Denis F:
Muckaway:
Is anyone having problems seeing some of the pictures? Those uploaded as attachments are fine, but others, a no no.all the pics on the last 2 pages are working for me
have you accidently blocked images from Photobucket etc. ?
Not that I’m aware of Denis. I’ve cleared cache etc again, cookies etc.
Did you have to drop them trailers on a couple of oil drums? . . .looks like theres no landing legs.
Suedehead:
Did you have to drop them trailers on a couple of oil drums? . . .looks like theres no landing legs.
I recall that the landing legs located in a projection on the first cross/side member. Jack Dance of Charvil, Berks, ran a D series Ford with a similar set up.
Pete.
windrush:
Suedehead:
Did you have to drop them trailers on a couple of oil drums? . . .looks like theres no landing legs.I recall that the landing legs located in a projection on the first cross/side member. Jack Dance of Charvil, Berks, ran a D series Ford with a similar set up.
Pete.
I think you’re right, Pete…they were a right pig to uncouple. I seem to remember a couple of ‘L’ shaped catches on either side of the turntable that had to be dropped down so the rubbing plate didn’t end up on the floor as well… Sometimes they got forgotten 
A pig to reverse as well, the unit was longer than the trailer - good practice for a spotty teenager though…
bloody horrible abortions those dump trailers . i had the misfortune of driving them on two different jobs . first one was with an ergo cabbed leyland badger , armstrong steering , trying to back them onto a bunker was hard . only upside was a cab mounted trailer brake so you could lock it and pull the unit back . second one was an dec marshall with a slghtly longer trailer on tarmac to yhe m62 . they kept going back to nevilles for mods to the rear end , kept ripping the back mudguards off on the barber greens, and the back end was too short for the job . they had proper landing legs fitted though , so they could be night loaded . cheers , dave
Did you run the Marshal out of the Pike, Rigsby?
Me old man has told me stuff about how busy that place was around 1970 when the M62 was being built.
hiya,
There was a similar “abortion” produced by Hoyner when you got to your
tipping point you had to detach the red suzie so’s the arse end of the trailer
stayed where it was supposed to be while you tipped your load after first
unlocking the two “L” clips which held the pin contraption in place while you
dropped the trailer off too many times have i had to dash for the forklift to
put the trailer back together for the next driver, the Hoyner’s did have the
landing legs of a normal semi-trailer though, the only place I used these was
when on for Bayfords Fuels Leeds and did the odd load of coal x two to Lancs
on nightshift nice steady job always pre-loaded and sheeted ready to roll.
thanks harry, long retired.
Dave the Renegade:
Never saw any of these operating up this way,looks a strange setup to me.
Cheeers Dave.
there is one of them neville trailers in a shed no 2 miles from my house, it will be entering the vintage show scene in the future, i may get the job of sandblasting it when we get some better weather!
hiya bonkey , the badger outfit was at grin quarry , they sold out to limber and trinidad and they ended up at the pike , soon got rid of them but kept the scammels . the marshalls were when ici opened their tarmac plant , brs contracts ran them . cheers , dave
i’d forgotten about the hoyner harry , why did you have to remind me , bloody nightmare . i had a dropside one on lime to llanwern and backloading fertiliser from avonmouth . i got nearly home one day and heard a crack , so i pulled up and the chassis had snapped on one side . had to handball the load on to a flat for delivery. i got revenge though, i wrote the bloody thing off one foggy morning down symonds yat . cheers , dave
harry_gill:
hiya,
There was a similar “abortion” produced by Hoyner when you got to your
tipping point you had to detach the red suzie so’s the arse end of the trailer
stayed where it was supposed to be while you tipped your load after first
unlocking the two “L” clips which held the pin contraption in place while you
dropped the trailer off too many times have i had to dash for the forklift to
put the trailer back together for the next driver, the Hoyner’s did have the
landing legs of a normal semi-trailer though, the only place I used these was
when on for Bayfords Fuels Leeds and did the odd load of coal x two to Lancs
on nightshift nice steady job always pre-loaded and sheeted ready to roll.
thanks harry, long retired.
Here you are, Harry - especially for you Sorry its not hooked up to an '80 but you can’t have everything… 
You can just make out the ‘L’ shaped hook above the back wheel of the unit. Andrews used to run lots of these back in the day, presumably because they were cheap cos they were crap 
always second-hand and well past their best. This one was born in 1971 and still going 20 years later…
rigsby:
hiya bonkey , the badger outfit was at grin quarry , they sold out to limber and trinidad and they ended up at the pike , soon got rid of them but kept the scammels . the marshalls were when ici opened their tarmac plant , brs contracts ran them . cheers , dave
Hiya Dave do you remember Davem Plant from Leek, he run from Toply pike to Hughes concrete in Leek.
Davemport had 3 KM,s with Nevile trailers. they was painted sea green all over he also did Scotch with a
4 inline powder tank behind a KM. Terry Sutton (Leek driver)wrote that off at the top of Shap going north
John
i remember davem plant well john , i think they started with a ford d1000 unit pulling the dumptrailer . that was a hard run from buxton to leek 4 or 5 times a day . i know he used to go down upper hulme like crap off a shiny shovel . we used to use the trailer brake to hold it on the hills so we still had cool brakes on the unit when we got down into macc . we were over the cat all the time , we put all the roads in when they were laying knowsley park out ( hell that gives my age away ) , cheers , dave
Whatever happened to this? I don’t recall ever seeing one so I guess the MoD didn’t buy any… Does anyone know?
A TM BEDFORD on STEROIDS!!!. Eddie.
curnock:
w.t aldridge drawbar,remember them based just off villiers street wolves behind a row of terraced houses.they had 3 or four of these all d series.
They were in Fellows Street they also had 3 Transcontinentals one of which i drove
Dazzler:
Leggett European had UMD 36S which was an F12, UMD 37S/38S & 39S were 89’s
Was the F12 a left ■■■■■■ if so i remember the driver did they only have one lhd F12 ?
Yes, only 1 F12
Dazzler:
Yes, only 1 F12
Thought so who drove it as i saw him often on trips to Italy in the early 80`s
