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Bermondsey Transport Companies
Bermondsey Transport Companies
Last edited by fosney on Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Last edited by kiwi on Sat May 29, 2021 12:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Bermondsey Transport Companies
Originally posted by fosney.
Found this picture on Getty-images
July 1951 BRS trucks pulling out of the Bermondsey Depot. Anyone recall where this depot was?
I can remember loading timber like this, we never relised how dangerous it was, over-hanging the cab and held on with ropes, that’s what we had,so that’s what we done.
If I remember right this all came to an end with an accident at the traffic lights on The Highway, East London, the traffic lights by the Rotherhithe Tunnel. The driver jammed on his brakes to stop and the timber moved forward,the balustrade collapsed crushing the cab, sadly killing the driver. Not sure of the year but around the early 1960s?,after this accident the law was changed stopping loading on the balustrade and over the cab.
Found this picture on Getty-images
July 1951 BRS trucks pulling out of the Bermondsey Depot. Anyone recall where this depot was?
I can remember loading timber like this, we never relised how dangerous it was, over-hanging the cab and held on with ropes, that’s what we had,so that’s what we done.
If I remember right this all came to an end with an accident at the traffic lights on The Highway, East London, the traffic lights by the Rotherhithe Tunnel. The driver jammed on his brakes to stop and the timber moved forward,the balustrade collapsed crushing the cab, sadly killing the driver. Not sure of the year but around the early 1960s?,after this accident the law was changed stopping loading on the balustrade and over the cab.
Last edited by kiwi on Wed Jul 03, 2019 3:58 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Bermondsey Transport Companies
This is a new one on me. I know they had a Depot in East London but not Bermondsey.
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