with its starting handle , nothing that 2 men and a rope could not sort out on a frosty morning ! , --toshboy
VALKYRIE:
TruckNetUK . Old Time Lorries . Past Present And In Between In Pictures .857-858. Foden and ERF Lorries,1930s-1940s . Easter Saturday,16th April,2022. VALKYRIEPyeWacket947v:
Ray Smyth:
A Tate & Lyle ERF in Liverpool with a full load of bagged sugar during World War II. I imagine that
most of todays drivers would " Throw A Wobbler " if they had to load & unload it by hand. The ERF has
wartime headlights and white painted mudguards to help it to be seen in the dark of night. NMP.Ray Smyth.
Lovely pic Ray.
I believe the driver of that ERF, who’s name escapes me, survived long enough to receive a telegram from HRH…!With respect gentlemen,the ‘ERF’ is actually a Foden
Foden DG6/12,Flat-Bodied,R6x4,Lorry,FLV 315,Liverpool 1939,Tate & Lyle,No.101.TNUK,OTL-PP&IBIP,857-858.Ray Smyth,4-2022.3#
2NOTE: The Saloon Cab was standard from 1933 to 1938 for the ERF heavy lorry range,and optional along with the Streamline Cab from 1938.
2.
ERF CI.682,Saloon-Cabbed,Flat-Bodied,R8x4,Lorry,CN.1334,DTC 308,Lancashire,6,7-1938,Keirby & Perry,Blackpool.P.N.Nick Watts.TNUK,OTL-PP&IBIP,857-858.Robert Knight-Flickr,4-2022.3#
1
ERF Streamline CI.562 or CI.662,Streamline-Cabbed,Dropside-Bodied,R6x2 or R6x4,Lorry,late 1930s -early 1940s.TNUK,OTL-PP&IBIP,857-858.IMDB-SunBar,4-2022.3#
0VALKYRIE
Correct Valkyrie. it is indeed a Foden, I am suitably embarrassed. !
Buzzer:
Easter treats, Buzzer
Great pictures again Buzzer. Regarding the AEC with a Portsmouth number plate, and a full shoot
of cauliflower from Brittany, can you identify the name of the transport company ?. During my three
years from early 1970 with Robert Baillie & Co Ltd, from October onward, this type of handball load
of Brittany cauliflowers on a 40ft trailer was a regular delivery to the wholesale fruit & vegetable
market in Liverpool. Being only 5ft 4in, it was difficult to reach the top row of crates.
Click picture for full size. Cheers.
Ray Smyth.
Thanks to VALKYRIE for the photos and detailed information also DIG, Buzzer, Ray Smyth and fodenway for the photos
Oily
Buzzer’s photo took me back a few years, Devils Bridge and the Mynach Falls. There is a “staircase” part wooden part stone steps goes the 300ft to the bottom of the falls and up the other side, some hike but a worthwhile sight.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mynach_Falls
A rare machine, a Foden not quite in Sandbach mode, credit to Steve Glover for the photo.
Oily
This Case tractor was one of the first imported from Canada into the UK at the end of the second world war to my great uncles farm .
Dig
It looks something has gone wrong here.
Buzzer:
Easter over lets move on, Buzzer
When I saw the first picture above from Buzzer, I thought that the Leyland bus driving through flooded
water in Keswick was from the Ribble fleet, but having looked at the style of the route indicator, I think
that it is possibly from ■■■■■■■■■■ Motor Services. I expect Leyland 600 will recognise it, It is close to
his part of the world. Cheers, Ray Smyth.