Nice selection Buzzer.I reckon the green Atki would have been ex Hanson Wakefield.
Buzzer:
dave docwra:
Hi Buzzer,My mate Chris Deveraux helped convert the Yeoman Volvo when he worked at Heathrow commercials, they had an F16 engine fitted as part of the project.
Dave.
Hi Dave I bet that cost a bob or three but its been about for a long time now has it not, always like the F88/9 shaped cab there is just something about it maybe my age, Buzzer.
I am sure that i read somewhere that the owner Paul Hammond was not well and it was parked up under cover. Dave it was a F12 engine fitted. 
Thanks to Buzzer and DEANB for the pics 
Leyland600 will hopefully give us the rundown on the Reaper ERF.
Oily
windrush:
Chris Webb:
The name on the door is Kinders Garage and Haulage,not sure if Ma Walkerâs was the same company or if itâs her in saddle though.Apparantly she was a fair person but not to be tangled with.Reading this article I think that is the Lady Chris?
archive.commercialmotor.com/arti ⌠-am-walker
Pete.
Another article here. Alice Walker was a very unusual and determined lady for her era.
Seems she married quite late in life to Viscount Hall, a former Labour MP.
archive.commercialmotor.com/arti ⌠-transport
Unloading motor cycles in the IOM for the TT races, believed the last time it was done this war was 1981, any one know, Buzzer
Like the AA badge on the old Foden Buzzer!
David
Buzzer:
Todays entry, Buzzer
That is a classic late 50âs early 60âs shot of the West â â â â â â â â â â Farmers Commer on farm deliveries in deepest northern Lakeland I reckon ! At one time WCF were the largest farmers Co-operative in Europe. Their HO was in Whitehaven and they were the largest customer of the District Bank then Nat West in â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â so the prime Bank Managers job in the area was the Whitehaven branch and if a Manager was chosen from another branch to move to Whitehaven there was no argument as he was âthe Chosen oneâ and this happened to the Nat West manager in Kendal in the later 70âs , Bob Morgan, who I did a lot of business with so it was a bit of a sickener but he had to move. He kept his fine detached property in Kendal and rented a bungalow in St. Bees as it was the final two years prior to retirement.
Useless info I know but the shot jogged my old memory 
Cheers Dennis.
The Cooperâs of Wednesbury Bubble brings back memories, not all of them good. Not that motor but Reg Cooper and his eccentric ways. I worked for him, indirectly, in the 60s I suppose it was. I was working for Shaws of Stapleford, starting with them just after Hedley Shaws serious accident when the firm was bought by Charlie Dormerâs (C.E.Dormer) of Leytonstone. The job was fine, loading out of Stanton Ironworks for all over the place and then roaming for the rest of the week.
Then Dormerâs bought Coopers as well and more or less merged Shawâs with them. Reg had a NE trunk going for a warehouse rack system contract and it became my job for a time to do the link between Nottingham and Wednesbury. Down to Cooperâs with a back loaded trailer, then spend the whole day running around Brum and the Black Country picking up bits and bobs for the Scotch trunk. The loads were always low, heavy stuff and, sheeted, they looked like caterpillars. I swear he used 60 footers on this trunk but I may have been mistaken, long and low they certainly looked the part.
Then, late afternoon, pick up the NE trailer which had been loaded for me and back to Nottingham. I hated it, gone was my independent free roaming life and on top of it all I had to put up with Reg and his constant carping. You could never be on time in his eyes, always late. His favourite phrase was âYo bin caffee shapping eet again?â (my attempt at his Black Country accent ), he always called transport cafes âcoffee shopsâ. I couldnât wait to move on. 
The two Atky 8 wheelers are interesting . The Pollock motor has the single drive heavy Kirkstall HR axle and I reckon that Alfâs Atky would have been geared up to pull one of their class Dyson double wheeled trailers. Cheers Dennis. 
5thwheel:
Like the AA badge on the old Foden Buzzer!David
I have tried to find an AA badge on the Foden pictures, I may of missed it but if it is the one on the W.H.Malcolm Foden, is that not TA decal, was is to show that the company supported the Territorial Army or am I way off.
dave docwra:
5thwheel:
Like the AA badge on the old Foden Buzzer!DavidI have tried to find an AA badge on the Foden pictures, I may of missed it but if it is the one on the W.H.Malcolm Foden, is that not TA decal, was is to show that the company supported the Territorial Army or am I way off.
Itâs on the grille of the old black and white shot Dave , top left hand side. Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
dave docwra:
5thwheel:
Like the AA badge on the old Foden Buzzer!DavidI have tried to find an AA badge on the Foden pictures, I may of missed it but if it is the one on the W.H.Malcolm Foden, is that not TA decal, was is to show that the company supported the Territorial Army or am I way off.
Itâs on the grille of the old black and white shot Dave , top left hand side. Cheers Dennis.
Indeed it is, and the TA badge on the Malcolmâs is membership of the Transport Association which allowed its members to fill up at each othersâ depots. Maybe other things too.
Buzzer:
Todays little selection, Buzzer
Câmon you âmore matureâ owd lads, form an orderly queue for a chance to do a shift with Henry Longs Mk5 AEC (with the Dyson drawbar). Down the A1 and the A10 into London and back to Bradford the next day.
That picture of the Commer in the snow made me shiver, reminded me of that fateful night coming over the Beacons when the TS3 decided to de -coke itself. 
grumpy old man:
Buzzer:
Todays little selection, BuzzerCâmon you âmore matureâ owd lads, form an orderly queue for a chance to do a shift with Henry Longs Mk5 AEC (with the Dyson drawbar). Down the A1 and the A10 into London and back to Bradford the next day.
That picture of the Commer in the snow made me shiver, reminded me of that fateful night coming over the Beacons when the TS3 decided to de -coke itself.
I think it did Courtaulds at Greenfield North Wales regular i know my dads did. The one in the photo did around 60mph Peggy Oâneil drove it
Rackcliffes of Guildford ran a lot of Bedfords, they were regular visitors at the London mills like Spillers and Ranks when dad was loading there back in the sixties. The first Bedford TK I ever saw was one of theirs, I thought it looked strange but little knowing at the time that a few years later I would be repairing the things!
Pete.
windrush:
The first Bedford TK I ever saw was one of theirs, I thought it looked strange but little knowing at the time that a few years later I would be repairing the things!Pete.
First one I saw was in 1960, George Dominics, a Nottingham firm of mainly parcels carriers I think, visited the firm at Bulwell where I was working in the office. I didnât have a licence then but was already fascinated by lorries and was climbing all over it. Very impressed, especially as I thought that parcel shelf was a bunk.
Of course, it was, for some very small people that is.
windrush:
Rackcliffes of Guildford ran a lot of Bedfords, they were regular visitors at the London mills like Spillers and Ranks when dad was loading there back in the sixties. The first Bedford TK I ever saw was one of theirs, I thought it looked strange but little knowing at the time that a few years later I would be repairing the things!Pete.
When the TK came out, they were a bit of a revolution. My late big brother who was a lot older than me was driving one of those Morris LCFO (LD on steroids) for a local firm, always well overloaded as they should have had a lorry for their work really, but theyâd promised him a new TK. I used to ride shotgun with him when I was off school, we went everywhere spotting TKs and it was amazing how quickly the big users took them up they were soon everywhere. He got fed up with waiting for his and went to work at fatherâs firm driving an FFK instead. About a week after he moved he was a bit peeved to spot a brand new TK resplendent in his last employerâs livery.
Bernard