Getting back to the Big J Guy, Never drove one, never rated them at all the only good about them was what the symbol Big J stood for The Big Jaguar, Now your your talking my language Eh, Ha Ha, Regards Larry.
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Have you any more photo of Barrow ( Haulier) been trying for year,s to find some photo,s of this firms old motor’s Being a now retired HGV driver from Barrow love to see these old firm’s They also owned a coach’s firm called Robinson Luxury Tour’s
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Hi moomooland
Have you any more photo of Barrow ( Haulier) been trying for year,s to find some photo,s of this firms old motor’s Being a now retired HGV driver from Barrow love to see these old firm’s They also owned a coach’s firm called Robinson Luxury Tour’s
Hiya Frank,was Robinsons the name of the family that ran Hauliers ?so did they just pack in with Hauliers but kept on running the Coach firm ? and have you any idea how big of a fleet Kruger would have run in his hayday? Cheers Dennis.
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Hi moomooland
Have you any more photo of Barrow ( Haulier) been trying for year,s to find some photo,s of this firms old motor’s Being a now retired HGV driver from Barrow love to see these old firm’s They also owned a coach’s firm called Robinson Luxury Tour’sHiya Frank,was Robinsons the name of the family that ran Hauliers ?so did they just pack in with Hauliers but kept on running the Coach firm ? and have you any idea how big of a fleet Kruger would have run in his hayday? Cheers Dennis.
Hi Dennis
Yes think he was called Jack Robinson ■■? Think they sold the coach,s about the same time Jack Mally used to do a bit of coach driving for them because he used to drive for Hauliers Only a gees don’t think more than 12 motors for Kruger
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Hi moomooland
Have you any more photo of Barrow ( Haulier) been trying for year,s to find some photo,s of this firms old motor’s Being a now retired HGV driver from Barrow love to see these old firm’s They also owned a coach’s firm called Robinson Luxury Tour’sHiya Frank,was Robinsons the name of the family that ran Hauliers ?so did they just pack in with Hauliers but kept on running the Coach firm ? and have you any idea how big of a fleet Kruger would have run in his hayday? Cheers Dennis.
Hi Dennis
Yes think he was called Jack Robinson ■■? Think they sold the coach,s about the same time Jack Mally used to do a bit of coach driving for them because he used to drive for Hauliers Only a gees don’t think more than 12 motors for Kruger
You could be right about Krugers fleet size I would have guessed it was bigger but they did a lot of flying about so it might have given the impression of a bigger outfit.I once remember coming back from Glasgow one afternoon empty with Possy so as they could load us for London during the night and we saw one of Eric Peggs going north up the A74.We were sailing down the M6 at Keele next morning and the same motor and driver of Peggs was going North ■■ I kid you not,Possy couldn’t believe it ! he reckoned this 6 wheeler tipper must have tipped up Scotch and somehow got down to Corby for slag.But it defo was the same driver “flat cap and glasses”,bloody Cowboy 
Dennis.
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You sure can “dig em” Mate !great shot, that fron’t coach looks like a Commer,I wonder if had the 2 stroke engine Who bought the Coaches eventually,Hadwins? (Barrow Borough buses ?) I recall Shaws of Silverdale eventually bought the coaching fleet off the Borough.Cheers Dennis.
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Here you are Dennis it a very old photo of 3 of Robinson coach,s0
The Town will never see the likes of a shot like that again Frank 
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Here you are Dennis it a very old photo of 3 of Robinson coach,s0The Town will never see the likes of a shot like that again Frank
Don’t really now Dennis Hadwin’s had a fine fleet when they sold out to the corporation .The bigun
Whould have been on one of those coach’s I think
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Here you are Dennis it a very old photo of 3 of Robinson coach,s0The Town will never see the likes of a shot like that again Frank
Don’t really now Dennis Hadwin’s had a fine fleet when they sold out to the corporation .The bigun
Whould have been on one of those coach’s I think
Aye he was great Rugby League supporter,he invited me to a number of games at Craven Park in the '70’s when he was on the Board,Lol Chorlton was always on the gate and the snidy ■■■■ just “loved it” when I turned up and told him I was the Big’uns guest in the Directors box,he absolutely ■■■■■■■ hated it but could do ■■■■ all about it as the Big’un was God at Craven Park in them days 
Cheers Dennis.
The only Guy I ever got to drive was a yard shunter Big-J with a Gardner 180 and a David Brown 6-speed constant-mesh box (pictured below). However, more importantly, the first Guy artic I encountered which had any impression on me was a unit like the Astran pioneering lorry (also pictured below). I was on my way to school in Nottingham, aged about 7 (so 1959 then) and I saw this ultra-modern state-of-the-art artic parked in the street. After all those old-fashioned looking Leylands and AECs this caught my imagination. I stood and watched it, and ended up late for afternoon school. Had they tested me at this point they would have found me HGV-positive. Robert 
This one in South Africa sets me alight.
When i was 15 in 1966 i worked at A.ONE Transport in the garage , One day they told me i was to trailer mate a driver called Bert Dimond , We were to take a load of 60 foot piles the Bridport in Dorset . The unit was a Guy Invisible with a Gardener 150 . The trailer was a normal 40 footer drpped back 15 feet off the unit and a bolster fitted to the fifth wheel. When the first pile was put on the trailer legs were swung back , the bolts had been removed leaving just a couple holding the legs in situ . The rest were loaded and the lot chained down. It took a day and half to get there and when nearly tipped fastend the legs back and fully bolted on , we got the bolster craned off and onto the trailer and were away in a couple of hours , I can’t remember where we backloaded from but it wasn’t far away back up to Leeds . That was the first time i ever got paid for sitting in a wagon all day . Before that it was with my dad on school hols . I will never forget that trip happy days.
Don,t know why you are all still interested in guy,s with 240’s,common as muck at Maddiston in the seventies.
What you should be looking for is a photo of the six wheel Guy unit with the Detroit diesel,which came to Maddiston as a demo in 1970,was more powerful than anything else at Maddiston at the time including the Scania vabis and Scania 110’s and was wrapped round a tree on the Bathgate road by Jimmy Connors,known after that as “johnny in the fast lane”.
Guy Invisible. 
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Hello moomooland nice picture , who are the owners ofthat Guy ? thank you TRevor .
Is it not Rugby Cement, they had the same colours.
So did RMC.
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So did RMC.
It could be an RMC Motor they did operate that type of tipping trailer (Dempster Dumper), They had them at their Pottery Lane Plant in Newcastle, But they were Bedford Tractor Units, Regards Larry.