Interesting and unusual Merc307 in the background with,what looks like,an A-frame drawbar.
That 307 belongs to heath haulage of stoke on trent in the late 80"s early 90"s with possibley me behind the wheel ,we had four of them trailers and they were a pain to reverse unless you were empty then you would unhook them and push it around, the load in the pic were air conditioning stuff from a firm in stoke called moducell and because the stuff was light you could get a few boxes on them .also we had to run a tacho when we had trailer on …
Thanks for the info/reply Yorkie.
Are ‘Heaths’ still going and if so,do they run anything similar to these nowadays?
sorry bout the late reply ,no heaths not running anymore we moved on from 307,s to 814,s still pulling them trailers in the mid 90,s i left about then but i think they ceased trading in the late 90,s ,havent got any pics but i do have a mug somewhere with a pic on it i will take a pic of that and put it on here ,
Hello lads,heres todays stuff…here is that old Harry Gill with his BRS Mercury, on the trailer with no yellow jacket and no hard hat on…Tut Tut Harry!!! But at least you had your tie on
Look at the soot from the exhaust pipe on the drivers door…
bubbleman:
Hello lads,heres todays stuff…here is that old Harry Gill with his BRS Mercury, on the trailer with no yellow jacket and no hard hat on…Tut Tut Harry!!! But at least you had your tie on
hiya,
Sorry it can’t be me you overlooked one point Bubbs the cab is too clean, I never used the wash and most BRS motors I was associated with was held together with muck and rust but they was always roadworthy, what’s a yellow jacket and why a hat ■■, it wasn’t raining.
thanks harry long retired.
bubbleman:
Hello lads,heres todays stuff…here is that old Harry Gill with his BRS Mercury, on the trailer with no yellow jacket and no hard hat on…Tut Tut Harry!!! But at least you had your tie on
hiya,
Sorry it can’t be me you overlooked one point Bubbs the cab is too clean, I never used the wash and most BRS motors I was associated with was held together with muck and rust but they was always roadworthy, what’s a yellow jacket and why a hat ■■, it wasn’t raining.
thanks harry long retired.
I bet it was a flying machine ,those Mercurys could nip on a bit that 1 looks like its brand new
hiya,
Only ever drove the Park Royal cabbed Mercury’s and they could bob on a bit guaranteed to get a dodgy if you had one of them, but I was mostly driving the Bristol’s and box cabbed Octopus’s in my early years as a “red and ruster” and they would just about get you there in your alloted time, but I would do it all again given the chance, Just wonder how many of my old trailer “boys” would share my enthusiasm.
thanks harry long retired.
I’ve been on Humber Street a time or two Malc,usually loading lettuce off dropped Dutch trailers that Readers and Haltemprice Transport pulled off the docks.That was in the late 60s,Humber Street looks a bit posher on that 1987 photo.
The Foden S40 advert says the cab is available with “2 or 3 seats.” The bonnet is almost up to elbow level. Can someone in the know say where the third seat would go?
Here’s a couple of stills for the scrapbook taken from a short film shot by Teddy Beck in 1960 You can see the film here youtube.com/watch?v=dK-TystgY5U Regards Paul
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anorak:
The Foden S40 advert says the cab is available with “2 or 3 seats.” The bonnet is almost up to elbow level. Can someone in the know say where the third seat would go?
I had one of those on K&M of Hucknall and thought it was the bees knees. The bonnet was nice and broad and flat which made it a good ‘kipping’ cab but I would have thought a 3rd seat a bit of an imagination stretch.
Apart from the way it pulled, with a 205 ■■■■■■■ and Foden 12 speed (I came to a halt on Swinscoe, empty in the snow, and restarted to make it over the top by carefully selecting precisely the right gear and some gentle pedal balancing) the most memorable feature for me was that flat shelf under the centre of the screen. Perfect, in those pre fitted radio days, for my ■■■■■■ held in place by a little glued on wooden border.
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anorak:
The Foden S40 advert says the cab is available with “2 or 3 seats.” The bonnet is almost up to elbow level. Can someone in the know say where the third seat would go?
At TILCON we had several S40 cabbed eight leggers, they were re-cabbed from S50 half cabs, and they were of course the Motor Panels cab the same as the Big J and Crusader etc. The third seat COULD have been made by realigning the bonnet on the passenger side, I may be wrong but when I did my driver training at Slaters Transport in the '70’s I believe that the S36 cabbed unit they had for training had a similar setup, I was on the eight wheeler so had to crouch on the bonnet when the other pupil was driving!
,we had four of them trailers and they were a pain to reverse unless you were empty then you would unhook them and push it around, the load in the pic were air conditioning stuff from a firm in stoke called moducell and because the stuff was light you could get a few boxes on them .also we had to run a tacho when we had trailer on …
but i do have a mug somewhere with a pic on it i will take a pic of that and put it on here ,
