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Leicester's Bygone's

Remember when going scotch (if from the south), or going down to the smoke (if from the north), was long distance?
When Middle East work was readily available?.
When driving a 111 or F89 meant you were truly the king of the road?
Recall those companies long gone, where every day was an adventure?

What ever happened to those drivers you spent hours with.. where did they go? and recollect on those characters in the industry sadly no longer with us.
This forum is for us all to indulge in a little nostalgia and remember with rose coloured glasses how much better it was in the olden days

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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Chris Webb » Mon Sep 16, 2019 9:11 am

Is this the Lester Brothers from Long Whatton that ran buses in the 40s and 50s when I was at my Aunties in Diseworth? I know Whieldons from Hathern ran both tippers and buses,not sure if Lesters did though.Mark S Bailey photo.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby wheeler10 » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:43 am

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Owner driver ?

This was the last Foden 8 wheeler R B Transport purchased,he had a sizable fleet of mainly Fodens with a few merc 6 wheelers.The 8 wheelers sub for Redlands at Mountsorrel and the artics were on garbage and subbing for Cliff Walker.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Wed Sep 18, 2019 12:19 pm

wheeler10 wrote:
coomsey wrote:
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Owner driver ?

This was the last Foden 8 wheeler R B Transport purchased,he had a sizable fleet of mainly Fodens with a few merc 6 wheelers.The 8 wheelers sub for Redlands at Mountsorrel and the artics were on garbage and subbing for Cliff Walker.

I must have been going about with me eyes shut :roll: cheers w10
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Fri Sep 27, 2019 1:37 pm

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Birchers of Ibstock
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby robinswh » Fri Sep 27, 2019 1:57 pm

see what happens when you vote labour paul
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Fri Sep 27, 2019 5:23 pm

robinswh wrote:see what happens when you vote labour paul

:D wouldn't let that lot loose with a Dinky Wayne
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Sun Sep 29, 2019 6:27 pm

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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby robinswh » Sun Sep 29, 2019 7:22 pm

Note the ancient tachograph in the second picture Paul ...my dad had an identical one in his 1951 Maudsley (AEC mark 3 really) used to be piece of grease paper placed behind a moving stem which recorded the movement of the lorry. The thing used to come open and clout me on the head !!
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby ERF-NGC-European » Sun Sep 29, 2019 7:24 pm

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Birchers of Ibstock


Just fab 8) . Who ever suggested that lorries aren't beautiful? I certainly loved these in my youth. Robert

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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Sun Sep 29, 2019 7:44 pm

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Birchers of Ibstock


Just fab 8) . Who ever suggested that lorries aren't beautiful? I certainly loved these in my youth. Robert

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She stands well for sure Robert, doesn't look too old, would she have been in red?
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Sun Sep 29, 2019 7:46 pm

robinswh wrote:Note the ancient tachograph in the second picture Paul ...my dad had an identical one in his 1951 Maudsley (AEC mark 3 really) used to be piece of grease paper placed behind a moving stem which recorded the movement of the lorry. The thing used to come open and clout me on the head !!

I never had any dealings with them Wayne, but am assured you could fiddle them
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Hitmanesk » Sun Oct 06, 2019 11:51 am

coomsey wrote:
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Leics reg, does anyone know her?

That was in a yard on Harrison close in wigston, from about 1991, I remember seeing it all the while when I worked for AML Transport, our yard was next door to it .
Nearly inquired about buying it to restore.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Hitmanesk » Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:23 pm

Narborough Transport of Littlethorpe,
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Hitmanesk » Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:25 pm

NT Motors Seddy
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Hitmanesk » Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:34 pm

Enderby Transport
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Steevo » Sun Oct 06, 2019 6:57 pm

Hitmanesk wrote:NT Motors Seddy

Cant see from these photos but certainly later headboards were reversible with Empire Stone on other side. Can remember seeing these when handballing 16 ton of Alexandra Stone off in the yard where I worked.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Hitmanesk » Mon Oct 07, 2019 3:18 pm

Steevo wrote:
Hitmanesk wrote:NT Motors Seddy

Cant see from these photos but certainly later headboards were reversible with Empire Stone on other side. Can remember seeing these when handballing 16 ton of Alexandra Stone off in the yard where I worked.

Looks like they were removable :wink:
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Hitmanesk » Mon Oct 07, 2019 3:20 pm

Now a bygone
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:22 pm

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N threepence back on your bottle ? NMP
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby Spardo » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:12 am

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N threepence back on your bottle ? NMP


Just how I started my driving career, not with Hoyes and not with that motor, but with a Commer Bantam Karrier as a pop man for the Co-op in Nottingham. Started the day I passed my car test. :lol:
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby carryfast-yeti » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:14 am

Hitmanesk wrote:Enderby Transport


i remember Enderby Transport..at Broughton Astley!
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby carryfast-yeti » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:16 am

Hitmanesk wrote:NT Motors Seddy


i loved those 2 Seddons at NT :) wonder if they have survived in preservation?
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby rigsby » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:49 am

coomsey wrote:
robinswh wrote:Note the ancient tachograph in the second picture Paul ...my dad had an identical one in his 1951 Maudsley (AEC mark 3 really) used to be piece of grease paper placed behind a moving stem which recorded the movement of the lorry. The thing used to come open and clout me on the head !!

I never had any dealings with them Wayne, but am assured you could fiddle them


I would ave thought a man of your experience would know the fiddle with those recorders Coomsey . Back up tight to your oppo and leave the engine on fast tickover , it then recorded movement . I'm not that old either but like most of us oldies I rode shotgun with my dad in the holidays .
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:43 am

rigsby wrote:
coomsey wrote:
robinswh wrote:Note the ancient tachograph in the second picture Paul ...my dad had an identical one in his 1951 Maudsley (AEC mark 3 really) used to be piece of grease paper placed behind a moving stem which recorded the movement of the lorry. The thing used to come open and clout me on the head !!

I never had any dealings with them Wayne, but am assured you could fiddle them


I would ave thought a man of your experience would know the fiddle with those recorders Coomsey . Back up tight to your oppo and leave the engine on fast tickover , it then recorded movement . I'm not that old either but like most of us oldies I rode shotgun with my dad in the holidays .

A man of my standing in the community on the fiddle ? Never!! :shock:
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:43 pm

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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby robinswh » Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:58 pm

A bit different from my day Paul those two tanks weren t there then the hoppers look pretty much the same one lane for tarmac and the other for birophelt .(.cant spell this )...my dads weigh bridge was on the other side . On the other end not seen on the photo was the top box and granite loading area below that know as the mills for some unknown reason.
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:26 pm

robinswh wrote:A bit different from my day Paul those two tanks weren t there then the hoppers look pretty much the same one lane for tarmac and the other for birophelt .(.cant spell this )...my dads weigh bridge was on the other side . On the other end not seen on the photo was the top box and granite loading area below that know as the mills for some unknown reason.

You want to see it now Wayne, still millions of tons of top quality stone left for the having
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby consettbell » Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:36 pm

carryfast-yeti wrote:
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gunnerheskey wrote:Some good info there TNT,
Here's a few more to dwell on
Braunstone Haulage
Silks Transport
Coles transport - gt glen
John Simmonds - rothley
Garners Transport - coalville
C A Green - coalville
Butlers - coalville
Enderby Transport/Lish transport
Frank smith - desford
M J Lewis - swepstone
Horace Webster/Richard Webster
Alexandra Stone
Pickarby - Arrivehaul
Bexton and Smith - coalville
That should get a few more minds ticking over for a wee while....... :mrgreen:

i was at a bbq yesterday,chatting to a geezer who turns out to Horace Webster's son :o he says his dad is 85 now and off on a cruise soon..so must be in good health.i remember seeing Richard Webster's motor when he used to park it down by the side of the service road leading to the LFE m/w services.

That be Richard Webster I presume ?
Bit of a beard, always used to load out of Alexandra stone !
That was the old mans house, just off the LFE service road, Horace Websters yard was just behind, literally a glorified drive, where he got 2 M.A.Ns on & 1 on the road !
Hope you asked if he had any pics ?

the chap i was talking to is tim,gunner.richard is horace's brother i think.i'll ask about any photo's next time i see tim.


Just found this photo. Would be interested in any more pictures of Websters trucks, I think mine might have belonged to them originally, T762 ROP a F2000 Roadhaus
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby coomsey » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:24 pm

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Leics reg, does anyone know her?

Here she is again
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Re: Leicester's Bygone's

Postby carryfast-yeti » Sat Oct 19, 2019 8:19 am

that old girl's crying out to be saved! need a lot of work though..
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