adr:
Not a very clear pic but just found it in another box, from my days on Leyland Transport, Cowley. Taken in our yard (BJ Henry’s old yard) early 80s!
you mite have known my uncle tony hulbert and my father in law michael crowley
bjf:
DONT YOU RECOGNISE HIM ? YOU HAVE MENTIONED HIM BEFORE ON HERE. WHEN YOU PASSED YOUR TEST HE LET YOU TAKE THE CLYDSDALE TO BICESTER FOR TEST, YOU WERE TOLD TO REMOVE THE FLAGS FROM WINDSCREEN. THIS WAS WHAT HE TOLD ME TO REPLY. I WORKED AT BRS WITH JAKEY AND HE HAS MADE A MENTION TO ME BEFORE.
Mick Freeman?
pigpen:
adr:
Not a very clear pic but just found it in another box, from my days on Leyland Transport, Cowley. Taken in our yard (BJ Henry’s old yard) early 80s!you mite have known my uncle tony hulbert and my father in law michael crowley
Hi pigpen, Tony Hulbert, absolutely remember Tony very well! & Michael Crowley, I know the name but can’t put a face to him at mo’ but I can Tony 
. Tony was a boy, he could shoe it along when needed . Regards Chris
The Tony I knew on Cowley transport was a really nice bloke, he had “old thunder” painted on the front of his buffalo, same guy?
YEA. STILL DRIVING, WITH SKINNER ON SCHOOL BUS RUN AND OVER BUS MUSEUM. IN THE BLOOD.
hi adr sadly tony passed away last year and mick was known as taff or taffy and last known living in leeds castleford area
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Mine in the workshop on Thursday afternoon with a broken diff.
Credit to Dan though, new diff delivered Friday morning and all fixed by the afternoon ready for me to work Saturday.if it didn’t have a name on the visor, it could be mistaken for a ex Hills of Swindon shed.
That’s a new one, John. I’ve already been told it’s an ex Earthline one. Gotta love the workshop; 5 bays and 3 house an ERF EC Olympic, a Mammoth Major tanker and a Bedford O Type.
There’s even my uncles’ old Foden unit (ex Smiths) in the yard to make me feel at home
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Mine in the workshop on Thursday afternoon with a broken diff.
Credit to Dan though, new diff delivered Friday morning and all fixed by the afternoon ready for me to work Saturday.if it didn’t have a name on the visor, it could be mistaken for a ex Hills of Swindon shed.
There’s even my uncles’ old Foden unit (ex Smiths) in the yard to make me feel at home
Is that the Olympic next to the forktruck?
pigpen:
hi adr sadly tony passed away last year and mick was known as taff or taffy and last known living in leeds castleford area
I’m sorry about that, I was going to ask but so many of the old boys on there that I knew have passed on or are of advancing years, it’s a difficult question! I found Tony a very easy-going bloke & certainly to me he was always very pleasant & approachable if I ever wanted to ask him anything!
Yes it is Toddy2. It’s being restored to look like one Cleavers’ ran in the late '90s.
bjf:
YEA. STILL DRIVING, WITH SKINNER ON SCHOOL BUS RUN AND OVER BUS MUSEUM. IN THE BLOOD.
I will have to pop into the Bus Museum again sometime & see Mick, he was always very good to me & a proper Transport man, he wasn’t so keen on my flags though !
wow , Barry Freeman here , barry get your photos up buddy . Also found that the old two stroke comer was on ebay during xmas , £16,000 plus £5,000 for the trailer , BJO 440D MAG310. REMEMBER ■■?
Did you get those shockers I left by your front door ?
Here you go Barry , spent many hours with you on breakdowns in this old girl , was the BAZ MACHINE wasn’t it ?
JAKEY:
wow , Barry Freeman here
Did you get those shockers I left by your front door ?
Something like this?
Retired Old ■■■■:
JAKEY:
wow , Barry Freeman here
Did you get those shockers I left by your front door ?Something like this?0
That would look nice in Jakeys’ colours. 
Fully restored, it would have cost him £9,500 at the end of November 2013. Somebody made a bit of a profit.
Muckaway:
Yes it is Toddy2. It’s being restored to look like one Cleavers’ ran in the late '90s.
I have been trying to buy one for the past few weeks, was finally told yesterday that he’s changed his mind, gonna keep it as a shunter
I have worked on that Commer in the early 80s with the late alfie Atherton , also I am still in contact with ivor parry who would have drove her .
Here she is in her working days .
Do you recall Barry ?
