FM Conway - Going the Extra Mile

Going the Extra Mile

load of wet clay in the back of the truck – much more than they should have had, but they didn’t want to make two journeys if they could get away with one. Coming down Anerley Hill, Bob put on the brakes, but nothing happened. He tried changing down through the gears, but the lorry wouldn’t stop moving, and they were approaching Waldegrave Road where a bus was picking up passengers. Bob yelled at Matt to take hold of the handbrake while he himself stood up and put his full weight on the brake pedal – but they couldn’t stop. Fortunately for everyone, the bus moved out in time, so no one was hurt. But that was what it was like in those days. You ran it to the limit: you had to.

Conway men on various jobs in the 1960s. (Top left) John Fenney, (unknown), Colman Flahery, Jok Cruickshanks, and Bob Dean. (Bottom

left) Tom Muudy and Jok Cruickshanks at

Wallington Park, Stafford Road, in 1963/4. (Right) Jok Cruickshanks and Dick Crane at Stafford Road, Wallington in 1964.

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