Scrapbook Memories (Part 1)

oiltreader · 16 December 2011 18:33

v7victor:
Oil treader the first Veh you have as belonging to Septimius Cook belonged to his Father Thomas Cook,Septimius and Siddle are sat on the log with their father,it was part of a tree felled in Duncombe Park .

v7victor
I stand corrected and thanks for that, I should have paid attention to the story which went with the pictures.
oiltreader

oiltreader · 16 December 2011 18:47

Chris Webb:

oiltreader:
Scania Bling.

oiltreader

What a contrast between Wincanton AECs and that thing,give me the MK3 anytime…and some log sheets .

Hi Chris Webb, Some more AECs for you.
oiltreader

oiltreader · 16 December 2011 18:53

Found another one this time from Australia.
oiltreader

oiltreader · 16 December 2011 18:57

Berridale Braes, A9 Caithness.
oiltreader

Berridale Braes.jpg

chris_webb · 16 December 2011 19:01

oiltreader:

Chris Webb:

oiltreader:
Scania Bling.

oiltreader

What a contrast between Wincanton AECs and that thing,give me the MK3 anytime…and some log sheets .

Hi Chris Webb, Some more AECs for you.
oiltreader

Thanks for those oiltreader,much appreciated,by gum the old Stanton and Staveley MK3 MM brings back some memories as I used to go into their place at Ilkeston with a MK3 tanker for crude benzole out of the coking ovens.Any AEC MK3 and MK5 photos are greatly welcomed.

oiltreader · 16 December 2011 19:13

A lineup of Goddard and Dellar, Royston and a Seddon unloading at the Atlas yard.
oiltreader

Unloading at the Atlas yard.jpg

oiltreader · 16 December 2011 19:24

Chris Webb, a few more for you, bottom one from Rhodesia.
oiltreader

AEC in Rhodesia.jpg

chris_webb · 16 December 2011 19:43

oiltreader:
Chris Webb, a few more for you, bottom one from Rhodesia.
oiltreader

Great photos.The name Vallance rings a bell,were they from Cornwall carrying china clay powder in like an RMC orange colour? And W F Miners was the forename of Harris and Miners I think.
As for the Rhodesia photo,the cab looks like the Hastings and Deering type that they had in Australia.I wonder if the black lad got to drive or would he be the trailer brake operative,no log sheets over there in them days,just trap on.

v7victor · 16 December 2011 19:43

oiltreader:
Berridale Braes, A9 Caithness.
oiltreader

Another Berridale photo from a few years back steersman in this is my son v7robbie.

harry_gill · 16 December 2011 20:05

hiya,
Well oiltreader you’re sure not letting the side down with the cracking stuff you’re posting I’m with Mr Webb with regards to the AECs keep bringing them on fantastic motors in their day and there wasn’t much that could keep up with them and lots of the larger hauliers swore by them.
thanks harry long retired.

3300john · 17 December 2011 00:17

A up chris it looks like christmas has come early for us with all these AEC pikkies
what more would a man want
have a good christmas over in the IOM
John

grumpy_old_man · 17 December 2011 09:40

Chris Webb:

oiltreader:
Scania Bling.

oiltreader

What a contrast between Wincanton AECs and that thing,give me the MK3 anytime…and some log sheets .

Yes, I’ll take a Mk 3 anytime. I had a ride in one of those Scania things a few weeks ago and I didn’t like it one bit. Cab bouncing every which way, some sort of automatic gearbox, terrible thing, I could hardly hear the engine. You’ve got to be able to “feel” what a motor is doing and it should only do it when you tell it to. Automatic gearboxes my arse, give me a Fuller (or a 6 speed AEC) any day.

Who remembers the 2 stick AEC boxes? Harrisons of Dewsbury had some in MM’s