paul motyka:
Always liked the look of the AEC’s,a few of Butlers from Maltby.The colour pic of the AEC was the first lorry I went in as a 11yr old thought it was great until winter came & found out it had no heater.I used to stand at the top of Grange Lane in Maltby waiting to be picked up after my paper round chilled to the bone hoping to get warm in the cab,fat chance of that the driver informed me.I still had a smile on my face at the end of the day I would not have missed it for all the tea in china,I loved it.Spent the next 6 yrs going in various vehicles until I left school & started working for Butlers as a car mechanic at the British Leyland dealership they had.Is their any difference between the two cabs on the 6 wheelers?I am no expert on cab design.210
Neville Body I think.A lady ran the job
Tony
Put this on another site but some may not have seen it
Tony
just after looking back on the first 25 pages of this tread well worth a look back some great stuff
robinswh:
It looks as if there’s a problem at the service station causing them to transfer product one to the other . I cant see why two lorries should be at such a small garage at the same time.
I’m pretty sure there was no problem - and it’s a good question. It was an odd enough occasion for Dad to take a photo of the scene. I think the best guess is going to have to be that perhaps one of the tankers was going on to another garage - or maybe they both were■■? - and to deliver the two drops meant spanning the total order across two tankers. Sadly, I can’t ask Dad now.
My old firm.I worked for them from 1969 - 1979 at Sheffield depot.
Chris Webb:
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My old firm.I worked for them from 1969 - 1979 at Sheffield depot.
Did they have a depot near Chesterfield, ■■ I remember seeing them in the cattle market car park, grey colour motors, but the older AEC’s, this would be late '60’s early '70’s…
Fergie47:
Chris Webb:
My old firm.I worked for them from 1969 - 1979 at Sheffield depot.
Did they have a depot near Chesterfield, ■■ I remember seeing them in the cattle market car park, grey colour motors, but the older AEC’s, this would be late '60’s early '70’s…
Yes Fergie,they had 10 drivers based in Chesterfield,doing Staveley Chemical work and tar products out of Avenue coking plant.They all got shifted about 1972 and had to move to Sheffield depot.Most were MK3 Mammoth Majors in late 60s like this one in a Peter Davies photo.
Chris Webb:
Fergie47:
Chris Webb:
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My old firm.I worked for them from 1969 - 1979 at Sheffield depot.
Did they have a depot near Chesterfield, ■■ I remember seeing them in the cattle market car park, grey colour motors, but the older AEC’s, this would be late '60’s early '70’s…
Yes Fergie,they had 10 drivers based in Chesterfield,doing Staveley Chemical work and tar products out of Avenue coking plant.They all got shifted about 1972 and had to move to Sheffield depot.Most were MK3 Mammoth Majors in late 60s like this one in a Peter Davies photo.
Thanks Chris, yes that’s the ones …nice to know I’m not going that senile… 
A grand old Mk 3 with a 9.6 engine, a proper mans motor. My first ‘incident’ was with a Mk 3, only a young lad and somebody told me to move it across the yard, nobody told me about the little red ‘flag’ and air pressure…whoops 
The wall had barely a mark on it.
The Mk II/Mk III Mammoth Major will always remain for me THE emblematic British truck. They were still to be seen daily during the 8 years I lived in London (1965-73), and so different from the trucks I was used to in France!
Just a few questions:
- why only one windscreen wiper? Looks pretty mean…
- why only one fog lamp?
- until when were these trucks
The standard fitting was the 9.6 litre 125 bhp engine. You say this very one had a 11.3 litre (150 or 180 bhp?), but would the fitting of a larger engine not have needed a protruding nose or a bigger radiator?
Thanks for the very tasty picture!
Something went wrong…
I of course wanted to know until when these trucks were regularly operated.
From what I remember, that single light would have been permanently trained to follow the kerb / road edge in poor visibility. Robert
toshboy:
robert1952:
From what I remember, that single light would have been permanently trained to follow the kerb / road edge in poor visibility. Robert
+1
Hiya,
“toshboy” I remember there being a mark/cross on the wall at the end of the pit
this was Blackburn BRS depot and when in for service the spotlight had to shine
on the mark so’s you’d be picking the kerbside up a little way ahead when foggy.
thanks harry, long retired.
Froggy55:
Something went wrong…
I of course wanted to know until when these trucks were regularly operated.
Hi Froggy,
I reckon the annual Plating and testing law finished a lot of these old girls off, think it was 1968?
pete smith:
Froggy55:
Something went wrong…
I of course wanted to know until when these trucks were regularly operated.
Hi Froggy,
I reckon the annual Plating and testing law finished a lot of these old girls off, think it was 1968?
Thanks! Nevertheless, I think I still used to race with the Tate & Lyle Mammoths Mk III on Cromwell Road (London) on my bicycle as late as 1971-72.
