Thanks to coomsey, Ray Smyth, pyewacket947v, Leyland600, VALKYRIE and tyneside, great pics, info detail and craic 
Oily
Heavy breathing with this one coomsey 
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oiltreader:
Thanks to coomsey, Ray Smyth, pyewacket947v, Leyland600, VALKYRIE and tyneside, great pics, info detail and craic
OilyHeavy breathing with this one coomsey
Is it coal fired ? 
You will spend hours trying to find out the make of the 6 wheeler because its been photoshopped, if you resize the pic the photo has been altered in that area, if you look at the pole in front of the motor there is a thin area that is just grey, also the cab has been distorted during the, very bad in my opinion, attempt to clean up the pic. The front wing, front wheel, and cab screen surround and front panel are all a strange matt grey. Maybe there was something hiding the front of the cab in the original pic and someone has tried to make something of it. I looked at this same image a few years ago when the same question of identity came up, unfortunately it was a decent pic that someone has made a mess of with limited photoshop experience. Franky.
I’ve resized the photo to show the areas that have been poorly tweaked and why it was done, it must have had cables running from the poles that spoilt the view of the cab. Question is what should it have been? Franky.
Hi Brian, I guess the United type of coaches you describe used on the Tyne-Tees Thames long distance services painted in cream with olive green relief were mid 1960s-70 Bristol RELHGXs with the last type of coach body built by Eastern Coach Works these had a curved window in each rear corner and a central large rear window. The high pitched whine comes from the drop centre rear axle used on these coaches, driveline was a shaft from the Gardner 6HLX engine forward over the axle to the gearbox mounted ahead of the axle, then a shaft back from the gearbox to the differential and drop centre axle. All Bristol REs had this whine which was not unpleasant when driving one but the driver is about 30 feet away. I ran an ex Greenslades Plaxton bodied RE for 3 years a lovely reliable economical coach.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Couldn’t that mystery truck have suffered a crash that damaged its cab? The right part of its roof seems slightly collapsed.
Hi Tyneside, Who remembers the big red faced copper that patrolled St Andrews St fruit market and chased you out once you had been tipped but was still waiting for notes to be tallied up in the mid 1960s ?
The mystery 6 wheeler could that possibly be a Boalloy or Homalloy cab or even a Sabrina ERF.?
Great street scenes long before the town planners ruined canny Newcassel.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Hi Tyneside, Who remembers the big red faced copper that patrolled St Andrews St fruit market and chased you out once you had been tipped but was still waiting for notes to be tallied up in the mid 1960s ?
The mystery 6 wheeler could that possibly be a Boalloy or Homalloy cab or even a Sabrina ERF.?
Great street scenes long before the town planners ruined canny Newcassel.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Aye Gerald, Poulson and his cronies have a lot to answer for!
Brutal Architecture at its most gruesome 
Regards Kev.
Leyland600:
Hi Tyneside, Who remembers the big red faced copper that patrolled St Andrews St fruit market and chased you out once you had been tipped but was still waiting for notes to be tallied up in the mid 1960s ?
The mystery 6 wheeler could that possibly be a Boalloy or Homalloy cab or even a Sabrina ERF.?
Great street scenes long before the town planners ruined canny Newcassel.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
As already commented, it is very difficult to get a clear image of the mystery six-wheeler, but I based my assumption of Albion Reiver on the rear axle hubs and the long air or vacuum tank on the chassis. The latter being a feature of pre-LAD cab Reivers.
Leyland600:
Hi Tyneside, Who remembers the big red faced copper that patrolled St Andrews St fruit market and chased you out once you had been tipped but was still waiting for notes to be tallied up in the mid 1960s ?
The mystery 6 wheeler could that possibly be a Boalloy or Homalloy cab or even a Sabrina ERF.?
Great street scenes long before the town planners ruined canny Newcassel.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Hi. Afraid we never had any involvement with Ncle Fruit Mkt but in the early sixties we did the muck shift for the new fruit market on the TVTE.
I can remember the regular policeman who was always on duty on Mondays at the cattle mart gates on Scotswood Rd. The gate was actually on Ord Street but the wagons had to get across Scotswood Rd to,reverse through the gate onto the docks. He was real old style and would stop all the traffic to allow the wagons to manoeuvre. Don’t think it would happen now !!
Tyneside
The St Andrews St cop was fuelled by whisky supplied by the wholesale fruit merchants. My mate and I both had loads of apples from Hull docks one very early morning which was duly loaded in dribs and drabs onto various merchants small lorries as consignments were sold and the remainder into the warehouse. It used to take some time to tally up all the boxes unloaded before signing the notes. On this morning seeing us with empty platforms the cop chased us out onto Eldon Square where we parked up and after eventually getting the notes signed we went for breakfast. When returning to our wagons we found 3 traffic wardens dancing round and sticking tickets on the windscreen saying that a sergeant from Pilgrim St police station had been round and was not amused at our parking by a yellow painted pole which apparently denoted restricted parking. We two being country lads with no knowledge of such things explained that we thought they were for supporting the trolleybus wires. Anyway we took the tickets went and parked down on the Quayside and walked up to Pilgrim St where on entering were greeted by the desk officer with the words “two lads frae ■■■■■■■ I bet, do they still hitch their horses to the bank railings in Wigton ?” We explained our plight the officer said he came to Ireby (my mates home village) for his holidays and knew a number of folk we knew. He took our tickets and said he would do what he could to get them cancelled. A few days later we both got a letter saying we were naughty boys and must not do it again plus a map of Newcastle’s on street parking, end of matter. Phew thanks for that. I doubt this would occur these days.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
25 October 1984
Strongford Layby
A34 Stafford.
One of Wynns Scammell Tractors
It was chucking it down at the time
Hence the raindrops on the lens
That badly photo shopped six wheeler definitely had a coachbuilt cab, you can see the nearside windows that escaped the changes and the quarter light window is quite big, it could be an Albion but a Maudsley, 50’s Octopus and maybe one or two others could fit the bill, it seems though the cab just extended beyond the front wings and not many cabs did that, however its just not worth guessing at, the real image has been ruined probably leaving it less recognisable than if the cables in the way of the cab had been left untouched. Franky.
tyneside:
Few random ones from F/B, all with a NE connection Tyneside
Note the Vulcans have got odd wings to get the 8.25 tyres on rather than 7.50s and the passengers wiper rare I’d say 
P.s middle lorry is a Morris .
Lawrence Dunbar:
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I love the Foden with the starting handle hanging out the front.
Lawrence Dunbar:
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What a nightmare of a photo, Larry, I never tipped there but I did at Spitalfields and it was very reminiscent of that.
With a load of apples backloaded from Hull I was told to get to the customer at 3am and pitch outside his place. Trouble was he was a late starter and I was stopping the artics getting round the corner so had to keep going round the block. He eventually turned in at around 8 and I started to get my ropes and sheets off. The boxes were flying off the back and I thought at last I was onto a good thing. Then it all went quiet, for about 20 minutes or so, and then suddenly it all went mad again. He was selling the bloody things of the back of my wagon, using me as a market stall. 
I finally got tipped around 11, never went near the place again.
Two different vehicles from the Sunderland area an oil tanker and a refuse wagon, can any one help with the manufacturers.
Tyneside
