Mrsteel:
Spardo,
Hello, Re: the photo of the S.C.O.W. Caledonian I would say that it is loaded with sheet steel and not tinplate. It looks like steel because of the length of bundles, two stacks of the same length.
Tinplate would have been iirc the same height and loaded down the centre. It always was when we used to load it out of The Metal Box in Neath. The photo could well have been taken at Vauxhall in Luton but I could be wrong and stand to be corrected.
I well remember the Albions loading out of Port Talbot back in the day.
Regardso, Allan
Dâyou know what Allan, I think youâre right, I should have looked closer, 2 long bulks instead of several smaller ones.
Buzzer:
Love this sign, seen it before but what humour, Buzzer
Great humour, something like that slows traffic down without a doubt.
The cook and I came across this on the Tanami road a sort of back door entry between West Oz and the NT.
Cetainly caused us to pull up especially about the movement and possession of alcohol.
We were ok as long as we didnât stop in the prescribed area but it did take a satellite phone call to the Alice Springs constabulary at 3dollars a minute which was cheaper than turning back or getting sprung with alcohol in excess of what we were allowed.
Buzzer:
Love this sign, seen it before but what humour, Buzzer
Great humour, something like that slows traffic down without a doubt.
The cook and I came across this on the Tanami road a sort of back door entry between West Oz and the NT.
Cetainly caused us to pull up especially about the movement and possession of alcohol.
We were ok as long as we didnât stop in the prescribed area but it did take a satellite phone call to the Alice Springs constabulary at 3dollars a minute which was cheaper than turning back or getting sprung with alcohol in excess of what we were allowed.
Dig
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Seems like a kind of racism by treating adults as children who couldnât control themselves, but I know that alcohol was a big problem with Aboriginals which often drove them to the cities and even more trouble. I remember seeing the sad results on the streets of Sydney, once a black man, staggering across a road was hit by a car coming towards me. It was a glancing blow on his foot which went him spinning into the air like a sycamore seed, his legs spread so wide apart that it split his strides right up the middle. Goodness know what damage was done to his internal organs but he lay there at the side of the road completely happy and demanding more beer. I stayed with him till the ambulance came.
I understood Buzzerâs road sign alright, but it did take a few seconds because in Nottingham we would pronounce it ode not owd, if that explains it enough. Note (for nothing) rather than nowt.
Nice AEC Mogul which was introduced in 1962 for the export market powered by AECâs AV690 engine which produced 200 bhp.
Iâm familiar with that Mogul. In 1988 I had to move my Albion from Iver to Peterborough in a hurry with the engine in bits, due to loss of accommodation. I got a mate who did recovery to help me move it, his lorry was off the road so we borrowed the AEC which was then in preservation but still used a bit for recovery purposes. A good workhorse. Picture having just arrived outside my workplace in Peterborough.
Bernard
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Small world Bernard,cant be many of them in the UK possibly the only one.
In over 50 years of attending shows Iâve only seen one other in preservation, an artic pulling a low-loader. During their working days there were a few about, they were an export model but a few found their way onto UK roads, I can certainly remember Annis and Co. of Hayes having at least one.
Bernard
Thanks mate. I see the one I used is there, albeit with a different crane. Also one referred to as âAnnisâ probably the one I remember. So the old grey matter is still working
Itâs a bit rich that when, there you are, minding your own business and waiting at a junction to continue when along comes a lamp post and falls on your load.
