Wheel Nut:
mechanic77:
Hell I remember those. A bloke near us who used my Dads pub when he was home, worked for Crendon Concrete and then J L EVE Construction, that was his mode of transport to the pub, often loaded with overlength concrete beams
As if that concrete beam isn’t heavy enough for that poor little Bedford, that chimney stack has definitely overloaded the drive axle. 
Hello lads,heres todays pics. 
Cheers Bubbs, 
mechanic77:
Imagine what today’s traffic wombles, VOSA, HSE etc would make of this!
The Scania 82m fleet 358 of Glass Glover was the second one of a batch of about twenty they bought to replace Harry’s 81s
And they weren’t any better either,sounded like a can of marbles.
Here it is again,photo taken for Comical Motor.
Hi Harry, I like the motor, but she,s not as nice as the “model” we saw you with when you were doing multi drops last year you old trucker !
regards Tony H.
Hello,heres some more then.
One for NZ Jamie to end with. …Well its down under…um just over the river mate
Cheers Bubbs,
Ta mate,what a cracker!
One of Noel Buntine’s R700 Macks. She would sound great with the mack V8 roaring away,I’d love to take the old banga for a drive with six decks of cattle on.
I was once asked if there is a bridge between NZ and OZ?
It’d be some bridge at 1300 miles long! Silly bloody yanks!
Here’s one of Buntine’s cab over Macks.
Yet more great photos Marcus, keep it up mate.
There used to be bloke on here called Spardo who worked for Noel Buntine in the sixties driving a Mack cattle roadtrain from Katherine in the Northern Territorys to Wyndham in Western Australia. It’s a distance of about three hundred miles straight through the bush, which in those days was all dirt tracks and involved crossing a few rivers which were often impassable during the wet season. I have just done a Google search and came across this which somebody might be interested in.
Noel Buntine dabbled in the industry for a few years but it all really started for him in the 1960s when he purchased a B61 Mack, named it the High and Mighty and started hauling cattle to the Wyndham meatworks. By 1980 he had a fleet of 50 roadtrains, depots in three states and 120 employees.
Initially the office was a briefcase under the driver’s seat and the trucks travelled through virgin scrubland because it was in better condition than the roads. Repairs were done on the roadside in bulldust or mud.
There were no roadhouses or warm beds at the end of the day. Tucker was cooked on the shovel on the roadside or a tin of ‘pot luck’ opened. Wheel bearings, tailshafts and even engines were repaired on the dirt roads where the mishap occurred. Everything focused on getting the job done and that’s what built the Buntine name. In 1981 Noel sold out the business and the Buntine name went with it. Unfortunately, the business floundered and the Buntine name was dragged unceremoniously through the bankruptcy courts. In 1983 Noel shocked everybody by buying back his fleet from the liquidator and re-entering the cattle transport industry. It took him just two years to build his business back to its former glory.
Noel was a man of sound business acumen, ethics and vision but for those closest to Noel, his family, drivers, mechanics and business associates, the single most outstanding quality he displayed was the goodness of his word and the blind loyalty to his people. He passed away in 1994 just before the National Road Transport Hall of Fame, a project he supported wholeheartedly and financially, opened its doors.
Regards Steve.
How do you follow an epitaph like that■■? Puts our late lamented transport hero from ■■■■■■■ into perspective 
Hi Kev, apparantly there is a monument to Noel Buntine on the Buntine Highway in the Northern Territory but I must of driven past it. 
If you click on the link and go to the gallery you might find some interesting photos of the area.
4wd.net.au/album/Project%20P … lides/(703%2027-09%20Noel%20Buntine%20memorial%20-%20on%20Savannah%20way%20between%20Katherine%20&%20Timber%20Creek.html
Some great shots in that gallery Steve, the croc is not something I would like to meet in the normal course of a working day!! Wouldn’t mind seeeing the reaction of our Vosa angels 
if they encountered that hazard in one of their roadside checks. Regards kevmac47
mushroomman:
Hi Kev, apparantly there is a monument to Noel Buntine on the Buntine Highway in the Northern Territory but I must of driven past it.If you click on the link and go to the gallery you might find some interesting photos of the area.
4wd.net.au/album/Project%20P … lides/(703%2027-09%20Noel%20Buntine%20memorial%20-%20on%20Savannah%20way%20between%20Katherine%20&%20Timber%20Creek.html
Following on from Noel Buntine, in 1981 his Son Dennis founded Victoria River Transport hauling cattle, I’ve always been interested in transport down under and can recommend 2 books, one is “A History of Road Trains in the Northern Territory” by John Maddock, the other is “A Son of the Red Centre” by Kurt G Johannsen.
I took these shots at the Scottish Showground circa 1996. I dont know anything at all about the vehicles.
Just to put things straight about the picture of the Superior Commer, the driver was definately folding up the flysheet as he had just arrived at Superior’s depot at Offord Cluny near Huntingdon having loaded off the ship at Gt.Yarmouth. It even could have been me who loaded this load. Harry was correct, it was tomatoes and they came into Yarmouth by conventional ship then were sent to Offord to be sorted, as there were several different grades, then distributed to various customers nationwide.
When I worked there I was shunter and spare driver and did several trips with this motor despite being under-age (20) but you could get away with it in those days and anyway I looked older.The motor was one of a pair of Maxiloads and must have been supplied from a dealer in the Hunts.area hence the FL prefix. The rest of the fleet bore the prefix EX as they were bought from a Yarmouth dealer ( Kings I think ).
The driver in the photo is George Fuller, always recognisable by his white vest,and was a real professional and taught me a thing or two. He died about ten years ago. Regards to all, Haddy.
TDL102:
Sparshatts of Kent Ltd, Mercedes Benz Dealer Sittingbourne, Circa 1983
Love these old Sparshatts photos. Been in there more times than i care to remember over the years. My old mate Kenny Baldocks motor can be clearly seen in the line up.
good-times.webshots.com/album/56 … k?start=36
hi bubbs
with the photo of the cattle road train in mind the link is one my brother sent from aus loads of photos of aus trucks
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Re the Selbys Foden and it’s “9.8t tare weight”; Lorrys are getting fatter, my 6w Foden tares at 10.30
