That’s what I call flotation tyres. They look like you could cross oceans on them.
Thanks for the “peat extraction” photos Oily. Here’s a couple of how we used to do it. About 200/230tons a week.
Gardner 120 The Haydons Albions brought back some memories. We bought 2 x 4 wheelers and1 x 6 wheeler between 1966 and 68. All tilt cab Albions with containers from Ambrose Fox at Lancaster or Garood at Newark.
Added a couple of photos of one of our earliest Cattle wagons in the fifties and the last one from1986.
Gardner 120:
As requested - some more oldies
Don’t know when the picture was taken, but I can tell you that the Albion in the first picture is a KL127 model (same as mine) made between 1935 and 1941.
Bernard
oiltreader:
Cheers to Leyland 680 and lurpak for the picsLeyland 600 and albion1938 you’re spot on with Union Cartage, couple of links here commercialmotor.com/big-lorr … -to-your-o
and ccmv.aecsouthall.co.uk/p1041917302Cheers for the pics
tyneside being aware of the Invergordon Plant, but not clued up, so checked and found info here forever-fuels.com/content/ca … n-delivery
Cheers
Oily
Blimey, that was a result, excelled myself there, that Union tractor in the link is the very one you queried Oily. Now, do I get a paper hat or a tin whistle?
And I wonder if that Dodge was actually a cheap and easy way of repairing a motor with front end crash damage?
Bernard
albion1938:
Gardner 120:
As requested - some more oldiesDon’t know when the picture was taken, but I can tell you that the Albion in the first picture is a KL127 model (same as mine) made between 1935 and 1941.
Bernard
That’s interesting Bernard; looking at the car on the right and going by what you’ve said (it looks fairly new) I would say photo was something like 1945 to 1950 maybe … Also the telephone number was 4!
Tyneside - nice wagons, especially the Bedford S Type. Haydon’s switched from Albions to ERFs in the early 70s (so Albions for about 40 years) and ran at least 15 up until the 90s
Another Haydon’s Albion in Wharf Rd (virtually traffic free then) looking up to ‘Beddle’ High St - year unknown but I’m thinking early to mid 1950s
Gardner 120:
Another Haydon’s Albion in Wharf Rd (virtually traffic free then) looking up to ‘Beddle’ High St - year unknown but I’m thinking early to mid 1950s
Once again, don’t know when the picture was taken but I can tell you what model it is, its an FT3, introduced in 1939 to replace the 127 model in the earlier picture, but the war intervened so very few made during the war for essential users, most of them seen were post-war.
Bernard
albion1938:
oiltreader:
Cheers to Leyland 680 and lurpak for the picsLeyland 600 and albion1938 you’re spot on with Union Cartage, couple of links here commercialmotor.com/big-lorr … -to-your-o
and ccmv.aecsouthall.co.uk/p1041917302Cheers for the pics
Cheers
OilyBlimey, that was a result, excelled myself there, that Union tractor in the link is the very one you queried Oily. Now, do I get a paper hat or a tin whistle?
And I wonder if that Dodge was actually a cheap and easy way of repairing a motor with front end crash damage?
Bernard
Hi Leyland 600 and albion1938 better than the paper hat or tin whistle reward is this piece kindly sent to me from fellow member Bill Sparrow of the UCC from Brentwood thread*…“These tractors weere made and constructed by the company as well as the drawbar trailers at Bow common Lane depot. The tractors were made from old Fowler steam tractor chassis and fitted with Gardner 4 or 5 pot engines. The body was made by about four fitters and the manager was a chap named Archie Gibbs. The ballast on the rear was either concrete blocks or a large fuel tank which held 1200 gallon. They were completely stripped down to the chassis every 2 or three years. We also did some journeys such as Southampton or Birmingham with them. I joined the firm when we had a big fuel shortage in the uk and the ones with the large tanks were sent to Kent to fill up and bring fuel back to the depot. My father also worked there.The driver of 558 was named Jack Hazel. My father drove 564 and me 573.”*
Very interesting, thanks to Bill Sparrow.
Cheers
Oily
Cheers to Gardner120 and tyneside the old black and white photos always in demand
A bagger similar to one of yours tyneside.
Oily
Hi Oily. Once again thanks for the pictures. The photo of the bagger we had was taken in 1966 on it’s first day out. It was on a TK chassis and the body was built by Charrold’s of Huntingdon. The body was split into 3 separate hoppers for different types of fuel and the scales ran along the side on rails. IIRC Charrolds only built about 3 with this specification.
Cheers Tyneside
Looking through this Page, theres the brownstuff ; theblackstuff ; thehard-setting stuff ; - and now heres the white stuff. 
Wm. Armstrong of Longtown started in haulage by transporting kits of milk from farms to their local dairies,
and ( I think ) their first vehicles used were Fords , similar to this one.
They are still carrying the white stuff , - over 75 years later.
This photograph was taken on the tradestand of one of the milk companies at the Westmorland Agricultural Show
a few years ago.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
I like it C W Man - talking of brown stuff, you had to get to it while still fairly soft and liquid (on the wash) because if it became “hard stuff” you were b*ggered!
One of my favourite Haydon memories was when pulling out of Wharf Rd onto High Street - it was fairly tight and needed full lock - I recall Saturday mornings in an ERF fresh off the wash - you’d spot a gap in the traffic and pull out fairly sharpish on full lock and out of the back corner of the box would sluice half a gallon of brown water - watch out shoppers!
Gardner 120:
I like it C W Man - talking of brown stuff, you had to get to it while still fairly soft and liquid (on the wash) because if it became “hard stuff” you were b*ggered!One of my favourite Haydon memories was when pulling out of Wharf Rd onto High Street - it was fairly tight and needed full lock - I recall Saturday mornings in an ERF fresh off the wash - you’d spot a gap in the traffic and pull out fairly sharpish on full lock and out of the back corner of the box would sluice half a gallon of brown water - watch out shoppers!
Hi Gardner 120,
Did all the women shoppers decide to wear brown tights , - so others would know that you`d “spotted” them 
?
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
Wellies and waders mate 
Endless fun on the wash - anyone passing by in the yard would get squirted through a slit - when they roared you’d be the picture of innocence
I was about 11 years old and one Saturday morning rode shotgun with a load of geld dairy cows for slaughter( LAD cab Dodge 4 wheeler) somewhere in N Yorks. We pulled into a layby on the A1 for bait and after a few minutes a coach load of old fellers, probably the workings men club trip to the races, pulled in behind.
We saw in the mirrors about a dozen get off to take a pi!" and three of them stood next to the Dodge wetting the nearside back wheels. Right on cue one of the cows lifted her tail and a couple of buckets of the yellow stuff went straight through the vents.
Don’t think those old lads have ever moved so quick in their lives !!!
Cheers Tyneside
Thanks to neversweat1 and cattle wagon man for the pics, also to all the others with their craic
Main topic is pretty much livestock at the moment so various from a’ the airts, with thanks to those who generously share their photos.
Oily
