dafdave:
Aye you are right there a bloody good job,dennis would be proud of that,apart from the truck being in the river
regards dave
That sheets been well patched eh 
Trev_H:
Aye that’s a secure load and VOSA bods today say ropes aren’t fit for the purpose everything must be strapped ! What do they base their experience on ?
That’s a very good point you make trev.
regards dave.
Looks to be a load of paper,hence the well patched flysheet,however,it is still poor practice to rope over the flysheet,the load security would not have been compromised if the ropes were under the flysheet,even so the load hasnt shifted an inch by the look of it,well done drive!
David 
old 67:
Trev_H:
robinswh:
anyone old enough to remember the Canadian trucking tv program called cannonball?..it was on the tv in England in the 1950s I remember watching it then…filmed just outside of Toronto Ontario the tractor was a single axle cab over jimmy.Yep, I always watched that as a kid, think the main character was called Mike Malone, never knew it was set in Canada.
The rumble of the engine, the shifting of the gears…
Of course today it would have to be renamed… Carryfast
If you type in " CANNONBALL TV 1958 " in Youtube search, there is a full episode,great stuff!!!
Regards John.
hiya,
1958 Eh’ I was too busy listening to the roar of the engine and doing the gear shifting myself
at that time and had been for four years, doesn’t time fly when your having fun.
thanks harry, long retired.
old 67:
Trev_H:
robinswh:
anyone old enough to remember the Canadian trucking tv program called cannonball?..it was on the tv in England in the 1950s I remember watching it then…filmed just outside of Toronto Ontario the tractor was a single axle cab over jimmy.Yep, I always watched that as a kid, think the main character was called Mike Malone, never knew it was set in Canada.
The rumble of the engine, the shifting of the gears…
Of course today it would have to be renamed… Carryfast
If you type in " CANNONBALL TV 1958 " in Youtube search, there is a full episode,great stuff!!!
Regards John.
A collaboration between Lew Grade and a Canadian tv company, it’s where the name Granada comes from - Grade -Canada, Mike Malone and Jerry Austin.
Thought I’d got the link,but it’s only the intro.Wait out.
We hadn’t got a telly in those days so I cycled a mile once a week to catch it on my mate’s set.
My gran had a t.v. and she lived closer to home but she only had BBC!
Here ya go!
bestbooties:
Here ya go!
Thanks,bestbooties cant do links
Regards John.
A full episode of the 1958 TV series ‘CANNONBALL’
norfolktrucker:
A few more from me, if that’s ok.
I am sure I saw a white FH this morning on the pea harvest with Spendloves name on the side.
Regards Daz
moomooland:
A full episode of the 1958 TV series ‘CANNONBALL’210
They might have used a better-looking lorry. That Jimmy must be one of the ugliest cabs ever made. Good job they improved it for the Bedford S-type!
download/file.php?id=85062&t=1
Whoever loaded that…top marks. How the hell that lot has gone into a river and the load has not shifted is a miracle.
Pull that out backwards, pop another unit under it and deliver the load. Job done.
grumpy old man:
http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/download/file.php?id=85062&t=1Whoever loaded that…top marks. How the hell that lot has gone into a river and the load has not shifted is a miracle.
Pull that out backwards, pop another unit under it and deliver the load. Job done.
Here’s another couple of more shots of it
In 1985 the driver came off the M6 at J27 and down the A5209 towards Southport
Parbold Hill is a rather steep hill and also has a few twists and turns thrown in for good measure.
By the time you get to the single track hump back bridge and your all out of brakes then your going swimming. 
A real credit to the driver that load never moved an inch.
Photographs courtesy of Andy Gooderson more images click here
Retired Old ■■■■:
moomooland:
A full episode of the 1958 TV series ‘CANNONBALL’210
They might have used a better-looking lorry. That Jimmy must be one of the ugliest cabs ever made. Good job they improved it for the Bedford S-type!
You need glasses!!! ha
wim72:
hi , just found 2 pictures in an old photo album of a friend of mine, dont know if its the wright topic to post here? if not just deleted, maybe somebody can use them?
Hiya…That looks like Poole Harbour…The ship is the Truckline ferry (coutances.) which sailed to cherborg from Poole… I used to catch it every week to France, in the early eighties…
Dieseldog66:
Retired Old ■■■■:
moomooland:
A full episode of the 1958 TV series ‘CANNONBALL’210
They might have used a better-looking lorry. That Jimmy must be one of the ugliest cabs ever made. Good job they improved it for the Bedford S-type!
You need glasses!!! ha
Been to Specsavers! It’s PIG-UGLY 
Retired Old ■■■■:
Dieseldog66:
Retired Old ■■■■:
moomooland:
A full episode of the 1958 TV series ‘CANNONBALL’210
They might have used a better-looking lorry. That Jimmy must be one of the ugliest cabs ever made. Good job they improved it for the Bedford S-type!
You need glasses!!! ha
Been to Specsavers! It’s PIG-UGLY
It might be pig ugly, cramped noisy as hell but you know what I’d sooner be driving it than the modern high rise, air conditioned, automatic block of flats I’ve got now. I’m starting to dream about using my left leg on a clutch and shifting gears with a stick !
Pig ugly nah!!!
Good grief, Trev’s gone over to the dark side. Someone stop him before he moves to Leatherhead!
Retired Old ■■■■:
Good grief, Trev’s gone over to the dark side. Someone stop him before he moves to Leatherhead!
Yeh, that was my intention, to drive it round Leatherhead air horns blasting, belching out black smoke, with oil leaking everywhere from the green grenade under the cab, I’d be a hero to the residents there!