Like many, Michael Fallone has memories aplenty of the Glasgow road transport scene which he grew up in. The big difference for him is that for the last 40 years he’s also been recording those visions of Scottish load carriers on film. In the first of a series of articles for Transport News, he talks to Bob Tuck about those early years near the banks of the Clyde.
ARE YOU a fatalist and simply believe that what will be, will be? Or do you lean towards the thought that life can be full of options and it’s often a personal choice in which path you take?
When you read Michael Fallone’s story then you can see how perhaps both sides of this view have come into play. Yes, it was a twist of fate that just happened to take him to a truck show at Tatton Park in Cheshire during 1980.
And it was also good fortune that while there he met Arthur Ingram and bought some of the prints he was selling of load carriers passing through London.
However, it was Michael’s decision that when he took up photography to (sort of) copy what Arthur was doing – albeit generally of vehicles around Glasgow – that he invested in some decent second-hand kit.
