Here’s a reminder to watch out for that overhang at the back of the trailer on sharp turns: the stakes can be high! Found the pic on the internet, and yes it’s a Ferrari. Robert
Still on the trolleybus theme, talking to a coach driver one day who had been a conductor on Newcastle Corporation trolleys both four and six wheelers. He said that at quiet terminuses late at night he would get in the cab with the driver and hold the handbrake on as tight as possible while the driver applied as much power as possible to the motor then let the handbrake go causing the bus to do a wheelie if it was a four wheeler, not so easy with a six. I remember travelling across Newcastle from Marlborough Crescent to The Haymarket during school holidays back in the early 1950s.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
servo88:
kevmac47:
3210Hi Kev that brings back old memories can remember when Slaters Transport bought that quarry about 1966, Gordon
Ye, it was one of Tilcons quarries when I worked for them. Wasn’t it worked from below the sea?
Pete.
Thanks to toshboy, gazsa401, kevmac47 and robert1952 for the pics 
Caught this cupid old stunt on dashcam today, stood there for an hour he was taking photos ‘o wagons, 2° outside temp it was showing in the nice warm van, defo minus zero chill wind coming off the Cromarty Firth, he’s giving thumb up to McAdie and Reeve heading home to Orkney, anyway got him in the van for a warm and headed home where he found the camera had not been re-set from taking photos indoors, so out o’ 70 odd snaps only about 20 useable 
, bit like fishing I suppose, bit of an addiction and some days catching nowt. Hasn’t put him off, think I’ll have to take him to the shrink 
Oily
Leyland600:
Still on the trolleybus theme, talking to a coach driver one day who had been a conductor on Newcastle Corporation trolleys both four and six wheelers. He said that at quiet terminuses late at night he would get in the cab with the driver and hold the handbrake on as tight as possible while the driver applied as much power as possible to the motor then let the handbrake go causing the bus to do a wheelie if it was a four wheeler, not so easy with a six. I remember travelling across Newcastle from Marlborough Crescent to The Haymarket during school holidays back in the early 1950s.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Not much experience of trolley buses, but a few narky memories of trams (Aberdeen and Glasgow), obviously they ran middle of the road and we(buses) kept to the nearside, well when approaching a tram stop and he got there first, the law was that you gave way and allowed their passengers to cross the road to board, now some tram drivers having their passengers on board would hang on and let you get on your way, there was the odd awkward bugger who could make you stop every tram stop, from a standstill they could leave us behind, so it was cat and mouse, and being on rails they definitely had the upper hand, happy days, oh that we could re-live them 
Oily
These ERFs came up on my facebook page and this looks like a good place to put them,dont know the history of them but a couple look south african to me,maybe Robert has some info on them.
Jenson:
These ERFs came up on my facebook page and this looks like a good place to put them,dont know the history of them but a couple look south african to me,maybe Robert has some info on them.
Well the top one is in Malta by the look of it, on Maltese plates; and will have been imported from UK. The 2nd two are South African ERFs with locally-built Atlantis cabs and possibly local ADE power plants. The bottom one is a South African EC400 with a ■■■■■■■■ Robert
robert1952:
Jenson:
These ERFs came up on my facebook page and this looks like a good place to put them,dont know the history of them but a couple look south african to me,maybe Robert has some info on them.Well the top one is in Malta by the look of it, on Maltese plates; and will have been imported from UK. The 2nd two are South African ERFs with locally-built Atlantis cabs and possibly local ADE power plants. The bottom one is a South African EC400 with a ■■■■■■■■ Robert
A slightly different topic, Robert - when I was on night trunk in the 'eighties, I occasionally saw a couple of ERF cabbed lorries up and down the M1 badged as Western Star. Did they build many of them, and what became of the ones that I sometimes saw?
Steve
Ste46:
robert1952:
Jenson:
These ERFs came up on my facebook page and this looks like a good place to put them,dont know the history of them but a couple look south african to me,maybe Robert has some info on them.Well the top one is in Malta by the look of it, on Maltese plates; and will have been imported from UK. The 2nd two are South African ERFs with locally-built Atlantis cabs and possibly local ADE power plants. The bottom one is a South African EC400 with a ■■■■■■■■ Robert
A slightly different topic, Robert - when I was on night trunk in the 'eighties, I occasionally saw a couple of ERF cabbed lorries up and down the M1 badged as Western Star. Did they build many of them, and what became of the ones that I sometimes saw?
Steve
When Western Star took over ERF they built the Western Star version of the EC in Sandbach and exported them. Most were RHD for the Antipodean countries but some were LHD. I know little about them, but I did post several pieces of info about them on the Left Hand Drive ERF ECs thread. They had 18-speed Fuller 'boxes. Robert
We see HSF logistics near our yard all the time but this was on a friends FB site obviously in Holland don’t think we will see it here, Buzzer.
Thanks to Jenson and Buzzer for the pics
Early “selfloader” from 1922 on a Yorkshire Patent Steam wagon, long way back from todays remote control machines.
Oily
1968 and an early sideloader at show in Leipzig, I’m guessing the wagon is mebbe a Hanomag Henschel 
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Oily
I can just remember being in a tram in Glasgow. I was fascinated by the brass lever the driver used to control the speed. Jim.
oiltreader:
One for Robert
Oily
Blimey, that’s some beastie! Big ■■■■■■■ 525 no doubt. Robert
jmc jnr:
I can just remember being in a tram in Glasgow. I was fascinated by the brass lever the driver used to control the speed. Jim.
Like this Jim, one each end of the tram and a key to lock/unlock which ever direction was intended. In '61ish, on the buses in Oxford I had a clippie who was previously a Glasgow tram driver, she went on to become a very competent bus/coach driver.
Oily
oiltreader:
Two more, ok not lorries, apologies… but examples nevertheless of what I would call twin steer. First the John Tyrell grand prix car and the very popular(at one time) Bedford Val
Oily
I had missed the picture of the VAL coach! Exactly the same as those which used to take us to Porchester Bath swimming pool (right up Queensway; not sure that still exists) c. 1970! I loved the unique look of that “so British” coach. And, it doesn’t even look out of fashion today. Thanks for the picture, Oiltreader!
When I was a lad I used to do a bit of part timing at Wallace Arnold in Leeds and I regularly got a VAL on the Manchester Airport feeders. I always enjoyed driving them, they were very comfortable and light to handle.
