oiltreader:
DIG see if this is liftable. right click save image.
“One of the early road trains to operate in the Kimberley. This one is loading cattle at Louisa Downs Station transportation to the Derby meat works. All roads in the area at the time were dirt and were closed for weeks at a time during the wet season” Philip Schubert quote and photo.
Oily
Brilliant Oily lifted no problem and I also believe that truck went to another transport operator in Derby and he shortened it to prime mover length and removed the sleeper cab which I purchased off him for 50dollars and fitted it on my ■■■■■■■ powered Super Hippo. Small world Mate
Today’s memories are stirred by the Dakin’s Jenson and Seddon line up.
In the early days of our fledgeling business my brother and I did all sorts of stuff including light removals. My parents had sold up in Nottingham when Dad took Mum overseas with his job for a few years and they stored all their more valued furniture with Dakins. When they returned they resettled not in Nottingham but further south near Luton and, of course, wanted to bring their stuff south to their new home.
As the Civil Service was paying, Dad had to get 3 or 4 quotes for the removal and, quite openly included ours. Dad was a stickler for upright behaviour and the rules and took our quote forward without a word or a gesture to us as to how we stood with it. Dakins however were of a more suspicous nature and as we turned up on the agreed rdv time with our signwritten van things turned nasty. They accused us of corrupt practices and despite my protestations (I never even knew that they had been asked to tender) point blank refused to give us the goods. After some hours only Dad on the telephone threatening to sue them (at government expense) for fraudulent conversion, or whatever it was called, persuaded them to let us load up.
Little did I know that some years later, after they had been merged with Stirlands, that I would be working for them. Although the Dakin name may have been dropped by then I don’t know if any Dakin personnel were at Willow road when I started, but nothing was said.
A mild coincidence is that that photo was taken outside the war memorial on the Trent Embankment, directly opposite to the flat that my parents bought as a 2nd home many years later.
The tidy, new, Dodge tipper looks like it has the double drive Albion back end so I wonder which engine it had under the bonnet, the Leyland or the Perkins ? great photo Buzzer you can dig 'em out mate ! Regards Dennis.
The tidy, new, Dodge tipper looks like it has the double drive Albion back end so I wonder which engine it had under the bonnet, the Leyland or the Perkins ? great photo Buzzer you can dig 'em out mate ! Regards Dennis.
Fair old steel body on it as well. I know Dodge were really only assemblers but I did not realise they used Albion axles. The Dodges Dad ran in the very late 50s and early 60s had Eaton axles. The ones with out two speed where soft as well, breaking half shafts on and off sites with regular monotonous regularity. What would a 6 wheeler gross in that era?
This Dodge was snapped when purchased new by the last company I drove for, long before my time there though. It was single drive and I’m pretty certain that it had the Perkins engine.
windrush:
This Dodge was snapped when purchased new by the last company I drove for, long before my time there though. It was single drive and I’m pretty certain that it had the Perkins engine.
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Pete.
Looks like a little Perkins logo in the screen next to the licence holders Pete.
Don’t know whether its true but a Perkins worker once told me it signifies “a square deal all round”
Bernard
The tidy, new, Dodge tipper looks like it has the double drive Albion back end so I wonder which engine it had under the bonnet, the Leyland or the Perkins ? great photo Buzzer you can dig 'em out mate ! Regards Dennis.
Fair old steel body on it as well. I know Dodge were really only assemblers but I did not realise they used Albion axles. The Dodges Dad ran in the very late 50s and early 60s had Eaton axles. The ones with out two speed where soft as well, breaking half shafts on and off sites with regular monotonous regularity. What would a 6 wheeler gross in that era?
Supposing that this Dodge tipper with the Albion axles had a Leyland engine I wonder how the chassis price compared to the Albion Reiver obviously with the Perkins engine fitted the Dodge would be a few ££ cheaper but both would operate at 18 ton gvw with 8 stud wheels but with 10 stud wheels they could run at 20 ton gvw I beleive Cheers Dennis.
Not truck related i know, but Tynesides picture of the locomotive at Newcastle in 1969 is interesting in its own right.
HS 4000 "Kestrel’ was built in 1967 by Brush Traction in Loughborough as a prototype, no doubt with a view to securing orders from British Railways.
It was used by BR until 1971 when it was returned to Brush for refitting.
It was sold on to the Soviet Union, exhibited and trialled on a circular track, later the engine was removed and the rest believed scrapped circa 1993.
windrush:
This Dodge was snapped when purchased new by the last company I drove for, long before my time there though. It was single drive and I’m pretty certain that it had the Perkins engine.
Pete.
Only photo of Dad’s 6x2 LAD. I think it was really a modified 4 wheeler.
Albion axles and a possible Leyland engine so I wonder what gearbox the Dodge had ? The usual ENV 5 speed or the Albion/Leyland 6 speed ? Cheers Dennis.
