Leicester's Bygone's

robinswh:
My dad worked for emmersons one week in 1958 while on annual holiday from the whitiwck granite company. He drove an eight wheel leyland octopus out of bardon trips down to slough each day.I went one one of these with him all A5 m1 still on the drawing board stopped at the blue boar on the A 5 each morning for a cup of tea . This was one of two 8 wheelers the rest of the fleet seemed to be 4 wheel leyland comets . I dont think they kept the octopuses long I never saw them again

Ay up Wayne. Yes my cuz started on an Octopus for them, there was no Comets just Foden MMs at that time, . He was promoted (?) to an old Aec mkv then onto a Foden . They did buy a new Aec MMajor E/F reg but it must have put them off,all Gardner’s after that until they tried a F88. Cheers Coomsey