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.
Thanks, Pete, it’s all coming back to me now. Funny how a little thing gets your brain ticking over. Robert’s photo of the blue Riley has just reminded me that my uncle gave me one of those to fiddle about with when I was fifteen. One of my old chap’s mates brought it home for me in the back of a cattle wagon!
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.
Yes ROF, I’d totally forgot about that, the Wolseley 6/90 had the same gear change, sculpted seat corner to accommodate, silly idea I thought without knowing the reason why, wouldn’t get in the way if you were doing a bit o’ courting , I dream, my steed at that time was a Ford 400E van must have a dig with mr google.
Oily,
Thanks to robert1952, kevmac47 and backsplice for the pics
The Scania 113, doing not bad for an N plate, looking tired, on the other hand, it’s mebbe a shunter.
The transporter, well chatting to this Ford driver last week as he was unloading in Inverness, comparing yesteryear and todays loading, our totally uncomplicated gear was much faster, his trailer is a 12 car, but VOSA he said only allow 11, though the load is mostly 10 and with a yardman lining them up he said 35mins to load, and he talked me through the procedure, tied me in knots, he was well experienced and had started with Lawsons of Kiriemuir, so quite understood when I offered my less and 30 mins(with a mate chaining down) load 9 cars onto a wagon and drag and the same time single handed to a 7 car artic. After getting the van off, it was off to Thurso with the three on the unit. I got the impression there is no better paid driving job today in the UK, but you have to know what your doing, like, a mention “that top deck then gets dropped to 2” off the glass" and so forth.
Oily
A bit o’ scenery on the A890, some fair old banks on that road, but when atop them the view is worth it. Pulling in on the offside is not normal practice, wouldn’t do it if there was traffic behind me but could see a loaded Mr Ross had a good head of steam up and the wave he gave was of appreciation
Oily
servo88:
Hi Oily loved the old snap of St James,s Market stick the rest on, much appreciated, regards Gordon
Finally got round to it Gordon, first pic, I can remember petrol pumps like that one, a longish wooden handled pump with a left/right action, some were crank wind. The lorry looks a '30s something Ford.
Oily
I thought that this one deserves an airing ,best part of a days work to load it let alone to deliver it.how many of todays ‘drivers’ would like to take this one on for a living.driven by a class 1 driver without a class 1 licence !!
Hi Oily, The destination would be Mallard Rd Depot the main one for Bournmouth Corporation. I think Ade must have been lying n his side taking these photos !!!
Cheers both Leyland 600.
Now for something completely different, this article in our local evening paper about a gun powder mill which existed in the next village to where I was born. Set in a quiet bit of forest within the New Forest National Park and of special interest to me as back then they relied on horse power to transport the finished product, interesting bit of local history, cheers Buzzer.
toshboy:
I thought that this one deserves an airing ,best part of a days work to load it let alone to deliver it.how many of todays ‘drivers’ would like to take this one on for a living.driven by a class 1 driver without a class 1 licence !!
“Fast Eddie” has a yard full of men that could handle that
If Harry Gill sees it he’ll “have a crisis”.
P.S. it’s a very fine looking outfit, it would sort the men out from the boys.
toshboy:
I thought that this one deserves an airing ,best part of a days work to load it let alone to deliver it.how many of todays ‘drivers’ would like to take this one on for a living.driven by a class 1 driver without a class 1 licence !!
Good to see you posting Ivor, you’ve got to be the daddy on trucknetuk I guess, already toiling behind the wheel when most of us were were still in short trousers Good luck to you, long may it continue.
Cheers
Oily
Buzzer:
Now for something completely different, this article in our local evening paper about a gun powder mill which existed in the next village to where I was born. Set in a quiet bit of forest within the New Forest National Park and of special interest to me as back then they relied on horse power to transport the finished product, interesting bit of local history, cheers Buzzer.
Interesting Buzzer, when I was on the buses at Grangemouth, there was a Nobels munitions factory at Redding a village outside Falkirk, we used to do the shift runs, mostly women worked there and always thought of as a bit of a scary place, all the sheds, sort of nissen huts were separated by roof height mounds of earth, this was some sort of precaution that if one hut went up it didn’t affect the others, apparently for the time the wages were pretty good (mebbe included danger money ) and the travel to work was also paid for by the company.
Now the Lawrence Dunbar pic, you could manage that four in hand without all the flunkeys
Oily
, I dream, my steed at that time was a Ford 400E van 
regards Gordon
) and the travel to work was also paid for by the company.