I bow to your greater knowledge there wardy. F-reg seems about right ! Thats around the time i remember 1st seeing that reg.
wardg:
What a great thread, brings back memories of being a kid again, unfortunately the anorak in me had me writing down reg’s instead of taking photos. There may be a few if I get my scanner plugged in though.Derek Wheatleys - Always remember his fodens ‘Top Cat’, ‘Kit Kat’, ‘■■■■■ Power’ and all that with a stunning livery, one of the best I can remember. Still runs a couple i think, but the livery isn’t a patch on the 4000 series
Selbys, remember having to avoid the convoys of their 4000 series on an afternoon delivering papers. Another great livery
Wesmores - Remember a Foden and Constructor of theirs
Kinch’s - F reg Foden, remember a write up in T&D or something about this
M1 BRU - Is that one of M Brewsters wagon. He used to run a bright yellow FL10 out of Fleckney on that place. Would see it at the local garage getting a clean on a Sunday. There’s an identical FH cab KY58 something, saw both within 5 mins of each other last week
LAY 631E - remember seeing that at a classic truckshow at Crick way back preserved in the livery of Breedon & Cloudhill, but can’t have taken a photo of it
Hurry up and get that scanner plugged in and lets see some pics.
Would be nice to know what other reg numbers you had taken down…
Cheers
Matt
good thread this.thanks to Matt for alerting me to it!i worked in Mountsorrel from april 1986 till june 2005.this is a photo(hopefully!) of my Leyland Octopus.got a photo somewhere of the Bison i drove for Redland,i’ll post it later.hello to Phantom (Kev),how you doing mate,living on the Island now i see!
roadcommander2:
Nice R-cab Scania easing out of the gate
Don’t mean to sound picky but that’s a G cab essentially an R-cab but the day version 
did i read somewhere that Eric Elliot has packed up?
wardg:
I’m just going to dust my anorak off for a bit here!!E905 DNR, XJV1 (Flt 50), G140 UUT (Flt 60 Tom Cat), H338 DJU (Flt 70 Kit Kat), M752 HBC (Flt 80 Dels Lad). I would suggest the 0 on the fleet number was a bit of fun and would make the original XJV1 about F-reg?
Also followed by Alpha’s Y905 NAY (Bit of a Gem) and XJV1 (Bit of Krystal). Not forgetting the little DAF 45 Curtainsides he had Baby Tonka III & Baby Tonka IV amongst others I would think!
Kit Kat was one of Derek’s drivers 
got his own truck these days,still in Redland though…i mean Lafarge 
carryfast-yeti:
did i read somewhere that Eric Elliot has packed up?
Not that I know of.
I spoke to him a few weeks ago and my Uncle who drove for him (You may of known him) knows a chap still working for him.
I think he only runs a couple of 8 wheelers now and they are mainly on site work. The rest of the fleet are artics moving scrap and also has a few walking floor trailers too. As for the quarry work I dont think he has much to do with that now 
Keep the pictures coming though guys I am sure there are plenty out there!!
Matt