windrush:
A now deceased workmate of mine had a Guy Indians Head nicely painted up and mounted on a pice of varnished wood, I saw it on his mantlepiece when I visited him about a week before he passed away. It came from a Guy that his old firm (H Loxley of Bonsall, Derbyshire) once ran. I am guessing that it stayed in the family after his death.
I don’t think that it came from a 8LXB engined one as it was a rigid tipper but then again it just might have done, we will probably never know for certain!
Pete.
Pete,
The head wasn’t fitted to the Big J’s,only to earlier marques,Invincible etc.
It always amused me that they fitted the Native American’s head to the radiators of Guy Arab buses. I’d have thought a turbaned Arab head would have been more appropriate! Robert
The head wasn’t fitted to the Big J’s,only to earlier marques,Invincible etc.
David
Aye David, I know that! I once worked for a Guy sub agency. I was just adding fuel to the fire really as Ray (fishflunk) put a pic of one on here and the thread had died off a little!.
The head wasn’t fitted to the Big J’s,only to earlier marques,Invincible etc.
David
Aye David, I know that! I once worked for a Guy sub agency. I was just adding fuel to the fire really as Ray (fishflunk) put a pic of one on here and the thread had died off a little!.
Pete.
There was an Indians head designed to fit the Big J,it was fitted to flap and was thinner to stop it hitting windscreen when flap was lifted to check water level in radiator, I will get a picture of one as a mate of mine has one that was given to him by the late Ron Lucas, Cheer’s Pete
Frankydobo:
Pete this isn’t going to turn into another tale along the same lines as the engine is it!
No I have seen it in the flesh! It is different to the older Indians head and the lad who has got it ain’t a billy buller and the Gentleman who he had it off worked at Guy Motor’s,when I get five I will go round and get the photographic evidence, Cheer’s Pete
The head wasn’t fitted to the Big J’s,only to earlier marques,Invincible etc.
David
Aye David, I know that! I once worked for a Guy sub agency. I was just adding fuel to the fire really as Ray (fishflunk) put a pic of one on here and the thread had died off a little!.
Pete.
There was an Indians head designed to fit the Big J,it was fitted to flap and was thinner to stop it hitting windscreen when flap was lifted to check water level in radiator, I will get a picture of one as a mate of mine has one that was given to him by the late Ron Lucas, Cheer’s Pete
Checking of the water content was always carried out at the expansion tank at the rear of the cab on all the Big J’s I drove,including the infamous Percy powered 240,perhaps the other method was on older J’s.
The J’s still had the rad flap on the front panel but the ones I knew had the GUY name plate under the flap and some also had the same plate but with a large ‘J’ letter above, it will be interesting to see the Indians Head for the Big J. Franky.
Frankydobo:
The J’s still had the rad flap on the front panel but the ones I knew had the GUY name plate under the flap and some also had the same plate but with a large ‘J’ letter above, it will be interesting to see the Indians Head for the Big J. Franky.
I have not forgot Franky,going round Saturday to take the photographs
ROF is a lot younger than I thought! If that Guy was new in the photo (1968) and he was only 21 at that time then he is only around the late sixty mark now so hardly ‘old’ by my reckoning! Maybe three years older than me, and I am still only a youngster.
windrush:
ROF is a lot younger than I thought! If that Guy was new in the photo (1968) and he was only 21 at that time then he is only around the late sixty mark now so hardly ‘old’ by my reckoning! Maybe three years older than me, and I am still only a youngster.
Pete.
Then you’ll both be old enough to remember that strange in-between period in the late sixties, when we were changing over from black-and-white to colour (probably in readiness for decimalisation and the EEC). Looking at the picture that must have been a Tuesday afternoon because that was when all the scenery stayed black-and-white but any vehicle on an F-plate showed up in colour; and pints of beer would show up in colour but the glasses stayed black-and-white. Aye, happy days! Robert
You’ve got it in one, Robert!
Pete, it’s the life I’ve led that makes me seem older! If only I’d stayed with the Red & Rust.
Dennis, I can’t remember the exact occasion when that photo was taken but I’m assuming I had made a flying visit to the depot to hand in a stack of PODs and collect my considerable subsistence money. Six nights out per week and a pile of dodgy parking tickets would have paid for my breakfasts for the coming week.
And, as you’re usually so eager to point out, you and the other tax payers were subsidising it all!
Maybe three years older than me, and I am still only a youngster. 
