I thought you’d have got that one Shady.
I reckon it’s your old mate Smiffy.
Cheers
Neilf
Buzzer:
Horry:
The gentleman on the right of Longo - aka ‘Moonraker’ - Lots of pics posted of him a month or two ago either here or on Southampton page…He also worked for BKG ( better keep going ) and before that for the family firm, but who is he . Answers on a postcard.
definitely roy smith you can tell by the way he is walking !
big jer:
Buzzer:
Horry:
The gentleman on the right of Longo - aka ‘Moonraker’ - Lots of pics posted of him a month or two ago either here or on Southampton page…He also worked for BKG ( better keep going ) and before that for the family firm, but who is he . Answers on a postcard.
definitely roy smith you can tell by the way he is walking !
I think your right “big jer” when Smithy walked it looked like he still had the horse between his legs.
According to my picture album this is recording trucks loading on a ferry to go to Split during the Bosnian debarkle, not alot of room as you can see as the air has been dumped on trailer and units to avoid clouting the roof. They shipped from ancona but not every day.
Heres one for you John or more probably Horry with his memory.
Did you ever have a Scania 143 on the fleet with the reg. G88 XBK?.
The reason I ask is that I met Chris Hooper of Astran fame a good few years ago in Truckworld at Thurrock. At the time he was running the truck mentioned above and he told me he bought it from Mark Compton. I know that Mark had a few trucks from you over the years and this one did had obviously had a Davies blue chassis at one point in it’s life.
It was a 3 step left ■■■■■■ 450 with twin stacks and I know you had some in this spec.
Don’t ask what made me think of this now but with it crossing my mind I’m curious.
Cheers
Neilf
I remember that there wasn’t a lot f headroom on a couple of those split boats John. if you weren’t careful it would have the flap off the top of the exhaust stack.
The problem with the early volvo was that as soon as you knocked the ignition off the unit suspension returned to ride height. That caught me out the first time.
Also you had to wait with the truck until they came to chain the thing down. Although we used to fit the front towing hitch they had a habit putting hooks through the holes in the wheels if you didn’t watch them.
Cheers
Neilf
neilf:
Heres one for you John or more probably Horry with his memory.Did you ever have a Scania 143 on the fleet with the reg. G88 XBK?.
The reason I ask is that I met Chris Hooper of Astran fame a good few years ago in Truckworld at Thurrock. At the time he was running the truck mentioned above and he told me he bought it from Mark Compton. I know that Mark had a few trucks from you over the years and this one did had obviously had a Davies blue chassis at one point in it’s life.
It was a 3 step left ■■■■■■ 450 with twin stacks and I know you had some in this spec.
Don’t ask what made me think of this now but with it crossing my mind I’m curious.
Cheers
Neilf
Hi Neil we did buy that truck new along with G88 there was G87which we ran plus G86 wich Mark Delagana ran in our colours as a subbie.
There you go Neil, Buzzer’s memory still there or thereabouts! As he said, G86 XBK - Delboy bought from new. G87 XBK - First pilot Steve Cherrett and later for a long time Reader. G88 XBK - First pilot Mark Earle of Bristol, aka The Bristol Bullet. They were supplied by Southway at Segensworth in the unit just across the road from where we are now, which is now Palmer and Harveys workshops. They were 400 bhp as if my memory serves me correct, on a ‘G’ plate if you went higher than 400 bhp, it had to be EDC (Electronic Diesel Control) and Buzzer was not too keen on that. The first ever Scania we had new the year previous (F43 OOT) was a 450 bhp which Cluey had new and the last ever pilot was Silly Keith who only had it for a couple of months from starting on here. K9 UPU was the last brand new Scania through the gates so although back then we had a few Scanias, only ever had four brand new ones.
And here you go just happen to have at hand a pic of K9 UP U if you get my drift when newish in our old yard which has now a kindergarten standing on it.This pic was when we had just moved into the old LTS yard in Andersons Road, Southampton.
Neilf - yes all the said Scanias ended up with Mark Compton, apart from G86 XBK (Delboy) - he went onto Rokold as an o/d after here, then PJK. That pic of K9 is when Reader had it as in the windscreen is a miniture Liverpool FC Kit, this eventually made way for a fan when the fan club was formed. One more Scania not to be forgotten was K92 MBK - Same age as K9 and purchased same time by Ray Sampson of Newbury. Ray ended up selling the truck and trailer to Buzzer when he came off the road. When he first started as an o/d here, his truck was a rhd 113 still painted up in Sayers of Newbury colours - G29 XTP. Years later his son Dennis worked for us - both good old boys.
I reckoned it was one of yours but it’s nice to have the definitive answer.
I Know Reader loved Scanias and he told me he hung on in one till they had all gone.
I’m sure he showed me a pic of a streamline 143 in your colours. That would have been later than a K plate though. Was this one of yours or possibly Denny’s?.
Cheers
Neilf
Does any one recognise the person in the middle of this picture,taken early 70’s in Holland,by god he was good lookin back then.
No we never had a streamline I’m afraid Neil. Once the FH entered the fleet Jan’ 94 that was it for the Scanias. PJK had a few and he also had a Centurion which Chris Barton drove. There is an old PJK thread on here with a good picture of it at Macdonalds Daganza just outside Madrid.
We did have some second hand scannies that i can remember,a P cab for one then there was a 142 black in colour which Willie from Pompy drove both these came through Richard Tapper, we used to call him i lied trailer rental his real company name being Allied, also a 113 which Gibbo drove and later sold to PJK,this truck was given the treatment in Holland and tuned up and went like hell after that but one day near Bristol the pump coupling gave up and was fixed in a volvo garage there and was never the same after that and lost all its get up and go.You will have to pick Horry’s brain on the detail Neil,cheers Buzzer.
I think this is the truck in question when Chris Hooper had it, and how it ended up when he sold it.
neilf:
Heres one for you John or more probably Horry with his memory.Did you ever have a Scania 143 on the fleet with the reg. G88 XBK?.
The reason I ask is that I met Chris Hooper of Astran fame a good few years ago in Truckworld at Thurrock. At the time he was running the truck mentioned above and he told me he bought it from Mark Compton. I know that Mark had a few trucks from you over the years and this one did had obviously had a Davies blue chassis at one point in it’s life.
It was a 3 step left ■■■■■■ 450 with twin stacks and I know you had some in this spec.
Don’t ask what made me think of this now but with it crossing my mind I’m curious.
Cheers
Neilf
That’s the truck Rob.
I think Chris had had the truck for a couple of years when i met him. He said it had been a good truck for him.
By the way the white Scania with the Estepe roof parked next to Chris’s was also Mark Comptons. It spent most of its life parked in his shed until Graham Ball bought it for M/E work.
It has caused some controversy on this site in the past but is now back in Astran colours belonging to Richmond who frequents these very pages.
Cheers
Neilf
Heres a pic of a very young Horry doing his impression of a Michelin man turning right sat on the md’s car of the era 1980 ish taken at bramshaw birth place of the founder of Davies International.
I remember this place well it was Roquetas del mar, a little fishing harbour in southern Spain and i was stitched up by Billy Liar from Solstor telling me i would load on thursday but of course friday came and still no load. I was double up with Paul Nichols to Gibralter, any ways TIR Tone turned up and he got the half load to complete his trailer and i got week ended and Paul then doubled with Tony on the homeward leg.Saturday i woke to find silly Keith parked next to me ,the first time we met and we did get jollied on the sunday as it was a holiday got the tractor stuck on this sandy shore and had to get a tow.Of corse later Keith came to work for the blue and whites,by the way he was driving for Richie Ellerca who was on the south coast somewhere,but we did have a laugh that weekend and got loaded eventually but i think Keith loaded elsewhere.
i met one of your drivers in Ancona around 97-98ish, i think he had an XL, he also had a new Schmitz fridge, i hadnt seen many of them and liked the look of it, he said it was a good fridge but the sides marked very easily (as in scratched), he was quite a big fella and was a really nice bloke, looked after me for a day and night as it was my first trip to Greece. He was running to Kosovo or Croatia, i cant remember exactly, i think he was doing KFOR work?
As a sideline, i stumbled upon this picture on the net, cant remember where, theres something written on the passenger side windscreen at the top and i cant make it out…
lovely looking bit of kit by the way.
Hi Kindle 530. The sticker top left says ‘Caulkhead’. The driver was Adrian Dennis and he originates from the Isle Of Wight. Apparently ‘Caulkhead’ is a phrase of origin relating to people from IOW. Don’t ask me why!!!?
Nice to see a picture never seen before. That was one of the last F12’s into the fleet and think it also was built in Gent. Funny that Buzzer should mention Silly Keith in the previous comment to yours as he had this brand new August '93.