oiltreader:
Thanks to servo88, Stanfield and pete smith for the pics
A few Bedfords thanks to those who share, first pic a WT model same type as gave me my driving test pass 1952 and aye it was getting on a bit, in fact it kept the local garage proprietor going in hot dinners, mostly cooling system problems and the cable wiring to the rear lights, forever failing, not at all weatherproof.
Oily
Great photos Oily, The Bedford BBJ 929 1936 Reg Oringinaly for East Sussex My late Great Uncle had this 1938 one, Regards Larry.
oiltreader:
Thanks to Lawrence Dunbar and servo88 for the pics
A tidy old Actros snapped April this year and shared thanks to Graham Richardson.
Oily
Just had a closer look at painted over name on cab ■■ Knowles, anybody enlarge on that.
Cyril Knowles used to own those and pull Civil and Marine trailers, was he not a footballer aka nice one Cyril nice one son, etc etc cheers Buzzer.
Hi Buzzer, can’t think there’s a connection to Cyril Knowles the footballer, Spurs 1960s/70s, he died youngish at 47. My buddie Alan Long (Alan Long Transport) and myself regularly attended the then First Division games, made a point of being back home for Sat afternoons. From Oxford it was an hour either way to QPR or Coventry, they were at home on alternate Saturdays, fortunate to have seen some of the greats of football, Bestie for me was head and shoulders above them all.
Oily
Was this Cyril Knowles ? here is a picture of Dutch reg DAF Cyril Knowles in civil and marine colours,cheers Buzzer.
Black screen on the old sputer, HDD failure I guess , writing this from a clone disk which only has the basic workings, shed bound for the screwdriver , catch up later
Oily
oiltreader:
Thanks to Lawrence Dunbar and servo88 for the pics
A tidy old Actros snapped April this year and shared thanks to Graham Richardson.
Oily
Just had a closer look at painted over name on cab ■■ Knowles, anybody enlarge on that.
Cyril Knowles used to own those and pull Civil and Marine trailers, was he not a footballer aka nice one Cyril nice one son, etc etc cheers Buzzer.
Hi Buzzer, can’t think there’s a connection to Cyril Knowles the footballer, Spurs 1960s/70s, he died youngish at 47. My buddie Alan Long (Alan Long Transport) and myself regularly attended the then First Division games, made a point of being back home for Sat afternoons. From Oxford it was an hour either way to QPR or Coventry, they were at home on alternate Saturdays, fortunate to have seen some of the greats of football, Bestie for me was head and shoulders above them all.
Oily
Was this Cyril Knowles ? here is a picture of Dutch reg DAF Cyril Knowles in civil and marine colours,cheers Buzzer.
Any one done any of this in the past, I did one week for a mate on Corrals and it nearly killed me. Only one good tip a full load 6 ton to a big house down a chute of the back of the truck into the cellar. You needed one of those back guards especially with house coal other wise it would crease you. Of course the other problem was getting clean after a days work as the dust used to get into your skin, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Any one done any of this in the past, I did one week for a mate on Corrals and it nearly killed me. Only one good tip a full load 6 ton to a big house down a chute of the back of the truck into the cellar. You needed one of those back guards especially with house coal other wise it would crease you. Of course the other problem was getting clean after a days work as the dust used to get into your skin, Buzzer.
Me, too! Just a week when the regular “Coal Division” driver was sick. Two loads a day around the lanes in a little petrol-engine TK Bedford which sometimes fired on all cylinders but usually didn’t. Another get-rich-quick scheme run by a local haulier!
haddy:
Here’s a couple more of the Wells quay in busier times.
The second photo must have been in the days of Favor Parker, soya meal to Stoke Ferry. I remember the big green nets which were meant to stop the dust from blowing into the shops. The mill at Stoke Ferry is still going ,same bloody awful pits to tip in. Since I have worked there we have been FP, Grampian, Vion and now 2Agriculture.
Buzzer:
Any one done any of this in the past, I did one week for a mate on Corrals and it nearly killed me. Only one good tip a full load 6 ton to a big house down a chute of the back of the truck into the cellar. You needed one of those back guards especially with house coal other wise it would crease you. Of course the other problem was getting clean after a days work as the dust used to get into your skin, Buzzer.
Did it since I was a bit bigger than a bag of coal, Winter school holidays were spent in the coal yard (the house was virtually in the yard) In the 60s early 70s the annual tonnage was approx. 10,000.Loved it and hated it in equal measure, even had pickets at the gate (despite the fact we purely domestic suppliers) during the miners strike in 1972 or was it 1973. The dash for gas killed it off and when finished that part of the business in 1985 the tonnage had dropped to about 400. Cheers tyneside
Buzzer:
Any one done any of this in the past, I did one week for a mate on Corrals and it nearly killed me. Only one good tip a full load 6 ton to a big house down a chute of the back of the truck into the cellar. You needed one of those back guards especially with house coal other wise it would crease you. Of course the other problem was getting clean after a days work as the dust used to get into your skin, Buzzer.
Me, too! Just a week when the regular “Coal Division” driver was sick. Two loads a day around the lanes in a little petrol-engine TK Bedford which sometimes fired on all cylinders but usually didn’t. Another get-rich-quick scheme run by a local haulier!
So what was your regular job ROF, sneaking out at night to “nick” the coal in the first place from a little mine in “The Forrest” Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
So what was your regular job ROF, sneaking out at night to “nick” the coal in the first place from a little mine in “The Forrest” Cheers Dennis.
Reassuring to see that you haven’t given up casting aspertions on us poor, honest Southern lorry drivers, Dennis!
HI ROF would that have been a certain George read you worked for, I remember him buying that coal round off someone in cinderford, name escapes me at the mo. my grandfather started our coal merchants off in 1926,him and wj hoare from milkwall,( who had thelorries in TPT on tufthorne ave ) worked for a woman coal merchant,and they left her and started there own buisinesses taking all her customers!!!. I eventually ended up with the business, selling it in 1988, to T D SYMONDS.
Didn’t take a lot of working out if you come from the Forest, Bazz! I had two stints at Merrin End and two stints at Wilderness Quarry, plus the period when I became a Road Transport Magnate and made my first million as a subby for Young George!
, writing this from a clone disk which only has the basic workings, shed bound for the screwdriver 
