I was working for this crazy fool 
This was the last time I heard of him but he was co owner of International Ferry Freight in Hull (IFF)
Wednesday June 29th 1994
Before this he had done some other crazy things like building a ferro-concrete boat with 2 jet engines in it. That failed any record attempt as it sunk upon launching 
did they put a 240 in a big j 
bradfordlad9999:
did they put a 240 in a big j
Are you a masochist “bradfordlad” ? I can here the Proles stirring all over the UK on reading your provocative question !! If you’ve never had a ■■■■ storm down on your head you might just find out what it is like very shortly !!! To the shelters lads,tin hats on !!! Cheers Bewick.
I was driving a Scammell Handyman, PVM 508 J, For F Short & Sons Ltd, working out of Immingham, pulling Tilts For Needley Fields, [Brams & Van Veen] They were loaded for various destinations, & I allways had loads to take back, sometimes it was a cushy load, but other times the Tilt had to be stripped, It used to give the arms & fingers some stick, but the money was tops so I just got on with it regardless, after all we only went to work to earn some dosh & Im still here to talk about it, Regards Larry.
Be careful, you might just have time to get pi–ed, & then you wouldnt be able to drive, Have a nice day, Regards Larry.
grumpy old man:
Driving fuel tankers, D1000’s with the V8 ■■■■■■■ or ERF artics (■■■■■■■ with Fullers). I wish I could turn the clock back, they were good years.
40 years ago I was with BRS WRexham I moved from High Wycombe 1969 worked on furniture Mealings carriers TK Bedfords and Pilot Transport old Deenis Pax then BRS HIgh wycombe, 2years on tippers for Williams Bros. Then went back to the BRS Happy Days!
In my 2nd year at high school… 
I was eighteen and had just started driving my first Bedford TK, it was on hay & straw haulage for FG Smith. It weighed in at just under three tons (when you took the hay rack off from over the cab…and the bale loader…and the passenger seat , spare wheel, drained the fuel tank ect…
) Mounted on eight stud wheels it grossed at ten tons but we got away with driving it on a car licence. All driving records on a log book that we frequently failed to fill in.
We never were 100% sure of the legality but never got prosecuted for anything, but driving this was the start of what has been mostly a great life. I went on to driving another TK, this one a 16 ton tipper on a plant licence, yes at eighteen too! Its todays days work and all the stupid rules that gives me the heebie jeebies now.
This is a shot of the TK we bought new in early 1970 for my 17 year old brother to drive,it weighed in at just under 3 ton ULW at 10 ton GVW,with a 17ft wood/ali flat it regularly hauled 7/8 ton loads up and down to London and the South East,and it got up to Scotland regularly as my brother “got in” with Starch Products" of Slough and they would load him for Falkirk.He could also get loaded off Oswalds of Ayr for Luton or Dunstable,the rates were ■■■■■ but boy he made up for it by flying up and down day and night !!! Happy days !!Bewick.
Hi Dennis we had 2 of them little TKs great little workhorses they used to do local deliverys around London and the home counties with a demountable box during the day ,then at night when busy with fresh produce to London Markets they earnt some good money
44 years ago today I was being born.
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happy birthday jb , wish i was that age again , dave
I remember pilot transport with their tailboard loads.
JB:
44 years ago today I was being born.Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2
That is a coincidence, being born on the same day as this post
HBJB
jastrebsi59:
Hi Dennis we had 2 of them little TKs great little workhorses they used to do local deliverys around London and the home counties with a demountable box during the day ,then at night when busy with fresh produce to London Markets they earnt some good money
Yea,this little motor never put a foot wrong,we had it fitted from new with a 5 speed gearbox and 45 gallon coach spec fuel tank instead of the standard 4 speed box and 20 gallon tank.The 5 speed allowed it an easier cruising speed on the motorways ! Cheers Dennis.
Thats the one, as you say, great little motors if it was the 330 6 cylinder. And good to cut your teeth on especially for lads of my age back then. They had a decent payload particulary with hay & straw, as you could get a decent load on board.
9 yrs old…Going to Junior school, and remembering the “plastic carpet runner” put down for the coal man in Ilford. Their coal yard was in the railway yard, where Hungarocamion, Romtrans and Pekaes used to park up waiting for backloads, next to the Siansburys carpark…
Twoninety88:
Thats the one, as you say, great little motors if it was the 330 6 cylinder. And good to cut your teeth on especially for lads of my age back then. They had a decent payload particulary with hay & straw, as you could get a decent load on board.
Frank Phillips loved them , my brother John (RIP)drove the first 6 legger tk ,first day out and the brakes failed .turned out that a valve was wrong , all returned for replacement,
Phillips had TKs and KMs on order every month,
hiya,
Ah’ forty years ago I was thirty six and wondering would I be able
to retire at forty tried at twenty and thirty but Littlewoods didn’t
cough up will I get lucky at forty well I didn’t nor at fifty but I did
manage to escape at sixty, when the gaffer asked me why I was
going “early” I told him I couldn’t afford to go when I was younger,
he said haven’t you enjoyed working here, I told him I’d never ever
enjoyed working anywhere, he didn’t beg me to stay, wonder why.
thanks harry, long retired.
