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Never seen so many taracators in my life 🤭 Yet another 5 ⭐ show of the old vehicles from our day's If you went on mastermind I cant imagine what your specialist subject would be your knowledge is out this world 🙂👍 Thanks for showing 👏👏👏
Really terrific Part 2, many thanks. The preserved lorries are a real credit to their owners. It can sometimes be a challenge looking after a classic car, but the lorry restoration people are in another league!
Fabulous coverage! All that was missing was dear Fred Dibnah. Brought back memories of the Great Yorkshire agricultural show....i think was in the mid 60's that we were allowed to visit as school kids.
I met Fred D at a steam rally years ago and asked him to sign a copy of his book, which I still have, his writing was very "Victorian" in its style, very flowing, plus a number of dirty fingerprints also joined the page he autographed.
When I was a child in the 1950's, yes I was once a child, my father was what was then termed a "long distance lorry driver". That was before the advent of motorways etc. and I can just vaguely recall him being away for days on end. He worked for a company called "Elsey and Gibbons" in South Shields delivering copper hot water tanks all over the country. I have tried but cannot remember what the lorry was, I was incredibly young at the time. I do however, remember vividly that after that he drove a Bedford tanker much like the long nose one shown in your video, that would be the early 60's. He used to deliver pink paraffin which was used for domestic heating and the tanker was painted bright pink and the volume of the paraffin in the tank was measured using a huge wooden dipstick which he had to insert into the top of tanker unit body, I still can smell it. I also used to sit in the cab pretending to drive it. We now have a transport company, we have taken advantage of the HGV driver shortage and my son and grandsons, 3 of the 5 of them, have all taken their test. We are running flatbeds and just bought an artic. Can you believe that the problem we now have is finding drivers who are willing to travel. I loved this video yet again so many memories brought back to life and I know, I do ramble on.
Hi Rick I drove an FG with a milk float body in the west end on my milk round in the 80’s and I would tie that odd door open and hop in and out on busy roads and not bother the passing traffic,it wasn’t economical and so I then received one of the new electric floats with the steps up and rear door into cab which then became the most common type I think. Thanks for another great memory jog.Mike.
Thank you very much! I like it. I live in Russia where all antique cars and lorries and tractors go to scrap, because Russia do not keep your technical history and do not respect technical hystory others countryes. The "russian" lorry millitary "Краз" was done in Ukrain.
Trucks and Tractors. What more could you wish to see. Some of these types we had here in Australia, especially the Massey Ferguson tractors and the Bedford trucks.
What a fantastic collection of vehicles. Some of those old trucks from the 1950s - I guess - are real works of art and the sign writing is just superb. Heavens, that poor little car being ripped in half by those two, big, snorting monster trucks - Oh, the humanity! :-) The automotive equivalent of being hung, drawn, and quartered.
First time seeing a "David Brown " Tractor. --"DB" of Aston-Martin fame. Similar to Feruccio Lamborghini DB started with tractors, then bought Aston Martin and Lagonda. (Lagonda had great W.O. Bentley designed engines. Became the engines for '50's Astons.)
hi, great video,great to see s type and RL Bedfords, remember them well as had them in the late 60s, the Austin k9 we had in germany in 1969 as a wireless truck, again with all these motors double-de-clutching was the norm back then, love the old fordson major tractors,great memories !
Richard the British Railways Foden in early BR livery it was known as “blood and custard”. That truck badged as a Matador clearly had a matador engine evidenced by the radiator, the truck was definitely not an AEC all AEC vehicle’s were “cab over engine” with the exception of single deck busses which were under floor engines. Loved that Vitesse👍
A wonderful part 2. I think you are right about the little tug, I have seen them in war time films carrying bombs to planes on the trailer. I watched a BBC film archive recently. The late John Betchemen was doing a tour of London, it must have been late 60's judging by the cars. What caught my attention was he had a book describing the different makes and models of lorries of the time, being the BBC he didn't mention the name but I thought that was great. Some of those old tractors were nice to see although I always thought the ones with the front wheels close together looked unstable to me, I could be wrong though. Thanks again Rick for your presentation, much appreciated. 👍BTW I still have a 'Muir-Hill' plant tractor with ballast tipping trailer from when I was about 12 years old. Not sure if it is dinky or one of the others. Just keep it for nostalgia!
Thanks, Commers pop up from time to time but (around here at least) it's more often ERFs and Fodens that are the most numerous, being built in the area
The military landrover you are referring to as forward control are actually known as "101s". The blue landrover with the short bonnet is a forward control
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Channel homepage:
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HUGE display. Amazing.
I could easily have filmed enough for a Part 3 but I had to draw the line somewhere :) Thanks for watching
Never seen so many taracators in my life 🤭
Yet another 5 ⭐ show of the old vehicles from our day's
If you went on mastermind I cant imagine what your specialist subject would be your knowledge is out this world 🙂👍
Thanks for showing 👏👏👏
Glad it was of interest, I know a bit about a little but there are many many holes in my knowledge
Really terrific Part 2, many thanks. The preserved lorries are a real credit to their owners. It can sometimes be a challenge looking after a classic car, but the lorry restoration people are in another league!
Need 3 days just to see everything, great walk thru.
Fabulous coverage! All that was missing was dear Fred Dibnah. Brought back memories of the Great Yorkshire agricultural show....i think was in the mid 60's that we were allowed to visit as school kids.
I met Fred D at a steam rally years ago and asked him to sign a copy of his book, which I still have, his writing was very "Victorian" in its style, very flowing, plus a number of dirty fingerprints also joined the page he autographed.
What a great video 👍👍👍. Definitely something for everyone in there. Good to see the tractors as well.
Great video. Thank you.
Thanks Martin
When I was a child in the 1950's, yes I was once a child, my father was what was then termed a "long distance lorry driver". That was before the advent of motorways etc. and I can just vaguely recall him being away for days on end. He worked for a company called "Elsey and Gibbons" in South Shields delivering copper hot water tanks all over the country. I have tried but cannot remember what the lorry was, I was incredibly young at the time. I do however, remember vividly that after that he drove a Bedford tanker much like the long nose one shown in your video, that would be the early 60's. He used to deliver pink paraffin which was used for domestic heating and the tanker was painted bright pink and the volume of the paraffin in the tank was measured using a huge wooden dipstick which he had to insert into the top of tanker unit body, I still can smell it. I also used to sit in the cab pretending to drive it. We now have a transport company, we have taken advantage of the HGV driver shortage and my son and grandsons, 3 of the 5 of them, have all taken their test. We are running flatbeds and just bought an artic. Can you believe that the problem we now have is finding drivers who are willing to travel.
I loved this video yet again so many memories brought back to life and I know, I do ramble on.
Rambling is fine, always interesting to read and hear first-hand accounts of these vehicles when they were in regular use still
More great content ,thanks for posting
Thanks again for watching ST
Hi Rick I drove an FG with a milk float body in the west end on my milk round in the 80’s and I would tie that odd door open and hop in and out on busy roads and not bother the passing traffic,it wasn’t economical and so I then received one of the new electric floats with the steps up and rear door into cab which then became the most common type I think. Thanks for another great memory jog.Mike.
Stunning show ,some stunning vehicles ,could have happily spent three days there 👍
Thank you very much! I like it. I live in Russia where all antique cars and lorries and tractors go to scrap, because Russia do not keep your technical history and do not respect technical hystory others countryes. The "russian" lorry millitary "Краз" was done in Ukrain.
Thanks for the information!
Trucks and Tractors. What more could you wish to see. Some of these types we had here in Australia, especially the Massey Ferguson tractors and the Bedford trucks.
What a fantastic collection of vehicles. Some of those old trucks from the 1950s - I guess - are real works of art and the sign writing is just superb. Heavens, that poor little car being ripped in half by those two, big, snorting monster trucks - Oh, the humanity! :-) The automotive equivalent of being hung, drawn, and quartered.
First time seeing a "David Brown " Tractor. --"DB" of Aston-Martin fame. Similar to Feruccio Lamborghini DB started with tractors, then bought Aston Martin and Lagonda. (Lagonda had great W.O. Bentley designed engines. Became the engines for '50's Astons.)
hi, great video,great to see s type and RL Bedfords, remember them well as had them in the late 60s, the Austin k9 we had in germany in 1969 as a wireless truck, again with all these motors double-de-clutching was the norm back then, love the old fordson major tractors,great memories !
Richard the British Railways Foden in early BR livery it was known as “blood and custard”. That truck badged as a Matador clearly had a matador engine evidenced by the radiator, the truck was definitely not an AEC all AEC vehicle’s were “cab over engine” with the exception of single deck busses which were under floor engines. Loved that Vitesse👍
A wonderful part 2. I think you are right about the little tug, I have seen them in war time films carrying bombs to planes on the trailer. I watched a BBC film archive recently. The late John Betchemen was doing a tour of London, it must have been late 60's judging by the cars. What caught my attention was he had a book describing the different makes and models of lorries of the time, being the BBC he didn't mention the name but I thought that was great. Some of those old tractors were nice to see although I always thought the ones with the front wheels close together looked unstable to me, I could be wrong though. Thanks again Rick for your presentation, much appreciated. 👍BTW I still have a 'Muir-Hill' plant tractor with ballast tipping trailer from when I was about 12 years old. Not sure if it is dinky or one of the others. Just keep it for nostalgia!
Great video really enjoyed, One thing missing Commer which I used to drive backin the day don’t see many of them around.
Thanks, Commers pop up from time to time but (around here at least) it's more often ERFs and Fodens that are the most numerous, being built in the area
The military landrover you are referring to as forward control are actually known as "101s". The blue landrover with the short bonnet is a forward control
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Great video I own the russian truck in your video. It is a kraz 255 built in Kiev Ukraine this was its first show out after its restoration.
Cool! It was mighty impressive hearing and seeing it in action, I'll look out for it in the future and try to identify it correctly next time :-)
Seems most Blue tractors have Red painted grills yet Red tractors stay with Red also..? Quirky...
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KrAZ is a Ukrainian factory, not a Russian one. Kamaz is Russian
Kraz is Ukrain trucks 🙃🙂
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