TRUCKING HISTORY LOOKING BACK AT OLD SCHOOL HAULAGE & TRANSPORT VOL 12
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- čas přidán 29. 10. 2022
- Todays new video take nice look back at classic british haulage and transport with many classic british truck makes in this one for you all to injoy.please press the like button and comment and subscribe to the channel and thank you for stopping by
A splendid selection of classic lorries, bringing back many memories. My Father was a driver for Pease Transport, which was taken over by Tate & Lyle . He was a regular competitor in the Lorry Driver of the Year Contest. He was based at Silver town refinery and drove bulk sugar tankers. Can we imagine the 20 mph limit, and that journey on the A 4 to changeover at Froxfield ? Many thanks for showing the picture of the A E C , Fodens were the main type of HGV . Dad was given the job of testing out the Ford Trans Continental before he retired. He always said "l wish I was Twenty years younger " . Best Wishes to all .
What memories, used to drive most os them, still miss it.
Thankyou for these pics of former fantastic trucks, my favorite being the 1960's AEC
Great pics, the Scanias by Big Ben is a great pic, also the heavy haulage Scammell, Atkinson and Foden. Uncluttered days, no hard hats, hi viz, power washers and roof lights, just grit and determination, a small packed lunch and a thermos that went cold🙄. Somehow the way of the road 'life', is now cluttered with crap, orange flashing lights, and over legislation 😂.
Get the job done or don’t come back 😂industrial relations circa 1970
Loved it then and still at it and loving it now.... Thanks for the photos... Wonderful.... Keep Em Lit Lads.!!!!!
@Trucking history & my diecast collection. Thank you for this video on the lorries and wagons of yesterday. You may already know about this. My uncle used to drive for the Canadian paper manufacturers' Bowater. Bowater used to supply the reels of newsprint paper to Fleet Street back in the day. My uncle used to drive a Leyland "Octopus" - an eight - wheeler rigid lorry with a Luton top type platform over the cab. My uncle told me that Bowaters were the only company allowed to deliver into Fleet Street with newsprint reels 3 layers high. The reels were loaded onto the lorries at Purfleet Deep Wharf, Essex on the River Thames. The Bowater drivers were trained to load and secure the heavy reels with the ropes lacing over and under each reel in each layer. The front of the top layer of reels was actually over the driver's cab on the heavily strengthened Luton top. The Bowater lorries were painted in red, with the company name and logo in gold. My uncle had to wear a corporate uniform - jacket, trousers and were also supplied with a peaked cap! The peaked cap didn't get much wear and tear. Stay safe and well.
Thank you for sharing your memories and your injoying the channel 👍
Great video as usual. Good to see the loads of hop pockets destined for the brewers. It was a specialist and skilled job loading the pockets with one rope around the centre of each pocket.
The pockets contained about 200 lbs of dried pressed hops that where grown mostly in Kent, E Sussex, Worcestershire and Herefordshire. The one picture is of a six wheeler and a four wheeler, possibly Austin’s , all loaded and ready to roll. These two wagons belonged to Derek Ralph Transport of Leigh Sinton Nr Worcester. There’s also a ERF unit and Guinness tanker. Guinness put the first bulk tanker on the road. It was a Thornycroft 4 wheeler, later it was sent to their hop farm in Sussex as a flat bed. After being replaced by a Bedford TK it was sent to the Guinness farm in Worcestershire where it was eventual chopped into a bale trailer. After that the chassis became a bridge over a stream on the farm. Hops are still grown but not in the huge quantity they use to be. Instead of pockets they are now pressed into smaller oblong bales. Nice see someone else ‘Douglas Vick’ spotted the loads of hops. Sadly Guinness sold off their three farms many years ago and Ralph’s Transport yard is now a small housing estate.
Thank you for sharing your memories and info my friend 👌 😉
Thanks for that, having never carried hops I did wonder what they were. Comes back seeing all the loads that were hand-balled what hard work it was then.
@@truckinghistorymydiecastco5274 . Would be nice to see some pictures of Taylor’s of Martley. The business was started by Doc Taylor in the 1940s, moving coal or coke to the power station in St Johns Worcester. Doc and later his son Don built the firm up to a good size with several yards around the country. After Don Taylor passed the business was sold a few years later to Bibbys.
I will see what I can do my friend 👌 😉
The pleasant aromas of hops being delivered to Romford Brewery. And the sight of a brand new ERF discharging beer . All gone but happy memories.
Never thought I'd see a Brian Watt Transport wagon again - "leave it to Brian" - I drove for him for a short time in the early 70's. Went bust unfortunately. He was one of the first in Sheffield Rotherham area.
The Little Thorney croft Laden with Hops. Heavy "" "On The Hadlebars No Doubt"""
Wow... The Dempsey "A" series ERF..and drag.... . Positively Loinstirring..
"The skill of roping and sheeting using the lorry drivers hitch"
@Alan Wann. You may already know this. My dad was a lorry driver back in the days of sheeting and roping. He used a roping hitch that he called "a dolly" for tying down loads. He once showed me how you could tie a succession of say 3 of these "dolly hitches" vertically, which would act like pulleys and "multiply" the pull down on the load. I think that said "dolly hitch" was also known as a "Hayman's Hitch". Stay safe and well.
@@markmiwurdz202 aged 15 1963 I worked at making lorry sheets with canvas for local haulage rolling and folding a wagon sheet is no how as they were heavy for 2 men ,the driver would use it alone later
@Alan Wann. Thanks for your reply. My dad always used to grumble when it was.raining. That day he knew he had to either fold up a wet sheet unloading, or load and sheet up in the rain. And if he had to load pockets of pressed hops, a "fly - sheet" over the top of the main sheet was mandatory to keep the upper layer dry. And he worked on his own. In his later years, I'm sure he would get a friendly fork - lift driver to put the folded sheet on top of the load so he just had to climb up and spread it out. These container and side - curtain wallahs don't know they are born!
Thames Trader “Chinese six “. 7*08 unusual even in those days
16.12 Jo Walsh nice photo, I believe he also played lead guitar in the Eagles !! (Not seriously) When I tell my friends about some of the funny things that happened and experiences I had out on the road, they think i'm joking There must be other other drivers that have tales to tell.
Wonderful history. Why are the doors open on the vans 9:01?
Hills transport where you went to find out all about the 'joys' of roping and
sheeting....... return loads or don't come back!!!
My old fella had a drivers mate/trainnee driver with him he said right Graham time to rope n sheet your first load i am going for my dinner,came back to find he had put sheet n fly sheet on inside out.
Old fella said brilliant job apart from its inside out take it off n do it properly, me n Graham are in our 60,s now n i still taunt him about his mega faux pas,never did it again though
Thank you for sharing your memories
6:34 Working at height regs? HA! Where did you find that driver so cheap? He just fell off the back of a lorry! Things just got done then. I had a royal rollicking four years ago, for climbing a fifteen-foot industrial stepladder, in the company of three attendants, in order to inspect the roof of a trailer that had been 'topped'. Despite the damage being confined to the first two feet of the alli roof and no loose objects; the governors were very displeased that I decided to hook up and go; the chief reason? I might have fallen from the ladder. I appreciated the sentiment, but I was there to get the job done.
Hi did you take these photos yourself??
i wonder how many drivers today would cope with these trucks with no automatic gear box and having to double declutch and roping up your loads
Hi! Any photos of trucks from Ripponden, Stainland and Halifax in the late 1940’s/early 1950’s?
Oops "Handlebars" "!!!!!
What ever happened to the lorry manufacturing in Britain !?
Seems like it stayed in the past , same with the Motor Cycling Industry. My Father had a Aerial Square 4 ,happy memories .
Margaret Thatcher and her friends like Nicholas Ridley.
Any RH FREIGHT SERVICE PHOTOS ?