Andrew Morrison posted an Iranian reg Kamaz, here’s a couple on home ground.
Oily
“Whoa, we’ve been. When you do go, be prepared, it’s a very emotional experience. We’ve toured Normandy and The Somme, it gets very emotional”.
Hi GOM thanks for that, getting a bit long in the tooth now(aye I do have some left 
) still, you never know.
Cheers
Oily
kevmac47:
It meets the wheel and transport criteria Oily
I wonder if is any relation to this driver Regards Larry.
Hi Kev and Oily, Anyone who has ever visited the Normandy battlefields and War cemeterys plus those in Holland comes away feeling very humbled at the sheer numbers of men who gave their lives during that time. My family spent a caravan holiday in Normandy back in the late 1980s staying on the site at Bayeaux. Chatting to the man in the next caravan he told me that thelast time he was in Bayeaux was 1944 and fought his way westwards along the main road to a village called Tilly which I had never heard of and described the devastation there. This aroused our curiosity and we decided to go, on the way there we came to cross roads out in the country with a farm nearby just like any that ordinary crossroads here in the UK, on the far side was a triangular plot of land immaculately fenced off from the road and adjoining fields where within was a small War Graves Commission cemetery called Jerusalem which contained the graves of 49 young men one as young as 16 all members of The Durham Light Infantry and tthe Staffordshire Regiment. They had all been killed in the battle to gain control of that crossroads. This is one cemetery I shall never forget. Driving along that road was like no other as all the trees and bushes were all mishaped due to being blasted in every way possible during what was known as the Battle of the Hedgerows. When we got to Tilly the village had been completely rebuilt as photographs showed in the local museum complete devastation of all buildings back in 1944.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
100% agree with these sentiments! Been to the bugle ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres on several occasions and it never fails to move everyone to tears.
Steve.
I know there’s been a few complaints on Oilys topic
May I share this
My uncle who I never met was a flight Sgt radio operator he was shot down over Holland in 1943 he and the other crew were all killed
His gravestone is in Kiel Germany my dad and other uncle have been to visit his grave unfortunately my grandparents never had the chance to
I’m going next year to pay him and all the others respect
My uncle is mentioned in the bomber command book which lists all the flights/missions carried out during WW2
What is nice about Kiel cemetery is that local school children adopt a gravestone and each child tends to their grave
Well it does show you,v got a loyal set of followers Oily & plenty donors dedicated to your thread. Keep the shop running, well oiled as the saying goes.regards servo
Lawrence Dunbar:
0kevmac47:
It meets the wheel and transport criteria OilyI wonder if is any relation to this driver
Probably not Larry, this one’s obviously Scottish, whereas the other one was from Barrow!
But we’ve all delivered to drops like that! ‘Mummy, mummy, is daddy dead, no son he’s unloading at Bookers…’
John.
The circus has been in town.
Thanks to servo88 , Lawrence Dunbar and Numbum for the pics and also ta for the other craic both serious and light hearted
Couple more American trucks, first one Victoria, Australia, second in France.
Oily
kevmac47:
It meets the wheel and transport criteria Oily
Did he go to Barrow and fall in a furnace?
kevmac47:
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These are great photos Kev. The old Leyland wrecker is a gem IMO, Keep them rolling, Regards Larry.
Hi Kev, Good to see that Ken Wilkinson has that ex Preston Weymann bodied PD2 there was never a better double decker than a PD2 or 3. I had a Leyland bodied example ex Rawtenstall Corporation No 18 back in 1976 to 82 a beautifull bus to drive and good looking with it. I sold it in 1982 and it has been through various owners since but has now had extensive chassis repairs carried out plus much other work and is about to be launched back onto the bus rally scene also to be used for wedding hires etc. Wilkinsons always liked their Leyland Leopards.
Cheers. Leyland 600
I’ve driven a PD2, good motor, lively as hell.
Would the pd2 have had a preselect gear change ? i ask because in the early 50s my dad ran a coach business and they had a daimler coach with preselect gears . a chrome paddle about the size and shape of a semaphore indicator . i always thought that it might have been some kind of prototype . dave
I never saw or used one with pre select or 2 pedal semi auto, all manual. Yorkshire Woollen District Transport had quite a fair number of the with Roe bodies and a few with “tin” Willowbrook bodies
The PD2s with pre-selectors were built for London Transport, who called them RTLs. Robert