Here are one or two more of Grandads general carting business from the 20,s and 30,s
I was born in the house behind the hearse, it was built by the family in 1909.
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The bloke driving the team is me ! The cavalry soldier is my Grandad Dickson Oliver who was a Corporal Farrier in WW1 when that shot was taken of him in Belgium on his mount “Tango”. His Regiment was the 1st/1st Northumberland Hussars. He was born and grew up in Hexham the he was a village Blacksmith all his working life first of all in Capheaton Northumberland and then finally in Ireby Cumberland where I grew up.
I bet he could make CF bounce if he smacked him with that sabre.
At first glance that Big J had the ghost of a driver standing by the trailer, did anyone else see him, or was it just me? Couldn’t be, mine was in a lovely shade of turquoise, and had Rod Closs’s name above the screen. 
Bought the Big J second hand 18 months old in mid 1975 for £3750 + vat
So M plate, 74 ?
It works out in equivalent value today to …
Just wondered if you could buy an 18 month old motor for the same now?
Classic, and classic memories. A Mk 1 with a shiny bumper and dressed up to the nines. 
Tidy load there.
Is that Carryfast atop it?
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I don’t think so, he doesn’t appear to have a broken back. That must be a human forklift. 
The Mammoth Major of Biffas tipping on landfill a big no no nowadays. I wonder how warm those ERFs were?
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Broken back look at his bleedin shoulders.His top half doesn’t look like it’s attached to the bottom half and rigor mortis and decomposition has already set in going by the rest of him.That’s after just 5 years of no power steering let alone handballing trailer loads.
What’s the go there? Our ToA (tip over axle) are different to yours but it’s a big no-no to tip unless the whole outfit is in a straight line. The trailer brakes need to be applied and as the bin lifts it pulls the prime mover back. If the show’s no straight theres a good chance of breaking something, or rolling the outfit
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Hiya Ramone! That picture of the ERFs was taken by Chris Till who spend 7 years driving that NGC at the front to the Middle East and back. He told me it was utterly reliable in all weathers and never missed a beat. Ro
My fault Les , i was looking at the A Series at the rear and thinking how hot it must have been .The front one’s got air con , old saying hot in summer freezing in winter
@SDU the big no no is tipping using an artic tipper on landfill now.I think it’s illegal for obvious reasons. 8 wheeler rigids still do but even they go over from time to time. I think that old photo was a publicity shot , you certainly wouldn’t tip it like that and i’m guessing around 1966 - 67 by the look of the AEC