Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[servo88]

[oiltreader]

Thanks to Leyland600 and servo88 for the pics

Two at Inverness, from Hessle and Kilmarnock.
Oily

[servo88]

[oiltreader]

Thanks to servo88 for the pics

A 1974 Bedford Isuzu, still working 2014, same owner from new.
Oily

[robthedog]

Barcelona

[lurpak]

last lot from Rome

Cheers Ade

[servo88]

[oiltreader]

Thanks to robthedog, lurpak and servo88 for the pics

This one boarding a ferry on Orkney, driver making a few enquiries, not usual drop, not too sure where Ponteland is
Oily

[servo88]

I like the quote Oily, posh end of Newcastle

[oiltreader]

Bathgate built Austin Laird airport boarding steps truck in New Zealand.
Oily

[leyland600]

Carntyne Transport regularly run to Orkney where they load at the Highland Park distillery on the outskirts of Kirkwall also at the Scapa Distillery just across Scapa Bay from Highland Park. I can definitely recomend both brands. This tanker is boarding Northlink Ferries MV Hamnavoe at Stromness for a crossing to Scrabster. Here a couple of Photos of Carntyne trailers being shunted at Stromness lorry park by Isbister Bros ERF from Quoyloo. Stromness lorry park is now the site of the new Stromness Primary School. Isbister Bros are the regular shunters for unaccompanied Carntyne trailers in Orkney.
Cheers, Leyland 600

[lurpak]

Autologic unloading motorhome chassis at Baileys

Finished product in the background
Cheers Ade

[servo88]

This one should bring back memories taken at Wooler, regards servo

[servo88]

[oiltreader]

Thanks to Leyland600, lurpak and servo88 for the pics

Three from yesterday in Inverness.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Ford variety.
Oily

[robthedog]

oiltreader:
Thanks to robthedog, lurpak and servo88 for the pics

This one boarding a ferry on Orkney, driver making a few enquiries, not usual drop, not too sure where Ponteland is
Oily

Lawrence Dunbar territory

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robthedog:

oiltreader:
Thanks to robthedog, lurpak and servo88 for the pics

This one boarding a ferry on Orkney, driver making a few enquiries, not usual drop, not too sure where Ponteland is
Oily

Lawrence Dunbar territory

it is not a bad drop of juice as I am consuming a bottle which my lad bought me. probably one of the best blends about

cheers Johnnie

[oiltreader]

The subject being of the spirit kind, I am just about to set off on a ramble again with a picture of one of Dufftown’s stills, famously Rome was the city of seven hills well way back Dufftown was known as the town of the seven stills. My ancestors( I’ve traced them back to the 1740s) were from an area to the southeast of Dufftown, a distance into the hills, really wild country, so down the generations and in particular to my memory of uncles, brothers of my father worked at different stills and of course cousins as well. Now at family gatherings such as weddings and funerals etc the real McCoy appeared from concealment in all manner of containers, procured no doubt by illicit means, near enough the raw spirit, definitely pre proof graded, as I remember it was clear in colour and when offered a taste " be canny now, tak a sup an’ jist wait a wee minnit afore ye swally it" for a lad of probably about 15/16, some inniation that was and put me off the neat spirit for life, and only if it’s heavily camouflaged can I take it now.
Oily

[leyland600]

Hi Oily, those must be your ancestors depicted in the demonstration tableux at Glenfiddoch visitor centre showing a guy with lanky hair and a beard to match sitting ahint a dyke with a tam o shanter on his heid and a with a copper vessel with a lang piece of coiled copper pipe attached all being heated on a camp fire, this guy is catching the drops of moisture dripping from the end of the pipe into a mug. Was this the inspiration for Robert Burns song " The Deil’s awa wi the excise man, keep the smoke from rising Barney "

Cheers hic ! Leyland 600.