New Zealand? Well if I’m ever passing that way… 
Here’s a delight to start a Sunday morning. If you were around in the '50s and '60s you can’t help but be moved by this evocative painting. You can almost taste the cold damp air and the diesel exhaust. You can hear the beat of that loco as it struggles up Beatock, and the growl of your Leyland 0.600 (or 0.680 if you’re lucky) as you pull away. Feel the finger indentations under the rim of the steering wheel as you feed it through your hands. You’ve got a noisy day’s driving ahead of you. Pray that the snow holds off…
ERF-NGC
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Yes, indeed, but who is that in the little blue van? Not a Ministry man doing a silent check?
I was promoted to an Otto just like that for a couple of weeks when the regular driver was on holiday. I can remember the feeling now after tipping for the first time (a load of asphalt blocks from Matlock to South somewhere) and ringing round so proudly asking for the full tonnage as a backload, rather than what was permitted on my 4 wheeler Albion.
But I can’t remember what those payloads would have been at this distance. 
No doubt one of you will tell me. 
1929 Leyland Badger.
Oily
It reminds me of the 1950’s UK film Hell Drivers.
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Yes, but they had Dodges. More speed in the cutting room than under the bonnet I reckon as well. Stanley Baker and William Hartnell, the first Doctor Who. Others, later well known, but lost to me now. 
Patrick McGoohan. Alfie Bass?
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Don’t forget Sean Connery
Shorry, wash he in it too? Who was the female love interest, could it have been Glynnis Johns? Recently died at over 100 I think.
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It’s on YT these days, I watched it a couple of months go.
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This looks a painting to me.
Hell drivers and Perkins, a contradiction in terms. 
Don’t forget the great Stanley Baker. 