Lawrence Dunbar:
Hi Pete Would I be correct in saying that its a Thynne Body ?, Regards Larry.
Quite possibly Larry, we had a few insulated Thynne bodies around that time but they didn’t fare well. I think that only the panels pop rivetted to the sides held them together as whenever we removed those panels there were cracks in all the main body supports. Plenty of plating and alloy welding then! Heat from asphalt didn’t help though, you could hear the body banging and expanding after you loaded the stuff and of course it eventually buckled the floor and sides badly. The few trucks we had that only carried dust or stone were not much trouble apart from the floors wearing thin. The best bodies we had were the Cravens Tasktip, but even they cracked on the rear sub chassis and needed welding at virtually every test. There were a couple fitted with Athony Carrimore bodies and they seemed OK.
Mmm, a pack of Isopon and some T Cut and it will look better John! Somehow I think that it is too far gone though, been laying there for some years now.
windrush:
Brilliant pics there Bonkey, that last pic may have been at Ashbourne Show? Barry may know if he reads this. The tank (ORA 310J), Geoff Hambleton had new, then he got a N reg S80 and it went down to Meriden where Brian Ray (ex BRS) drove it and managed to knock the cab roof off! Our fitters cobbled it back together by welding on a roof chopped off of a scrap cab, the nearside cab window wouldn’t fit though so Brian had to manage with a sheet of clear polythene flapping about until I took it up to Darlington where it was recabbed as an S40. I remember fitting a new timing chain to the 6LXB engine, the mileometer read well over 800,000 miles plus six years blowing time. When sold off the tank was swapped onto a new chassis and the old chassis cab was bought by a chap running from Croxden Gravel who put a tipper body on it where it did several more years work.
The sweeper I remember well, I took it for test a couple of times and hated driving it from the ‘wrong seat’. it was driven at one time by Steve Allen who came from (I think?) the Longford area. Steve died quite young and Johnny Webb, Ex Staffordshire Farmers, drove it then and also the one that replaced it. I think that either the one in the pic or a later one was sent down to our Mancetter quarry, the chap who drove it used to fall asleep at the drop of a hat and one afternoon, when he had nodded off in the cab, two fitters draped a tarpaulin over the cab. He was still asleep the next morning when they uncovered it!! The chap in the Bedford is, I feel sure, Bob Weywell, the truck was bought new (L reg) and was used internally. Bob tipped it backwards while tipping into a hopper and it ran short of oil and knocked the big ends out. One of my first jobs at Ballidon was putting a new crank in it.
The Top Garage pic from Ballidon days is perhaps posed? When I was there all the trucks were driven in forwards and then out through the other side, however again Barry will have an answer perhaps as maybe that was how it was done back then?
"mobil1"Hi Pete Think the ag show is at Stonleigh Lube bay snap will be posed Only backed out of wash bay because of ramps It was no18 that was backed into ground hopper by I think Eric Boss Hogg Allsopp Bobs no19 was always spotless until Bob reared the squab pigeon which had fallen out of a nest he took the bird home when he retired The L R over was mine D B T 982 S we could use them for our selves at weekends Went to my nieces wedding on Humberside in this but Stan Robinson gave me the nod on this Driver who went to sleep would have been my cousin Eric Jones:
windrush:
Brilliant pics there Bonkey, that last pic may have been at Ashbourne Show? Barry may know if he reads this. The tank (ORA 310J), Geoff Hambleton had new, then he got a N reg S80 and it went down to Meriden where Brian Ray (ex BRS) drove it and managed to knock the cab roof off! Our fitters cobbled it back together by welding on a roof chopped off of a scrap cab, the nearside cab window wouldn’t fit though so Brian had to manage with a sheet of clear polythene flapping about until I took it up to Darlington where it was recabbed as an S40. I remember fitting a new timing chain to the 6LXB engine, the mileometer read well over 800,000 miles plus six years blowing time. When sold off the tank was swapped onto a new chassis and the old chassis cab was bought by a chap running from Croxden Gravel who put a tipper body on it where it did several more years work.
The sweeper I remember well, I took it for test a couple of times and hated driving it from the ‘wrong seat’. it was driven at one time by Steve Allen who came from (I think?) the Longford area. Steve died quite young and Johnny Webb, Ex Staffordshire Farmers, drove it then and also the one that replaced it. I think that either the one in the pic or a later one was sent down to our Mancetter quarry, the chap who drove it used to fall asleep at the drop of a hat and one afternoon, when he had nodded off in the cab, two fitters draped a tarpaulin over the cab. He was still asleep the next morning when they uncovered it!! The chap in the Bedford is, I feel sure, Bob Weywell, the truck was bought new (L reg) and was used internally. Bob tipped it backwards while tipping into a hopper and it ran short of oil and knocked the big ends out. One of my first jobs at Ballidon was putting a new crank in it.
The Top Garage pic from Ballidon days is perhaps posed? When I was there all the trucks were driven in forwards and then out through the other side, however again Barry will have an answer perhaps as maybe that was how it was done back then?
hiya…that wrecker has sat at dove holes since 1977 to my knowlage…i have seen it working…about 5 years ago there
was a cab on e bay to replace that rust…
Hi, thank’s for the reply and I knew you would sort it! I could have sworn that it was Bob’s Bedford that fell into the hopper, obviously not! However it happened before I actually started at Ballidon, Jim Dean was fitting some new big end shells in it when I had my interview but Jim retired that same week and when I started ‘properly’ a week later the truck was parked up as the shells had knocked out again due to crank damage. I remember Bob feeding the birds, is he still living? The sweeper driver I was referring to was Don Hopkins at Mancetter quarry, the two fitters there (father and son I think, was their name Clamp?) chucked the tarpaulin over the cab and left him there! That story came via Ian Slater’s lad, he swore that it was true. I see George Jones and Bridget in Matlock occasionally and they seem to be keeping OK, though Bridget has a mobility scooter now.
It must have been a long trip to Humberside in the Land Rover, I remember going down the M1 to Scratchwood Services in one and it was a painfull experience! You will remember my father in law Jim Heathcote, well he drove one of the Transit minibuses and we all went on a camping holiday in Wales in it one Easter! Jim, his wife Irene, and me and the missus! It was a plain blue bus, no Tilcon writing on it, so we thought we were safe from prying eyes, however Lol Greaterex (spelling!) spotted us at Swallow Falls when he was on a day trip! We got away with a lot in those days, no chance now though.
I never thought about Stoneleigh, I think that Jim and others used to get tickets for that and had a day out there? A good company Tilcon, well I thought so anyway, better than the shower that followed!
very sad to learn of ron’s passing ann , i worked with him when he came to hazelcroft , drove his lorry a few times when he had time off . i was aware that he was in poor health of late but it doesn’t make it any easier . another good man gone from us , regards , dave
Poor old Ron. My dad drove with him when at Barlows in the early 80s. He always used to say that if you followed Ron while loading at Tunstead then you were on the ‘cream’, usually Cape Boards at Uxbridge.
My dad had a lot of respect for Ron as he put me old man onto a lot of the jobs that Barlows delivered to.
May I ask how old he were Anne? And please accept my condolences.
Hiya …can’t say as new Ron but must have sat in the same que as him with running out of Buxton
it a very sad loss…rip mate …
another 12 speed Foden man gone to rest…cheerio.
John
If anyone has any W H Phillips photos to share on here ( other than the regular ones that keep going round ) I will gladly call on them and iPad scan them In with out the need to take them away .thanks Dan.
Dan Punchard:
If anyone has any W H Phillips photos to share on here ( other than the regular ones that keep going round ) I will gladly call on them and iPad scan them In with out the need to take them away .thanks Dan.
Hiya dan…i ve asked before hope you do better…now they didnt stop that often so it might be a weigh bridge scene if any.
good to meet up with you at Llandudno…i’ll be on the ball next time cheers mate.
John
Gladwin & Clark from New Mills spent many days there in the 60’s.Jim Egerton’s dad stood in front of wagon.