Chris62:
Here’s one of my old trucks from when i was an OD in Norway,we loaded fish south and clean empty fish boxes back,it was the golden days of long distance trucking in Norway,we all made some good money,but alas times changed, what with very cheap Eastern block companys doing the same work as us but for half the price,
Hello Chris, That trailer is an unusual set up ! Does the back axle steer or lift ■■
Cheers Dean
It’s marvellous really what’ll trigger old transport memories. I’ve just been out for an O.A.P fish 'n chips washed down with a glass of red. I sat on the karzi after the event and heard a wonderful rendition of a sound I haven’t heard for years: vacuum brakes! 
Robert
ERF-NGC-European:
It’s marvellous really what’ll trigger old transport memories. I’ve just been out for an O.A.P fish 'n chips washed down with a glass of red. I sat on the karzi after the event and heard a wonderful rendition of a sound I haven’t heard for years: vacuum brakes!
That’s a relief Robert, mebbe better than some of the “runs” you’ve had in the past 
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Oily
tyneside:
Few more from Washington, early sixties. The Blue House Lane garage was right opposite the F pit. Used to go past it everyday on the way to school.
Hi tyneside, I’ll have a go at the cars, 1st pic Austin 10, Ford Consul, Morris 1000, Ford Anglia, 2nd pic Ford Consul, Jowett Javelin, Hillman Minx, Morris 1000, 3rd pic Austin Somerset, Morris 1000, MG Y Series and the van probably ex MOD. great pics 
Oily
oiltreader:
ERF-NGC-European:
It’s marvellous really what’ll trigger old transport memories. I’ve just been out for an O.A.P fish 'n chips washed down with a glass of red. I sat on the karzi after the event and heard a wonderful rendition of a sound I haven’t heard for years: vacuum brakes!That’s a relief Robert, mebbe better than some of the “runs” you’ve had in the past
Oily
Very witty Oily !
Imagine meeting this coach on a unlit road at night ! 
DEANB:
Chris62:
Here’s one of my old trucks from when i was an OD in Norway,we loaded fish south and clean empty fish boxes back,it was the golden days of long distance trucking in Norway,we all made some good money,but alas times changed, what with very cheap Eastern block companys doing the same work as us but for half the price,Hello Chris, That trailer is an unusual set up ! Does the back axle steer or lift ■■
Cheers Dean
Hei DEANB
The back axle was a steer axle,locking pin was released on a switch on the dash board,and the front axle on the trailer lifted,also back axle on the truck was also lift,this set up was especially good for winter driving in Norway,use to lift both axles just before the hill/mountain,use to get something like another 10 ton on the drive axle of the truck,lots more grip.
Tidy Foden recovering a bus in Penzance recently
Thanks to malc step, Chris62, Ray Smyth, Buzzer, Lawrence Dunbar and robthedog
Buzzer’s got me digging out these.
Oily
Hi Tyneside, Some interesting photos from the 50s/ 60s, I particularly like the photo of Blue House Lane Garage.
With regard to the “Regular” petrol at 4 shillings and threepence a gallon, your mathematical conversion to
todays Metric money is spot on. The little items to the left of the pumps look like one of them is for a shot
of Redex, upper cylinder lubricant,at 1 penny a shot, and the other could be oil for for “Two Stroke” engines
in BSA Bantams , Francis Barnetts, and many other motor cycles,autocycles, and mopeds. The Diesel pump
at the rear looks a bit lonely. Kind Regards, Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth SENIOR MEMBER Posts: 252Joined: Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:25 pm
Hi tyneside, I’ll have a go at the cars, 1st pic Austin 10, Ford Consul, Morris 1000, Ford Anglia, 2nd pic Ford Consul, Jowett Javelin, Hillman Minx, Morris 1000, 3rd pic Austin Somerset, Morris 1000, MG Y Series and the van probably ex MOD. great pics
Oily
Hi Ray & Oily and thanks for the comments. Just after the war an area of Washington, just behind the main street was used for housing ex servicemen and other homeless families and it became known as the squatters, the first man my Father employed in 1947 after starting up lived there for several years, I can just remember it and it was not the best !!! but the people created a community and called it home as some of the photos show. They even had their own car showroom, perhaps Oily can have a go at identifying these.
The motor bike is a late forties Panther, or so I am informed.
The other two photos are of the main gate of RAF Usworth and then what was built there in the eighties
Ah Oily recognise this truck of D.N.Croft’s as when in Frome market I always sit nex to Dennis Croft’s as he is a long time dealer in livestock and buys for various clients on an order basis as well as a few for himself, hailing from Wincanton he and his wife have about 100 suckler cattle and there son Jason runs the hay and straw business with his wife. Dennis is a very knowledgeable around cattle and knows a lot of farmers and usually points me in the right direction as to there well being and what he thinks they are worth, a good man to stand next to, he is 85 I think now and only gave up driving his rigid Volvo cattle truck about two years ago & now has a trailer on the back of a Discovery but they still run a six wheeled DAF livestock truck and a artic trailer if things get busy, cheers Buzzer.
Some poor quality pics of my father’s lorries of the 50’s and 60’s along with my grandfather’s first Model T. Dad operated as R.H (■■■■) Lambert from 1947 to 1964 from Silverdale, Nr Carnforth, Lancs. General haulage with two A and a B license. Dad is 93 now but still sharp as a tack and I’m trying to get him on this site. He would know a lot about the North West industry in the 40’s to 60’s.
Chris62:
DEANB:
Chris62:
Here’s one of my old trucks from when i was an OD in Norway,we loaded fish south and clean empty fish boxes back,it was the golden days of long distance trucking in Norway,we all made some good money,but alas times changed, what with very cheap Eastern block companys doing the same work as us but for half the price,Hello Chris, That trailer is an unusual set up ! Does the back axle steer or lift ■■
Cheers Dean
Hei DEANB
The back axle was a steer axle,locking pin was released on a switch on the dash board,and the front axle on the trailer lifted,also back axle on the truck was also lift,this set up was especially good for winter driving in Norway,use to lift both axles just before the hill/mountain,use to get something like another 10 ton on the drive axle of the truck,lots more grip.
Cheers Chris, i bet that was a bugger at times with the rear axle being right on the end of the chassis must
have been hard work in tight spots !! 
Appreciate the lift on the unit re grip. I would imagine most
trucks running around Sweden,Finland,Norway would have that as standard.
tyneside:
Hi Tyneside, Some interesting photos from the 50s/ 60s, I particularly like the photo of Blue House Lane Garage.
With regard to the “Regular” petrol at 4 shillings and threepence a gallon, your mathematical conversion to
todays Metric money is spot on. The little items to the left of the pumps look like one of them is for a shot
of Redex, upper cylinder lubricant,at 1 penny a shot, and the other could be oil for for “Two Stroke” engines
in BSA Bantams , Francis Barnetts, and many other motor cycles,autocycles, and mopeds. The Diesel pump
at the rear looks a bit lonely. Kind Regards, Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth SENIOR MEMBER Posts: 252Joined: Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:25 pmHi tyneside, I’ll have a go at the cars, 1st pic Austin 10, Ford Consul, Morris 1000, Ford Anglia, 2nd pic Ford Consul, Jowett Javelin, Hillman Minx, Morris 1000, 3rd pic Austin Somerset, Morris 1000, MG Y Series and the van probably ex MOD. great pics
OilyHi Ray & Oily and thanks for the comments. Just after the war an area of Washington, just behind the main street was used for housing ex servicemen and other homeless families and it became known as the squatters, the first man my Father employed in 1947 after starting up lived there for several years, I can just remember it and it was not the best !!! but the people created a community and called it home as some of the photos show. They even had their own car showroom, perhaps Oily can have a go at identifying these.
The motor bike is a late forties Panther, or so I am informed.
The other two photos are of the main gate of RAF Usworth and then what was built there in the eighties
Hi tyneside, I would say a Morris Commercial on the milk with the cars a Morris 10, Austin 10, Ford Popular, Morris Series E, Ford Anglia (bumper over riders), Rover 12, Standard 8 and the bus probably a Bedford, if it was a “works” bus it may have the slatted wooden seats.
Cheers
Oily