Should get on with it.

[auh91a]

Hello all, I've been visiting this site for some time now and every time I open it up there's a little box asking me to say hello and I never have so hello from the land down under.

[G-CPTN]

Welcome, auh91a.

Tell us something about your interests and experiences and we will respond.

I'm a retired vehicle engineer and particularly like older vehicles, especially big ones and off-road ones.

[Ian]

Gday auh91a Welcome to the T&B Forum

[auh91a]

Born & bred on Tyneside been living in Australia for nearly 50 years so I'm not in the first blush of youth that's for sure. From about 1962 to 1964 I drove for Powell Products of Low Fell delivering jam and vinegar around Yorkshire, Cumbria and the lowlands of Scotland. Drove a coach for a while in Australia a 692 turbo charged GM in a Denning body now run a very small company marketing water bore cleaning products hoping to retire this year.

[G-CPTN]

I was excited when I heard the Detroit engine sound from the back of the tour buses in Sydney NSW in the 1980s. It was an unmistakable sound to me as I was familiar with the Detroit engines (I was a trained engineer in their maintenance in the 1970s), but I'd only driven them in trucks.

[coastie]

Originally Posted by auh91a

Born & bred on Tyneside been living in Australia for nearly 50 years so I'm not in the first blush of youth that's for sure. From about 1962 to 1964 I drove for Powell Products of Low Fell delivering jam and vinegar around Yorkshire, Cumbria and the lowlands of Scotland. Drove a coach for a while in Australia a 692 turbo charged GM in a Denning body now run a very small company marketing water bore cleaning products hoping to retire this year.

You must have gone over to Aus around the same time as my Uncle John Munslow then!

A very warm welcome from the sunny Isle of Anglesey.

[auh91a]

Thank you all for the kind welcome, don't know your uncle though Coastie it's a big country. For G-CPTN, the Denning I drove was pretty fast and when the authorities introduced tachographs for coaches it pegged me back a few knots I can tell you!

[G6 UXU]

Hello and welcome to the forum, enjoy and all the best.

[coastie]

Originally Posted by auh91a

Thank you all for the kind welcome, don't know your uncle though Coastie it's a big country. For G-CPTN, the Denning I drove was pretty fast and when the authorities introduced tachographs for coaches it pegged me back a few knots I can tell you!

Was worth a shot! That b*gger still owes me a day out in Aus catching Budgies!!