Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[pete_smith]

Froggy55:

oiltreader:
Thanks to pete smith for the pic

First pic could well the the type of power unit for that 8 wheeler.
Oily

What could have been the output of such an engine? Around 100 bhp? The article mentions that one driver slept while the other one was at the wheel; I’m just wondering what quality of sleep he could get withy the engine roaring under his bum? Not to mention the smell of oil and fuel…

Hi Froggy,
125 bhp I think!

[servo88]

oiltreader:
Thanks to servo88 for the pics this ones nearer home for you.
Oily

Cheer,s Oily for them shot,s, here,s a couple from 50 yard,s further down the road

[lawrence_dunbar]

Here’s Big Al’s video of his new project.

Regards Larry

Starting up a land rover with a bedford engine

[rastone]

What’s this ? The rad. doesn’t seem to look like other motors.Thought it was a Peerless but check the radiator slopes.

Tony

[tidderson]

A few more resting in N Z

[pete_smith]

rastone:
What’s this ? The rad. doesn’t seem to look like other motors.Thought it was a Peerless but check the radiator slopes.

Tony

Could it be a Pagefield Tony? Shukers were agents for Massey Ferguson’s had place in Bridgnorth by railway station

[albion1938]

rastone:
What’s this ? The rad. doesn’t seem to look like other motors.Thought it was a Peerless but check the radiator slopes.

Tony

Definitely a Peerless, WW1 era.
Bernard

[rastone]

albion1938:

rastone:
What’s this ? The rad. doesn’t seem to look like other motors.Thought it was a Peerless but check the radiator slopes.

Tony

Definitely a Peerless, WW1 era.
Bernard

This Peerless was a bucket of bits before it was restored.

Tony

[oiltreader]

Thanks to backsplice, servo88, TIDDERSON and rastone for the pics

Couple of Peerless ads from 1922.
Oily

[windrush]

I remember back in the sixties when I used to accompany dad in his Seddon on bulk grain work and we delivered to Witherington and Over Bros Sonning Mill on the Thames, out the back of the mill was a Peerless lorry that was no longer in use. It was a forward control version, presumably it went to Goodys scrapyard at Twyford just up the road?

Pete.

[oiltreader]

Saviem:
Ah Skiffle…has any group of youngsters made such tune full music with so little, and to such an attractive bunch of females…and with such success…

By gum, our youth was not half bad…

Cheerio for now.

Your mention of skiffle Saviem has stirred the marbles and in particular a Lonnie Donegan concert/dance at he the Ice Rink Kirkcaldy, 1955ish, a full house, nobody wanted it to end, encore after encore, happy days.
A taste here of one of his many hits youtube.com/watch?v=TW9KUeMaJRQ
Anybody remember Deryck Guyler the actor, well he was also an ace washboard player, a short demo here youtube.com/watch?v=GWKHTcC-I8k
Cheers
Oily

[oiltreader]

Swiftly back to lorries, in this case a Pete in Spain.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Two more this time from Canada thanks to Jeremy Rempel.
Oily

[lurpak]

I think she’s due her first service lol

Ade

[oiltreader]

lurpak:
I think she’s due her first service lol
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Ade

No doubt the main reason she’s got to where she is is, nice one
Oily

[oiltreader]

Still with the Peterbilt collection.
Oily

[backsplice]

Here,s an unusual one for you Oily … a wee bit smaller
Then I remembered the 2nd lot too

[oiltreader]

Thanks to backsplice for the pics yes memories there Triumph Herald and Bedford , bit of diy conversion looks like
A triumph story comes to mind (may have told it before). Got back to the yard at Cowley after tipping Southsea, pick up Renaults at Southampton Docks for going north, anyway back at Cowley 3ish and boss with a special favour request “see ‘so and sos’ wagon with the Triumphs on, he hasn’t come in today could you get them to Slough, they’re screaming for them” “They’ll be shut by the time I get there” hoping to be heading home… “yes but someone will wait over”. So off we go Henley, Maidenhead Thicket and the then new M4 started, along to Slough, sure enough someone waiting. Cleared bottom deck, dropped top deck, got to second car, a Herald saloon, leant over left hand to rest on back seat cushion while looked rearwards, no seat, cushion or squab, bare metal, I thought f**** sake I’m in the s*** here, I hadn’t loaded the wagon so no checklist from me. Every cloud has a silver lining the guy who should have checked for all equipment was obviously anxious to be on his way, so no check and I made sure I drove this particular car off and into the compound, locking it and handing him the keys Phew, ticket signed and I was off. Never heard officially no more about it, though chatting in the pub to a colleague about what a stroke of luck I’d had, he said "yeah I know who had the seat away, it would’ve been **** the yardman, he’s building a kit car, well he’d also been caught nicking bits from other cars, so finished up getting his marching orders.

This would be a Herald similar to the OZ cut job.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Ford variety.
Oily

[oiltreader]

A few livestock wagons.
Oily