Hi moomooland,
Nice nostolgic pic of Frome Valley Transport , a fine fleet of Guys and Atkinsons . regards Keith .
werent they from Worcester down that way ? Remember the name they may have come to Shotton on occasions . thank you Trevor
Hi Trevor,
Frome Valley Transport were from Much Cowarne near Bromyard, Herefordshire.
Cheers Dave.
hello Dave , thank you almost in the right area ! But do you know i saw a firm from the Worcester area called Curnock bright Yellow Dafs and Scanias on steel , very impressive fleet . have you seen them . thank you Trevor .
Yes I have seen them Trevor. There is a member on here called Curnock. Perhaps he drives for them.
Cheers Dave.
adr:
GUY export CKD (completely knocked down) kits.
So where were these going on a Lancashire Flat, did they assemble them in Ireland?
Hi Dieseldog66,
Yes…Pino Harris assembled the Guy in his facility in Swords Co.Dublin in the early/mid 1960’s. British Leyland decided in their wisdom to award the Guy franchise to Ashenhurst Williams in Dublin in the late 1960’s and left Mr.Harris high and dry. He swore a vengence to close them down…and landed the Hino to his assembly hall…and went on to close down Ashenhurst Williams in the space of 10 years by purposely & successfully encroaching on every deal they tried to close. Strange but true.
adr:
GUY export CKD (completely knocked down) kits.
So where were these going on a Lancashire Flat, did they assemble them in Ireland?
Hi Dieseldog66,
Yes…Pino Harris assembled the Guy in his facility in Swords Co.Dublin in the early/mid 1960’s. British Leyland decided in their wisdom to award the Guy franchise to Ashenhurst Williams in Dublin in the late 1960’s and left Mr.Harris high and dry. He swore a vengence to close them down…and landed the Hino to his assembly hall…and went on to close down Ashenhurst Williams in the space of 10 years by purposely & successfully encroaching on every deal they tried to close. Strange but true.
Yet another bad decision from British Leyland, one of many they made in Europe and the wider world.
Jazzandy:
Have we covered the marketing confusion with the Indian head and ‘Feathers in our Cap’ slogan on vehicles named ‘Arabs’
hiya,
May have put this on before but pretty certain the Guy “Indian head” was originally
in the form of a Brave ie a single feather with the caption “see our feathers grow”
the next step was a the full chief’s head dress bearing “feathers in our cap” seem to
remember seeing a radiator cap with in the form of the single feather, but I would
have only been a young fellah’.
thanks harry, long retired.
Not sure what the talk was of the Arab Buses and the ‘Feathers in our cap’ slogan but I have the original advert from the 22 January 1924 which also appeared at the Olympia CV Show later the same year. It might be difficult to make out but each Feather coming out of the radiator cap had the names of the companies that submitted repeat orders such as Midland General Omnibus Co, War Office, Leeds Corporation, Standard Motor Car etc. The suggestion was that the feathers should be formed into a full ceremonial Indians head-dress so the Indian Head mascot was born and the rest is history. Sorry Harry no mention of a single feather head it seems the rad mascot came from the advert which has a full set of feathers. This info came from my GUY book as shown on page two of this thread. Cheers Franky.
Frankydobo:
Not sure what the talk was of the Arab Buses and the ‘Feathers in our cap’ slogan but I have the original advert from the 22 January 1924 which also appeared at the Olympia CV Show later the same year. It might be difficult to make out but each Feather coming out of the radiator cap had the names of the companies that submitted repeat orders such as Midland General Omnibus Co, War Office, Leeds Corporation, Standard Motor Car etc. The suggestion was that the feathers should be formed into a full ceremonial Indians head-dress so the Indian Head mascot was born and the rest is history. Sorry Harry no mention of a single feather head it seems the rad mascot came from the advert which has a full set of feathers. This info came from my GUY book as shown on page two of this thread. Cheers Franky.
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hiya,
OK Franky not very often I’m right but it looks like I’m mistaken again, just
seemed to remember something about it, Ah’ well.
thanks harry, long retired.
Frankydobo:
Not sure what the talk was of the Arab Buses and the ‘Feathers in our cap’ slogan but I have the original advert from the 22 January 1924 which also appeared at the Olympia CV Show later the same year. It might be difficult to make out but each Feather coming out of the radiator cap had the names of the companies that submitted repeat orders such as Midland General Omnibus Co, War Office, Leeds Corporation, Standard Motor Car etc. The suggestion was that the feathers should be formed into a full ceremonial Indians head-dress so the Indian Head mascot was born and the rest is history. Sorry Harry no mention of a single feather head it seems the rad mascot came from the advert which has a full set of feathers. This info came from my GUY book as shown on page two of this thread. Cheers Franky.
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Aye ,but if that 'ere Indian ventured into East Lancs where “H” lived at the time he may have had his headress plucked if he visited the “wrong” boozer,them east lancs lads didn’t take too kindly to “fancy boogers” you understand !! Cheers Dennis.
Perhaps they only had the one feather before World War one Harry, happen you saw them during your Army service?
A now deceased workmate had the Indian head mascot on his mantlepiece mounted on a wooden plinth, came off of one of H Loxley’s lorries from Bonsall, Derbyshire, who he had worked for previously.
windrush:
Perhaps they only had the one feather before World War one Harry, happen you saw them during your Army service?
Pete.
hiya, I didn’t get into uniform until the Korean conflict and I saw no action there,
so Pete It could’ve been my uncle he was in WW1 and had the same name as me he was killed
a month before the war ended.
thanks harry, long retired.
