Axminster transport

Cliff luxton:
Need to keep this going .
I have just spent an hour with Peter Baulch and he has kindly lent me some more pictures which I need to scan later,meanwhile here is another of mine.This is Dave I think he was the first driver of the F89.

great pics once again cliff pleased you managed to see peter .I think peter must have hundreds of photos of the history of Axminster transport and then CATS . what a true gentleman and a good boss to work for . Yes I think that is dave brown with the F89 remember that used to go like a rocket .loved coming back over the cenis in the summer it was the a good stop up the top always cool no aircon in them days cheers den

Thanks to Baldrick, Mappo,Robert,and Dennis for your comments.
Ii will research more information for you Baldrick. But here’s another one to be going on with.There wasn’t to many of these about, I know Hattons ran a fleet of them.

Thanks to Caddy for your reply.

Cliff luxton:
Thanks to Baldrick, Mappo,Robert,and Dennis for your comments.
Ii will research more information for you Baldrick. But here’s another one to be going on with.There wasn’t to many of these about, I know Hattons ran a fleet of them.

Thanks for putting on that 2600 daf I’m sure that was my truck can’t quite see the reg . we had 2 i recall they were ex renwicks wotton under edge they were L reg mine was GDF 976L the other one was also GDF but not sure of the number think Phil Rawles drove the other one . a comfortable motor gearbox was back to front and a huge steering wheel

Cant remember the Dafs !

Heres another !

Hiya,heres another 2600 Daf,not my pic but under the magnifying glass the reg is WPR 592M,heres a question for Cliff or others…there was a company from Chard way called T.G.Hawker…they had a couple of 2600s,were these Dafs anything to do with Axminsters although they were brown in colour their signwriting was very similar.
Cheers Bubbs, :wink:

bubbleman:
Hiya,heres another 2600 Daf,not my pic but under the magnifying glass the reg is WPR 592M,heres a question for Cliff or others…there was a company from Chard way called T.G.Hawker…they had a couple of 2600s,were these Dafs anything to do with Axminsters although they were brown in colour their signwriting was very similar.
Cheers Bubbs, :wink:

Hi bubbs ,T G Hawker was Terry Hawker who was at chard meat . then started his own company in chard .It was not an abattoir but was boning and packing plant think they were on the same industrial estate as we were Cliff might have a bit more info cheers dennis

Hi bubbs thanks for the input Dennis is right it was the ex manager of Chard Meat who started on his own ,they were nothing to do with Axminster Transport. Thanks for getting us to a second page not bad in a week.That’s John Dwyer he wasn’t driving all three it was me and Jock Mcloed.

Cliff luxton:
Thanks to Baldrick, Mappo,Robert,and Dennis for your comments.
Ii will research more information for you Baldrick. But here’s another one to be going on with.There wasn’t to many of these about, I know Hattons ran a fleet of them.

Yes , I remember Hattons, Bright yellow livery.
Pat Scorey had one on PBC when I first started there, possibly that one came from Hattons…

Hiya again,Thanks for putting me right with the Hawkers question lads,thats something I always wondered.Heres another question…I took this pic at a Westrucks stand somewhere,I never saw this 141 XHO 369V on the road,did the reg get changed or did it get sold off early?I know MDV 334W and LTA 701W entered the fleet and saw (and photographed) them on occasions but often wondered where XHO went,Sorry to be a nuisance.
Cheers Bubbs, :wink:

Nice looking fleet, How many wagons did they have on the continent and where did the go to? :grimacing:

Hi bubbs you got me there I will have to speak to Peter about that one, I’m sure there were 3 Scanias came together but can’t place that registration .
Hi jonB1973 in the late 70s early 80s they would have had 6 or 8 uk lorries and 4 French reg running all over Europe.This is me arriving in Greece .

Hi Bubbs and cliff I’m afraid I’m in the dark over that Scania .i know that mick bowers who lived in Poole was driving a UK reg Scania before he came over to the Cherbourg side wether it was that one I don’t really know cheers den

A couple more scanias I found on the internet.

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hi dean great photos just come out of George Tancocks body shop in Exeter they used to do a first class job . cheers den

Just a quick fix for the day.Italian side of Mont Blanc.

Well done Cliff!
Axminster deserves a thread of it’s own.
As you remember I did a few relief jobs for Peter one time and another and enjoyed all of them. I remember a fortnight on one of they T45s with some cheese deliveries in Swiss. How is Peter? Still about I hope.
And morning to you too Denis. Bloody long time since I last saw you - probably in a bar somewhere! Glad there is a few of us left though last time I saw Cliff he tried to addict me to something called Doom Bar. It worked too!
Take care,
David

David nice to hear from you and hope you are keeping well . Good stuff that doom bar . For myself it’s ricard or pastis followed by vino collapso too much time spent in france although mostly on the costa blanca for the last 13 years but old habits die hard . We will have to try and have a catch up one of these days and see how much diesel we can get through don’t know about this adblue stuff though don’t taste as good as calvados and I think you use more per 100kms . If I remember one café calva was good for 100kms ha ha
good days take care den

Hello Dave still got that doom bar few of the lads coming to try it Saturday,Thanks for the input .Thank you Dennis.
Somewhere in France.

Hi Cliff nice to see your thread going so well,keep up the good work.I am hoping to bring Dumper with me for a few hours saturday but don’t hold your breath.All being well be there for lunch see you mate.