Nostalgia

[G-CPTN]

I hope that 'Management' here don't mind me diverting members to another source of entertainment. If it breaks Forum Rules I apologise and will understand if this gets deleted.

Mainly for the older trunkers and particularly ex-pats, but also for the education of non-Brits (and younger folk), here is a website that has photographs of allsorts of road transport from the last hundred years or so:-
http://www.chrishodgephotos.co.uk/pa...ruckphotos.htm
Select one of the branches (The latest 500, Earlier pictures and Veterans) then click on the subject to display the image, and when you have exhausted your curiosity, make sure that you visit ChrisHodge's homepage and the 'fun photos' @ http://www.chrishodgephotos.co.uk/fu...eww/pageww.htm and the TruckFest @ http://www.chrishodgephotos.co.uk/fu...arPicsHome.htm

If you use Firefox you can search on a keyword by selecting 'Edit' from the top toolbar and then 'Find' - enter your search phrase and 'Next' (this may also work with Internet Destroyer). You might need to activate the toolbar first . . .

I found that I started marvelling at the 'before my time' vehicles in the Veteran section, then realised that some were from the days that I was working and I started to feel that I was reprising my career. There's even one photograph that might well have been me driving . . .

[Western SMT]

Great site G-CPTN
Could spend hours there and brings back a lot of memories.

[G-CPTN]

Another source of photographs (and information about makes, including history):- http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/

http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/bedfordphotos.html
http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/commer-photos.html
http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/dodge-photos.html
http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/erf_photos.html
http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/rootes-photos.html
http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/cgi-bin/p...earch=sentinel
http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/photos.html

[Western SMT]

For a bit fun try -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaHEEFUd1so
then try the 'Related Videos'

[G-CPTN]

The first creation that I built using my older brother's Meccano was a six-wheel artic tractor (based loosely on a Diamond T - the only such vehicle that I'd seen in the late 1940s) - though 'smaller' Bedford RAF Queen Marys were regular sightings (carrying 'Spitfires' - though I've no idea if they really were . . . ).
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/4720/p4020052pk4.png

[Energumen]

Jeez, would you look at the camouflage on that Spitfire, no wonder you could not be sure it was there.

Ha ha

[Western SMT]

G-CPTN - Found a real one and your model is a good likeness.

http://www.raf-lichfield.co.uk/Alber...een%20Mary.htm

Always thought a Queen Mary was a bus - learn something everyday.

[Energumen]

And you were quite right my Friend, us bussies nicked the term, which was originally used for those RAF Trailers as shown, the Queen Mary's of their day.

Interesting thing about the last picture in the Lichfield gallery, that looks suspiciously like a BMC, Austin probably, and not a ford. What say you?.

Regarding Lichfield airbase, I assume that would be what is now a sadly deglamourised Fradley Park Distribution hub, where the hangers are used by various part load, (by pallet), carriers and a multiplicity of drivers from all over britain, who seem to relish breathing in dust and noxious fumes from a mad house of flying forklifts, as they transfer loads for onward shipment.
Got the tea shirt. It's filthy ha ha.

[G-CPTN]

I'd vote for a BMC rather than a Ford.
Here's a Thames for comparison:- http://www.chrishodgephotos.co.uk/pixcma2/aah747.jpg