robthedog:
If u contact Dawson rentals Tongwell Milton Keynes they can answer your questions regarding numbers quantities etc as they supplied them all new on contract hire hope this helps they will also have original photos.
As a Dawsonfreight Commercials old boy!!!. Although I had already moved on to pastures new when the vehicles in question were supplied.I can confirm the Dawson Rental connection which also included forty five foot tandem axle box trailers also in plan white.Unfortunately I cannot verify numbers in the contract,I will however contact someone within the organisation who will know.
L15LRC remains in the Milton Keynes area working for a repair agent still in good order and sounding great!!!1
Matthew Kibble Transport have L11 LRC which is being restored at a slow pace. It was bought from EM Rogers under the condition it was restored not exported.
Seem to remember a flurry of press releases - some of them quite in-depth - when this fleet was put on the road, mainly due to their unusual spec (F10 gobstopper) and the operator (Durex - snigger…).
Can’t recall a full supporting article in either Truck or T & D, but I’‘’ stand corrected. I remember thinking at the time that these would make good second-hand buys for others.
Did a chap in Blidworth, Notts have one done up?
I used to do quite a lot of agency work for LRC out of Parkhouse Ind Est
and remember driving one of the newly livered white Globetrotter’s.
DUREX in blue written down the side of a white 40ft box trailer did just stand out.
Always remember driving thru Sheffield on the M1 and a coach load of pensioners going
past staring out the windows and pointing!
Absolutely hilarious!
Back around 1994/5 I can remember a LRC motor parked in a front garden down a country lane just outside Dover.
Buddie of mine who lived local said it was owned by a subbie.
Would the date tie in.
3300John:
Hiya …ive got this for now i took this photo 15th august this year
John
Hiya Howarth trailer rentals have also got L17LRC thats in the same colour as L14 at the top of the page. my mate Keith
dose the maintainence for Howarths. sorry no photo i get one in spring all been well.
John
If I remember correctly StageTruck bought quite a few of the Ex LRC Globetrotters and still have a couple in there yard, they still look cleaner than a lot of truck on the road today !!!
Riverstick:
Doesn’t L12 LRC belong to Darren Wills?
it did mate until some freight forwarding company from bristol took him for 10k. L12 had to go sadly passing to a new owner in ireland re registered so the LRC plate had to go . this is true as i was Darens first driver until january, daren sold it in october took it up to George taylors sale and met the irish fella . last seen chasing for the boat back to ireland !
Hello all, LRC, 1989 10 Volvo FL10 Globetrotters 30 York 40ft air suspension boxes with stainless steel rear ends All G reg, full contract hire deal with Intertrail Rentals Grove Rd Fenton Stoke on Trent. Intertrail featured the LRC “your safer with Durex” and they are safer with us" in their advertising. Roger Burnett attended the handover along with his Sukuki racing bikes. Sponsored by LRC. Cheers.
a freind of mine drove one of the globetrotters in durex colours back in the day and he has some photo’s,will try to get hold of him and get some copies
