old Austin morris ea van with allens fuels Bedford tk in background
just found this in a bunch of old photo’s i’ve been scanning don’t know what it is but this company later became thames valley eggs in Moreton on the Wallingford road out of Didcot also when it was Berkshire not oxon!!
regards Andrew
bjf:
Unipart Leyland buffalo
Great pics again Barry, love this 1 of the old Buffalo, looks like 1 of the old 500s with the stack up the back, I know I am very sentimental about the old Buffalo’ & they had their faults but those 500s were real flyers when you got them wound up 
, & they sounded great if you raced them up through the range-change box cos you could really whip the gears through !
Andrew Morrison:
just found this in a bunch of old photo’s i’ve been scanning don’t know what it is but this company later became thames valley eggs in Moreton on the Wallingford road out of Didcot also when it was Berkshire not oxon!!regards Andrew
0
Cheese & Bacon in my omelette please Andrew mate, with Daddies sauce
Thank you Barry for the pictures buddy , also Chris , I know Sid “muscles” Abbey , yes he use to work for Nurden and peacock he drove a d reg Fl10 , he is big Dave beers uncle "Beefy " he took over Sids FL when Sid wentshunting due to his wifes health .
Barry keep the photos going buddy , any Brs pictures ?
JAKEY:
Thank you Barry for the pictures buddy , also Chris , I know Sid “muscles” Abbey , yes he use to work for Nurden and peacock he drove a d reg Fl10 , he is big Dave beers uncle "Beefy " he took over Sids FL when Sid wentshunting due to his wifes health .Barry keep the photos going buddy , any Brs pictures ?
hi steve. sorry no brs pics yet. wish I had known that was daves uncle, could of shown him this when he was round weekend
Sid is a very keen body builder , he must be in his 70s now ?
JAKEY:
Thank you Barry for the pictures buddy , also Chris , I know Sid “muscles” Abbey , yes he use to work for Nurden and peacock he drove a d reg Fl10 , he is big Dave beers uncle "Beefy " he took over Sids FL when Sid wentshunting due to his wifes health .Barry keep the photos going buddy , any Brs pictures ?
Hi Steve, smashing bloke Sid, he liked doing the shunting at Cowley because it was like doing a training session all day, he didn’t bother opening the curtains both sides, it didn’t matter what was in the still ages/cages etc he just pulled them across the bed for the forklift to reach, built like a brick-■■■■-house was Sid but a nicer bloke you couldn’t wish to meet . Where is Dave Beer working now, not seen him for years, I went to School with him, last I knew he was on Tesco, Didcot?
Hi Chris ,yes BEEFY is still on Tesco Didcot/Reading , and he still has the stand up at Sturgess castle , big long layby other side of Kidlington , got a big flag blowing in the wind “beefys” 
that’s his wife .
Barry talking of big drivers , how about Big Ron Willmott " ROCKET RON " , he always gave me a clip round the ear or a bear hug when he came in the workshops .
JAKEY:
Barry talking of big drivers , how about Big Ron Willmott " ROCKET RON " , he always gave me a clip round the ear or a bear hug when he came in the workshops .
ron willmot. he had an early Volvo. smoked like crazy on start up. got banned on ferrys for smoking them out when building up the air.
adr:
Few more names from my time on Leyland, Traffic Office, Gordon Hastie(Transport Manager), Ken Hicks, Bill Wilson, Ron Moore, Arthur Moore, Pete Mitchell. Workshop Manager Ricky Ashmore, John Rawlings (workshop Supervisor), Drivers, Dennis Thompson (Top Man), Jim Gray, Mick Hooper, Joe Brogan, John Griffiths, Fred Bartlett, Merv’ Roberts, Bob Venn, Derek Dixon, Roy & Dennis Samworth’, Ray McCann (My brother-in-Law, & a big favourite of your Dad Barry
Hi Chris, Ken Rich was on COMS late 50s early 60s same time as your dad and I, we had a Merv Roberts at Progressive for a while as a yardman, and of course Ray McCann I also knew, right then here is a couple of of videos of a while back with recognisable wagons I’m sure, second one a bit tongue in cheek but wagons of the tme you would have been on BL Transport.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ6wgLqwDYY
youtube.com/watch?v=VTCfJKNE2hg
Cheers
Eddie
Thought I would re post this picture for Barry and Mick , this was a photo posted by Chris , YOU MUST ADMIT IT LOOKS GOOD ?
I Clicked on those videos of Bl , great films , bet Mick or Chris knows who drove that Buffalo and that old Mastiff ? , it looks like the Mastiff had been round the plant a few times .
Chris Did Ray ever go up the road ?
oiltreader:
adr:
Few more names from my time on Leyland, Traffic Office, Gordon Hastie(Transport Manager), Ken Hicks, Bill Wilson, Ron Moore, Arthur Moore, Pete Mitchell. Workshop Manager Ricky Ashmore, John Rawlings (workshop Supervisor), Drivers, Dennis Thompson (Top Man), Jim Gray, Mick Hooper, Joe Brogan, John Griffiths, Fred Bartlett, Merv’ Roberts, Bob Venn, Derek Dixon, Roy & Dennis Samworth’, Ray McCann (My brother-in-Law, & a big favourite of your Dad BarryHi Chris, Ken Rich was on COMS late 50s early 60s same time as your dad and I, we had a Merv Roberts at Progressive for a while as a yardman, and of course Ray McCann I also knew, right then here is a couple of of videos of a while back with recognisable wagons I’m sure, second one a bit tongue in cheek but wagons of the tme you would have been on BL Transport.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ6wgLqwDYY
youtube.com/watch?v=VTCfJKNE2hg
Cheers
Eddie
Hi Eddie, thanks for those, great memories , although 2nd one a bit tongue in cheek if you’d seen some of the stuff I saw then you wouldn’t wonder at the demise of the British Motor Trade 
, but British Leyland was good to/for me, I met & worked with some great blokes (& others ). The Buffalo I remember more clearly, been trying to remember whose it was? got a feeling it was Harold Pearce but we had such a large fleet 
! Regards Chris
Happy days refueling at Cairn Lodge for RT Express t/a Taylor Barnard early 90’s I think.