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Fluffle-Valve
Joined: 30 Dec 2009
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Location: At my computer in a bungalow in Duston, Northampton.
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 Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:59 pm Post subject: A couple of old lorries. |
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Just found this while going through some old photo's.
It's me and my dad taken outside a cafe in Bedford.
Taken about 1962'ish
Then many years later, this is me in early 1977 at Woodburn Camp, Northern Ireland.
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47p2
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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The Commer 2 stroke was a great truck
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Ironhead
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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my dad's old firm used to have a number of 2-stroke tippers.i'll never forget the sound of them screaming their way up the hill from the quarry near our house  |
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gerry snelling
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:08 am Post subject: two old trucks |
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| its is a commer but not a two stroke. a two stroke commer had two large sillencers under the front bumper. great lorries |
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Fluffle-Valve
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:58 am Post subject: Re: two old trucks |
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| gerry snelling wrote: | | its is a commer but not a two stroke. a two stroke commer had two large sillencers under the front bumper. great lorries |
I've emailed my dad to find out what engine it did have. 
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Greg
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:16 am Post subject: |
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The Commer is lovely!....wonder how many,(if any) are still around!
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Rick
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Greg
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Thanks Rick, I can't recall seeing one over here, not for a while anyway!
As I write this, I've remembered a Corgi Toy I had, a Chipperfields Circus Booking office. From memory it looked similar but I'm sure it was called a 'Smiths Carrier'???
.....anyone know if this was a real name or maybe I'm talking out of my hat!! |
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Greg
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47Jag
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Fluffle-Valve
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:17 am Post subject: Re: two old trucks |
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| Fluffle-Valve wrote: | | gerry snelling wrote: | | its is a commer but not a two stroke. a two stroke commer had two large sillencers under the front bumper. great lorries |
I've emailed my dad to find out what engine it did have. |
Just had my dad email me back and he tells me that it was a two-stroke...
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