del949:
No and there was also the Karrier Bantam.
I’d forgotten about the Karrier Bantam!
There was an odd one parked in the Trafalgar Yard during my time at NCL.
still got mine
Yep, I had one of those.
Yep, still got it 
Harry Monk:
Wheel Nut:
That is what I had with two stickers in it. I did my class three in Leeds with the company and then went for my class one while I was on holiday in BeverleyNot Beverley Bell, surely?
Axletramp, you must have been there about the same time as me.
Ben Lay was the cartage office manager IIRC and a guy called Pat was in charge at Trafalgar shed
I had a brown one, issued 1979
Heard about the black ones, never seen one, so doff my cap, but I still have the little brown book in the drawer next to me 
Was asked to prove my age in a pub not so far from where I sit now and when I satisfingly slapped said brown book on the bar, the beer was served forthwith
I want a soppy brown book. When trucks were wood, and men were steel.
Beats a cheap pink laminated card, for sure.
Yep, still got mine. Issued 1983.
I had one. Makes you feel yer age don’t it.
Wheel Nut:
Harry Monk:
Wheel Nut:
That is what I had with two stickers in it. I did my class three in Leeds with the company and then went for my class one while I was on holiday in BeverleyNot Beverley Bell, surely?
Beverley Beck
You’ve been about a bit Malc, my first thought was maybe Beverley Hills 
I passed my car test in 1962 in Bradford and had to go to the licencing office in the Town Hall to get my full licence which was a sickly yellow colour thin cardboard thing. Two hours later my boss gave me a job to Doncaster in a 6 wheeler bullnosed Commer loaded with re-built car engines…
Did I really need an HGV licence then, or was the boss pushing his luck!
Martin:
I passed my car test in 1962 in Bradford and had to go to the licencing office in the Town Hall to get my full licence which was a sickly yellow colour thin cardboard thing. Two hours later my boss gave me a job to Doncaster in a 6 wheeler bullnosed Commer loaded with re-built car engines…
Did I really need an HGV licence then, or was the boss pushing his luck!
No but you had to be over 21.
del949:
that’ s not a “proper” HGV licence
The proper one was black with gold embossed lettering , not that crappy mottled chocolate colour
I heard the black type came with 500 miles worth of reversing(grandfather rights) .
Mine was the broon one.
The first black one did indeed come with free reversing miles , but I only had a class 4 for a few months under grandfather rights and used it as a provisional for a class 1 test as soon as I was 21.
I’m still fuming over the loss of me proper licence, sent it back to Nottm for renewal one time and they sent back the bloody sheet of bog roll that now passes for a licence.
Had your whole driving history in that little book from the pink slip that got pasted in when you passed the test, and all subsequent sheets…johnny foreigner wouldn’t be running those on a printer quite so easily.
If i’d known they weren’t going to replace it i would have kept it meself…
a pox on them.
yep, 1983 issue, in brown.
Yeah still got my original brown one issued March 1975, me Dad had a black one but missed out on Class 1 grandfather rights as he had only been driving 8 wheelers for T Walls & sons at Hyde during the qualifying period so he had to go through the training and Class 1 test, think he did it with the RTITB training centre in Failsworth around 68/9.
Regards
Dave Penn;
I have one.Up the loft somewhere. Some of us are showing our age now.