Dont know if this advert rings a bell with anyone from 1971.
DEANB:
Dont know if this advert rings a bell with anSeem to recall they had yards in Totton and Colden Common nr Winchester and dealt in ex WD vehicles
Best regards Partsman
Hants reg (Maggie d)
Nice photo robthedog well spotted here she is when I had her, John,this pic taken on a Saturday morning in Lorraines, whilst we were waiting for young Horrie to get off the wash !!
Regards
Richard
robthedog:
Hants reg (Maggie d)
Ex ECT Rycroft and now owned by someone in Ringwood to haul his vintage boats about.
Salue et bonne annee nouveau Robert76!
I cant read the reg. too well Buzzer but it looks like XCG 600R, in which case it was Mssr Scattercash aka Ian Hellawell.
Partsman:
DEANB:
Dont know if this advert rings a bell with anSeem to recall they had yards in Totton and Colden Common nr Winchester and dealt in ex WD vehicles
Best regards Partsman
Thanks for the info “Partsman” . That advert appeared in a Bedford Transport magazine and i have never seen another advert
of theirs anywhere else. 
cfat
robthedog:
cfat
Just noticed the CSG Foden behind, they have been big Leyland and Daf users for a long while.
pete smith:
robthedog:
cfatJust noticed the CSG Foden behind, they have been big Leyland and Daf users for a long while.
Got Scania’s now Pete, cheers Buzzer
Buzzer:
pete smith:
robthedog:
cfatJust noticed the CSG Foden behind, they have been big Leyland and Daf users for a long while.
Got Scania’s now Pete, cheers Buzzer
Hi Buzzer,
Have not been out and about lately mate, been 6 years since I used to tip at CSG landfill at Pound Bottom near Fordingbridge. A local skip operator to me has gone from Daf’s to Scania as well, Cheer’s Pete
Franglais:
HRS:
Franglais:
I seem to remember SFM having a yard by Cobden Bridge at one time? They would have left in early '70’s? Blocks of flats there now.Morning “Franglais”, I remember visiting them one day to find everything in that huge shed had been taken outside and stacked.
Walking around inside I was shown the whole floor was bowed in leaving a 12 inch gap with just the huge re-bar holding it up.
It turned out to be a stream used many years ago when it was a boat building slip way had washed all the gravel away under the concrete, took a very brave man in the bucket of a cherry picker and a torch to release it, think that is why they moved. Harvey
Dyer’s Boat Yard? Dyer’s still have the land on the opposite bank, but was that their yard too? Or someone else?
Sorry mate, bit late getting back to you.
Yes, Dyer’s was opposite by the skew bridge, now private homes.
They were big in used parts for just about anything that floated. not sure if they owned the old slipway opposite.
I learned to sail there at St Denys amateur rowing and sailing club, happy days, cheers. Harvey
HRS:
Franglais:
HRS:
Franglais:
I seem to remember SFM having a yard by Cobden Bridge at one time? They would have left in early '70’s? Blocks of flats there now.Morning “Franglais”, I remember visiting them one day to find everything in that huge shed had been taken outside and stacked.
Walking around inside I was shown the whole floor was bowed in leaving a 12 inch gap with just the huge re-bar holding it up.
It turned out to be a stream used many years ago when it was a boat building slip way had washed all the gravel away under the concrete, took a very brave man in the bucket of a cherry picker and a torch to release it, think that is why they moved. HarveyDyer’s Boat Yard? Dyer’s still have the land on the opposite bank, but was that their yard too? Or someone else?
Sorry mate, bit late getting back to you.
Yes, Dyer’s was opposite by the skew bridge, now private homes.
They were big in used parts for just about anything that floated. not sure if they owned the old slipway opposite.
I learned to sail there at St Denys amateur rowing and sailing club, happy days, cheers. Harvey
I’m sure you’re too young to have seen it, but the old photos showing Cobden Park as a mud flat are quite impressive.
Spent some Sundays there as a wee lad riding on the scale steam trains.
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Here’s a Southampton motor Matsolex plus one of Ken Chants RIP Foden that he bought brand new for SCAC traction work and I bought his old F88 of him with Granning lift axle, it was immaculate, Cheers Buzzer.
Morning “Franglais”,
I’m sure you’re too young to have seen it, but the old photos showing Cobden Park as a mud flat are quite impressive.
Spent some Sundays there as a wee lad riding on the scale steam trains.
You are quite right, and kind, I don’t remember it as mud flats.
In my early days it was a dump for huge concrete blocks that were part of the WW2 defences in Southampton and later used to edge the waterside.
It was a nice place to take a young lady for a walk along to Woodmill and then, if you still had the energy, up further to the White Swan. Harvey