Morning all. Some more randoms…
The East Coast Tug driver appears to be wearing a tie…fabulous!!
How times have changed.
Rgds,
David 
5thwheel:
The East Coast Tug driver appears to be wearing a tie…fabulous!!How times have changed.
Rgds,
David
hiya,
David I always wore a tie could never find my belt.
thanks harry long retired.
5thwheel:
The East Coast Tug driver appears to be wearing a tie…fabulous!!How times have changed.
Rgds,
David
So is the bloke driving the Walker chassis cab
Wheel Nut:
5thwheel:
The East Coast Tug driver appears to be wearing a tie…fabulous!!
How times have changed.
So is the bloke driving the Walker chassis cab
hiya…yep!!! thats how all fire engines/coaches/horsebox chassis was delivered to the coachbuilders
you would see a coach chassis going like hell up the M1/M6 with the driver exposed to the eliments
just wareing goggles and a jacket at one time. then the posh ones come along with full face helmets
and belstaff water proofs…arrrr good old days
John
3300John:
Wheel Nut:
5thwheel:
The East Coast Tug driver appears to be wearing a tie…fabulous!!
How times have changed.
So is the bloke driving the Walker chassis cabhiya…yep!!! thats how all fire engines/coaches/horsebox chassis was delivered to the coachbuilders
you would see a coach chassis going like hell up the M1/M6 with the driver exposed to the eliments
just wareing goggles and a jacket at one time. then the posh ones come along with full face helmets
and belstaff water proofs…arrrr good old days
John
My mate worked at Kays of Mackworth and they used to run chassis up from Kew, at the time he was a motorcycle racer who always wore a white Bell Helmet.
He must have looked like the Stig in 1967 
Wheel Nut:
3300John:
Wheel Nut:
5thwheel:
The East Coast Tug driver appears to be wearing a tie…fabulous!!
How times have changed.
So is the bloke driving the Walker chassis cabhiya…yep!!! thats how all fire engines/coaches/horsebox chassis was delivered to the coachbuilders
you would see a coach chassis going like hell up the M1/M6 with the driver exposed to the eliments
just wareing goggles and a jacket at one time. then the posh ones come along with full face helmets
and belstaff water proofs…arrrr good old days
JohnMy mate worked at Kays of Mackworth and they used to run chassis up from Kew, at the time he was a motorcycle racer who always wore a white Bell Helmet.
He must have looked like the Stig in 1967
Better that than sporting a purple one . . . 
Someones house turned into a drive through.
This photo is a bit out of focus.
Cheers Phil.
Numbum:
Someones house turned into a drive through.
Cheers Phil.
This is a Foden half cab belonging to St.Ives Sand and Gravel, if anyone can help with the location I’d be grateful. They had pits and batching plants scattered around from the fens down as far as South Wales so it could be anywhere!
This is what it looked like after it was pulled from the cottage.
Nick
3300John:
Wheel Nut:
5thwheel:
The East Coast Tug driver appears to be wearing a tie…fabulous!!
How times have changed.
So is the bloke driving the Walker chassis cabhiya…yep!!! thats how all fire engines/coaches/horsebox chassis was delivered to the coachbuilders
you would see a coach chassis going like hell up the M1/M6 with the driver exposed to the eliments
just wareing goggles and a jacket at one time. then the posh ones come along with full face helmets
and belstaff water proofs…arrrr good old days
John
When “I were a lad” growing up in Kendal I recall the times that a convoy of Albion chassis cabs would pour through the town regularly,what a site! If it was raining they must have been ■■■■ wet through as they didn’t seem to be wearing decent wet gear from memory,but those Glaswiegens were hard men,it must have been a nightmare coming over Shap in winter,They always seemed to have goggles on as I re-call!! Happy days! Dennis.
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That guy does not look as if they have just loaded that loco as there is a couple of hours hard collar loading it especially if it is a dead one and had to be winched on by hand
cheers Johnnie
Hello Nick,
I have the negatives of the half cab Foden accident. Here is a view of the other side of it. The accident was at Rivenhall
a village near Witham in Essex. The first three letters of the sign knocked down is ANT presumably antiques. The house with two gable ends on the front should be easy to spot unless it had to be demolished.
Cheers Phil.
sammyopisite:
Numbum:
That guy does not look as if they have just loaded that loco as there is a couple of hours hard collar loading it especially if it is a dead one and had to be winched on by hand
cheers Johnnie
hiya,
Yes Johnnie and did you ever get one that was ready to drag straight on I always got one that needed the con rods removing before the winching "via two terfers (spelling) could commence nearly always making it a days work but with the advantage of a dodgy night out thrown in the good old days of load and proceed 'eh “oi” Tommy get some parrafin in the parking lamps we’re going home get the thumb up,.Chris Webb is sure to stop.
thanks harry long retired.
Wheel Nut:
3300John:
Wheel Nut:
5thwheel:
The East Coast Tug driver appears to be wearing a tie…fabulous!!
How times have changed.
So is the bloke driving the Walker chassis cabhiya…yep!!! thats how all fire engines/coaches/horsebox chassis was delivered to the coachbuilders
you would see a coach chassis going like hell up the M1/M6 with the driver exposed to the eliments
just wareing goggles and a jacket at one time. then the posh ones come along with full face helmets
and belstaff water proofs…arrrr good old days
JohnMy mate worked at Kays of Mackworth and they used to run chassis up from Kew, at the time he was a motorcycle racer who always wore a white Bell Helmet.
He must have looked like the Stig in 1967
Hi all,
All of our Bedford SB’s (Bedford passenger chassis were delivered by road to Marsden’s Warrington by poor sods driving like this. Often they were picked up from either Duple or Plaxton where Bedford seemed to store the SB’s. No floor just a seat made out of what seemed to be orange boxes to sit on. In 1964 we bought a BMC FG chassis scuttle from Turbey’s of Sunderland (The main dealers) It was no better but we got the option of collecting from the works which would, I think have been Bathgate. My dad requested from ■■■■ Barret-Atkins the commercial sales manager that he would prefer to collect rather than a driver racing it down to Warrington. ■■■■ replied 'Have you ever driven a chassis scuttle that far before, I have and I put on thick clothes and a cap but I was still frozen@. Dad relented and it was delivered for us
Carl Williams
Hello again,heres some old cuttings,dunno if these will be of interest
Cheers Bubbs, 
bubbleman:
Hello again,heres some old cuttings,dunno if these will be of interest
I think you’ll find they are…
Thank you!
Hi Bubbs, can’t you dig out that photo of my old Bedford Marsden TVR 712K 
. It’s surprising how we can remember a rego number from nearly forty years ago but can’t remember what our wives asked us to do two days ago .
Those Marsden pantechnicons were a bugger when they were empty coming down the A74 on a windy day, all varnished wood inside the cab on a T.K chassis but the bed was big enough to get a good nights sleep on. I suppose that they were one of the first British sleeper cabs really.
Regards Steve.
mushroomman:
Hi Bubbs, can’t you dig out that photo of my old Bedford Marsden TVR 712K
Those Marsden pantechnicons were a bugger when they were empty coming down the A74 on a windy day, all varnished wood inside the cab on a T.K chassis but the bed was big enough to get a good nights sleep on. I suppose that they were one of the first British sleeper cabs really.Regards Steve.
Lapworths of Leicester use to have about 4 of them, my mates dad drove one, remember having a look inside once and being slightly impressed… One of their old marsdens has been restored, bloke parks it behind the garage on freemans common ind est in leicester…
Numbum:
Hello Nick,
I have the negatives of the half cab Foden accident. Here is a view of the other side of it. The accident was at Rivenhall
a village near Witham in Essex. The first three letters of the sign knocked down is ANT presumably antiques. The house with two gable ends on the front should be easy to spot unless it had to be demolished.
Cheers Phil.
Thanks for the info Phil, the Foden had a good go at demolishing the house!
Was there any sign of the reg. on any of the photos? I’m slowly compiling a St.Ives fleet list.
Nick
Hello Nick,
Sorry there is no reg number on the envelope with the negs in and those are the only photos there is no rear view.
Cheers Phil.