pete smith:
Hi Oily,
Scanned off a calendar sorry about the quality, Carntyne Transport, Glasgow tipping into an early model Barber Green? Looks like a Fordson power unit poking up! Cheer’s Pete
Yes, A Fordson unit for sure Pete. We used to run to a Birmingham firm with a small machine like that on tracks, though theirs had a Ford diesel engine and was a later model. I went to it at a pub car park in Bordesley Green one day and they were still digging tarmac off of the engine cover after one of our drivers (who was known for doing it!) had tried without success to get 20 tonnes in the pan in one go! 
Pete.
Couple of great black white photos thanks to Lawrence Dunbar and pete smith 
The coal delivery, going back a bit and the bagged coal delivery, quite a bit of fiddling went on, usually two men on the lorry and it would be one setting the bags one carrying with probably a swop depending how many cwt was being delivered, minimum where we lived would be ½ton, a winters worth and beyond, a tale I remember was of an old spinster lady covertly counting the bags coming off the lorry and when presented with the ticket for half a ton she challenged the coalman, saying “aye bit yev only gaen me 9 bags” “na na” said the driver, “wis ye counting ?” “aye ma laddie ah wis” and marched out to the lorry where the empty sacks were laid, " noo show me yer 10 empties" 
. Our winter fuel was supplemented with “backs” (local lingo) they were the first sawmill cut from a log and almost giveaway from the mill, a load (as many as you could get on a tractor trailer) a year usually, my dad used to say "we’ll go and get the first heat aff 'o this firewood, aye the good old Bushman saw and a sawing stool.
To Pete and his pic, looks biggish stuff, and not much sign of tar to be going through the Barber Greene and yes very much look Fordson power.
Better add a pic to my rambles
Might have been something like this Chaseside shovel that loaded the Bedford.
Oily
We had a Chaseside similar to that one at the quarry when I started there.
Pete.
windrush:
We had a Chaseside similar to that one at the quarry when I started there.
Pete.
Fred Chappell had a Chaseside when I started there as a young fella. It was a bit quiet and I got the job of taking the Chaseside to Halifax Sewage works, a few lads with TS3 Commer tippers, and I was the loader…ahem…dried human waste. 
Ye gods, what a job, it didn’t go down well with the then new Mrs GOM, it took a week after the job finished to get rid of the stink. 
Fred was OK, he was sat in the office making invoices out. 
Thanks to servo88 and kevmac47 for the pics
Dafs through the years.
Oily
grumpy old man:
windrush:
We had a Chaseside similar to that one at the quarry when I started there.
Pete.
Fred Chappell had a Chaseside when I started there as a young fella. It was a bit quiet and I got the job of taking the Chaseside to Halifax Sewage works, a few lads with TS3 Commer tippers, and I was the loader…ahem…dried human waste. Ye gods, what a job, it didn’t go down well with the then new Mrs GOM, it took a week after the job finished to get rid of the stink.
Fred was OK, he was sat in the office making invoices out.
Hi GOM, when I was a mechanic at Smith Parkinson & Cole, Bradford, we had an Albion Reiver loaded with that s–t tipper wouldn’t go up so we had to shovel the load out, boots full, clothes covered, summers day sweating it was stuck everywhere, for days all you could taste was s–t even the Tetley’s bitter didn’t help, 
Les.
lespullan:
grumpy old man:
windrush:
We had a Chaseside similar to that one at the quarry when I started there.
Pete.
Fred Chappell had a Chaseside when I started there as a young fella. It was a bit quiet and I got the job of taking the Chaseside to Halifax Sewage works, a few lads with TS3 Commer tippers, and I was the loader…ahem…dried human waste. Ye gods, what a job, it didn’t go down well with the then new Mrs GOM, it took a week after the job finished to get rid of the stink.
Fred was OK, he was sat in the office making invoices out.
Hi GOM, when I was a mechanic at Smith Parkinson & Cole, Bradford, we had an Albion Reiver loaded with that s–t tipper wouldn’t go up so we had to shovel the load out, boots full, clothes covered, summers day sweating it was stuck everywhere, for days all you could taste was s–t even the Tetley’s bitter didn’t help, Les.
Bit before your time Les I guess, 1934 to be exact.
Cheers
Oily
Another one for you, St James’s Market, Bradford and the winter 1969, there are a few more pics if you are interested.
Oily
Thanks to servo88 for the pics
Dingwall lorry park today. three Jonathan frigos (regulars) waiting the call to the local fish(salmon) processors.
Oily
oiltreader:
Another one for you, St James’s Market, Bradford and the winter 1969, there are a few more pics if you are interested.
Oily
I spy with my little eye: a posh two-tone '50s Riley, an Austin Cambridge van, a BMC Mini, a BMC 1100, a Bedford HA van, two BMC J2 vans, two Bedford TKs, a BMC Bathgate-cabbed lorry, and what looks like the arse-end of a V6 Ford saloon. I’ll bet someone’s filled in the rest of the details by tea-time! Robert
The bundle covers(polythene) on this one looked a wee bit tattered.
Oily
robert1952:
oiltreader:
Another one for you, St James’s Market, Bradford and the winter 1969, there are a few more pics if you are interested.
Oily
I spy with my little eye: a posh two-tone '50s Riley, an Austin Cambridge van, a BMC Mini, a BMC 1100, a Bedford HA van, two BMC J2 vans, two Bedford TKs, a BMC Bathgate-cabbed lorry, and what looks like the arse-end of a V6 Ford saloon. I’ll bet someone’s filled in the rest of the details by tea-time! Robert
The Riley is a 2.6 successor to the Pathfinder Robert, we referred to them as Pathfinders, carted one or two in my time, yes posh, real leather, real walnut veneered dash and door cappings.
Oily
Hi, Oily,
Would that Riley be the one with the gear lever between the driver’s seat and the door? I remember servicing one when I was an apprentice spanner-chucker and couldn’t understand why BMC did that when the other variants had gear changes in a more conventional place.
oiltreader:
robert1952:
oiltreader:
Another one for you, St James’s Market, Bradford and the winter 1969, there are a few more pics if you are interested.
Oily
I spy with my little eye: a posh two-tone '50s Riley, an Austin Cambridge van, a BMC Mini, a BMC 1100, a Bedford HA van, two BMC J2 vans, two Bedford TKs, a BMC Bathgate-cabbed lorry, and what looks like the arse-end of a V6 Ford saloon. I’ll bet someone’s filled in the rest of the details by tea-time! Robert
The Riley is a 2.6 successor to the Pathfinder Robert, we referred to them as Pathfinders, carted one or two in my time, yes posh, real leather, real walnut veneered dash and door cappings.
Oily
Ah yes! I’d forgotten about Pathfinders. There were still a few around in '69 - the year I passed my driving test, incidentally. When I lived in Cairo there was a huge Riley saloon, wider and longer than the Pathfinder rotting away in a side street in the city centre. I’d never seen that version of it in Blighty and I reckon it had probably been a diplomat’s car. There were several like that in Cairo, but during the recent revolution most of them vanished and the Riley was slowly cannibalised. The reason that Cairo had so many vintage cars was that it was forbidden to export them. Robert
Retired Old ■■■■:
Hi, Oily,
Would that Riley be the one with the gear lever between the driver’s seat and the door? I remember servicing one when I was an apprentice spanner-chucker and couldn’t understand why BMC did that when the other variants had gear changes in a more conventional place.
That’s the one ROF, they had the twin cam engine and you adjusted the valve clearances via screwed collars.
Pete.
oiltreader:
lespullan:
grumpy old man:
windrush:
We had a Chaseside similar to that one at the quarry when I started there.
Pete.
Fred Chappell had a Chaseside when I started there as a young fella. It was a bit quiet and I got the job of taking the Chaseside to Halifax Sewage works, a few lads with TS3 Commer tippers, and I was the loader…ahem…dried human waste. Ye gods, what a job, it didn’t go down well with the then new Mrs GOM, it took a week after the job finished to get rid of the stink.
Fred was OK, he was sat in the office making invoices out.
Hi GOM, when I was a mechanic at Smith Parkinson & Cole, Bradford, we had an Albion Reiver loaded with that s–t tipper wouldn’t go up so we had to shovel the load out, boots full, clothes covered, summers day sweating it was stuck everywhere, for days all you could taste was s–t even the Tetley’s bitter didn’t help, Les.
Bit before your time Les I guess, 1934 to be exact.
Cheers
Oily
Hi Oily, that’s a turn up for the books, brings back the memories, also the timeline photo will look for others, thanks for the effort,
cheers mate, Les.
I was just thinking about that big old Riley in Cairo and it occurred to me that lots of people must have photographed it, so I Googled ‘Old Riley car Zamalek’ (Zamalek is an area of Cairo) and a picture came up straight away. It must have been taken late in the Revolution period because the door handles have gone missing and I remember noticing that at the time! So here it is. It’s a much earlier model than the Pathfinder. Robert
Hi Oily loved the old snap of St James,s Market stick the rest on, much appreciated, regards Gordon
