That loveable old curmudgeon is back... Yes 'The Boss' has returned from terrorising Le Continent with his beloved Maggie and naturally Biglorry is keen to hear all his news." Orkney Isles again, whatever, you're back!" he says with a harrummphh... "While you were on hols I thought I had lost it, permanently!" What? 'The Boss' losing it? What strange event prompoted such an outrageous response? He takes up the story again: "Heading south... Again, hunched over the steering wheel like Quasimodo and it was hot (air con is for wimps) I started to hear bells, faintly at first but it became louder.Looking round couldn't see nowt 'cept another Maggie at the rear, panic began, I was losing it,a looney at last..."
"Into the next services for a strong black coffee and the bells followed me in and stopped when I did,was the Grim Reaper parked alongside me I thought, leapt out, not 'The Reaper' but the Travelling Carrilon of Prague, 57 bells on the back of a Maggie rigid!" Now click through here for more and a picture of a rather attractive lady on the back of a truck (as if that would make you want to read more...)
The Boss continues: "The bells,weighing between 5 kg and 860kg, formed part of a musical instrument taken round various European festivals during the Summer and played by the Professor manually or by electro magnetic strikers controlled by computor offering over 100 different pieces including,a stirring rendition of 'The Steelboys Polka' a dead cert to get those hairy clogs leaping.The Travelling Carillon can be booked to lead your next convoy or Truckfest at www.Carillon.cz."
"Now Adults and Tom Cunningham flick through for a Magnum Carlsberg moment. Tom has done an excellent piece in the latest issue of T&D about taking better pics but I challenge Tom to produce a better pic of a Renault Magnum. The one on the back doors Brian. The Boss." And nice to have the old boy back again... Hopefully he didn't drive into the back of the trailer trying to get a better picture...?
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