Another easy one
7 collections around castellon, 7 drops round london,
Another nice easy one for my eldest son anthony ,at 15yrs old his
reinforcing cages from dendermonde to alfreton,
it didnt even need to be sheeted but everyone has to learn.
A Hele,Cullompton, based 93 shot in the depot at Milnthorpe,don’t know what the trailer is loaded with but it sure wasn’t going to fall off!
smiffy52:
tonyhogi:
Who remembers loading tractors from Basildon & roping the wheels like this
Oh yeah done plenty of them return load tractors back to southampton for pitters, after tipping out a container somewhere in london then getting the empty box lifted off at a container yard round grays way,we used to call that ropeing round those tracky wheels a barrel hitch,it worked well holding em on specialy if you doubled up the dolly knots. if we tipped em of at soton docks the same day we got an extra tenner,whoop whooop,or you could hang back and have a night out,probly in staines,used to be a good beer up there,good days,good laughs,n no phones,wicked,
Quick loads tractors if low rated but if the timing was right they filled the bill for a quick run home.When I was running up and down to the S.east with my first motor I loaded out of Basildon and Slip End a few times for Bradshaws near Preston and if I phoned them they left the gate unlocked and I nipped in and tipped them then locked up and shot home to Kendal,ready to load next day and off back down the road.I also loaded Massey’s from Banner Lane,Coventry for P.V.Dobson at Levens nr.Kendal.I also did one or two loads of Ford tractors to Crofts in Kendal.Could only get two Fords on my 22ft flat but I once had 3 little Massey’s crossways on the motor! Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
A Hele,Cullompton, based 93 shot in the depot at Milnthorpe,don’t know what the trailer is loaded with but it sure wasn’t going to fall off!
hiya,
Dennis that is going nowhere other than It’s delivery point, but the amount and type of roping looks to me that whatever the load it would be prone to shifting hence the care in the placement of the ropes and amount used, proper driver eh’.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
Bewick:
A Hele,Cullompton, based 93 shot in the depot at Milnthorpe,don’t know what the trailer is loaded with but it sure wasn’t going to fall off!hiya,
Dennis that is going nowhere other than It’s delivery point, but the amount and type of roping looks to me that whatever the load it would be prone to shifting hence the care in the placement of the ropes and amount used, proper driver eh’.
thanks harry long retired.
There’s enough rope and there’s no point in having all those hooks on the trailer if they aren’t going to be used. 
harry_gill:
Bewick:
A Hele,Cullompton, based 93 shot in the depot at Milnthorpe,don’t know what the trailer is loaded with but it sure wasn’t going to fall off!hiya,
Dennis that is going nowhere other than It’s delivery point, but the amount and type of roping looks to me that whatever the load it would be prone to shifting hence the care in the placement of the ropes and amount used, proper driver eh’.
thanks harry long retired.
Hiya “H”,nothing like having a “grand master” cast his eye over the trailer ! I think by the looks of it the back part of the load was bags on pallets,probably some bagged chemical for one of the Mills we ran out of,otherwise I haven’t a clue,maybe it is the “payroll” for the next week !!! Cheers Dennis.
An ex K.Fell & Co Ltd. F88 re-painted and transferred into the Bewick fleet,ready to leave the depot one Sunday lunchtime.
Bewick:
An ex K.Fell & Co Ltd. F88 re-painted and transferred into the Bewick fleet,ready to leave the depot one Sunday lunchtime.
I wonder where all your old sheets ended up dennis ?
Good question Mike so I think it requires a simple answer!!! from the mid 80’s as the number of Tautliners in the trailer fleet was growing we more-or-less stopped buying new sheets as we were converting the newer Tri axle flats as well as putting new " Tautliner ready" chassis into Bo-Alloy.So apart from repairs to newer sheets we were culling out older sheets,which mainly went to local farmers to cover their sileage clamps!We never purchased anymore new sheets from then on and always had the sheet container full of spare sheets,in good condition.By the time we joined the WRM group in the mid 90’s there was still a fair number of flats in operation but we still had plenty of stock.Looking at the condition of the sheets on some of the “other operators” photos on the thread we slung better stuff into the skip occaisionally.Over the years we never suffered any “wet claims” other than the odd “secondary” customer trying it on now and again which,of course,we refuted with vigour “as in go and yourself” you lying ■■■■■■■ !! We never had a minutes problem with our main customers for nearly 30 years,Honest!!! Regards Dennis.
Bewick:
An ex K.Fell & Co Ltd. F88 re-painted and transferred into the Bewick fleet,ready to leave the depot one Sunday lunchtime.
Has that 88 been in a ‘bump’ sometime …sidelights repositioned higher up ■■ & pre 73 headlamps 
Well Mazzer this is a shot of the same F88 when it was new ( we had 3 K.Fell F 88’s 451R,452R &571R) and I know it was never in an accident so I don’t know the answer,maybe when it was re-furb’d our fitters did some alterations but it certainly was never damaged,we did have another Bewick F88 written off in an accident, OEC 16P, and TEC 571R was in a bad accident in 1977 and it got a new cab.The mystery deepens !!
Bewick:
Well Mazzer this is a shot of the same F88 when it was new ( we had 3 K.Fell F 88’s 451R,452R &571R) and I know it was never in an accident so I don’t know the answer,maybe when it was re-furb’d our fitters did some alterations but it certainly was never damaged,we did have another Bewick F88 written off in an accident, OEC 16P, and TEC 571R was in a bad accident in 1977 and it got a new cab.The mystery deepens !!
Dennis the 88 I had was “S” reg. and it had its side lights moved up but that was ADR for tanker work so it could have been a cancelled tanker or something
cheers Johnnie
hi bewick you seem to keep this thread alive so these are some of my attemps not as good as yours though keep them coming
regards gazzap
Tidy job there Gazzap,bit of a “cross bred” sheet though,nylon PVC middle and canvas side panels ! Any particular reason for this spec of sheet? We never had any made to that spec, ours were 15oz canvas mains and Nylon/PVC fly sheets.Interesting all the same,someone elses ideas. Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
Tidy job there Gazzap,bit of a “cross bred” sheet though,nylon PVC middle and canvas side panels ! Any particular reason for this spec of sheet? We never had any made to that spec, ours were 15oz canvas mains and Nylon/PVC fly sheets.Interesting all the same,someone elses ideas. Cheers Bewick.
hi bewick we do a lot of wooden case work so it is a lot easier to sheet plus cost cutting. i see a lot of sheets like this now. the pvc is as wide as the trailor
regards gazzap
Hi gazzap, Very tidy sheeting job indeed, its nice to see that someone can still sheet a wagon tidily, I like the idea of a pvc centre panel.
To Bewick. Did you get your sheets off local man Don Greaves ? he is now retired of course and was a RWB,s funeral but I did not get a chance to speak to him.
Cheers Leyland 600
Leyland600:
Hi gazzap, Very tidy sheeting job indeed, its nice to see that someone can still sheet a wagon tidily, I like the idea of a pvc centre panel.To Bewick. Did you get your sheets off local man Don Greaves ? he is now retired of course and was a RWB,s funeral but I did not get a chance to speak to him.
Cheers Leyland 600
thanks for your comments guys i could not do this kind of work without the training from my old man when was growing up and listening to the older drivers i have worked with over the years .
regards gazzap