Hill Brothers old FH12 380

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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hi all

apologies in advance if this is in the wrong place but this being my first post and first time on this forum i am still finding my way. getting onto the subject in hand my dad owns an L reg volvo FH12 380 which has hill brothers on it. so i was wondering if any one on this forum could shed some light as to the trucks history and what work it was mainly used on as we currently use it on an old King low loader for moving are steam engines around.

any help much appreciated

regards sam

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Could possibly be the middle one on this pic, but its a bit blurred. I only have mainly pic’s of their newer Volvo’s.
Cheers Dave.

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Dave the Renegade:

Could possibly be the middle one on this pic, but its a bit blurred. I only have mainly pic’s of their newer Volvo’s.
Cheers Dave.

Hello Dave is that the same people from Newtown ? i see them up this way regularly . thank you Trevor

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hi dave

thank you for the pic it is definitely the same livery and i don’t know if it is helpful but the nick name “snippy” is on the sun visor not sure if that means any thing to any one. i shall take some pics of the volvo tomorrow.

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tastrucker:

Dave the Renegade:

Could possibly be the middle one on this pic, but its a bit blurred. I only have mainly pic’s of their newer Volvo’s.
Cheers Dave.

Hello Dave is that the same people from Newtown ? i see them up this way regularly . thank you Trevor

That’s them Trevor. They run some smart wagons.
Cheers Dave.

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thank you Dave, with those containers they probably go to Liverpool docks Trevor .

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tastrucker:
thank you Dave, with those containers they probably go to Liverpool docks Trevor .

Hi fowler 8669 & Trevor,

Kevin Williams who lent me these pics, used to drive for Hill Brothers,now drives for another haulier. I think Hill Brothers do a bit of general haulage as well as containers.
Cheers Dave.

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i wondered if are old volvo did a lot of motorway work as it has a plain 4 over 4 box with no splits which seems odd to me as i havn’t come across another FH12 with no splits. was this transmission an option from Volvo? or was it standard for the first FH’s ?

cheers sam

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4 over 4 was quite common, I had a 99 v reg 6x2 380 fm tractor unit which was ex suttons (tankers)
it went quite well after a re map