Hi BUBBLE ,looks like those last photos were taken at Brs Swindon depot .
Re the W Hughes trio.Any idea where that pic was taken . . Wroughton?
Had the D reg Fl6 new as a daycab flatbed and then the 1617 but thats not me in in the cab of the Merc.
Also the NE Cole Fl6 is still about doing a shift afaia.
Export Seddon on test run in Saddleworth
The good old days in Oldham before the building of the M62
Seddon Diesel 32/4 tractor unit Reg No NND 867H was the first brand new vehicle that Geoff Woodcock bought back in 1969
Elm Park Depot Cheers Phil.
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What would have been the load on , looks like “Crows” on the tarp motor?
Kin high whatever it is.
Suedehead:
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What would have been the load on , looks like “Crows” on the tarp motor?
Kin high whatever it is.
Hi The load on Crow’s Transport of Gateshead was filter tips from Cigarette Componts at Jarrow.
Regards crowbar
The Armstrong’s Comet would likely be driven by Bill Wilkinson who was its regular driver he bought it and rallied it after he retired.
Eddie.
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Heading through Standedge Cutting on the A62 between Huddersfield and Oldham.
Re the Containerways second pic.
Is it me . . or is the plod,right of pic laughing? 
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Heading through Standedge Cutting on the A62 between Huddersfield and Oldham.
Re the Containerways second pic.
Is it me . . or is the plod,right of pic laughing?
hiya,
Pic blown up and using a magnifying glass it does like he is, if so he’s an insensitive “git”
thanks harry, long retired.
bubbleman:
Hi lads,heres some more clippings…dreadfull quality,but worth putting up,Cheers Bubbs,
Evening all, Bubbs these old clippings do bring back the memories…fancy putting Simon Biggs Northover Transport, in a selection including Peter Baulch`s Chard and Axminster…talk about chalk and cheese!!!
Keep them coming, Cheerio for now.
That strikes a chill in my belly. One of our local hauliers was heading home from the London area with a 20-ft loaded box. As he approached the bottom of Chalk Hill on thev A40- before the M40 was built- he had to pile on the brakes in an attempt to avoid a car which had emerged from a side turning. The box was fastened to the platform by two chains & sylvesters and slid forward much in the style of the vehicle in the photograph. The resulting mess took an age to clear up and left a widow and young child without a breadwinner.
In those early days of shipping containers it wasn’t generally realised just how much force was involved when travelling at around 40mph. The vehicle was relatively easy to stop- a fully loaded box was another thing altogether.
Retired Old ■■■■:
That strikes a chill in my belly. One of our local hauliers was heading home from the London area with a 20-ft loaded box. As he approached the bottom of Chalk Hill on thev A40- before the M40 was built- he had to pile on the brakes in an attempt to avoid a car which had emerged from a side turning. The box was fastened to the platform by two chains & sylvesters and slid forward much in the style of the vehicle in the photograph. The resulting mess took an age to clear up and left a widow and young child without a breadwinner.
In those early days of shipping containers it wasn’t generally realised just how much force was involved when travelling at around 40mph. The vehicle was relatively easy to stop- a fully loaded box was another thing altogether.
hiya,
Doesn’t bear thinking about when pulling for Northern Ireland Trailers I’ve travelled the
length and breadth of the country with containers “fastened on” to a flat trailer with
nothing more than rope through the container fixings didn’t even have chains and war-
wicks to try and secure them with, thankfully I got back on the BRS and there it was a
no no to carry boxes with a trailer not having twistlocks.
thanks harry, long retired.
First time I had a trailer with twistlocks I spent most of the next few weeks looking for container work, H. I thought all my christmasses had come at once!
Drove for Roadferry for several years and roped 20ft containers on the backend of 30ft trailers,
looking back dumb thing to do but thats the way it was. Like ROF says thank god for twist lock`s.
During the 70’s at Humber McVeighs,I remember taking Seatrain containers on trailers that didnt have “twistlock’s” as such,they were a fitting on each corner of the trailer that you lifted up into the corner of the container and wound a handle around the threaded stem until it was tight up against the underneath of the trailer,but you always had to stop and check that the fitting remained tight,other wise the fitting could jump out of the container corner leaving that corner “lose”,I remember collecting a 40ft container from Greenock,overnighted in Glasgow,came out of the digs in the early hours,only to find on checking,that someone had unwound the locks allowing the container to just sit on the trailer,not fastened at all,the first corner and the thing would have fallen off the trailer.
Oh happy days!
David
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Heading through Standedge Cutting on the A62 between Huddersfield and Oldham.
I remember this accident, it was on Purley Way, Croydon, I was 11 years old at the time & often used to go with my Dad on Night Trunk. We were living near here at the time & he used to trunk for London Carriers out of the Philips site in Beddington Lane, just off the Purley Way.
It was a hell of a mess - Dad said the container had a heavy load of spuds in it.