Todays new vidoe is vol.54 looking back at british haulage and lorries at work with many fine looking fleets and lorries to injoy viewing.please comment and press the like button and please subscribe to the channel for latest videos.
Lovely to see an old Guy and Commer snuck in there. Many company names have disappeared over the years but, thankfully, Elddis are still around and, as smart modern trailers are, little can beat a roped and sheeted load.
I have been among them since I was 9yrs old u no scotch London markets Manchester markets lorry’s woodhead snow But I never bothered with my having I turned out to be a cat shovel op when I grew up lorry’s in front of me all day like been at truck fest now 75yrs I will not forget them days
I always loved the 1980s Seddon Atkinson 401 tankers that supplied the local stations to me from the fuel depot in Belfast. They were in mainly Jet, Texaco and BP liveries and they were some of fastest and well driven wagons around and were always spotless. The DAF 3300 and 3600 with the Space Cab was a very rare and delightful sight back in the day. Ah, one of the early ERF ECs with the door handle in the muck. Fair play to ERF, they sorted this out quite quickly by moving the handle further up the door. Simples. Those Volvo F10s always got you home. That Ergomatic Octopus with the little sleeper extension was starting to think about the long distance driver. Excellent video.
I had an old F88 and anF1220 which in the day was a big girl, 330 horse and 12x20 tyres, it would pull up a house side but had a low diff for heavy work. It was a good time, just at the end of the period when no one was tracking you and you could still fill your log book in for the week, waiting for Sunday dinner.
@@ChristopherWalker-mp8by I could tell almost to the minute how long it took to certain places. The old 88 was my favourite of all the motors I have driven. Every thing was exactly where it should be, the range was on the gear lever like most were , the splitter was a little lever on the centre console but perfectly placed. The air wipers were fun, mine wouldn't work most of the time and I had a stirrup of thin rope fastened to the mechanism and I would have to peddle like hell to keep the window clean.
More great pictures, used to see a lot of Roba vehicles around Harlow in the late 70's/80's, where they had a depot in Burnt Mill, which was follow on from W M Wood of Enfield, although in the newer plain blue livery. The Elddis F88 also looks good, jut like a Corgi model I have.
More classic trucks from back in the day.i count myself very lucky to have been driving when all these trucks were around.very few different truck builders now.....
Two of my old photos here I put on trucknet years ago. The two Dafs, Transcontinental and Roadtrain were owned by two subbies from Cardiff, Eric and Alan. The John Raymond Volvos were in a batch of photos I had given to me as a youngster. There was a few other pics on trucknet of them I put on as well.
Another great video Chris, some nice and tidy Rope and Sheeting in there to. Been afew years since I did it, would like to another go sometime it seeing if I've still got it.😂😂. Soft and worn in sheets of course.😊👍👍🚚🚚🚚
After nearly 30 years doing own account I went back to general, first thing I learnt, ........I'm not 30 any more! But I did enjoy the variety, glutton for punishment.
