900X20:
Greetings,oily. I liked the front grille on Casey’s motor. It came from an Austin A70.Bit of nostalgia, the A 70 was my first car after leaving the R.N.Halcyon days.
There’s an Austin badge over the windscreen and the screen itself appears to be the rear window of an A30.
It was a bit of a pig fully loaded with a trailer, four tons of best Forest of Dean coal all the way to Macclesfield before the motorways were built. Outward traffic was another 4 tons, this time with salt from Winsford for them Forest hills. The round trip was just about manageable in a week providing there were no hold-ups at the border crossing in Huntley. The shovel was for unloading- no wimpish tippers in them days!
Nurse, bring another pint of my apple flavoured medicine! 
Lawrence Dunbar:
Looks like the original colour for this Devon ( the two door was a Dorset) but here is a proper one as the one in the photo doesn’t seem right
Tony
Another for you, Tony -
Badged as Ebro, the grille and doors look like early Thames 4D
another 1950’s built under licence jobbie?
Steve
pete smith:
First picture is a still off Minder, second picture same motor in its first life,
I drove 2266 for part of it’s early life with Stamps/UTT - 320 ■■■■■■■ and long before limiters, went like s**t off a shovel!
I can well remember when on nights, leaving the M11 onto the M25 anticlockwise, up the climb to the first tunnels and fully freighted, she would be doing 80 and still accelerating - frightening, but great to drive!
Never knew she went on to find fame and fortune on the telly!
Those Minder stills look as though they might be in Billy Humphries yard in Silvertown?
Steve
Thanks to Lawrence Dunbar, rastone, Buzzer, Ste46 and stevejones for the pics 
Race car transport, one Dodge, two Leylands.
Oily
Buzzer:
Off FB post but nice old truck, Buzzer.
Ex Bletchley, Bucks… Terrapin and Winkfield.
OldishJoda:
Buzzer:
Off FB post but nice old truck, Buzzer.Ex Bletchley, Bucks… Terrapin and Winkfield.
I used to load these Terrapin Units in the 60s for The Inland Revenue Headquarters at Cowglen at ■■■■■■■■■■■■ Highland Haulage had the work from their London office, IIRC Their manger at that time was called ? Wilkie, He used to come to Tower Hill looking for motors when there was plenty of return traffic, The good old days, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
OldishJoda:
Buzzer:
Off FB post but nice old truck, Buzzer.Ex Bletchley, Bucks… Terrapin and Winkfield.
I used to load these Terrapin Units in the 60s for The Inland Revenue Headquarters at Cowglen at ■■■■■■■■■■■■ Highland Haulage had the work from their London office, IIRC Their manger at that time was called ? Wilkie, He used to come to Tower Hill looking for motors when there was plenty of return traffic, The good old days, Regards Larry.
Aye Larry, you’ve just reminded me of the reason I fell out with J & W Watt when their manager at London Colney tried to force me to load a Terrapin building for Campbell Town, you’ve got to be joking pal !! you can stick that right up your jacksie Harold, I’ve done enough ■■■■■ traffic for you but this is the end, and do you know what I never looked back from that day !! Cheers Dennis.
Ste46:
Another for you, Tony -
Badged as Ebro, the grille and doors look like early Thames 4D
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another 1950’s built under licence jobbie?Steve
That Ebro somehow looks as though it just sucked a lemon!
John.
Ste46:
Another for you, Tony -
Badged as Ebro, the grille and doors look like early Thames 4D
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another 1950’s built under licence jobbie?Steve
Yes Steve it does and the steering wheel looks a bit Trader like.
The 4D cab which started off as the ET6 was used on the Leyland Comet and Dodge but with own designs per model.Briggs Motor bodies were in the throes of bringing a new cab for the Leyland Comet.Dodge were also designing and they also approached Briggs and became interested in th Comet cab.There was a meeting between Briggs,Leyland,Ford and Dodge which resulted in Ford would pay the highest percentage of the tooling costs.New designs were approved for the front end to distingiush the different manufactures.The Ebro were licence built Ford Thames Models and took the name as the river Ebro.Check it out in Peter Dvvies’s bokk The world Encyclopedia of trucks.
Tony
Had this unit in our yard the other month from the Netherlands to to some high voltage AC testing on a power cable umbilical at 30Kv. Pretty impressive piece of kit operator told us that they can tandem two of these together and from an initial 415 volt supply unit can generate about 500 Kv for testing!
Red Row show 2016, Regards Larry.
