Jim117

Yeah I remember seeing chassis and engines being driven around. You’re right about the Albion trucks with the horse names too. My dad drove one in the seventies and it was called a Clydesdale. I went with him in it, loaded up at Brown Baileys with wheel hubs or brake drums or something. Delivered to Leyland Motors. The three wheel trucks mentioned on here I think maybe were powered by Dodge slant six engines but I could be wrong. I do miss the variety of the old trucks like Scammel, ERF and Foden.

The country most in debt to China by a country mile is Russia. I guess Prigozhin has kept his head due to the great job Wagner PMC has done looking after the gold and diamond mines for Russia.

Yup exactly that. It’s not good news for dictators when the masses see the neighbours having a better life. Also in today’s news the Kerch Bridge has once again seen inclement weather of the high explosive kind. I suspect the Russians sat in the resulting traffic jams might be regretting their life choices regarding buying stolen property. Never mind.

Wow is that really your best shot? Well allow me to retort. Given the fact that I actually am from a military family and am also qualified by the biggest social service department in England and approved by SYP and the Sheffield court system. Would you like to explain your abusive behaviour towards your children by denying them contact with friends and family members because you believe your nut job vaccine conspiracy theories? My guess is you got a medical negligence claim in against the NHS and are now sitting pretty on your arse claiming carers allowance. If what you post here is true then the biggest victims are your kids. Obviously though it’s the internet so you could be equally possibly posting from your mums basement in Rovvrum, who knows?

Not my word. But traditionally all troops have derogatory names for the enemy. Also it might surprise you to know that the army takes young guys from rough backgrounds and turns them in to soldiers that defend your right to have a cushy life and post CT crap on here. I personally have met a guy from the roughest estate in Leeds whose parents were both smack heads. He’s now a tank commander in the dragoons. Also try googling the name Beharry if I remember the correct spelling. A black gang banger from London who was a driver of a Warrior IFV, twice cited for bravery for saving his lads, holder of the Victoria Cross and now a senior officer.So no, our army isn’t politically correct, that’s why it works.

You are correct in my experience. Personally I think the first Iraq war was justified but the second and Afghan war wasn’t. I know guys that fought in them and they considered them BS. Largely for the fact that they couldn’t understand why they were risking their necks fighting the ragheads while our own government and social workers were waving them in through the back door. I fully understand that that doesn’t sound politically correct but in the real world but that’s the way the guys saw it. I also worked with an ex RAF techie who had been called in for the search for WMD’s in Iraq. He didn’t find any because they didn’t exist except to scare Iran but his description of the aftermath of a special forces assault on those positions was grim. That said , mistakes are made but Ukraine still needs and deserves our support.

IIRC Bedsock was a poster on the very irreverent and now defunct Talk Sheffield site. Another great poster on there was Dr Hemibr whose questionable but hilarious medical advice ran to hundreds of pages and had me howling laughing. Don’t think that site had any mods.

Er, he has and still is trying to carpet bomb Ukraine. It’s not working. The delusional whopper Putin is surrounded by yes men. There is no big plan, Russia and its economy are doomed. The west supplied Russia in its fight against the Nazis in WW2. Now Russia has become the nazis so we supply Ukraine to defeat them. Sad for ordinary Russians who are going to suffer because one dysfunctional idiot could not move on from the Soviet Union even though he still had the biggest country in the world, infinite resources and solid trading partners. Sorry, however you try to paint this it’s another attempted genocide and land grab against Ukraine. Edit, this was for the attention of Trastrick, however this site has become pretty unreliable whenever I post on this topic.

New here, seriously? Do you have dementia? It doesn’t matter how a government defines itself, a nazi is a nazi. Also, you just got called out by Organgrinder who is also correct. Give it a rest ffs! There will be no justice until Ukraine gets its territory back and the old men in Russia give up their imperial fantasies.

No, Altus is correct. Yet again you pontificate without actually offering a solution. Which is it Trastrick, do we feed the bear or not? I just want to hear your answer without an essay and a bunch of dodgy links. It’s not complicated, do you support a country that is doing its best to be a fledgling democracy and join with Europe and the west or do you support the real nazis in the Kremlin?

Economics aside it is still is the right thing to do. I can’t remember which US president made the quote and I’ll probably butcher it but something along the lines of evil only prospers if good men do nothing. Not a big Boris fan but I’m glad he stood up for Ukraine. Russia’s imperialistic BS should not be tolerated in the 21st century. Neither should its attitude of thinking its neighbours are little more than second class serfs. Russia is a terrorist state incapable of fielding a decent army and I hope they reap the whirlwind coming their way due to their attacks on civilians.

Hi Rockers glad to see you back and thanks for the info. My Reliant experiences as follows. When I was a teenager my mates mum drove a Scimitar which was pretty cool as she was a MILF and she had the Ford V6 version.IIRC, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, it was a long time ago. Another time my mate wanted to build a trike so we fetched a Robin from Stockport to a friends factory unit down the Cliffe. The engine block on these was alloy I think and we also wanted the transmission and back axle. After undoing every bolt we could find the body still didn’t come off so we chained it to the overhead crane and bounced it till the chassis fell out. Then had the problem of how to dispose of the bodyshell. At the time we were working building a factory unit at Darnall and used to burn all the old cement bags and pallets off on site. Not knowing how well fibreglass would burn we decided to break the shell up and ram it into the back of my Mk 2 transit and take it to site at the weekend when everything was quiet. Plan B was that if it didn’t burn we could just crush it with the JCB and bury it. Well it turns out fibreglass acrylic resin burns spectacularly well and resulted in a massive black smoke cloud that drifted up and then sideways straight into the Sheffield arena next door where an athletics event was taking place. Having no way to put the fire out we revised plan B to jumping in the van and buggering off. Well that was a learning experience.😂

Yup shutting that left hand door on the heater makes all the difference when the wind is blowing straight through every panel gap 😂. Cuttsie, the bumps were due to the rock hard leaf springs specced by the MOD to carry ammunition so they didn’t actually spring at all in normal civvy use. Every bump a guaranteed kick up the arse. Presumably the same guy who fitted carpet to the roof on mine was the same legend that fitted scrapyard Volvo seats, bless him! Rockers, didn’t those early three wheelers have no reverse gear and a kickstarter? Or am I confusing that with a Bond or something. Btw, welcome to the forum smithy 266, haven’t seen you here before.👍

My 1966 Landie had a heater. It was bolted to the floor in the passenger side and looked like an air raid siren with two little doors on the front. Apparently it was for the benefit of any army officers being chauffeured around by a, presumably, shivering lowly private. Personally I used to wear my motorcycle clothing when driving that thing in the winter, minus the helmet. Even down to the gloves as the steering wheel was made of metal. A previous owner had glued carpet to the inside of the roof to stop condensation dripping onto the old bonce. The good old days eh but at least it was a laugh 🤣

Zakes. I live at S12 though only for the last 4 years or so. I love finding out local history for the areas I live in and I greatly enjoyed your old posts. Though I never realised how many prehistoric animals had survived in the area through to the fifties and sixties 😂. Keep posting while ever you feel like it buddy 👍 Your memoirs are worthy of a book in their own right.