not really and not in colour,we think Frank Dale has some but as yet they have not turned up ,i have posted some on here although i can’t remember where ,i think some traders and a dennis ,i have some coming of great uncle wilfs fleet a maudsley 8 wheeler tipper some commers and traders and an ERF with large coal body on .
Punchy Dan:
not really and not in colour,we think Frank Dale has some but as yet they have not turned up ,i have posted some on here although i can’t remember where ,i think some traders and a dennis ,i have some coming of great uncle wilfs fleet a maudsley 8 wheeler tipper some commers and traders and an ERF with large coal body on .
Yes I remember the Trader pic taken in the brewery yard at Uttoxeter.Perhaps Frank has some photos but perhaps in his loft somewhere safe as we all have.Haven’tspoken to him for a long time but I reckon he’s going on alright.
Tony
Mr Wakefield seems to have left the country
rastone:
Mr Wakefield seems to have left the country
He cant have Tony, he aint got a passport,
I’m still here trying to make an honest living & lose my dependency on Trucknet,
Any free time I have seems to be swallowed up by sitting behind the wheel of a yellow recovery lorry or watching my 7 month old grandson grow up.
I’ve booked in for Elvaston rally with the Commer on 2/3 July but haven’t been out any where else much this season, someone asked me why I kept all my old vehicles if I wasn’t going to show them so I said “one day I’ll pull them all out on the yard & chuck rocks at them for fun.”
I even had Ste46’s daughter texting me on his instruction to find out if I was still around. You won’t get rid of me that easy you know.
I’ll see you around soon but in the mean time here’s a few pictures to remind you what I do.
Another relic from 1958. The Bray shovel that did the loading at Ashwood Dale.
Usually driven by Colin, surname now lost from memory.
Some of the machines and ways that we got loaded in times past would make an interesting subject. When you arrived in some places and saw the implement that was to load you and probably the queue,that old Bray would have been quite competent. Good old pic. pye. Mike 
When i started in the early 60s calton hill granite quarry had just had a bray the same as the one pictured . a farmer drove it who obviously got the nickname Piggy , he was good on it though and never overloaded you unless you upset him . Previous to the bray coming stone off stock was loaded by a gang of men with shovels , 9tons ( british tons ) in about 10 minute was their average and the weight was always spot on . funny how things like that stick in my mind when i can’t remember what i had for tea last night . dave
They used a bray to load 4-6 inch in the end of hill head nearest to Peakstone .
Seth and me at Stoke on Trent incinerator plant ,the weatherill 12Hd was new to Tarmac in Cawdor quarry .
There was also a abandoned Simplex locomotive laid up in Ashwood Dale at the end of the 60s.
I can remember it being cut up on site,shame really looking back.
The picture is grim to say the least. The camera was a toy really,Head Office,(wife) bought it from Woolworths in Selly Oak,B’ham,where she worked.
It cost her 1shilling,remember them.?
On now. Truck show at The Waterloo Hotel Taddington. Bring something along, bar open all day. Loads of parking. Last day Sunday the 24th.
Just a note sending my condolences to Tipit (Paul) on the recent passing of his Dad Eddie Hartley who for many years ran stone from the quarries in Buxton has an employee of Thomas Lamb Ltd and then has an owner driver. RIP Eddie.
Some of Eddies lorries.
Three of James F G Hare’s 8 wheeled tippers.
though based at Sturge Chemicals ,Lifford, they spend their lives running between Lifford and the Peak District.
AOM was the first lorry i ever drove for a living. AOM and EVP where identical motors,apart from the different positions of the front flashers.
Guy Invincibles with Gardener 6LXs and a David Brown 6 speed box. That was the only good thing about them. A combination which on paper would have climbed a tree if asked.
Problem was they where both single drive with a dead trailing axle and no shock absorbers
I can only imagine that Jim left the shocks off the spec to save weight and cost. Aaarrggh, ‘What a mistaka to maka.’
Neither of them wanted to climb the final slope up into Ashwood Dale in the damp.,let alone anything remotely slippy.
The lack of shocks also meant that the ride unladen was awful and anything approaching heavy braking would provoke the axles into a demented dance.
Laden the springs took all the punishment and the brakes became wishful thinking.
On Saturday 5 March 1969, Easter Bank Holiday weekend. I eased EVP over the brow at the Bowling Green pub and began the descent into Ashbourne.
Easter Saturday, Market Day, the square would be full of stalls and shoppers, kids running about, old dears laden with family shopping, a sharp right hand bend
at the bottom,and a set of traffic lights thrown in for good measure.?
After a few yards it was obvious that EVPS excuse for anchors had decided to have a day off. I pulled her hard left into the big stone wall on the near side and with a noise that should have alerted anyone within 10 miles she scraped her way along the brickwork till she ground to a halt.
Guess what,?
No one noticed.
Jim eventually dragged me back with OOG his AEC Mammoth Major , into the side road opposite the Bowling Green.
We left her there overnight and returned the following day, Easter Sunday with Speirs of Wolverhampton’s wrecker, which towed me back to Lifford.
I cannot remember what the wrecker was, but Clifton Hill had not yet been bypassed and i had to fire EVP up and help push it up the hill.
EVP was eventually repaired at Guy Motors and i believe the bill was £1,060. They even fitted a chrome bumper. It did’nt improve the bloody thing though.
I was glad to see the back of both of them in the end.
One of Mr Hare’s trucks wasnt so lucky in the 70’s .He ran out of brakes coming down Buxton Hill and used a six wheeler carrying tarmac as a backstop both lorries turned over spreading stone and tarmac all over the market place,fortunately it was a Wednesday and not to many people about so noone was seriously injured.
Any of you old enough to remember sam long son’s spreader losing his brakes down fenny bentley ? He ran into the back to a milk lorry loaded with churns and mounted it before rolling on his side . Not a good mix , milk and quicklime . That would be about 1966 or 7 Luckily the milk lorry rolled forward so i was able to slalom between them as both drivers were stood scratching their heads and surveying the wreckage. dave
rigsby:
Any of you old enough to remember sam long son’s spreader losing his brakes down fenny bentley ? He ran into the back to a milk lorry loaded with churns and mounted it before rolling on his side . Not a good mix , milk and quicklime . That would be about 1966 or 7 Luckily the milk lorry rolled forward so i was able to slalom between them as both drivers were stood scratching their heads and surveying the wreckage. dave
That milk Lorry I am sure was my grandad .
malmic:
One of Mr Hare’s trucks wasnt so lucky in the 70’s .He ran out of brakes coming down Buxton Hill and used a six wheeler carrying tarmac as a backstop both lorries turned over spreading stone and tarmac all over the market place,fortunately it was a Wednesday and not to many people about so noone was seriously injured.
Was that one of his Scania’s.? I had moved on about 74, must have happened in the second half of the 70s .
pyewacket947v:
malmic:
One of Mr Hare’s trucks wasnt so lucky in the 70’s .He ran out of brakes coming down Buxton Hill and used a six wheeler carrying tarmac as a backstop both lorries turned over spreading stone and tarmac all over the market place,fortunately it was a Wednesday and not to many people about so noone was seriously injured.Was that one of his Scania’s.? I had moved on about 74, must have happened in the second half of the 70s .
Yes Scania artic good looking lorry but the burnt lime they loaded in those days didn’t improve the bodywork.
Punchy Dan:
rigsby:
Any of you old enough to remember sam long son’s spreader losing his brakes down fenny bentley ? He ran into the back to a milk lorry loaded with churns and mounted it before rolling on his side . Not a good mix , milk and quicklime . That would be about 1966 or 7 Luckily the milk lorry rolled forward so i was able to slalom between them as both drivers were stood scratching their heads and surveying the wreckage. daveThat milk Lorry I am sure was my grandad .
i wonder if it was dan , i didn’t have time to look too long , i was driving a lad cabbed albion chiefton and i was getting a bit short on stopping power , just slalomed between them and as they were both obviously ok i carried on . Made a mess of the milk lorry , it ended up with a beaver tail . dave
