bubbleman:
Hello lads,good pics Mark ,keep them coming,heres todays offering.Cheers Bubbs,
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Hi Bubbs that Mandator/Beaver will be coughing a bit with that on its back as that looks as if it is a 60 ton trailer and the loco won’t be 20 tons 
all on 3 axles but they were classed as a 2 axle trailer with the back wheels coming out in pairs, nowadays it would require a 6 wheel unit and a 4 or 5 axle trailer to move it but thats progress for you 
cheers Johnnie 
A couple of holiday photos to get Bubbs back on page one.
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Morocco.
Fairground Morocco
Turkey
Turkey
Cheers Phil.
We can’t have your thread on page two Bubbs…here’s a photo of a motor I drove regularly when I started with A E Evans…
The photo very kindly sent to me by Cattle Wagon Man. 
Chris:
here’s a photo of a motor I drove regularly when I started with A E Evans…
A man after my own heart Chris, I was always an over-the-top mirror man.
Was that yours, the extra Zanetti? 
Spardo:
Chris:
here’s a photo of a motor I drove regularly when I started with A E Evans…A man after my own heart Chris, I was always an over-the-top mirror man.
Was that yours, the extra Zanetti?
Very posh,a Zanetti mirror. I wasn’t the regular driver but I was one of the few with a Class One so got to drive it and another similar one very often David.
Chris Webb:
Very posh,a Zanetti mirror. I wasn’t the regular driver but I was one of the few with a Class One so got to drive it and another similar one very often David.
They were great. I bought two of my own and transferred them from motor to motor for many years. When I worked for Econofreight and they gave me a new Daf 3300 I could see the tail end of a 60 foot trailer going round a right angled bend.
I still have one of the big ones, up in the shed, just waiting for the day.
One small one too, the other got broken by a clown of a driver pulling off the dock next to me at Hays in Valet, near Nantes. He refused to pay but offered to go through the whole rigmarole of filling in those insurance forms we all carry but I couldn’t be arsed.
In the days when I pulled a caravan with my big Granada and the mirrors were on braced arms at the end of the bonnet they were brilliant too.
Three more from the past captured by Roger Kenney. I have not submitted much lately to Scrapbook Memories so here is my effort to keep Bubbleman’s great forum thread on the first page where it rightly belongs.
Love the shot of the guy jumping down from his lorry in what is just an everyday scene - or was.
Great photos as usual from Roger Kenney.
I’m pretty sure the Dow Chemical AEC MK5 Mandator artic tanker would be one of Pointers from Norwich on contract to Dow’s King’s Lynn site.
Haddy will know for sure…And Bulk Liquid Transport was part of the Peter Slater Group I think,so that Beaver would have earned it’s keep.
And I reckon the RTB Atki would be one of Bulwark Transport’s contract motors going by the “AM” reg.
retriever:
Three more from the past captured by Roger Kenney. I have not submitted much lately to Scrapbook Memories so here is my effort to keep Bubbleman’s great forum thread on the first page where it rightly belongs.
Love the shot of the guy jumping down from his lorry in what is just an everyday scene - or was.
Moonwalking or on for a “kick up” with the Rover driver?
Suedehead:
retriever:
Love the shot of the guy jumping down from his lorry in what is just an everyday scene - or was.
Moonwalking or on for a “kick up” with the Rover driver?
Neither, that was the right-hand-on-the-wheelarch forward vault with the door swung open so that it bounced back shut as you walked away. 
A young man’s game. 
Yes and how many of you, hand on wheel arch,slips and end up a–e over ■■■ on the ground,and you could never seem to do it without an audience,young mans game for sure,when the knee’s started to complain backing out became the norm.Like the rest on here a great photo.Thanks Mike.
thelongdrag:
Yes and how many of you, hand on wheel arch,slips and end up a–e over ■■■ on the ground,and you could never seem to do it without an audience,young mans game for sure,when the knee’s started to complain backing out became the norm.Like the rest on here a great photo.Thanks Mike.
Spot on Mike
That driver actually looks a bit borderline in age for that sort of manoeuvre. Just looking at him makes my knees hurt.
With my knees as they are, getting up into a motor now would be an achievement. I did mange to get into a new Volvo a couple of months ago, that was a mistake, my lad had to help me get down.
New knee job booked for 12th. June. There’s got to be some improvement.
Hello again,good pics from Retriever…I used to be able to jump out of the cab as well,also the catwalk and the trailer…them days are long gone,heres a few pics from yesteryear,Cheers Bubbs,
I went one day to the MIRA test track to fit a new power steering pump to an Scania LB110, it was hooked up to an air suspension trailer (very rare in those days) carrying similar concrete test weights to the photo above, with the job done a real elderly gent in a white coat asked if I would like to go with him on the test track.Yes I wouldn’t mind a tour round.
I was absolutely terrified 
! this lunatic took a 45 degree bend at 60mph plus fully freighted without easing up, I couldn’t believe the angle the cab was at when we next hit a cobblestone section and then on to a slalom course, at the end of the circuit he got out casually and said yes it seems fine now…I wasn’t !
