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In these days of reduced regulation its hard to imagine a van like that would have had to have either an A, B or C licence and be limited to 30 mph speed limit on all roads.
In that case it would probably have been a C licence limiting its use to carrying the owners own goods only. These were fairly easy to obtain
B licence had conditions attached as to what it was allowed to carry and within a limited area from its base
A licence could carry anything anywhere.
Needless to say B licences were very difficult to obtain and an A licence was virtually impossible unless you bought out a business that had one
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âanyone know where this is?â
That is Cockerton, Darlington.
Pete.
windrush:
My Great Grandparents shops/Post Offices on Wokingham Road (the A329) in Reading.1
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Pete.
Snap. My maternal great grandparents (William Andrews) also ran a drapers shop: at 145 Lee rd at the turn of the century. I have spent several hours looking unsuccessfully for the photo of it buried somewhere in a drawer which shows it with a period shop front.
The Old Tigers Head Junction at Lee Green on the A20 will be familiar to many members of the forum. The shop is now a Chiropracters
Dock Road Liverpool where it meets the Pier Head, Mersey Tunnel Dock exit to the right.
Regards
John
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I notice that all 5 cars have sequential registration plates!
David
youtube.com/watch?v=nu5zVPNTD4c
At around 35 seconds there is an Albion Chieftain in a very distnctive livery which I recall - possibly around the wholesale fruit & veg Markets? but canât now recognise.
cav551:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5zVPNTD4cAt around 35 seconds there is an Albion Chieftain in a very distnctive livery which I recall - possibly around the wholesale fruit & veg Markets? but canât now recognise.
And very nearly every vehicle was built in Britain, what a sorry state weâre in today.
fodenway:
cav551:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5zVPNTD4cAt around 35 seconds there is an Albion Chieftain in a very distnctive livery which I recall - possibly around the wholesale fruit & veg Markets? but canât now recognise.
And very nearly every vehicle was built in Britain, what a sorry state weâre in today.
The only foreihn-built car I spotted is a VW Beetle. One can say the same about France, where only a few Fiat, Ford and Mercedes could be seen, until Japanese cars arrived massively around 1980.
Froggy55:
fodenway:
cav551:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5zVPNTD4cAt around 35 seconds there is an Albion Chieftain in a very distnctive livery which I recall - possibly around the wholesale fruit & veg Markets? but canât now recognise.
And very nearly every vehicle was built in Britain, what a sorry state weâre in today.
The only foreihn-built car I spotted is a VW Beetle. One can say the same about France, where only a few Fiat, Ford and Mercedes could be seen, until Japanese cars arrived massively around 1980.
Could that be a Citreon at 1 minute 29 seconds. 
mushroomman:
Froggy55:
fodenway:
cav551:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5zVPNTD4cAt around 35 seconds there is an Albion Chieftain in a very distnctive livery which I recall - possibly around the wholesale fruit & veg Markets? but canât now recognise.
And very nearly every vehicle was built in Britain, what a sorry state weâre in today.
The only foreihn-built car I spotted is a VW Beetle. One can say the same about France, where only a few Fiat, Ford and Mercedes could be seen, until Japanese cars arrived massively around 1980.
Could that be a Citreon at 1 minute 29 seconds.
Saab 96.
Oily
youtube.com/watch?v=ImKluF9xWiI
So in this 1960âs trip around a new road layout system in Gateshead, what are the lorries seen at 0.30; 1.18-1.23; 4.25; 4.35; 8.24 ?
0.30, 1.18 and the artic pulling the four in line at 8.24 are a puzzle. I think Iâve got the rest and possibly 8.24
Noted the Northern General Routemaster at 9.20 but is that a Bristol K following?
fodenway:
cav551:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5zVPNTD4cAt around 35 seconds there is an Albion Chieftain in a very distnctive livery which I recall - possibly around the wholesale fruit & veg Markets? but canât now recognise.
And very nearly every vehicle was built in Britain, what a sorry state weâre in today.
I remember when I was 17 or so delivering to Bainbridges amongst those market stalls in Market Street.It was a hell of a job as there were just inches to squeeze between. That video brought back so many memories
cav551:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKluF9xWiISo in this 1960âs trip around a new road layout system in Gateshead, what are the lorries seen at 0.30; 1.18-1.23; 4.25; 4.35; 8.24 ?
0.30, 1.18 and the artic pulling the four in line at 8.24 are a puzzle. I think Iâve got the rest and possibly 8.24
Noted the Northern General Routemaster at 9.20 but is that a Bristol K following?
at 12.08 where the blocks of flats are on right hand side is where I was driving about a year old BMC J2 Luton van when it set alight in the morning rush hour. I got out and jumped behind the lowish wall you can see on the photo. I had my Great uncle Jim (My Grandmotherâs brother) sitting in the passenger seat and I was shouting for him to get out of the cab, and when he did he was asking if anyone had a fire extinguisher where secretly I was hoping it went up in flames as we were already sick of it with umpteen teething problems, Foolishly he lay down on the road underneath the front and put most of the fire out. The fire brigade drove down the pavement and sadly it was not written off but towed into Buists the main BMC dealers on the Coast Road where they took about2 months to repair.
When my dad and me went to collect it we were delayed a couple of hours while they waited for an Auto Electrician to be available to connect the battery terminals. Apparently they had restrictive practices that an normal fitter was not allowed to do an electicianâs job.
My dad went mad and demanded they loaned him a spanner so he could do it but they said they darenât pr the work shop would go out on strike.
Like I said we were sick of the J2 and would have been over the moon if it had been written off & replaced with something more reliable, but stange as it seems it seemed to settle down and we ran it for about 10 years
Could that be a Citreon at 1 minute 29 seconds.
Saab 96.
Oily
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Well done oily, 
Come to think of it, my mate had a Saab back in the sixties and I have a slight inkling of when he, I.I.R.C. quickly âtapped the clutchâ the gearbox would go into neutral allowing the vehicle to âfreewheelâ to save a bit of petrol. Did anybody else have a Saab or can anybody remember this or exactly how it worked.
mushroomman:
Could that be a Citreon at 1 minute 29 seconds.Saab 96.
Oily
Well done oily,
Come to think of it, my mate had a Saab back in the sixties and I have a slight inkling of when he, I.I.R.C. quickly âtapped the clutchâ the gearbox would go into neutral allowing the vehicle to âfreewheelâ to save a bit of petrol. Did anybody else have a Saab or can anybody remember this or exactly how it worked.
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Eric Carlsson was the driving force in the promotion of Saab at the time with his many rally wins in a Saab 96 also his wife Pat Moss (sister of Stirling) as a driver of Saabs and other makes in her own right winning several trophies, she was previously an accomplished horsewoman again many times a winner, a woman of horsepower.
Oily
mushroomman:
Could that be a Citreon at 1 minute 29 seconds.Saab 96.
Oily
Well done oily,
Come to think of it, my mate had a Saab back in the sixties and I have a slight inkling of when he, I.I.R.C. quickly âtapped the clutchâ the gearbox would go into neutral allowing the vehicle to âfreewheelâ to save a bit of petrol. Did anybody else have a Saab or can anybody remember this or exactly how it worked.
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Yes, I ran various SAAB models for the best part of 30 years, IMHO they were great cars (until GM got their hands on them). The free wheeling device was fine with the 4 stroke engines, just push the small lever on the bulkhead (by the clutch pedal) and when you lifted off the throttle it would go into freewheel mode, to get drive back just press the accelerator.
The best SAAB I ever had â â ? a 1960âs Saab 95 estate car, 7 seats, steering column gearchange, V4 German Ford engine