rolandrat
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It'll soon be the Extravaganza once again, it's a cracking weekend not to be missed. The show fields will be full of nostalgic memories.
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4th - 6th of May this year.
Keep an eye out in the town for Graham Atkinsons Showmans Engines and Stage Show with The Gaviolli Organ.
Come up to the engines and look for the bearded one.
That will be me. :thumb:
Make sure you introduce yourself please.
That goes for any other Funsters who are going.
I will probably look as though I have just arrived from Africa, but it will be coal dust and steam oil.
Looking forward to seeing some of you there and having photos taken on the engine.:beer:
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Looked at your profile
Sunters or brambles ?
ALE were a client of mine in one of my pre-retirement existences. WHAT an interesting client ! Loved em to bits. Their "trucks" reminded me of wheeled centipedes - what was the record, how many axles? can't recall now!
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1/ A.J. Stevens
2/ Royal Engineers
3/ Magnaload (Mammoet, but weren't allowed to trade in the UK under that name)
4/ Rigging International (Shetlands and Saudi Arabia)
5/ Stoof (Dutch)
6/ Mammoet Econofreight (Mammoet eventually split back off, Wynns/Sunters were taken over by Econofreight.)
7/ Econofreight (Brambles)
8/ Abnormal Load Engineering (A.L.E.)
I have driven general haulage, fridges, curtains, flats, Hiabs, ADR as well, just cos I like a change now and again.
Hope that helps you build a picture. :thumb:
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Is overnight parking available for MH's ??? If so, where ???:Cool::Cool::Cool:
I am working with mr Sunter now and I see Roy Brandley often
I didn't do too much with the heavy haulage but always worked with heavy cranes
small world
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I don't mind one bit, it's always interesting reading about old times. No doubt there are still plenty of old truckers around who remember "The Jungle Cafe" on the old A6 at the foot of Shap, many a night was spent there waiting for the snow ploughs to get it open for us.We seem to have hi-jacked this thread. Sorry rolandrat :Blush:
There are loads of records, most axles, longest, heaviest, widest, on site, on road so I am never sure which applies these days.
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We always tried to book our digs the previous day, 10 shillings and 6 pennies and a bucket on the landing if you were lucky, or there was always the Salvation Army 40 bed dormatories with buckets down the centre isle. There used to be 2 ft between each bed and heavy duty lino to stand on. I saw the first sleeper cabs at the Kelvin Hall Commercial Vehicle show. Harold Woods was showing a new "A" series ERF and next to it was a new Volvo F86 bubble cab. How times have changed, we've gone from Billies weekly lier to Didgy cards.I've tried to explain to a few of the "new" breed of drivers that sleeper cabs are a relatively new novelty. They can't believe that we used to have to stop at a phone box and put a tanner in to book our bed for the night. Once the bed was booked, that was as far as you were going, regardless.
You got your next instructions sent to the place you were dropping off at, and that was the last contact you had with your boss until the next drop off. Barring emergencies, of course, and even then, it was usually up to you to sort it out. Blow out !!!! No tyre fitter call outs in them days. Get the jack and wheel-brace out and change the wheel for the spare that you carried, and hope that you didn't get another one. Usually one or two drivers would stop to help you. Wouldn't happen today, of course. They would just drive past cos they are on too tight a schedule and the tracker will tell the transport manager that you had stopped for no reason, and the phone would start to ring etc etc etc.
Glad I am not doing it now.
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