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Originally Posted by locojoe
When I was a lad my next door neighbour drove one of those mechanical Horse 3 wheel Scammells, really useful little vehicles. 
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As a former SAC in the RAF, I was posted to 16MU RAF Stafford.
This place was a massive supply centre for the RAF.
At this time we had Scammel Heads and trailers to move stock around.
Also we had Karrier Bantam trucks to ferry equipment about the huge base.
At one time nearly all stations had big parcel depots, with lots of delivery trucks moving the stuff about.
I can remember the parcel trains out of the PCD at Leeds city Station, and barrow loads of stuff in BRUTES.
I worked such a train from Sheffield Midland to Leeds PCD. This was pulled by 45026 which failed at South Kirby Junction foul of the down GN mainline.
A class 47 came from Leeds upto Moorthorpe Loop and back down on the the rear of the parcels train.
I hooked on, and braked tested the train, and rode on the assisting engine upto Wakefield Westgate.
This assiting engine RR the train at Westgate and then onto the PCD, landing 3 hours late.
From my diary of 27/12/1984
SO Leeds at 16:10, Leeds Turn 457 work 1J 02 to Sheffield (45026) s/off 03:00hrs.
We got 4 hours travelling time to sign on at Leeds and work one on thier jobs