Buzzer:
The end of the week selection, Buzzer
Fantastic picture of working steam lorries in rigid, drawbar and artic configurations - and one even blowing off steam for the camera! 
Great selection today Buzzer, thanks for posting them.
oiltreader:
Posted on FB by Paul McGhee, any buyers on here.
A piece of JCB history will go under the auctioneer’s hammer later this month, as the company’s fleet of ERF trucks is retired – after travelling the equivalent of almost 600 times around the world.
The distinctive JCB-liveried lorries have been a familiar sight on the roads for the past 15 years, transporting parts between JCB factories and taking JCB machines to UK events. In that time the 17 ERF EC-11 models have notched up a combined 15 million miles – enough to travel round the earth around 600 times.
Now the fleet has taken its final bow and is being sold at the famous JCB Auction on Tuesday 28 September at Wardlow Quarry, near to Cauldon Lowe, Staffordshire.
JCB Transport and Global Auctions Manager Phil Pepper said: “The sale will bring the curtain down on a long association with British-built ERFs, an association which goes back to 1965 when we first used the manufacturer’s trucks. These particular 17 ERFs were bought second-hand in 2006, because we wanted to stay loyal to a British-manufactured truck renowned for its quality. The fleet has rewarded our faith in British engineering by the bucket load and it is amazing to think it has travelled a combined 15 million miles.
“When we bought them, they were between six-to-eight years old and they have been maintained to the very highest standards, so while they may be retiring from JCB, there is plenty of life left in them and we expect brisk bidding for them at the JCB Auction, particularly as there is no buyer’s premium.”
The trucks were manufactured 35 miles away from JCB’s World HQ in Rocester at ERF’s plant in Sandbach, Cheshire. At one time one of the JCB ERF trucks was moving 1,200 tonnes of machines and parts per day between factories.
The auction also includes vintage JCB diggers from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as a number of modern day JCB machines, including Loadall telescopic handlers, wheeled loading shovels and tracked and mini excavators.
#JCB #auction #ERF #transport #lowloader #british #builtinbritain
End of an era right there Oily! Didn’t they already sold off some of their fleet a few years ago?
1 November 1985
Vimpennys Lane Business Park
Compton Greenfield
South Gloucs
Eng
DAF 2600.
Not sure why i chopped the roof off.
Drove one of these. A nice ride, but a cold fixed cab.
Thanks for posting those pic’s Dig, and everyone else that post’s. I reckon that bloke in the last photo’s got a fair old sleeper cab. Foden or AEC?
Thanks to lurpak, pyewacket947v, Dennis Javelin, DIG, Buzzer and Suedehead for the pics 
Hi DIG, Gascoyne on FB it’s a public group so should be able to see it.
facebook.com/groups/679542045502082/
and a bit o history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gascoyne_Trading_Company
Cheers
Oily
This one used to belong to a subbie who was pulling trailers for Jan de Rijk, was quite the machine back in the day with a lot of bling!
I remember that he didn’t had a house, just the Volvo so he was always away weeks on end… no idea if he’s still among us.
pv83:
This one used to belong to a subbie who was pulling trailers for Jan de Rijk, was quite the machine back in the day with a lot of bling!I remember that he didn’t had a house, just the Volvo so he was always away weeks on end… no idea if he’s still among us.
Unusual axle combination on trailer?
Oily
Love the cheeky ‘Big A’ badge on the F16, wide load mirrors too. 
lurpak:
WeymouthAde
Is that Chesil Beach Ade ■■
Buzzer:
Sunday service, Buzzer
The first one makes me wonder why I thought I was hard done by with my rabbit hutch Atki at Econofreight. 
And the last one makes me think that perhaps that train is a tad overweight…in the cab.
DEANB:
lurpak:
WeymouthAde
Is that Chesil Beach Ade ■■
Yes, just as you come down from Portland by the Cafe
1 November 1985
Snows Commercials
Vimpennys Lane Business Park
Compton Greenfield
S Gloucs
ENG
Magirus Duetz sleeper cab
Wonder if them horns still work?
