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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]I don't know if the surrounding districts Dustbin lorries were similar in make and appearance to Heanor's, but i remember them around the Tag Hill area in the 1940s/50s. The back of the lorry consisted of four large, wide sliding panels, which rose up in an arc when lifted. There were two panels on either side of the back of the lorry. They were predominently filled 90% to the brim with ashes and clinkers, the rest being boxes and paper rubbish Etc. and as more and more of the rubbish compartment was filled, the sliding panels were pulled down one by one. One, or sometimes both men, would heave a dustbin over the fairly high side and if you weren't nimble enough, you could really enjoy your own personal ash storm briefly. I remember one time, walking deep in thought and then being literally covered in a fine whitish ash. It was one of my best dating suits too. Still, the ensuing argument passed the time of day for a time. If it was a windy day, no one approached the lorries in the wrong direction. If you did, you could literally end up 'ashen faced' and the hair and clothes too. Many a time, i saw the lorries filled to over-spilling and the two man crew had to dash to the council dump, then return to where they had left off on the street. I think one of those old style Dustbin Lorries, including body and cab, could fit inside one of its modern counterpart's rubbish compartment easily. Azzabuv.[/quote]
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This message was updated on 12/29/2004 8:19:25 PM by Azzabuv

Heanor's Dustbin Lorries - Ash Carts
replied on: 12/29/2004 8:12:26 PM

I don't know if the surrounding districts Dustbin lorries were similar in make and appearance to Heanor's, but i remember them around the Tag Hill area in the 1940s/50s.

The back of the lorry consisted of four large, wide sliding panels, which rose up in an arc when lifted. There were two panels on either side of the back of the lorry.
They were predominently filled 90% to the brim with ashes and clinkers, the rest being boxes and paper rubbish Etc. and as more and more of the rubbish compartment was filled, the sliding panels were pulled down one by one.
One, or sometimes both men, would heave a dustbin over the fairly high side and if you weren't nimble enough, you could really enjoy your own personal ash storm briefly.

I remember one time, walking deep in thought and then being literally covered in a fine whitish ash. It was one of my best dating suits too. Still, the ensuing argument passed the time of day for a time.

If it was a windy day, no one approached the lorries in the wrong direction. If you did, you could literally end up 'ashen faced' and the hair and clothes too.

Many a time, i saw the lorries filled to over-spilling and the two man crew had to dash to the council dump, then return to where they had left off on the street.

I think one of those old style Dustbin Lorries, including body and cab, could fit inside one of its modern counterpart's rubbish compartment easily.
Azzabuv.

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