Leicester's Bygone'sModerators: ERF-NGC-European, dieseldave By posting content to TruckNet, you're agreeing to our terms of use and confirm that you have read our Privacy Policy, and our Cookie Use Policy. You acknowledge that any personal data you post on TruckNet may be accessed by other members of TruckNet and visitors to the forum Re: Leicester's Bygone'sOne of 4L reg ERFs they ran.MickWedge pic
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sMy 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
wayne Robinson
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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
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sI seem to remember that Mr T .W glover bought an aec eight wheeler mammoth major from emersons early 1960 s didnt keep it long though then like emersons on to fodens .Emersons yard was in belton then.
wayne Robinson
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after trying out an F88..did all the drivers demand to have their old Gardner motors back? ![]()
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Son of got the 88, the rest of us never got their rrsss in to turn owt down ![]()
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sCFY when you look at the work we did then,70s, the 88 didn't matter. Coal from Leics down to London scrap back to Sheffield or Brum. You couldn't imagine Emmerson buying something that was less mpg so the driver got home earlier. We only did around a10hr day , not bad n around£110 top line for a 55 hr week in 76/77 weren't bad money. The only thing that really really wazed me off with the Gardner's was the joy of mostly freezing to death!!! Cheers Coomsey
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sOn a roll !? Now when I went onto bricks for Bankroft n Powers I was doing 2 Scotch a week with a couple of locals in between. That's was on an Akky 220 Cummins got a new Octopus doing the same n could pull in another couple of loads a week. Another 10/15 pounds a week,a lot of money in 78. She must have been better on the MPGs definitely not on reliability
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i well remember the Gardner 'heaters' ![]() ![]() ![]() of course,the other one was just as bad!
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sNow I know why gardners never took on in western canada !!! By the way Paul bancroft and powers back in the late 1950 s hauled most of the bricks for coalville precinct about three loads a day from whitwick brick yards on several ancient leyland octopuses before cranes .My dads aec in the early 1950 s didnt have a heater. The pay you made there seemed quite good I was on the coaches there a few years before and I was getting about 50 P an hour.
wayne Robinson
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Yes I knew they'd run out of Whitwick brick. I never understood why they sold the lorry side to Fowkes? We only ran out of Desford brick but only on the rare occasion did we come back empty, must have been a payer . Cheers Paul
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sForgot these n used to run similar routes.
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sFirst day? I don't recall this firm, anyone know when they finished?
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sThe foden belonged to H V day of glenfield. They used to have only Austin /bmc 4 and 6 wheel tippers on granite and coal. I ve never seen a foden before looks like an old emmersons or t.w Glover. No idea why they had BMC trucks they didn't have the best reputation . Don't know exactly when they finished 1970 s I guess wayne
wayne Robinson
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sabout a 1958 morris/bmc /austin
wayne Robinson
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sNot a bygone but worth posting I think, obviously nmp
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Yet another Wayne !!
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sIs there anyone old enough on here to remember this crowd? Definitely a new one on me
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sClipping from 1974.
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A real flyer when released, that 6.354 engine. I had one in a Kew Dodge artic and once wound up in the outside lane it was 75 mph down the M1 to London. ![]() Hadfield's of Ashton under Lyne were the only others that challenged it. ![]() Salut, David.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone'sI hadn't even realised that the 6.354 engine was turbocharged in 1974? Our Boxers were definately non turbo!
![]() Pete. Foden Forever!
Re: Leicester's Bygone'sI had its predessessor, the P6, in a 1939 Packard 8, of course it was no longer an 8 by then. Great motor, great car, didn't need a fan it was cool enough without. Until I was transferred for several weeks to work for Charlie Dormer in Leytonstone and drove it down there. In the traffic jams on the N.Circular, no ram air, it started to boil up. I did the last few miles in 2 mile hops.
![]() The only other drawback was that the Packard had a 3 speed box plus overdrive, but you couldn't drop it out of that until the revs dropped, so meeting a hill halfway up, still in overdrive, then, when it dropped the speed was too slow for 3rd etc........ ![]() ![]() ![]() Salut, David.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone'sOnly ran out of Shepshed a couple of times! Really handy for the M1 though.
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I loved those old fashioned horizontal steering wheels. ![]() Last edited by Spardo on Fri Aug 02, 2019 8:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Salut, David.
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State of the art, I think you'll find Spardo. ![]()
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