Great pic of the ERF tipper - I’m guessing it was a homemade 6x2? Can you remember where you took it or is it a cutting? Bristol reg I believe…
THANKS BUBBS, a wagon I knew well. Would you mind if I repost it on the Lancaster hauliers thread?
The ERF was originally a 4x2 but in the early seventies the owner decided 4 wheelers were no good so he had three fitted with self steering Primrose axles. They steered going forwards but had to be locked in the straight position before reversing or they turned the wrong way. It was fitted with a 5LW and regularly returned 15mpg but it only had the one driver all it’s life. The other two conversions were this Dennis and a Dodge. All other 4 wheelers were sold. The reg is Lancashire, TC became Bristol later
Hello lads,Truckfing…please help yourself to the cutting…regarding the reg, TC (CTC 491J) on the ERF was a Lancashire one as you say and when the boundry changes occurred in 1974 TC became a Bristol one.Good shots of Febrys auction Paul…I went too …heres todays stuff.Cheers Bubbs,
You are driving me mad Bubbs. Kelmac were the owners of a quarry about ¼ mile behind the Dennis picture that I posted. I first knew it in the early 60s and they had virtually every model of post war Leyland rigid still running. The Octopus is from the take over by Powell Duffryn who updated everything. My dad worked there at the time and got an Albion Reiver with super single back tyres. Eventually it became Tarmac when there was an exchange of quarries between PD and Tarmac to tidy up areas where they had odd sites. Unfortunately I never took any pictures there but I carried hundreds of tons of stone and tarmac out of there. Keep up the good work.
This is the old transport yard at Sodbury. The Scania in the centre is the last tipper that the company bought for a long while( I believe they have bought some more recently…). Driven from new by Gordon ‘Slippery’ Evans. The Routeman was a ‘S’ reg, all the FL’s were OD’s lorries and the rear of the tanker at the back was a company owned truck for transfering filler dust between sites. IIRC it was an ‘R’ reg Reiver driven by Tony Crew…
Another view of the yard. A bit dull though, sorry! Same Routeman…OD owned FL’s and the Foden peeking out at the back. This was owned from new by Bob Mynott, driven only by him and was the only lorry he had as an OD. Fitted with a 265 Roller, it never missed a beat and sounded lovely She must have been about 16 years old when Bob retired…
Company owned Constructor in the middle. They had quite a few of these but they never seemed to be as popular as the Routemans
Up in the main quarry yard now. Left to right… L Cam and Sons Reiver - 17 tons payload at 24.400 gross! Company owned Mastiff driven by Roy White. OD owned FL7 - owned by Gary ‘Skinny’ Wheeler, a man with a fabulous sense of humour - the cb was always alive with him cracking jokes and generally taking the ■■■■ I think this is the lorry he had with a lift axle… At the back, a company owned Routeman going out the gate and, lastly, an unknown artic in for a collection, probably for the Oxford area so they can then load grain back down to Avonmouth or Cardiff…
Those pics bring back memories of missed school lessons, Paul. Go down the M4 to Sodbury, back the scenic route via Tetbury past the Bray loading shovel works.
I remember when a womans’ body was found in Sodbury quarry and the police traced all the drivers who’d been in there and took mouth swabs. I think this was around '95-96?
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Those pics bring back memories of missed school lessons, Paul. Go down the M4 to Sodbury, back the scenic route via Tetbury past the Bray loading shovel works.
I remember when a womans’ body was found in Sodbury quarry and the police traced all the drivers who’d been in there and took mouth swabs. I think this was around '95-96?
That was about the time, Nathan… All staff and drivers had DNA swabs taken - twas a strange feeling getting back into the quarry to be met by a burly policeman and be presented with a cotton wool bud
Strange story to go with the poor girl being found… There was no work because of snowfall so my boss at the time - like many others - told us to go home at lunchtime. We had a pair of dobermans at the time so I decided to take them out for a good long walk in the snow. I ended up on the stone stockpiles with them and I was lobbing snowballs for them to chase after and laughing because they couldn’t find them… Toby - the dog - suddenly picked up a scent and was off! He was getting very close to the edge of the face so I called and called but he wouldn’t come back so I had to go and fetch him - that was the end of our fun. I thought at the time that he had just caught the scent of a rabbit…
About a fortnight later, the poor girl’s body was found just over the edge of the face, where Toby had been… I told the police but it was only for information purposes - there was nothing anyone could have done for her. She had been killed in a little old caravan about half a mile away and then taken to the quarry to be dumped - he decided to chuck her over the edge thinking she wouldn’t be discovered in the lagoons below but her body got caught on a ledge. Louise Smith was her name. I hope he’s still rotting inside! Her poor parents never got over her death - obviously - and divorced not long after…
I tbink I’d started a job at Waitrose about the time that body was found, Paul. Hence why I didn’t go to Sodbury with Dad that day but remember Dad saying about all the lorries and machines being stood idle.
Hello again lads,great pics Dai…well done mate,I just looked on the index and the scrapbook is on Page 360 and so is the South Wales thread and there is just 2 replys difference in both threads…some useless info ,Cheers Bubbs,
…heres todays stuff.Cheers Bubbs, 
,Cheers Bubbs, 
