Ray Smyth:
A DAF fridge artic from Murcia Province in south east Spain, delivering
tomatoes to the fruit & veg factory at Martland Park , Wigan.
Ray.
Ray is that the same picture as last week & the week before that & the week before that, mate you need to spread your wings a bit or take the numbers and see if they are migrating. now that would be interesting Buzzer
John, You keep showing some of your Scanias over and over again, albeit in various locations, and I keep looking at them. Cheers, Ray.
Ray Smyth:
A DAF fridge artic from Murcia Province in south east Spain, delivering
tomatoes to the fruit & veg factory at Martland Park , Wigan.
Ray.
Ray is that the same picture as last week & the week before that & the week before that, mate you need to spread your wings a bit or take the numbers and see if they are migrating. now that would be interesting Buzzer
John, You keep showing some of your Scanias over and over again, albeit in various locations, and I keep looking at them. Cheers, Ray.
Never mind about the Scanias, Ray, what about that beautiful Guy by the seaside. I donāt think I have ever seen a vehicle dressed in such a deep scarlet coat as that. But who the hell is Rose Markie? Is she the driver, the driverās wife, the owner, or his wife, the passenger (it does look like a sparsely populated area), the name of the bus, or simply the name of the place it is going to next? We need the facts Buzzer.
Yes, I believe the law changed in export markets.
The original, Series 1 had 5Ā¾" headlights behind the grill. They were mounted on swivels, to be used as work lights in the engine bay, a feature unashamedly copied from WW II Jeeps. The Land Rover was developed on an exWW II Jeep chassis, from drawings in sand, by Maurice Wilks. An interesting history, it was supposed to be a stop-gap model, until sedan car sale picked up, post WW ll.
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The headlights on my ālights behindā Land-Rover donāt swivel, thereād be no point as one is completely separated from the engine bay by the radiator panel, the other is accessible from the engine bay but if swivelled would mostly be shining on the battery thatās mounted right behind it. It may have been the original intention as the first prototype centre steer LR had a lot more in common with the Jeep but the eventual production vehicles were a lot different.
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Beautiful Series 1, is it yours Bernard? A friend has a very early one 48-49, the lights on his will turn. The parking lights are on the bulkhead, below the windscreen.[/quote
Stardownunder;
Yes, itās mine thanks. Built 2/1/1950, part of the first batch ever supplied to the UK military. The sidelamps were originally in the bulkhead but the mountings have been blanked, trouble being that you canāt really use wing mirrors with them for obvious reasons. Early ones had a mirror on the windscreen frame, no good if you fold the screen down so LR changed to wing mirrors and moved the lights into the wings at the same time, mineās been modified
Ray Smyth:
A DAF fridge artic from Murcia Province in south east Spain, delivering
tomatoes to the fruit & veg factory at Martland Park , Wigan.
Ray.
Ray is that the same picture as last week & the week before that & the week before that, mate you need to spread your wings a bit or take the numbers and see if they are migrating. now that would be interesting Buzzer
John, You keep showing some of your Scanias over and over again, albeit in various locations, and I keep looking at them. Cheers, Ray.
Ray I dont want to start a war here so best I keep my thoughts to myself, you are right about the shots of the Scaniaās but they are predominately on the Davies International thread along with a mix of farming and other off the wall subjects but thatās what makes it interesting, there are not many times you will see them on other threadās.
Think a lot of people who look in used to do continental back in the day so they find it interesting to see what itās like today. not so many companies doing the job any more we seem to be a rare breed. We have only a couple drivers who bother to take pictures and like many of us we wish we had done the same when we were on the road, hindsight & all that.
Love posting on the inter web the old pictures of companies I remember seeing on the road when driving myself lots of which are now long gone. Believe me I have had rollickingās for posting other people shots on these threadās and they were not even thereās in the first place, best we carry on as normal eh, cheers Buzzer.
What a cracker that is Buzzer, looks like itās taken on the A832 between Avoch and Fortrose and on itās way back from Rosemarkie. The Guy Arab with an AMS reg would have been ex Walter Alexander and Sons Fife region the livery of which was dark red with gold and when that photo was taken may have been part of Highland Omnibuses fleet which was also a dark red. My very first shift at the Alexander Kirkcaldy depot in February 1956 was on one the very same.
Oily.
PS Spardo we have a Rosemarkie you have Nancy
One for Froggy55, Bombardier TVR trolleybus/tram?? no windows test machine? some sort of contact underneath the front, credit to Alexandre Prevot for the photo.
Oily
oiltreader:
PS Spardo we have a Rosemarkie you have Nancy
Iām fed up with Nancy, Oily, I filled up at the Auchan supermarket there some years back but my local one that I visit every week is the same company but in St. Pardoux and she always elbows St.P aside in the alphabetical stakes when I record the weekly expenditure.
Not entirely true any more, just the other week she must have got fed up with my cursing and now St. P, bless her, has taken over.
Back to Rosemarkie, despite having once slept alongside an Inverness cemetary gate I have never heard the name. A lovely name on a lovely bus.
One for Froggy55, Bombardier TVR trolleybus/tram?? no windows test machine? some sort of contact underneath the front, credit to Alexandre Prevot for the photo.
Oily
Maybe it is driverless, though there is someone behind the wheel, with that underside contact? And itās name is Stan, some sort of a theme going on here.
albion1938:
Yes, I believe the law changed in export markets.
The original, Series 1 had 5Ā¾" headlights behind the grill. They were mounted on swivels, to be used as work lights in the engine bay, a feature unashamedly copied from WW II Jeeps. The Land Rover was developed on an exWW II Jeep chassis, from drawings in sand, by Maurice Wilks. An interesting history, it was supposed to be a stop-gap model, until sedan car sale picked up, post WW ll.
The headlights on my ālights behindā Land-Rover donāt swivel, thereād be no point as one is completely separated from the engine bay by the radiator panel, the other is accessible from the engine bay but if swivelled would mostly be shining on the battery thatās mounted right behind it. It may have been the original intention as the first prototype centre steer LR had a lot more in common with the Jeep but the eventual production vehicles were a lot different.
Bernard
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Beautiful Series 1, is it yours Bernard? A friend has a very early one 48-49, the lights on his will turn. The parking lights are on the bulkhead, below the windscreen.
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Stardownunder;
Yes, itās mine thanks. Built 2/1/1950, part of the first batch ever supplied to the UK military. The sidelamps were originally in the bulkhead but the mountings have been blanked, trouble being that you canāt really use wing mirrors with them for obvious reasons. Early ones had a mirror on the windscreen frame, no good if you fold the screen down so LR changed to wing mirrors and moved the lights into the wings at the same time, mineās been modified[/quote]
Not many havenāt been modified. Land Rovers have always been a versatile platform for modification to suit the userās individual needs.
Are there going to be any celebrations for the 75th, over there? Weāre holding a national get together at Cooma over Easter.
A new Volvo artic of Hervian Transport from near Murcia in south east Spain, coupled
to a trailer of Olmed Co, a pharmaceutical producer and supplier from the same area.
The vehicle is parked quite close to H.J.Heinz factory at Kitt Green, Wigan.
Star down under.:
High on the list of ābest trucks Iāve drivenā, with a brilliant spec; 525 ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā 18 speed RR and Meritor 52,000lb diffs.
The backloading wasnāt a lot of fun.
SDU next time your in the Wilminton in South Aus there ie a rover dealership in the main street also a model vehicles haven anyhow I got to meet the owner and he gave me the l tour of his establishment and he has a landrover that he told me it was one of the first batch imported into AusI believe he said 1947 I have photos some where but havenāt located them yet.
The photo below is my old Fiat loaded to the gunnels with donkeys probably about 100 head on board ,it was a dirty job loading at the shooters and unloading at the pet meat works in Derby but the money was good and at the time it kept me busy picking up from the shooters when there wasnāt much else around .
Star down under.:
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High on the list of ābest trucks Iāve drivenā, with a brilliant spec; 525 ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā 18 speed RR and Meritor 52,000lb diffs.
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The backloading wasnāt a lot of fun.
SDU next time your in the Wilminton in South Aus there ie a rover dealership in the main street also a model vehicles haven anyhow I got to meet the owner and he gave me the l tour of his establishment and he has a landrover that he told me it was one of the first batch imported into AusI believe he said 1947 I have photos some where but havenāt located them yet.
The photo below is my old Fiat loaded to the gunnels with donkeys probably about 100 head on board ,it was a dirty job loading at the shooters and unloading at the pet meat works in Derby but the money was good and at the time it kept me busy picking up from the shooters when there wasnāt much else around .
Dig
Hi Dig, that joint in Willmington is actually a toy museum, the operator is a Land Rover nut.
Every time Iāve been through there, I ve been too early or too late, for it to be open.
Horricks Pass is an interesting drive. The Pichi Richi and Willmington are on my bucket list, the railway museum in the latter appeals to me.
Your picture brings back some less than pleasant memories. The trailer with pigs, was my oldest trailer, leaked temperature, so always went up with dry freight. I preferred it for the pigs as it was 6" lower than my other trailers. The pigs had to only be kept cool, not even chilled, but the receiver would get upset if I froze the oinkers. Id set the fridge for +1ā° and that would give me a temperature of +10ā° at the back doors.
I used to empty the boxes at Normanton, Bourke & Wills RH, Cloncurry, Georgetown, Kynuna and Winton.
Two of Jimmy Fletchers Mercedes-Benz bread vans at his bakery in Cricket Street, Wigan.
I seem to remember back in the 1980s when I was a registered carrier with Rank Hovis
that Jimmy Fletcher had just one bakery shop not far from here. If you look at the number
plates of these 2 vans, they refer to the main products from the bakery.
Star down under.:
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High on the list of ābest trucks Iāve drivenā, with a brilliant spec; 525 ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā 18 speed RR and Meritor 52,000lb diffs.
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The backloading wasnāt a lot of fun.
SDU next time your in the Wilminton in South Aus there ie a rover dealership in the main street also a model vehicles haven anyhow I got to meet the owner and he gave me the l tour of his establishment and he has a landrover that he told me it was one of the first batch imported into AusI believe he said 1947 I have photos some where but havenāt located them yet.
The photo below is my old Fiat loaded to the gunnels with donkeys probably about 100 head on board ,it was a dirty job loading at the shooters and unloading at the pet meat works in Derby but the money was good and at the time it kept me busy picking up from the shooters when there wasnāt much else around .
Dig
Hi Dig, that joint in Willmington is actually a toy museum, the operator is a Land Rover nut.
Every time Iāve been through there, I ve been too early or too late, for it to be open.
Horricks Pass is an interesting drive. The Pichi Richi and Willmington are on my bucket list, the railway museum in the latter appeals to me.
Your picture brings back some less than pleasant memories. The trailer with pigs, was my oldest trailer, leaked temperature, so always went up with dry freight. I preferred it for the pigs as it was 6" lower than my other trailers. The pigs had to only be kept cool, not even chilled, but the receiver would get upset if I froze the oinkers. Id set the fridge for +1ā° and that would give me a temperature of +10ā° at the back doors.
I used to empty the boxes at Normanton, Bourke & Wills RH, Cloncurry, Georgetown, Kynuna and Winton.
These days my diet is mostly vegetarian (because of my bowels and whatnot, I wonāt go into it) but I still enjoy the odd pork pie (you can get them here in Oz) and a steak-and-mushroom pie. At the same time, I see loaded cattle trailers where I live and (having worked with both cattle and wildlife in the past) the sight and the noise does bug me a bit. Then again, I know that if I want a meat pie or a chicken & veg pie (I used to deliver plastic trays to Inghams a while back) then I should have the decency to acknowledge that I am part of this. I give credit to blokes like DIG and SDU and others who transport livestock to the abattoir: Iām not squeamish but for all the experience Iāve had with farming and removals and wildlife rescue and many other basics of life, Iām not sure I could do that job.
[edit to add] I have no objection to people enjoying beef, lamb, pork, chicken and all the rest. Itās that most people who buy meat or chicken from the butchers or the supermarket donāt understand or even care where it came from and how it got there.[/edit]
