your wife 
the flying foden:
your wife
Thanks, should have known. She is never wrong, as she never stop’s telling me.
Hiya a chap i know calls it buffy’s it took me ages to work out who the hell he was on about.
Truckfing…sorry your wrong… you should have known that from the start.
Us chaps usuall are
John
After giving up haulage a few years ago it looks as if Whittaker’s are slowly rebuilding their fleet. This is the latest addition.
Unlike their former neighbours, R H Stevens…
truckfing:
Can somebody tell me how to pronounce the name of this firm. I have
always said BUFFY but my wife say’s BOWIE. Which is right?
its pronounced boughy as in a BOW
doby3926:
truckfing:
Can somebody tell me how to pronounce the name of this firm. I have
always said BUFFY but my wife say’s BOWIE. Which is right?
its pronounced boughy as in a BOW
I think it all depends which part of the country you are from , as to how you pronounce this name , a well run company none the less .
shugg:
doby3926:
truckfing:
Can somebody tell me how to pronounce the name of this firm. I have
always said BUFFY but my wife say’s BOWIE. Which is right?
its pronounced boughy as in a BOW
I think it all depends which part of the country you are from , as to how you pronounce this name , a well run company none the less .
think of David Bowie and you have Boughey - it’s as easy as cough, dough, rough and tough 
Another livery we ain’t going to see again.
No prizes for guessing the location of the shot but it’s a lot more fun on a bike 
b
Retired Old ■■■■:
Another livery we ain’t going to see again.
No prizes for guessing the location of the shot but it’s a lot more fun on a bike
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would it be near buxton…?
Certainly would. Half a mile from the Cat & Fiddle on the Macclesfield side.
It was a really nice spring morning and I would have happily swopped the Old Faithful for a Honda 400RR
Malcolm Harrison is selling the late Graham Bailey’s collection of preserved commercials on Saturday, 30th November.
Seems like there are quite a few spares for sale including complete engines. One of the tractor units is a Big J with Leyland/Eaton/Eaton drivetrain (sorry, no 8LXB!)
RIP Graham.
Hi, Folks , In the late 50 s i used to go with my Dad Lever BROS , PORT Sunlight to load Cattle Feed , There was a firm from Gnosall Staffs ran Bmcs and Traders and a few ERF s called PLANT and Evens a very tidy Fleet is it any thing to do with Plants of Macclesfield , Cheers Barry
b.waddy:
Hi, Folks , In the late 50 s i used to go with my Dad Lever BROS , PORT Sunlight to load Cattle Feed , There was a firm from Gnosall Staffs ran Bmcs and Traders and a few ERF s called PLANT and Evens a very tidy Fleet is it any thing to do with Plants of Macclesfield , Cheers Barry
Hiya… b.waddy… no is the answer to your question. i’am pritty certain Plants from Knowsall(Stafford)was one of the first
customers of ERF,s to use ■■■■■■■ engines.Plant,s of Knowsall was a company simular to Gordon Plant(macc) that people looked up to.
John
tastrucker:
3300John:
doby3926:
does eneybody rember hollands cheese from nantwich the red ford traders looked like covered waggons. based at the basin end had about 17 trucks in the 60,sHiya we built 3 vans and put them onto Bedford KM’s for Hollands cheese at Jennings in Sandbach. i remember one came back after a while
a cheese rolled forward and crashed through the headboard.as you said bright red with black chassis
JohnI can remember a Foden 8 legger fridge van with i think a S34 cab around 1966 ,it may well have been built by Jennings . thank you Trevor
I went through some old commercial motor mags over the weekend and saw this and knew I’d seen something somewhere about it. Here it is in it’s glory in cm jan 29th 1965 
Telekonsteve:
tastrucker:
3300John:
doby3926:
does eneybody rember hollands cheese from nantwich the red ford traders looked like covered waggons. based at the basin end had about 17 trucks in the 60,sHiya we built 3 vans and put them onto Bedford KM’s for Hollands cheese at Jennings in Sandbach. i remember one came back after a while
a cheese rolled forward and crashed through the headboard.as you said bright red with black chassis
JohnI can remember a Foden 8 legger fridge van with i think a S34 cab around 1966 ,it may well have been built by Jennings . thank you Trevor
I went through some old commercial motor mags over the weekend and saw this and knew I’d seen something somewhere about it. Here it is in it’s glory in cm jan 29th 1965
Thats the Foden with the s34 cab , lovely old thing it was , tghank you for providing that picture Trevor
tastrucker:
Telekonsteve:
tastrucker:
3300John:
doby3926:
does eneybody rember hollands cheese from nantwich the red ford traders looked like covered waggons. based at the basin end had about 17 trucks in the 60,sHiya we built 3 vans and put them onto Bedford KM’s for Hollands cheese at Jennings in Sandbach. i remember one came back after a while
a cheese rolled forward and crashed through the headboard.as you said bright red with black chassis
JohnI can remember a Foden 8 legger fridge van with i think a S34 cab around 1966 ,it may well have been built by Jennings . thank you Trevor
I went through some old commercial motor mags over the weekend and saw this and knew I’d seen something somewhere about it. Here it is in it’s glory in cm jan 29th 1965
Thats the Foden with the s34 cab , lovely old thing it was , tghank you for providing that picture Trevor
Your welcome
Here’s another I came across, spent a lot of time on their yard when I was a kid 
Telekonsteve:
Here’s another I came across, spent a lot of time on their yard when I was a kid
After finding that got digging round on tinterweb and dug these beauties up
we had GBF 736N at bowies bought from the sale great motor but got pinched in london