I drove an Atkinson Borderer on night trunk for W.H.Bowker for a couple of weeks and one morning when I got back I asked the TM when I could have one of their F88s, he replied Oh about two or three years cock. That was enough for me I never went back. All the best.

In the late sixties for a very short time I worked for an outfit in london transporting melons from Dover to Covent Garden. 22ton of handball on one of two identical i think eight legger Mandators. Identical maybe is an understatement, two trucks, one set of number plates, one A license, one tax disc and probably only one cert. of insurance!!

If they were 8-leggers they would have been Mammoth Majors Ray.I think they would have been Mandator tractor units and trailers to get 22 tons on.
Plenty of fiddling on market work in t'olden days,Guinness labels for tax discs etc.:D

EE,them were t'days.:)

Funny how the description of goods-carrying vehicles seemed to change from 'payload' to 'gross weight' sometime in the 50s/60s.
Do small vans still use payload as a descriptor?

Worst gearbox, in my opinion, is Isuzu's MLD7Q 7 speed as fitted to Aus spec FTR850/900! No syncromesh on 1st but syncro on 2nd to 7th - the best thing Isuzu did was get rid of that box and fit 6 speed Eaton full syncro manuals!

Joe