With thanks to Flicktone, and accent on a bit of colour.
Oily
From York, with thanks to CARLOS62, a tidy Daf and a Foden with an ST reg which was Inverness, be interesting to find what its previous life was.
Oily
Leyland 680:
Didn’t realise it’s that long since M E Saunders packed up cattle wagon’s here is an other phote of same wagon different day open top
Deck something that you cannot do today.Hope you like this photo cattle wagon man.regards Frank0
Not only CWM but others that like the photo Frank, thanks for sharing
Something about ergonomic cabbed livestock wagons with lutons over, they just look “right” somehow
Hi Leyland 680 and JPnew,
Believe it or not, this photograph is printed on the cab door interior panel of a wagon at the Barnard Castle Truck Show last weekend. I think it belonged to Winters of Hedon. G.A. Thompson is the hauliers name , and Hedon, Hull is the hometown , according to the nameboards.
Aye, that low box-shaped Ergomatic cab was ideal for a deep luton - and a front nameboard too. 
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
JPnew:
Leyland 680:
Didn’t realise it’s that long since M E Saunders packed up cattle wagon’s here is an other phote of same wagon different day open top
Deck something that you cannot do today.Hope you like this photo cattle wagon man.regards Frank0Not only CWM but others that like the photo Frank, thanks for sharing
Something about ergonomic cabbed livestock wagons with lutons over, they just look “right” somehow
Glad you all liked the photo.And yes the ergo cab did suit the Luton body’s
The drivers of all cattle wagons are something else By for now Frank
Jazzandy:
Beautifully preserved Leyland Lynx seen at Tractorfest in Biddenden at the weekend.
Nice photo 1939 reg I would say, London area, Regards Larry.
Leyland 680:
JPnew:
Leyland 680:
Didn’t realise it’s that long since M E Saunders packed up cattle wagon’s here is an other phote of same wagon different day open top
Deck something that you cannot do today.Hope you like this photo cattle wagon man.regards Frank0Not only CWM but others that like the photo Frank, thanks for sharing
Something about ergonomic cabbed livestock wagons with lutons over, they just look “right” somehow
Glad you all liked the photo.And yes the ergo cab did suit the Luton body’s
The drivers of all cattle wagons are something else By for now Frank
Yes it was a cracking photo but then I love cattle wagons, especially those with a canopy - I’m biased but I agree - I suppose having a “living” load is what makes them ‘something else’ as drivers and having to load and unload them yourself at either end - I remember well walking down to the bottom of a field as a lad, with the driver and gently herding 12 or 15 cows up the ramp, into the wagon. Sheep were a different matter and pigs, oh my Lord, they were bright beggers and you needed 3 or 4 good men and sheets of corrugated metal to get them in 
Lots of countryside and rural locations to be had (not just up and down the M1 or M6) and some very interesting farmers etc. Once, at 6 o’clock on a Sunday morning in Malpass, we pulled into a pitch black farmyard in a howling December wind, cutting right through us - we knocked on and the farmer came out in wellies, trousers with braces hanging down the back and a string vest - the wind made the Woodbine welded to his lips glow bright orange but he didn’t so much as blink!
Every journey had to be mucked out and sometimes, it was a melancholy trip, especially when taking livestock to an abattoir (maybe that was just me) - on one such trip to Oldham we had to tie the cows back legs together with rope lest they did the splits - they were so old and knackered, if they’d gone we’d have needed a crane to get them up - nowadays, I know how they felt 
gone we’d have needed a crane to get them up - nowadays, I know how they felt
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Evening gardner120, I really do know how you felt!!
Too many years as a youngster taking poorly kept stock, off to their end…made me a virtual vegetarian…if you could have heard the rip they took out of me when I was working in “La belle France”…but it is how I am.
Totally arable on our farms…but have a lot of “saved” animals…funny how you end up!
Now a trailer load of young Bullocks, 0.5.30. …that sorts out the boys from the men…but when they all go quiet, as you back into the abbotoir yard… that stays with me always, and Halal…I once refused to “tip” some beasts for those ungodly men…got me a B…g, but they went instead to Barratts and Bairds, (young Michael, with the crushing handshake…but he knew my feelings), and their end was quick…and clean.
Funny how things get to you…but they did to me, and even at four score and ten, (plus a good bit), they still do!
Cheerio for now.
Very interesting comments Saviem - I’ve known pigs get very noisy & agitated when we arrived at Winsford Bacon or other such points of no return (for them) - it was like they could smell the end 
I also recall many stops on the hard shoulder or services to check the load through hatch or vent to establish all was well.
A trip was much better when delivering stock alive and well to a farmer’s field
Gardner 120:
Very interesting comments Saviem - I’ve known pigs get very noisy & agitated when we arrived at Winsford Bacon or other such points of no return (for them) - it was like they could smell the endI also recall many stops on the hard shoulder or services to check the load through hatch or vent to establish all was well.
A trip was much better when delivering stock alive and well to a farmer’s field
Loading swill fed pigs for delivery to Walls Godley, classed as heavy hogs - 8 to the ton, 5.30 am on a Monday morning. If it was windy the b******** wouldn’t come out of the building onto the loading dock. One of the places we used to load at fed the pigs on, amongst other things, the waste chocolate etc from the Rowntree factory in Newcastle. It was usually a full load (60-70 head) onto a clean wagon but after a 4 hour ride to Godley the sh~~ was well up the sides and welded on.
Happy days Tyneside
Thames Trader with Carrimore? trailer at Lympne Aero show a couple of weeks ago.
tyneside:
Gardner 120:
Very interesting comments Saviem - I’ve known pigs get very noisy & agitated when we arrived at Winsford Bacon or other such points of no return (for them) - it was like they could smell the endI also recall many stops on the hard shoulder or services to check the load through hatch or vent to establish all was well.
A trip was much better when delivering stock alive and well to a farmer’s field
Loading swill fed pigs for delivery to Walls Godley, classed as heavy hogs - 8 to the ton, 5.30 am on a Monday morning. If it was windy the b******** wouldn’t come out of the building onto the loading dock. One of the places we used to load at fed the pigs on, amongst other things, the waste chocolate etc from the Rowntree factory in Newcastle. It was usually a full load (60-70 head) onto a clean wagon but after a 4 hour ride to Godley the sh~~ was well up the sides and welded on.
Happy days Tyneside
Hi Tyneside, you have just brought some memories flooding back as I also used to load heavy hogs, as you quite rightly say - 14 score or 280lbs for Walls at Godley or Acton . I did it as a boy helping out in school holidays then on my own in an Albion Reiver albeit from the other end of the country. Strange that pigs from opposite ends of the country met to meet their fate together to make pies and sausages (all in the nicest possible way)How I remember the obstreperous ones which were determined not to make that journey, I am sure that their diet affected their attitude as swill fed pigs always seemed more difficult to load! My sentiments on halal concur with those of Saviem, come on animal rights get it banned!
My cousin spotted a gap in the traffic one day and pulled out of Shrewsbury market a bit sharp in an ERF B Series artic filled with sheep - several from the top deck parachuted off and he spent a good 40 minutes rounding them up and re loading D’oh!
The photo is of various ERFs at Wharf Rd 1987
Jazzandy:
Thames Trader with Carrimore? trailer at Lympne Aero show a couple of weeks ago.
is this the trader and trailor that was ramped up in ted toleman colours, fredm
Saviem:
gone we’d have needed a crane to get them up - nowadays, I know how they felt
Evening gardner120, I really do know how you felt!!
Too many years as a youngster taking poorly kept stock, off to their end…made me a virtual vegetarian…if you could have heard the rip they took out of me when I was working in “La belle France”…but it is how I am.
Totally arable on our farms…but have a lot of “saved” animals…funny how you end up!
Now a trailer load of young Bullocks, 0.5.30. …that sorts out the boys from the men…but when they all go quiet, as you back into the abbotoir yard… that stays with me always, and Halal…I once refused to “tip” some beasts for those ungodly men…got me a B…g, but they went instead to Barratts and Bairds, (young Michael, with the crushing handshake…but he knew my feelings), and their end was quick…and clean.
Funny how things get to you…but they did to me, and even at four score and ten, (plus a good bit), they still do!
Cheerio for now.
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Hi Saviem, four score and ten plus, good on you, hey here’s me thinking I was one of the older ones on here but compared to you I am just a pup 
with a gradient or two, probably a few diversions, a couple of MOTs and everything else connected with being on the worn side of good to come. Old age befalls some with more good favour than others. We can consider ourselves fortunate to have both the use of our limbs (tho’ creaky) and retention of working marbles
All the Best
Oily
Why do i get all the good loads lol
Load 1
Load 2
Load 3
Thanks for the comments on my last post Ade
Cheers to cattle wagon man, Gardner 120 and jazzandy for the pics
The Carrimore and Lympne take me back to the early 60s and delivering cars to Lydd airfield, better known then as Ferryfield, went there a couple times with 5 cars loads. Quite a busy place in them days.
Archive film. archivefilm.co.uk/video/view … rport-1964
and a pic, the Bristol Freighter used for the car ferrying.
Oily
This motor is driven by my old pal Gil Carlisle. At one time he ran a fleet on Teesside, (Carlisle Bros) I worked with him for 20years until last year when we both sold up and I retired for the first time, 
. He now works for Watson’s from Middlesbrough. He has no intention to retire yet. Regards Kev.
oiltreader:
Cheers to cattle wagon man, Gardner 120 and jazzandy for the pics
The Carrimore and Lympne take me back to the early 60s and delivering cars to Lydd airfield, better known then as Ferryfield, went there a couple times with 5 cars loads. Quite a busy place in them days.
Archive film. archivefilm.co.uk/video/view … rport-1964and a pic, the Bristol Freighter used for the car ferrying.
Oily
Swallowing a Mk 1 Consul or Zephyr