just like the old days ????

[Backsplice]

hello all I,m in between ships at the moment( ships nostalgia) and as i used to do a bit of lorry driving the same while i was at sea .........strange how many of us who took up that career when coming ashore was it the closest job to what we were used to ???
I spent the most of my post seagoing days working on the distance and had a great time the only motorway was the M1 then M6 I could go on but there will be plenty of time as the site gets busy looking fwd to posting some photos and yarns ......Backsplice EX Allisons Dundee D&D Tpt Dundee Elgin Tpt Arbroath Depot ....... SARAMAT Jeddah Saudi Arabia

[Western SMT]

Welcome Backsplice - look forward to your input

[G6 UXU]

Hello and welcome. All the best.

[Mandator]

Hello and welcome Backsplice.
Allisons Freightlines,Dundee - now there's a blast from the past!

[Backsplice]

Mandator now that avatar of yours is like the one I used to drive for Allisons PYJ 954 with an AV 690 and 6 speed ? ratchet hand break and went like the wind then an Ergomatic Mercury followed by a frog eyed Merc 1418 ,....another flyer

[Mandator]

Aye backsplice the AV690 was the biggest engine put in the pre-ergo Mandators and it was also installed in the 8-legger MK5 Mammoth Major.I drove various AECs from the MK3 up.Some of the 8-leggers had a smaller engine (580?) and a 5-speed box and they were hard work but I was given a MK5 tanker, 526 GYG with 6-speed box and rotary fuel pump - CAV I think- and it was a flyer.
When the ergo Mandators came out in 1965 some still had the AV690 engine but the bigger AV760 became standard and this engine was the basis for the TL12 engine that was installed in the Marathon.
If you look in the pre 1980 gallery I've put one of Allinson's MK5 Mandators on.

Chris.