I remember that I stayed in Shap for about a year on 1966. I was working doing the ground investigation drilling for the then proposed M6. We worked on the section from Kendle to Penrith and stayed with Jean and Freddie Dickson in a house just by the Church. Whilst the Summer working was ok I did not enjoy the Winter time. Many a good night was spent in the local Pub. Not the Greyhound but the one in the village. Happy memories.
I live in Canada and have a letter dated 1801 from a several times great uncle to my several times great grandfather Cook saying that their father had taken a new wife and they were living in Shap.
The perception of the lorry driver then was of being very muscular owing the physical involvement in driving these vehicles, pop eye forearms and anchor tattoos etc
I learned how to do it correctly in the 1980's growing up around the local haulage companies in the Carlisle and Penrith area. I used to drive this road daily travelling from home in Penrith to work in Windermere for Wooleys Garage. Happy memories. Peace Charlie 🇬🇧
I think it was Shap that the driver of a new diesel (two stroke engine) found that on descending ,with the engine on overrun, all the oil was sucked out of the sump!
A brilliant wee trio of films.
Thank you.
What charm these old trucks had, things of beauty.
I remember that I stayed in Shap for about a year on 1966. I was working doing the ground investigation drilling for the then proposed M6. We worked on the section from Kendle to Penrith and stayed with Jean and Freddie Dickson in a house just by the Church. Whilst the Summer working was ok I did not enjoy the Winter time. Many a good night was spent in the local Pub. Not the Greyhound but the one in the village.
Happy memories.
Thank you for posting this memory of my families journeys to and fro from Glasgow to London.
You're welcome.
1:15 - Now THAT's a Proper Lorry.
Scary to think it's legal gross weight would of been 32 tons with not much over a 100 hp engine.
I live in Canada and have a letter dated 1801 from a several times great uncle to my several times great grandfather Cook saying that their father had taken a new wife and they were living in Shap.
When you think the old A6 before the building of the M6 would have been nose tail, Bank Holiday Monday keep well away.
The perception of the lorry driver then was of being very muscular owing the physical involvement in driving these vehicles, pop eye forearms and anchor tattoos etc
In America (Pennsylvania) we once upon a time had a governor by that name.
Not many drivers today would be able to rope and sheet like that today.
I learned how to do it correctly in the 1980's growing up around the local haulage companies in the Carlisle and Penrith area.
I used to drive this road daily travelling from home in Penrith to work in Windermere for Wooleys Garage.
Happy memories.
Peace
Charlie 🇬🇧
Somebody jocularly said that Shap was where Birmingham ended and Glasgow began!
When the lorries were made of wood and the men were made of iron
And real men died couching of coal dust lungs before their 50s birthday. The time of real men!
I think it was Shap that the driver of a new diesel (two stroke engine) found that on descending ,with the engine on overrun, all the oil was sucked out of the sump!
We had some videos of foden 2 strokes climbing shap on part of the northern road run but sadly someone threw the tapes out.
What years were this lorry type made?
No airbags no seatbelts wow lol
My mothers first car, she would have about four of us in the back, no seatbelts, doing 70mph on the motorway. Horrific when you think back.