Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

ramone · 15 March 2023 11:06

How they loaded wool in Bradford

lawrence_dunbar · 15 March 2023 12:18

lawrence_dunbar · 15 March 2023 12:32

ray_smyth · 15 March 2023 14:58

A Mercedes-Benz parked at the bus stop on Ormskirk Road, A577, Pemberton,
carrying electrical generator machines. The vehicle is next to Greenhalghs
bakery shop, perhaps the driver had nipped in there to buy a pasty for his lunch.

Ray

ray_smyth · 15 March 2023 14:58

A Mercedes-Benz parked at the bus stop on Ormskirk Road, A577, Pemberton,
carrying electrical generator machines. The vehicle is next to Greenhalghs
bakery shop, perhaps the driver had nipped in there to buy a pasty for his lunch.

Ray

spardo · 15 March 2023 15:25

2 pasties? Greedy bugger.

buzzer · 15 March 2023 19:53

Buzzer

star_down_under · 15 March 2023 22:23

Spardo:
2 pasties? Greedy bugger.

He might have had an offsider.

spardo · 15 March 2023 22:57

Star down under.:

Spardo:
2 pasties? Greedy bugger.

He might have had an offsider.

Now I am familiar with that term, and indeed use it myself on occasions, but it doesn’t really make sense does it? It refers to a mate in the cab with the driver, but if he is in the passenger seat, shouldn’t that make him a nearsider? Or do Australians use the terms the other way round and I didn’t notice it while there?

buzzer · 16 March 2023 12:29

Buzzer

star_down_under · 16 March 2023 12:50

Spardo:

Star down under.:

Spardo:
2 pasties? Greedy bugger.

He might have had an offsider.

Now I am familiar with that term, and indeed use it myself on occasions, but it doesn’t really make sense does it? It refers to a mate in the cab with the driver, but if he is in the passenger seat, shouldn’t that make him a nearsider? Or do Australians use the terms the other way round and I didn’t notice it while there?

I think the term refers to the fact that he is the driver’s offsider/sidekick/helper, rather than his position in the truck
The irony did occur to me as I typed it.

star_down_under · 16 March 2023 12:57

ramone:

Star down under.:

ramone:

Buzzer:
Buzzer

There must be some weight on that , a prototype for the many roadtrains in Australia thereafter. I didn’t know Australians could load wool , hard hat at the ready

Hard hat? You’ll be needing an armoured personnel carrier, my friend!
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How the hell did they stay on without sheeting them . They were pinned sometimes sheeted 2 high then sheeted again when fully loaded and loaded from mills with overhead cranes , once they were down that was your problem definitely an art to wool loading ,i missed out on it thank god but only just

A couple of foot lengths, or coil of barbed wire between the bales, then roped. Done properly they never fell off, in fact more trucks would have rolled, then shed the load. Now we’re not allowed to use ropes, straps only.