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1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

indeed it is! when retro-reflective plates where made mandatory for all *cars and motorbikes* first used 1st January 1973 or later, there where a few vehicles exempt from that requirement, this included most predominatly buses, which is how London Transport got away with using white on black plates for so long, but it also included HGV's but very few HGV operators actually used that exemption, but I understand that Ripponden Motors made a point of using it/doing it like London Transport did  but you otherwise very rarely saw it outside of that, so very nicely found  

you can read the actual rules and regs of the time here

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1865/pdfs/uksi_19721865_en.pdf

the main relevant bit for us being

I was going to say lots of London buses used those style plates. It looked weird seeing the black plates on stuff like Leyland Titan’s and National’s. 
Can they still use them?

[cms206]

On 07/11/2024 at 22:14, Split_Pin said:

Some guy on a truck Facebook page is trying to say the Volvo FL7/10 was a bus chassis.

I lied - I have just been reminded of this blinder, what I believe actually *is* the only Volvo FL-series bus in the British Isles - built by Mooney of Ardara on a Volvo FL6 chassis using a second hand Van Hool body!

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

[martc]

On 29/12/2024 at 16:12, LightBulbFun said:

indeed it is! when retro-reflective plates where made mandatory for all *cars and motorbikes* first used 1st January 1973 or later, there where a few vehicles exempt from that requirement, this included most predominatly buses, which is how London Transport got away with using white on black plates for so long, but it also included HGV's but very few HGV operators actually used that exemption, but I understand that Ripponden Motors made a point of using it/doing it like London Transport did  but you otherwise very rarely saw it outside of that, so very nicely found  

 

Thanks, you've come up trumps again.

Strange thing is I'd forgotten all about Ripponden and District* lorries and their distinctive livery/bw plates even though they were a common sight in East Yorks (in fact anywhere oop North) in the '80's. Thanks for jogging my memory. A friend of mine at the time was a great fan of them and 'collected' sightings of them in the same way people did with Eddy Stobart.

*and Ripponden Motors, which I guess were the same outfit.

If I remember correctly they were parcel couriers but of a slightly higher class than todays cowboys.

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Snow clearing and road gritting in Portland Maine circa 1940. Lots of great trucks here.

 

[Metal Guru]

On 22/12/2024 at 15:45, Joey spud said:

Rings are still going near me.

What would have been the nicer truck to operate ?

I remember Rings from when I lived  in Medway but not Goddens. That truck is 1967 and looks well used , so they must have folded or been taken over maybe mid 70s?

[Vantman]

3 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I remember Rings from when I lived  in Medway but not Goddens. That truck is 1967 and looks well used , so they must have folded or been taken over maybe mid 70s?

@Metal Guru When the two brothers who controlled Richman Removals went their separate ways in 1967, one of them purchased the small business that Bert Godden ran from an office on New Road in Chatham.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]