robroy:
Toddy2:
CJA1:
Numbum:
You can add your own ending to this. .I remember regularly going past Neales yard & thought how smart the line up of Yellow Marathon’s was !!
Shame about the checked trousers eh??
Hate to admit it but I had a pair just like them in 70s,…there I’ve said it with a cream leather bomber jacket, and shades, thought I looked cool 
, looking back looked a complete 2at 
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What’s Roger Daltrey doing on here then■■?
Regards Jim
Hi Jim you hate to admit havin a pair of trousers like that,well mate i still got mine and loud check is coming back into fashion this year so may get to where them again.First i will check ( pardon the pun ) with the threads fashion guru Mr TIR Tone to see if that is ok cheers Buzzzer
Buzzer:
Hi Jim you hate to admit havin a pair of trousers like that,well mate i still got mine and loud check is coming back into fashion this year so may get to where them again.First i will check ( pardon the pun ) with the threads fashion guru Mr TIR Tone to see if that is ok cheers Buzzzer
Loud Buzzer!!!..positively deafening mate!!
David
windrush:
Toddy2:
Rob Campbell:
Thanks Marcus I think that was the first B Series they bought straight from the Motor Show in 1974/6 ■■? I’m not sure. Heres a few from that classic livery to keep things goingThat is some bumper on the KM - reckon that pushes better than it pulls !!
That will have Detriot Diesel power, they had the deep bumpers fitted.
Hiya i think when that Bedford was sold a chap in the potteries needed a unit really urgent
that Bedford had some test and a little tax left on it… next minute it was off to the desert
with a tilt behind it.more than one trip was done with it aswell.
john
Buzzer:
Hi Jim you hate to admit havin a pair of trousers like that,well mate i still got mine and loud check is coming back into fashion this year so may get to where them again.First i will check ( pardon the pun ) with the threads fashion guru Mr TIR Tone to see if that is ok cheers Buzzzer
Hi John,
Don’t ask Tone he’ll get you to make them into shorts ! 
and you know how he likes large cheques (checks) !! 
Regards
Richard
Hi again,heres a few more cuttings,I wonder if the last shot will produce some comments 
,Cheers Bubbs,
robroy:
Toddy2:
CJA1:
Numbum:
You can add your own ending to this. .I remember regularly going past Neales yard & thought how smart the line up of Yellow Marathon’s was !!
Shame about the checked trousers eh??
What was the final ending for RJB Neale. It came around 1977, were they taken into the Ford Fleet, are they still there?
I found where they came from as he applied to BRS and in 1955 bought 5 vehicles.
LONDON AND HOME COUNTIES Five lorries (13 tons 1 cwt.) and four trailers, have been made over to R. J. B. Neale (Transport), Ltd., Rainham Road South, Dagenham, by Mr. R. J. B. Neale, of the same address.
I admit to having a pair no as big checks and not as light a colour as the picture but when my then small son and daughter started calling me RUPERT BEAR they had to go.!!!. The trousers had to go I mean. Eddie.
Hi Marc a couple more from me.
These were given to me earlier this week by a chap who stores buses in the yard.
You posted a picture of a Renault tipper the other day Bubbs and I thought the number was familiar. I have photographed it’s twin. I think they were out of a batch of demonstrators.
Hi again,nice pics Pat…well done mate and Truckfing well spotted with the Renault,heres todays stuff,Cheers Bubbs,
Cheers Phil
Great shot of the A6 Shap Fell Phil,I wonder what the story is of the Seddon which seems to be “on test” so I would hazzard a guess that the date is around 1967/8.I would also guess that it would be RR engined tractor as a 180LXB would never be able to storm up the Fell like it appears to be doing ! Great shot all the same ! Cheers Bewick.
great shot of him putting everyones life in danger on a notorious stretch of road. The driver heading down the hill must’ve been really chuffed with him.
good picture all the same
Hi All,
I was one of those undertakers, think that suited us you were right if we turned up it was a sign that companies were going out of business. But we all enjoyed our work and it was,nt all about shutting firms we used to carry out some good jobs here and abroad.
Snozzle666
The Seddon on Shap photo, is on the Commercial Motors website archive section. Also, it was published in the June 2011 Classic & Vintage Commercials, page 28. I think it was Sept 66. It was on the standard test route for many manufacturers in those days. Certainly a risky overtake, pushing the Comet into the small layby on the ‘down’ side. There must have been quite a few more pics of that run, taken by the magazine photographers.
Actually, comparing it to the pic in CVC, it is taken a second later, as the Comet is nearer to the Seddon than it is in CVC. Perhaps they are stills from a cine film.
truckfing:
Not sure but I think Smiths of Gloucester bought this.
The Seddon was maybe following yin o Charlie Alexanders that was a favourite spot for them to take two or three as it widened out and there was room to get past. Eddie.
fryingpan:
The Seddon on Shap photo, is on the Commercial Motors website archive section. Also, it was published in the June 2011 Classic & Vintage Commercials, page 28. I think it was Sept 66. It was on the standard test route for many manufacturers in those days. Certainly a risky overtake, pushing the Comet into the small layby on the ‘down’ side. There must have been quite a few more pics of that run, taken by the magazine photographers.Actually, comparing it to the pic in CVC, it is taken a second later, as the Comet is nearer to the Seddon than it is in CVC. Perhaps they are stills from a cine film.
After the A6 was widened in the early 60’s it was indeed wide enough to do what the Seddon was doing! Plus everything was crawling both up and down at the same time and those two motors on the southbound side were not being "pushed " into the small laybye as that was around the next curve.And nearer the top the road widened even more into a full 3 lanes,anyhow it was no fun sat behind a crawling snail of a Scammell doing about 2 MPH when you were at the wheel of a motor that would be able to climb Shap at 10/15 MPH,would it ? Cheers Bewick.
truckfing:
You posted a picture of a Renault tipper the other day Bubbs and I thought the number was familiar. I have photographed it’s twin. I think they were out of a batch of demonstrators.
Not an eight legger,but looks like another demonstrator by the reg.
Cheers Dave.
