5 June 1986
Cardiff
Cym
‘Coyote’
BWD 848T
Embellished Volvo F88 that wants to be a F89.
operated by STS.
Over done? Maybe, but apart from the flags in the screen, i like it.!
pyewacket947v:
5 June 1986
Cardiff
Cym‘Coyote’
BWD 848T
Embellished Volvo F88 that wants to be a F89.
operated by STS.
Over done? Maybe, but apart from the flags in the screen, i like it.!
Yes, over-blinged for my personal taste. Mind you, I did used to put flags up though I wouldn’t now as I don’t like anything in the windscreen these days. I notice it says ‘Fuller for Professionals’ above the windscreens. Can’t fault the sentiment, but I’ll bet that Volvo didn’t have one!
You don’t see any of these around any more, everything seems to be in transit vans nowadays, makes you wonder if given the amount of parcel freight nowadays if they couldn’t make an electric version for local work. Nmp
Kempston:
You don’t see any of these around any more, everything seems to be in transit vans nowadays, makes you wonder if given the amount of parcel freight nowadays if they couldn’t make an electric version for local work. Nmp0
When these types of vehicle were in vogue delivering to households in estates was not a problem as there was very little roadside congestion with parked cars etc. You would struggle to get anything like this into most streets nowadays hence the use of small delivery vans to do the work.
Dennis Javelin:
Kempston:
You don’t see any of these around any more, everything seems to be in transit vans nowadays, makes you wonder if given the amount of parcel freight nowadays if they couldn’t make an electric version for local work. Nmp0
When these types of vehicle were in vogue delivering to households in estates was not a problem as there was very little roadside congestion with parked cars etc. You would struggle to get anything like this into most streets nowadays hence the use of small delivery vans to do the work.
Yes it’s a very good point Dennis.
Thanks to Kempston, servo88 and pyewacket947v for the photos 
and Froggy55 for the link tho’ same one posted further up the page
Oily
From Essex north to Lincs and one from Derbys operators credit to Michael Trolove for the photos.
ERF-NGC-European:
pyewacket947v:
5 June 1986
Cardiff
Cym‘Coyote’
BWD 848T
Embellished Volvo F88 that wants to be a F89.
operated by STS.
Over done? Maybe, but apart from the flags in the screen, i like it.!Yes, over-blinged for my personal taste. Mind you, I did used to put flags up though I wouldn’t now as I don’t like anything in the windscreen these days. I notice it says ‘Fuller for Professionals’ above the windscreens. Can’t fault the sentiment, but I’ll bet that Volvo didn’t have one!
Flags across the screen, all the rage at one time, also illegal… I used to have a sun strip if the motor did not have a visor, like my MB in the background.
You will be right about the gearbox. though a Twin Splitter would have done it for me, long ago!
Thanks to pyewacket947v and servo88 for the photos
Oily
Cornwall credit to Graham Richardson for the photos.
oiltreader:
!965 floods at Ambergate Derbys., all credit to Claire Sutton for the photo.
Oily
At first I thought that was one of Dean’s but I can’t make out the name on the door. The station, one of the few triangular ones in Britain, doesn’t look like that now though!
Pete.
windrush:
oiltreader:
!965 floods at Ambergate Derbys., all credit to Claire Sutton for the photo.
OilyAt first I thought that was one of Dean’s but I can’t make out the name on the door. The station, one of the few triangular ones in Britain, doesn’t look like that now though!
Pete.
Hi Pete, I remember Dean Haulage,in big white letters on wagon doors,they were blue IIRC.There’s summat written on front of that Commer as well but I can’t make it out.
Ambergate triangular station was a great place for trainspotting,I went once or twice from Bakewell station when I were a kid.You got the traffic from St Pancras to Sheffield and the north and traffic from St Pancras to Manchester via Miller’s Dale,plus cross country stuff from South West to North East,like Bristol - Newcastle.
oiltreader:
!965 floods at Ambergate Derbys., all credit to Claire Sutton for the photo.
Oily
I don’t recognise that scene, but I wonder if those were the same floods that I got caught up in in Matlock around that time. I was heading with my LAD Dodge artic (Shaw’s of Stapleford) to one of the quarries to collect asphalt blocks when I came across the flood. I tried to drive through it and was doing alright until I hit a lump of debris under the surface and came to a complete halt. I escaped from the cab and stepped back first onto the trailer and then to a low garden wall. A little further along I escaped the flood and made my way to a phone box. The boss said walk into town and then up the bank to a mate of mine (the boss was Kerry Spencer, later of the RHA, who lived in Matlock) who has just bought a big American reccer. However he refused, he didn’t want to risk his new toy so I trekked back to the wagon only to find that a council front end loader had used its bucket against the cab and pushed the whole thing aside and out of the way. 
It was driveable, but badly damaged. And not the only time I was affected by floods. Later experiences involved both NSW and QLD (tail end of another thread 
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