neversweat1:
Servicised were from Ajax Ave at Slough Dean. Long time Dodge users then Renault until the transport side was hived off to Exel Logistics. When I started my apprenticeship at Reading Garage Dodge Truck Centre in 1980 that Barreiros was in the yard after being involved in an accident. They had a few Barreiros - KFC656N , BUD45R , VJO835T , CJO913V and three of the last ones built LJM141 - 142 and 143X. They then had 2 ERF’s RTF667Y and B217GRD before going onto Renault G290’s D202 and D203WRD. Originally a Green livery but then went to Grey. The B reg ERF and the B reg Dodge in the photo were the first vehicles they bought with sleeper cabs. Up till then they went all over the U.K. in day cabs and stayed in digs. Even though Reading looked after all their lorries they used to buy them from Partridges at Cassingdon the Oxfordshire Dodge Dealer.
Driver of the one in the photo was Norman Beckett.
Steve
Thanks for the info Steve,dont remember having one on before.
windrush:
“coomsey” Electric Dean, much doings keeping the cables where they wanted them. When she walked you had to throw lumps of"black jack"into the cam, behind the men. It was hard work chopping lumps off but after one revolution it turned into something like boiling water. I seem to remember that it took around a year to build,both were dismantled but not sure where they were sent. Maybe someone will recall the one they walked Corby area,it was quite a distance but easier than rebuilding.
By the way I’m the good looking one on the ground with the black tee shirt, orange didn’t suit the colour of my eyes. Cheers coomsey
Many of my friends worked for Shand at Rowsley, they were a large employer in this area and you could always get a job there. They built part of the M6 over Shap, the M10 and constructed many bridges and reservoirs and you could fill a book with their escapades regarding the vehicles they ran on opencast sites etc! One trip involved driving three earth scrapers from Durham to St Albans, none of the driver’s had driven them before and they demolished a couple of islands on the A1 before they got the hang of them. Then in Stamford a car (a prewar Austin ten) was parked and the owner refused to move it until he finished shopping despite the Police ■■■■■■ asking him nicely; with the copper’s permission three earth scrapers ran over the top of it and no more was heard about it! The Peak Village shopping centre occupies the site now.
Pete.
Classic story Pete !!! I wonder what he put on his insurance claim form…
Talking about driving scrapers on the road and demolishing islands. Paul Gee caught these dump trucks in Southampton back in the 1970s.
You mentioned the M6 over Shap,heres a bit about it from 1971.
Hi Dean gave the old memory a wee stir. I seem to remember that Federal Express took over Wilkinsons Transport in they’re 1st foray into Britain about the same time cheers Ray
Hi Dean the picture below is Tilbury’s garage in Southampton, one of the family live in the same village as me, IIRC they went on to have a Renault truck agency and little Richard QC of the borough of Wellow aka R&A transport will be able to confirm this as he bought a few of that marque from them, aurevoir Buzzer
coomsey:
Electric Dean, much doings keeping the cables where they wanted them. When she walked you had to throw lumps of"black jack"into the cam, behind the men. It was hard work chopping lumps off but after one revolution it turned into something like boiling water. I seem to remember that it took around a year to build,both were dismantled but not sure where they were sent. Maybe someone will recall the one they walked Corby area,it was quite a distance but easier than rebuilding.
By the way I’m the good looking one on the ground with the black tee shirt, orange didn’t suit the colour of my eyes. Cheers coomsey
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Hi Paul,
I think the machine that walked between the 2 sites was Sundorne, its cab has survived and is situated in a museum between Market Harborough and Corby.
I can remember her sitting at the site with the jib dropped on a pile of overburden for quite a while and as there where no buyers I’m presuming that was where she got cut up
Buzzer:
Hi Dean the picture below is Tilbury’s garage in Southampton, one of the family live in the same village as me, IIRC they went on to have a Renault truck agency and little Richard QC of the borough of Wellow aka R&A transport will be able to confirm this as he bought a few of that marque from them, aurevoir Buzzer
I think that they had a Seddon dealership at one time as the company dad drove for in the sixties bought some ex Christopher Hill Seddons from Tilburys?
DEANB:
A couple of weeks ago we had a J & W Hino tipper on here that “robthedog” told us was from Fair Oak near Eastleigh and this Bison tipper
was following it in the same colours so assume its the same company.
Hi Dean
Don’t know about the bison but here’s
Another J&W pre H&S days
coomsey:
Anyone know what make the middle dump truck is ■■
DJB Dean,I think Cat had them, don’t know if they still sell that model
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I think it is a DJB from Co Durham, built in the early 70s with apparently Cat drive components.
DJB trucks was the idea of an engineer called David Brown and started In the early seventies.He had experience with Chaeside, Bray and Muir Hill plant and loading shovels. The trucks were articulated and base on Caterpillar components.
The factory was / is at Peterlee.
Sold out to Caterpillar in the eighties and still under production as CAT Artix. Started AWD trucks after the sellout ( the articulated all drive tippers sometimes seen on these pages)
Tyneside
Suedehead:
“DEANB”
Looks like Collier & Sons on the headboard. Ayone know where they were based ■■
I think they were from the Chippenham area Dean
Cheers “Suedehead”
stargazer148:
Hi Dean gave the old memory a wee stir. I seem to remember that Federal Express took over Wilkinsons Transport in they’re 1st foray into Britain about the same time cheers Ray
essexpete:
“coomsey”
DJB Dean,I think Cat had them, don’t know if they still sell that model
I think it is a DJB from Co Durham, built in the early 70s with apparently Cat drive components.
Yeah DJB rings a bell and have stuff on them somewhere but its in a box and not scanned.
Buzzer:
Hi Dean the picture below is Tilbury’s garage in Southampton, one of the family live in the same village as me, IIRC they went on to have a Renault truck agency and little Richard QC of the borough of Wellow aka R&A transport will be able to confirm this as he bought a few of that marque from them, aurevoir Buzzer
Thanks for the info Buzzer !
Heres an advert when they were selling Renault’s.
pete smith:
“coomsey” Electric Dean, much doings keeping the cables where they wanted them. When she walked you had to throw lumps of"black jack"into the cam, behind the men. It was hard work chopping lumps off but after one revolution it turned into something like boiling water. I seem to remember that it took around a year to build,both were dismantled but not sure where they were sent. Maybe someone will recall the one they walked Corby area,it was quite a distance but easier than rebuilding.
By the way I’m the good looking one on the ground with the black tee shirt, orange didn’t suit the colour of my eyes. Cheers coomsey
Hi Paul,
I think the machine that walked between the 2 sites was Sundorne, its cab has survived and is situated in a museum between Market Harborough and Corby.
I can remember her sitting at the site with the jib dropped on a pile of overburden for quite a while and as there where no buyers I’m presuming that was where she got cut up
Thanks for the info Pete,any pics mucker ?
I am sure i read about a large dragline that was retired and parked up somewhere near Leeds ■■ Apparently they have open days where you
can go and have a look around it. Ring any bells with anyone ■■
windrush:
“Buzzer” Hi Dean the picture below is Tilbury’s garage in Southampton, one of the family live in the same village as me, IIRC they went on to have a Renault truck agency and little Richard QC of the borough of Wellow aka R&A transport will be able to confirm this as he bought a few of that marque from them, aurevoir Buzzer
I think that they had a Seddon dealership at one time as the company dad drove for in the sixties bought some ex Christopher Hill Seddons from Tilburys?
Pete.
Thanks for the comments Pete. I imagine when your dad drove for them they were orange rather than the later red colour scheme ?
robthedog:
“DEANB”
A couple of weeks ago we had a J & W Hino tipper on here that “robthedog” told us was from Fair Oak near Eastleigh and this Bison tipper was following it in the same colours so assume its the same company.
Hi Dean
Don’t know about the bison but here’s
Another J&W pre H&S days
Thanks for the pic Rob,cant beat a mighty Bedford. Pretty sure that Bison must have been a J&W motor as it was the same colour and right
behind the Hino.
Hargreaves:
The Cartwright bros scania is from Lincoln or nearby running rigids as well mainly scania was running f88 s at one point so being around a bit
Thanks for the info “Hargreaves”.
Buzzer:
Dean you said you see a lot of John Deere tractors on you walks so here is one I bet you have not come across, Buzzer
Thats an old one Buzzer,look how close the front wheels are together.
Did you know George Coles at Shaftesbury as he dealt in John Deeres alot and i can remember him teeling me back in the 1980s that
he used to ship alot of parts out to New Zealand. Article about him on page 153.
tyneside:
DJB trucks was the idea of an engineer called David Brown and started In the early seventies.He had experience with Chaeside, Bray and Muir Hill plant and loading shovels. The trucks were articulated and base on Caterpillar components.
The factory was / is at Peterlee.
Sold out to Caterpillar in the eighties and still under production as CAT Artix. Started AWD trucks after the sellout ( the articulated all drive tippers sometimes seen on these pages)
Tyneside
Buzzer:
Dean you said you see a lot of John Deere tractors on you walks so here is one I bet you have not come across, Buzzer
A Suffolk farm I worked on in '82 had several in the back of the shed and apparently they had used them for light row crop work into the 70s.
Popping Johnnies was the nick name but I, at the the time, was confused by the name.
One trip involved driving three earth scrapers from Durham to St Albans, none of the driver’s had driven them before and they demolished a couple of islands on the A1 before they got the hang of them. Then in Stamford a car (a prewar Austin ten) was parked and the owner refused to move it until he finished shopping despite the Police ■■■■■■ asking him nicely; with the copper’s permission three earth scrapers ran over the top of it and no more was heard about it! 
The Peak Village shopping centre occupies the site now.
