Buzzer
Thanks to Buzzer for the photos 
going like a good un keeping different threads and pages going Champion.
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A country scene painting from Bootle History Forum, showing an Austin Army ambulance,
and a couple of women from The Ladies Land Army working on a farm.
Ray.
Ray Smyth:
Remembrance Day, November 11th.
Hear hear Ray.
This picture shows one of the many stations of The Liverpool Overhead Railway in the 1950s.
The railway was about 7 miles long from Seaforth/Gladstone Dock area to the Dingle area .
When The Grand National 3 day horse racing was on, many of the trains ran the extra couple
of miles carrying the racegoers. Oddly enough, the terminus station at Dingle was underground
beneath the Gaumont cinema at the bottom of Park Road. The Ford Consul car looks very smart.
The actual structure of the railway steelwork was known locally as The Dockers Umbrella, which
was useful when it was raining, even though there were double railway tracks for goods trains
going to and from all of the docks. The railway finally closed in 1956.
Picture from Bootle History Forum.
Ray.
This picture is just a few hundred yards toward the rear of the previous picture.
It would be in late 1956 or early 1957. The lorry at the rear looks like an Austin.
The tall building operates the air conditioning and removal of exhaust fumes from
inside the Mersey Tunnel which passes underneath and below the River Mersey.
Picture from Bootle History Forum.
Ray.
Buzzer:
This beautiful piece of engineering is bound bound for auction, I want it, Buzzer
Beautiful indeed! I saw this one last August at a vintage farming show nearby.
We see many road trains on here these days both A and B trains. As far as I know (well I never saw one) B-trains did not exist in my days in OZ and I just wondered what are the preferences of our Australian contingent here.
Personally, from a distance, I think the A-trains have it as I think, tell me if Iām wrong (you know you will 
), that there is less cut in on corners with them, comparing wagons and drags in Europe with artics.
Be interested to know why if the prefs are for Bs.
David just out of interest a couple months ago my son and I went to Sweden on a factory visit courtesy of Scania, during that visit we had a test drive afternoon with a line up of what they had to offer and when it came to the truck below when it was my turn to drive I asked does it cut the corners, it was on a test track with all vehicles going in the same direction but there were some nasty drop offs on the corners. The instructor assured me it would follow and had less cut in than an artic, grossing at 60tons it is by no means as heavy as in Oz but a nice experience none the less & it was surprisingly easy to drive and it followed beautifully, Buzzer
