Dave the Renegade:
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Stanfield:
A few lined up here.
JOHN
My old man drove one for Bradleys, not a maxiload one like the one on the right of the photo. It had an Eaton 2 speed and went well, but always sounded like it needed another gear. If you needed to look left or right you had to bend forward, because your head was up in the roof, horrible bloody thing.
Those Commer’s in the pic are the Commer 8 ton,which grossed at 12 ton,the Maxiload had twin headlights and grossed at 14 or 16 ton.
Cheers Dave.
Hi Dave
Yeah know what you saying, I know that’s not a maxiload but it has the same sort of cab, and they were OK. but that old thing on the end of the photo, was the biggest load of rubbish that I had the good luck never to drive 
cheers
John.
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Dave the Renegade:
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Stanfield:
A few lined up here.
JOHN
My old man drove one for Bradleys, not a maxiload one like the one on the right of the photo. It had an Eaton 2 speed and went well, but always sounded like it needed another gear. If you needed to look left or right you had to bend forward, because your head was up in the roof, horrible bloody thing.
Those Commer’s in the pic are the Commer 8 ton,which grossed at 12 ton,the Maxiload had twin headlights and grossed at 14 or 16 ton.
Cheers Dave.
Hi Dave
Yeah know what you saying, I know that’s not a maxiload but it has the same sort of cab, and they were OK. but that old thing on the end of the photo, was the biggest load of rubbish that I had the good luck never to drive
cheers
John.
Hi John,
I think the one on the end like you drove were called the C series,there were a few of those around here,they had one in the Gore in the late 60’s emptying the bins on the chipping plant,just running in the quarry on internal work.
Cheers Dave.
Hi Dave
No I never drove one of those, in my post I said it was my old man that drove one, I loved going with him until he started on Bradley’s and got that thing, I only went in it once never again, if I had ever had to drive anything like that my lorry driving days would have been very short. In later years I did drive a lot of rubbish, but none of them were as bad as that thing. 
cheers
John.
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Hi Dave
No I never drove one of those, in my post I said it was my old man that drove one, I loved going with him until he started on Bradley’s and got that thing, I only went in it once never again, if I had ever had to drive anything like that my lorry driving days would have been very short. In later years I did drive a lot of rubbish, but none of them were as bad as that thing.
cheers
John.
Hi John,
Misread your post,just read it again.Memo to me to read post’s properly 
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Cheers Dave.
Don’t know whether the artic was technically a Maxiload but I rode around in a 4 wheel tipper for a couple of years when my dad drove one, no picture of that one has survived so this one on a run will have to do.
one that my dad drove loaded with 15 ton of sugar beet.
truckfing:
Don’t know whether the artic was technically a Maxiload but I rode around in a 4 wheel tipper for a couple of years when my dad drove one, no picture of that one has survived so this one on a run will have to do.
a bloke i know had one similar to this but with a single axle high sided cage trailer and carried empty steel barrels,i was only a young lad at the time but the sound of it coming down the road to his house was fantastic
My dad drove one many years ago for Rolls Royce, Filton.
Here’s another one. An owner driver in the village I lived in had one of these in the 60s in LSM livery working out of LSM’s Crag Bank Quarry
truckfing:
Here’s another one. An owner driver in the village I lived in had one of these in the 60s in LSM livery working out of LSM’s Crag Bank Quarry
Hiya …that ERF cab looks intresting pitty we can,t see more of it .
John
Hi John, I think from memory it could have been an ex Bowker, it was taken at Kev Dennis’s sale around 1996 and I will have taken a picture of it because I photographed everything that was in the sale and parked outside. I will try and find it.
David
There was a Bowker ERF at Kev Dennis, but it’s not the one in the pic. The Bowker motor has a Jennings cab (shelf!) but this one is full depth.
bristolron:
My dad drove one many years ago for Rolls Royce, Filton.
What was your dads name? I knew a couple of drivers from Filton
Does anyone remember Birds of Northampton? Operated in Oxfordshire area early 70s when many road improvements were carried out. My Dad and 2 of his brothers drove Commers for them.
The TS3 engine, I was only a youngster and I was coming over the Brecon beacons one night when it started to de- coke itself. I thought the engine had exploded with the amount of glowing sparks coming out of the exhaust so I stopped, Risked starting again after a bit and everything was OK. Got back and told the gaffer what had happened and he tut tutted, “you should have kept it revving and let it clean itself out”. I didn’t know.
They were a decent engine though to say they were only about 3 litres.
Hiya… Tilling Steven made a TS4 I think the only one around is in Ireland someone will know where it is
John
When I was a boy we used to use a cattle haulier from Frampton Cotterell called A.F.Cook, he was known as sonny. He ran several commers, the oldest I recall was a TS3, then in 1966 it went & was replaced by two Commers, one was a Maxiload the other was the lighter version without the 2 stroke engine & was never looked upon the same as the 2 stroke one. I think the reg was FHT 332D. Both had local body builders, Drews bodies on them & the Maxiload had a Triple deck body on.
I can remember being in the Maxiload at night & seeing it decoke itself out of the underbumper exhaust & I also remember the noise as the revs picked up on a downchange to go down a steep hill loaded with barren cows destined for Gordon Road in Bristol out of Chippenham market.
In 1968, the TS3 was retired as it was replaced by a new Ergomatic cabbed AEC & what a lovely motor that was.
Interesting thread & good old days.
BB
I went in to the traffic office straight away and asked
Course you can coz no-one else wants it 
