Leyland600:
Hi Dave & CWM, for the life of me I cannot recall the black bar you mention, the cab was quite good for sleeping in without having a bonnet in the middle. Looking in some old diarys just recently I saw that the first load I ever carried on the BMC was 11 tons of pit props from a wood adjacent to Penrith Golf course which certainly made it struggle over Stainmoor on the A66. This came as quite a shock having been used to the Leyland 600 powered double deckers of Ribble. Two drops at collieries in the Mansfield area in December 1962 then loaded 3 transformers off Silver Roadways at Brush,s Loughborough for Castle Green, Kendal and a few pallets of tin plate from Metal Box at Sutton in Ashfield to MB at Carlisle. The load netted £38, I thought I was going to make my fortune in a year, “poor misguided soul !!” mind you 500 gallons of bulk diesel was only £106.
The Good Old Days.
Cheers . L600.
Hi L600,
I think the bar was fitted for the passengers on the double seat as a grab rail.As Roy CWM says it was good for hanging a coat on,as those FHK140’s had a good heater.I enjoyed driving the one I had for about eight months as it had everything you wanted in those days power steering a two speed axle and power plus a good heater.
Cheers Dave.
HI PETE 359. NO that was my first lorry at 17 the bloke was Mac Brown our fitter ,sadly long gone to that workshop in the sky .I am standing by the black & blue T K my first new motor age 19 a little under the leagle age .Yours Barry
b.waddy:
HI PETE 359. NO that was my first lorry at 17 the bloke was Mac Brown our fitter ,sadly long gone to that workshop in the sky .I am standing by the black & blue T K my first new motor age 19 a little under the leagle age .Yours Barry
hi barry,
how many motors did you run at your peak?60 years in business is some achivement .
HI Pete 395 .Andrew in the 60 &70 s we ran abount 14 units 20 odd trailors some 4 6 &8 WHEELERS tippers and flats on genaral haulage .We ran BMC F ■■ 140 FJ 160 TILT CABS FODEN AEC SEDDON ATKI SEDDONS ERF DODGE BEDFORD 1 VOLVO F 86 crap LEYLAND S 1 ALBION 6 LEGGER you name them we ran most some good some bad .I think i would not do it now days too much red tape .Yours Barry Waddy
b.waddy:
HI Pete 395 .Andrew in the 60 &70 s we ran abount 14 units 20 odd trailors some 4 6 &8 WHEELERS tippers and flats on genaral haulage .We ran BMC F [zb] 140 FJ 160 TILT CABS FODEN AEC SEDDON ATKI SEDDONS ERF DODGE BEDFORD 1 VOLVO F 86 crap LEYLAND S 1 ALBION 6 LEGGER you name them we ran most some good some bad .I think i would not do it now days too much red tape .Yours Barry Waddy
hi barry,
thanks for the info.i can remember seeing the lorries around during the 70’s and early 80’s.steelboyf10 remembers the firm very well as he lived near you at that time.sadly,there is far too much red tape and many other difficulties in running road transport.
regards andrew.
pete 359:
hi all,
is this a guy/albion barry?i am ashamed to say,i don’t know what make it is .
Hi Andrew,
It could be a Thorneycroft,but the again
Cheers Dave.
Hi chaps it could even be a Procter , built by Prails in Hereford ., several were sold to S Wales hauliers especially BRS . I think they had a factory in Norwich regards kk
b.waddy:
PETE 359 . Mr Bewick was spot on a Seddon M K 5 L Perkins P 6 Yours Barry Wad
I bet it was a noisey,rattling bloody thing with a P6 under the bonnet,did you have to tow it off to start it every morning? Anyhow do you want a hand with those bags Barry? come on Andrew you are a fit lad,get your back under some of those bags,Mrs Jones wants 5 cwt at no 15,round the back and half way down the back lane,look lively then we’ve another 6ton to deliver !! Cheers Dennis.
b.waddy:
PETE 359 . Mr Bewick was spot on a Seddon M K 5 L Perkins P 6 Yours Barry Wad
I bet it was a noisey,rattling bloody thing with a P6 under the bonnet,did you have to tow it off to start it every morning? Anyhow do you want a hand with those bags Barry? come on Andrew you are a fit lad,get your back under some of those bags,Mrs Jones wants 5 cwt at no 15,round the back and half way down the back lane,look lively then we’ve another 6ton to deliver !! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Dennis have you ever had one of these crack up in reverse you had to bash them into gear and let the clutch out sharpish to stop the engine or they would self-destruct seemingly the pull stop didn’t work when the engine was running backwards and also the governer didn’t control things either only supposed to be that particular Perkins that did it, a pal of mine who I know drove them and he said it happened frequently when rolling back a tad with the motor in a forward gear, bloody hell where did I dredge that up from ■■.
thanks harry long retired.
Mister Bewick .the bonnets were bent didnt fit propely noisey & draughty loads of blankets over helped a bit ,the bags had coke for John Summers & sons steel works later . B S C employies only . Harry was right had many do it cab filled with exaust smoke . Yours Barry Wad
b.waddy:
Mister Bewick .the bonnets were bent didnt fit propely noisey & draughty loads of blankets over helped a bit ,the bags had coke for John Summers & sons steel works later . B S C employies only . Harry was right had many do it cab filled with exaust smoke . Yours Barry Wad
more useless info, these Seddon mk5s were the first lorries to be designed as Diesel only, no petrol option offered, vehicles in this weight
range approx 6tonners, from Albion, Dodge, Guy, Thornycroft, Dennis, Leyland Austin/Morris, Bedford, Commer etc etc, all offered
petrol engines, in the mid 50s Ford, Bedford, Austin/Morris, fitted as many as 50% of their lorries with petrol power, Diesels started to replace the petrol units from about 1957/8, operators now getting used to the new fangled Diesels,
The Seddon mk5 also used Moss gearboxes and rear axles, the less said about these the better.
Lynxman
HI linksman your spot on we had moss and d/ brown 5 speeds all sorts and variations changes some back to front some chinees .All so had a couple of R 6 Perkins some needed a sniff of ease start in the mornings good days Yours Barry Waddy
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