coomsey:
For those of you with a nervous disposition please look away NOW!!
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I think that most of us involved with tipping tarmac have been in that position Paul! I have had the rear wheels off of the floor more than once when tipping in trenches etc, those ‘rip and tip’ lads on dry stone miss out on all the fun!
Pete.
Ya bum was taking lumps out the seat n youd be trying to put your right foot through the cab floor, the Blaw Knox driver didn’t give a you know what. Made up for the lack of a heater mind
coomsey:
For those of you with a nervous disposition please look away NOW!!
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I think that most of us involved with tipping tarmac have been in that position Paul! I have had the rear wheels off of the floor more than once when tipping in trenches etc, those ‘rip and tip’ lads on dry stone miss out on all the fun!
Pete.
Not quite Pete, i have had my fair share of buttock clenching moments when tipping limestone from a tandem trailer
on less than firm ground… Tipping on the rock pile at Sturge Chemicals, Lifford, could often be a ageing experience.!
oiltreader:
Hi coomsey, cheers for the pics . I follow John Wakely’s postings on flickr and it is a 1980 Leyland tipper.
Oily
1st cab early 60,s,76 cab high datum with later style front grill, but still red and black seats & later style binnacle then round about 78 they put the tan trim in them 60,s models had the air wipers but alot of operators changed them to electric
1980’s my arse ! Oily me olde mucker i reckon i am siding with “coomsey” on this one. John has definately got
the date wrong ! Whilst they may have fitted the ergomatic cab until 1981 the interior was different to the one in your pic and the
1981 version would have been like pic 3 below.
Definately not 1980 but 1960’s possibly early to mid 70’s latest.They did a few upgrades in the 70’s. I am no Leyland expert but i
expect “ergomatic man” will know which years etc.
1964 cab.
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1976 cab.Bit posher.
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1979 Octopus mark 2 cab from brochure.Totally different,better seat different dash layout and a grab handle at the base of the seat.
oiltreader:
Hi coomsey, cheers for the pics . I follow John Wakely’s postings on flickr and it is a 1980 Leyland tipper.
Oily
1980’s my arse ! Oily me olde mucker i reckon i am siding with “coomsey” on this one. John has definately got
the date wrong ! Whilst they may have fitted the ergomatic cab until 1981 the interior was different to the one in your pic and the
1981 version would have been like pic 3 below.
Definately not 1980 but 1960’s possibly early to mid 70’s latest.They did a few upgrades in the 70’s. I am no Leyland expert but i
expect “ergomatic man” will know which years etc.
1964 cab.
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1976 cab.Bit posher.76 cab not majorly different just the later binnacle which also appeared in later aec,s and a double bar to pull window down instead of the big handle in the door panel,and the engine cover slightly lower more like a tray than the higher ones in low datum & flat front high datum cabs.
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1979 Octopus mark 2 cab from brochure.Totally different,better seat different dash layout and a grab handle at the base of the seat.
coomsey:
For those of you with a nervous disposition please look away NOW!!
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I think that most of us involved with tipping tarmac have been in that position Paul! I have had the rear wheels off of the floor more than once when tipping in trenches etc, those ‘rip and tip’ lads on dry stone miss out on all the fun!
Pete.
Not quite Pete, i have had my fair share of buttock clenching moments when tipping limestone from a tandem trailer
on less than firm ground… Tipping on the rock pile at Sturge Chemicals, Lifford, could often be a ageing experience.!
And I have a vague memory of tipping sugarstone at Bury St. Edmunds, backed up a great big heap.
Geest had a cold storage place at Blochairn Fruit Market in Glasgow, was a regular sunday run with 40 foot reefer containers from the Africa line berth at Teesport. Got told by the operators at Glasgow they would check what the temperature was in the back and would then store the load accordingly to that temperature then transfer to a warmer temperature to ripen them for use.
Blochairn was a good tip apart from on a sunday the market became a car boot sale place, think it was one of the biggest of it,s kind at that time (90’s) so it was a nightmare threading an artic through all the stupidly parked cars!!
Yes it’s a Dennis, probably one of the smaller Pax models? Some had petrol engines, but Perkins and BMC diesels were options as well. Worked on a few many years ago, they were very ‘over engineered’ compared to the similar class of truck from other manufacturers.
Buzzer:
What’s the make anyone know maybe a Dennis, Buzzer
Dennis Pax, might be petrol but more likely Perkins P6 or BMC 5.1 diesel powered. Registered Middlesex between 57-59, but with my Hercule Poirot hat on I’d say it’s 1958 as it looks like the Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court, IIRC held every other year on even years.
Edit, must have pressed the button same time as Pete!
Bernard
Leyland600:
Oily does the Leverburgh ferry still zig zag and stir the sand up from the sea bed when crossing at low tide ?
Cheers, Leyland 600
Been on it a few times G and one time I thought she was struggling a bit and yes she does meander seeking deeper water. On a nice day there is no finer seascape.
Oily
“Some from your part of the world Oily”
Cheers Dean, memory joggers, Tar Distillers, Falkirk being one. A bit vexed about pic 8 and the McPherson AEC load, what could be in the bags, I make it 12 high, 3 across and 15 stacks, 540 and the wagon sitting like it was empty
Oily
Another 2 New Zealand pictures from John Wilkinson, a bonneted Ivceo with 2 curtain sided trailers on 2 fifth wheels,
and a bonneted 8 wheeler logging lorry. This lorry is pulling a drawbar trailer, but I couldn’t make it attach to this post. Ray Smyth.
