Trucks of Yesteryear

[GC8]

DoctorX said:

Favourites include this, my dad's old F86 (and subsequent Volvo F7's). Spent all my school hols in these.

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An eight wheel F7 must have been extremely slow. There are a few still about, usually driven by old owner operators. Even an eight wheel FM9 is pedestrian with approaching double the power.

[DoctorX]

GC8 said:

An eight wheel F7 must have been extremely slow. There are a few still about, usually driven by old owner operators. Even an eight wheel FM9 is pedestrian with approaching double the power.

Well, they went faster than 56 mph....

[Logbert]

Hope you don't mind thought these might be off interest to some of you lads. They are some off my dads from years gone bye.
He dug them out last night. We are thinking off making a calender using some old and some new pics

Edited by Logbert on Saturday 27th October 19:34

[leggly]

Logbert said:

Hope you don't mind thought these might be off interest to some of you lads. They are some off my dads from years gone bye.
He dug them out last night. We are thinking off making a calender using some old and some new pics

Edited by Logbert on Saturday 27th October 19:34

Fantastic pics, thanks for posting them

[DoctorX]

Nice pictures.

Is that an Albion on the right? My earliest trucking memories are in one of those.

[Bull McCabe]

Logbert said:

Hope you don't mind thought these might be off interest to some of you lads. They are some off my dads from years gone bye.
He dug them out last night. We are thinking off making a calender using some old and some new pics

Edited by Logbert on Saturday 27th October 19:34

Des Pickard? Remember seeing these a while back in FMJ. Had a chat with your dad a couple of years ago at Askews sawmill. Alistair and David used to move timber for me.

[ZR1cliff]

This must have been a very large trailer back in the day. Remember talking to an old retired lorry driver a few years back. He reckoned these old trucks would have a top speed of only 30-40mph? If so how did these drivers survive doing hours of driving on end without a sleeper cab?

[T16OLE]

Logbert said:

Hope you don't mind thought these might be off interest to some of you lads. They are some off my dads from years gone bye.
He dug them out last night. We are thinking off making a calender using some old and some new pics

Edited by Logbert on Saturday 27th October 19:34

Some pretty cool old photos there my friend, that last one looks seriously stuck

[Logbert]

DoctorX said:

Nice pictures.

Is that an Albion on the right? My earliest trucking memories are in one of those.

I think it is a Leyland Octopus but not sure

T16OLE said:

Some pretty cool old photos there my friend, that last one looks seriously stuck

Dad says not, its just how it was done back then. They dragged the trucks into the woods loaded them then dragged them back out again.

Bull McCabe said:

Des Pickard? Remember seeing these a while back in FMJ. Had a chat with your dad a couple of years ago at Askews sawmill. Alistair and David used to move timber for me.

Probably 2008 we where working in Gisburn forest.... Picture of Dad taken today not doing bad for 83

Glad you liked the pics.

[Robin Hood]

Logbert said:

DoctorX said:

Nice pictures.

Is that an Albion on the right? My earliest trucking memories are in one of those.

I think it is a Leyland Octopus but not sure

T16OLE said:

If you mean this pic it's an Albion Reiver on the right, I had 3 !!

[mikey77]

ZR1cliff said:

This must have been a very large trailer back in the day. Remember talking to an old retired lorry driver a few years back. He reckoned these old trucks would have a top speed of only 30-40mph? If so how did these drivers survive doing hours of driving on end without a sleeper cab?

My father's first Leyland Octopus was only good for 39mph flat out but would go anywhere. The one pictured further up this thread was a slightly later model with coach diff ratios - It would see nearly 60mph on the clock, running empty, but wasn't any good on places like Porlock Hill.

One of the answers to the above question on hours is that regulations were rather less strictly policed in those days...

[Forthright MC]

Had the opportunity to snap a few pics of this immaculate looking Sedd Atki 400 earlier today which i'd imagine a few folks on here might like to see also -





Operated by Les Baston Trans of Amble, Northumberland. Was very pleased to see this old war horse still out earning its keep! Lovely bark from the 320 Cummins lump when it passed by! Looked like its possibly got an Eminox stack fitted too.

[Upatdawn]

anyone got pics of what my dad used to drive, coal truck tippers running to coke plants, Guy warrior and cheftains, 8 leggers/4 in hand with greedy boards

[mat777]

Logbert said:

If you mean this pic it's an Albion Reiver on the right, I had 3 !!

Is that perchance the inspiration for the Mark Knopfler song "Border Reiver"? I had often wondered what vehicle the lyrics refer to, the word Albion is mentioned along with references to crash gearboxes and being roasted by an engine in close proximity


Also on the subject of very vintage heavy haulers, if you have a lot of time to kill then the following thread is well worth a read:

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?429-WW1-D...

how to turn this:



into this

[AlexiusG55]

mat777 said:

Is that perchance the inspiration for the Mark Knopfler song "Border Reiver"? I had often wondered what vehicle the lyrics refer to, the word Albion is mentioned along with references to crash gearboxes and being roasted by an engine in close proximity

Definitely- "Sure as the Sunrise, that's what they say about the Albion"



And if you're on PH and like Mark Knopfler, you should listen to "Speedway at Nazareth", which is about an American open-wheel racing season...

[unclegrouch]

Not sure when this pic was taken, a member of trucknet found it for me !

My old tipper, bought in 1983 as it left steetley's fleet (& promptly repainted).

201 Gardner powered through a 12sp foden box, that took some time to master !

[unclegrouch]

and one from a few years later - R112 seemd like luxury :-)

[wavydave13]

anyone got any pics of my personal favourite the Volvo F88 ??

[loud430]

That foden haulmaster is fantastic! my dad had one for a little while when i was young, he also used to sub on for smith & sons of bletchington, he used to run out of ardley quarrey for them & we used to admire smiths immaculate fleet of fodens, they were spotless & very well looked after.

[spikey78]

You don't see many flags in windscreens these days do you?! Does anyone remember those yellow hands that were mounted by a sucker at the bottom that 'waved' as you went along-havent seen those for ages too? I'm surprised no one has re-designed one in the style of 'coffee beans'..