The start of the new incinerator site at Ardley.
Hi adr, you might recognise this motor.
oily
oiltreader:
Hi adr, you might recognise this motor.
oily
Don’t know if it’s the same one but an ex Air Products Strato is doing the fairground circuit.
Wonder who was the original owner of this Oxford City reg wagon?. Googling R A Forrester brings up a garage in Gainsborough.
oily
oiltreader:
Wonder who was the original owner of this Oxford reg wagon?. Googling R A Forrester brings up a garage in Gainsborough.
oily
Priors ran Mandators but I would guess someone who did multi-drop. One of the Oxfordshire breweries, Morland, Morrells or Halls?
oiltreader:
Wonder who was the original owner of this Oxford City reg wagon?. Googling R A Forrester brings up a garage in Gainsborough.
oily
Hello Everybody, great thread. Oiltreader, may I suggest Banbury Buildings?
NathanB:
oiltreader:
Wonder who was the original owner of this Oxford City reg wagon?. Googling R A Forrester brings up a garage in Gainsborough.
oilyHello Everybody, great thread. Oiltreader, may I suggest Banbury Buildings?
I think being Banbury,they would have be UD, BW or WL , JO and FC were city regs.
oily
I hope this works, it’s a pic of Woodfords’ of Southmoor ERF carousel wagon
I saw something funny today: An RH Travel bus drive past Hanborough bus museum…I thought they were one and the same 
That Erf is a nice motor , but I cannot stand the owner ! cheesed me off years ago 
, I would not help him on the side of the road .
JAKEY:
That Erf is a nice motor , but I cannot stand the owner ! cheesed me off years ago
Do tell Steve: What do they do? Apparently they built that ride themselves according to one of our drivers.
Muckaway:
JAKEY:
That Erf is a nice motor , but I cannot stand the owner ! cheesed me off years agoDo tell Steve: What do they do? Apparently they built that ride themselves according to one of our drivers.
According to the sign with the ride, they did. It took 5 years.
Muckaway:
I saw something funny today: An RH Travel bus drive past Hanborough bus museum…I thought they were one and the same
No, HBMs’ fleet is much newer
oiltreader:
Hi adr, you might recognise this motor.
oily
Hi Oily, amazing how you can never see enough of some pic’s, quite plain looking wagons really but they take me back to the best job I ever had (when it was A.P. that is, not Wincanton!). I loved the old Strato’s, they were a great working wagon, the twin-splitter was the greatest gearbox ever, had a good sized cab on them with a comfy bed, those trailers were an easy job when you got them though cos it was just a straight trailer swap 
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Regards Chris
Muckaway:
oiltreader:
Hi adr, you might recognise this motor.
oilyDon’t know if it’s the same one but an ex Air Products Strato is doing the fairground circuit.
I’d like to see that, if its round here it could be one of our old Didcot wagons, they would have been good motors to buy cos mechanically they were well looked after by our own workshop! I’ve seen an ERF in A.P. colours on the fair but that would be an ex-Wincanton, but its got the chrome wheel discs & is polished up lovely even though its still in A.P. colours!
oiltreader:
Wonder who was the original owner of this Oxford City reg wagon?. Googling R A Forrester brings up a garage in Gainsborough.
oily
Hi Oily, this pic had me diving into the photo box Pic of me next to my Dads Mammoth Minor Chinese 6 (pic taken in RAF Brize Norton in 1973 for info’), Reg No LJO 987G, they had 2 on Home Counties Petroleum, Botley Road, I don’t know what the number of the other 1 was, it was driven by Roy Taylor. (Typical Dad pic’ this, always get in about 30% of the actual subject , greatest father I could ever have wished for, forgot more about wagon driving than I’ll ever know, but don’t let him near a camera 
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Regards Chris
Here she is 
Where on the Botley Road were they based, Chris? Near where Toys R Us is now? I vaguely remember some derelict buildings around there as a kid with an old garage between those houses that Maxwell owned.
That picture was taken at Hornton Grounds Quarry Around about the time of the M40 Being built
This particular Quarry No longer mines any stone but still has operational saw shed and stone masionary stuff going on . I cant remember the driver,s name right now but it will come back to me some time also I have some other pictures of Bennie,s “Multi-Drives” when I find them I,ll put them on here There biggest
down fall was weak universal joints on the propshaft between the trailer and the rear axle of the tractor unit
as there fitter would agree having replaced more than his fare share of them they got shot of them shortly after the M40 Project was completed