The "I Can't Believe This Vehicle From My Past Is Still On The Road" Thread

[Tetleysmooth]

Brain Haulage. Spot hire were yellow, white and red, Maersk Line contract were light blue with the white star on them. UASC were green. CGM were white. Brain had quite a few trucks on the Maersk contract. West Thurrock, Felixstowe, Southampton, Birmingham and Manchester all had Brains depots and all of them had vehicles on the Maersk contract. I was at West Thurrock. When I got the Renault, it had just over 20k on it, by the time I'd done with it (I got a brand new Iveco 220-32 six legger), it was on about 250k. Maersk used to work us hard, but the money was bloody good.

[mercrocker]

Certainly remember the Brain's depot in Southampton....
Maersk themselves didn't turn up here in any strength until the very late Eighties on a vessel share - their own shipping fleet started calling in 1991-ish IIRC.

[Tetleysmooth]

I turned up at the Maersk offices at Felixstowe one day in the late eighties. Two other lads from West Thurrock were there, Barry Sadler and Dave Prosser. The very first Maersk ship had just berthed at the port. The top geezer in the office asked us if we would like to have a tour of the ship, so they bunged us into a coach, took us down the berth and gave us a look around the ship. Thoroughly enjoyed that. Dave Prosser took a load of photos. Wish I had them now.

[Hooli]

Sadly this one though still about is now at the end of its life.
Jaguar XJ-R N422AKP, its not been tested since i sold it all those years ago.
and one i was glad to see go, cos i was sick of spending on the needy bloody thing.

6pot XJR? I drove one once & was very underwhelmed, didn't live up to the hype at all.

[marvinsmom]

it was a 6 cylinder one.

i preferred it to the V8, which i dunno, i didn't like as much.

each to their own i guess!

i thinki ts cos the 6 was a lazier, slower revving engine compared with the v8, and i think that was more inkeeping with a Jaguar.

[Hooli]

I always preferred the idea of a straight six XJR too, until I drove one while owning a V8 Sov. I'd swear the Sov was faster, so kind of ruined the idea of the XJR being fast. I know they can be tweaked a long way though so can actually get fast.

[mercrocker]

I turned up at the Maersk offices at Felixstowe one day in the late eighties. Two other lads from West Thurrock were there, Barry Sadler and Dave Prosser. The very first Maersk ship had just berthed at the port. The top geezer in the office asked us if we would like to have a tour of the ship, so they bunged us into a coach, took us down the berth and gave us a look around the ship. Thoroughly enjoyed that. Dave Prosser took a load of photos. Wish I had them now.

I worked for Maersk 1990-1998 in the Southampton office.

[Eddie Honda]

it was a 6 cylinder one.

i preferred it to the V8, which i dunno, i didn't like as much.

each to their own i guess!

i thinki ts cos the 6 was a lazier, slower revving engine compared with the v8, and i think that was more inkeeping with a Jaguar.

You are right. Proper Jaaags engine cylinder counts have to be divisible by 6. (Also fuelling should only be petril)

[Tetleysmooth]

I turned up at the Maersk offices at Felixstowe one day in the late eighties. Two other lads from West Thurrock were there, Barry Sadler and Dave Prosser. The very first Maersk ship had just berthed at the port. The top geezer in the office asked us if we would like to have a tour of the ship, so they bunged us into a coach, took us down the berth and gave us a look around the ship. Thoroughly enjoyed that. Dave Prosser took a load of photos. Wish I had them now.

I worked for Maersk 1990-1998 in the Southampton office.

Did you ever meet Julie from the Felixstowe office? Blimey, what a sort.

[mercrocker]

I turned up at the Maersk offices at Felixstowe one day in the late eighties. Two other lads from West Thurrock were there, Barry Sadler and Dave Prosser. The very first Maersk ship had just berthed at the port. The top geezer in the office asked us if we would like to have a tour of the ship, so they bunged us into a coach, took us down the berth and gave us a look around the ship. Thoroughly enjoyed that. Dave Prosser took a load of photos. Wish I had them now.

I worked for Maersk 1990-1998 in the Southampton office.

Did you ever meet Julie from the Felixstowe office? Blimey, what a sort.

Can't remember ever having the pleasure but quite a few came down from there when we opened up - the Lawrensons (Chris and Deb), big Gary and some of the terminal staff.