Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[moga]

A 1940s United oldie, taken at the Middlesbrough United bus station, which was also the parcels depot, with my late brother George & the Bedford he learned to drive in.

[retired_old_fart]

servo88:

oiltreader:

servo88:

oiltreader:
Earlier times with horse and cart traffic.
Oily

Love them one,s Oily any more like them

Hi servo, yes how about this, it is an absolute gem , a very busy Jamaica Street ,Glasgow, April 1901, and all of you out there take a few minutes to have a look.
youtube.com/watch?v=kpWbp4kx7uQ
Oily

Thats a cracker Oily spot on, no punctures them day,s Eh,regards Gordon

Thanks for that, Oily. Excellent quality film for the age, although as a former owner/driver I did cringe at all that empty running!

[jakdaw]

M6 Preston.

[deanb]

One of my grandads new lorries.

[oiltreader]

Thanks to servo88, Buzzer, Moga, Jakdaw and DEANB for the pics

Inverness variety the Bedworth fridge being pulled by D Steven of Wick.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Moga:
A 1940s United oldie, taken at the Middlesbrough United bus station, which was also the parcels depot, with my late brother George & the Bedford he learned to drive in.

Hi Moga, I passed my test in a similar vintage Bedford July 1952.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Buzzer:
Found this picture in a draw last night while rummaging for something else, one of the first mini’s I had one of 23 through my hands, mine is on the left the other one was my mates a 1071 cooper s. Put a set of Pirelli Cinturato’s on her and it stuck to the road like glue. Note the Reliant robin for sale in the background, Buzzer.

Hi Buzzer, if you had a Mini you’d probably be aware of an automatic gearbox version, in my early days on car delivery, late 62ish, on plates before getting a wagon I delivered one or two. they were a joy to drive, you could select D(drive) fully automatic and that was it or 1st,2nd, 3rd, 4th, up or down manually just like an normal gear box.
Rainy days were not good days for delivering minis, the floorpan of the monocoque shell leaked and sodden carpets and a boot with its share of underspray water was not uncommon, but hey BMC boffins solved this with grommets that could be taken out for drainage, not the most ingenious of solutions but working until they decided stopping the water ingress at source was the answer, another load of useless piffle but fact.
Oily

[servo88]

[oiltreader]

Thanks to servo88 for the old uns.

Going global.
Oily

[buzzer]

Oily got these of my face book, Pearce’s bakery in Carp st Beca New South Wales, Australia . Old and new the Ford bought in 1947, Buzzer.

[robert1952]

British international transport development.

Phase 1.

Phase 2.

[oiltreader]

Thanks to Buzzer and robert1952 for the pics

From the A96 at Inverness
Oily

[oiltreader]

Hi Robert, no doubt you came across Willi Betz wagons during your journeys abroad, seems to favour Merc, remarkably he started the firm aged just 17 in 1945.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Buzzer:
Oily got these of my face book, Pearce’s bakery in Carp st Beca New South Wales, Australia . Old and new the Ford bought in 1947, Buzzer.

I’m old enough Buzzer to remember the horse and cart delivery of bread and groceries in rural Aberdeeshire, also the fishwife, Fish Bell her name was, she’d get off the train with two large basketfuls of fish, having travelled some twenty odd miles from the coast, round the village and farms until she’d sold everything, then came the Ford 10 van of the same family, Findlay of Whitehills,(coastal fishing town) Banffshire.
Oily

[consettbell]

servo88:
3210

Was the Triumph in Lanchester? I recall my mates Dad had one ready to restore and that looks very much like their house and the car!

[robert1952]

oiltreader:
Hi Robert, no doubt you came across Willi Betz wagons during your journeys abroad, seems to favour Merc, remarkably he started the firm aged just 17 in 1945.
Oily

Thanks Oily! He had stakes in Mercedes I believe . He was certainly one of their biggest customers. What frustrated me was MB wouldn’t sell the public any SK without the dreaded and horrible EPS gearshift , yet Betz had hundreds of the damned things with manual ZF Ecosplits because he refused to have EPS. Makes you spit! Robert

[robert1952]

Remembering the old Spanish lorries. Robert

[servo88]

consettbell:

servo88:
3210

Was the Triumph in Lanchester? I recall my mates Dad had one ready to restore and that looks very much like their house and the car!

Yes it is, up near the Cemetery been going to snap it for years, finally got it

[bassman]

Robert1952

I have only experienced life in two SK Mercedes , one , a 2033 with a 16 speed ZF and one with a ESP box and I know which one I preferred!

Cheers Bassman

[bassman]

Grumpy old man & R.o.f.

Not a two stick model but in my opinion the best AEC made, and I don,t mind if you drool over it!!

Cheers Bassman