I think you have got it spot on Marc. I think a lot on here are like me, we can remember back as kids going with our dad’s in older motors but can’t remember too much detail. Now the 60’s through to the 90’s we were driving or seeing these wagons every day so they are so much part of our lives. If it wasn’t for chaps like you who had the forsight to collect these things we would all be the much poorer for it. I thank you : arise Sir Bubbs!! 
I’ve just come across this ad in a 1962 Commercial Motor, made from an LAD Dodge cab, I can’t ever remember seeing one in real life.
IT’S ENOUGH TO GIVE A KID NIGHTMARES !
And a remider of what 2nd hand lorries cost back in1962.
Hello…hey we’re all singing from the same songsheet then,great stuff…I’ll carry on with the oldies for now but will chuck in newer stuff occasionally to keep the young 'uns interested. Good stuff from Tipit,the classified section took half of a Commercial Motor up,interesting but in my case they went into the bin 
Ok lets go. 
Just imagine driving all through the night to get to the docks to find a bleeding great queue like this in front of you 
Cheers Bubbs. 
Hello Bubbleman,nice picture of Coward’s Scania Vabis,brings back good memories of the 1960’s in the yard at Crow Lane Romford.
My dad has got a picture of me standing in front of this lorry when it was new, & photos of others that were in the fleet of nicely painted dark blue lorries.he worked for them first as a driver then as yard foreman, Bernard Bradfield, A.K.A. EL CID,(older brother of Tony Bradfield).
I still see George Coward,as he now lives at Newmarket,not too far away from me at Mildenhall.His brother, Vickie has got some wharehouses at Felixstowe,both of them getting on a bit now.
Dad used to do mostly UK work but when they started to do continental work he went onto that for them.
Regards Will.
Hi everybody,glad the old Scania-Vabis pic brought back childhood memores Will,perhaps you can put those pics you have on here and share them with us all.
Ok,another mixture.
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hi please keep the old stuff coming its great that you have saved what you have as a kid in the 50 s went all over central and southern england with my dad and never photographed anything what you are doing is fantastic
Hi Marc,
Once again many thanks for all the great stuff you keep putting on this fantastic forum, that Whitbread Dennis driver was hanging the job out,most of the guys I know who shipped Portsmouth - Le Havre would have tipped and reloaded Milan and be back on the boat before he got to Milan !! 
I hope you like the attached pic of the LB76 and tilt and hope it floats your boat
Kind Regards Richard
MaggieD… .Oh yeah!!!
Thanks Bubbs.
Well all I can say is that I drove a Dennis on general haulage work in the UK only, so anyone who was brave enough and tough enough to take one to Milan deserves some credit and although the cabs where actually very spacious, for a day cab, they were very basic and noisy and that is really a bit of an understatement but they were very light and pretty reliable and were good earners. Don’t think I would have relished taking one down to Milan though 
Regards
Dave Penn;
Hi again,I’ve gotta agree with Dave about the Dennis,I occasionally take out a preserved one and yes its an eye opener,I took it on “the great north run” twice and although it didn’t miss a beat I was knackered at the end. 
ERFs for a change.
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs.
hiya, marc always a fan of the ERFs nice to see so many different models, if i’d ever gone down the road of driver ownership they would have been the motor for me, drove miles in them and the only breakdown was a clutch pedal snapped off and having a DB box drove home without incident about 150 miles but was empty and not many traffic lights or halt signs to contend with, helluva driver eh, always found them totally reliable. thanks harry long retired.
bubbleman:
Meanwhile, up the road in Lancashire…
bubbleman:
Hi again,I’ve gotta agree with Dave about the Dennis,I occasionally take out a preserved one and yes its an eye opener,I took it on “the great north run” twice and although it didn’t miss a beat I was knackered at the end.
I haven’t done the North of England Run since 1999 (I did every one before that, including the first year from Brotherton when there were only about 12 of us), and I vaguely remember seeing a Dennis in the late 90s - would that have been you?
My last one was only a part trip - I took a 1934 Leyland Beaver from Preston, over Shap to Penrith, and then turned round and drove home again. Fabulous afternoon out 
Hi 240,heres the Dennis I took on the Great North run,pctured is my good pal Ian Davis who owned it,I could write a book about the tricks me and that old bugger got up to,sadly he’s in the great transport cafe in the sky now. 
And heres my bubble at the top of Shap having a puff on a different North run.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hi Marc, just out of curiousity what type of Perkins engine does that N reg Dennis have in it 
The company I worked for ran about 10 of them ranging from H, J & K reg and all but the K reg one had the basic 6354 engine but the K reg one had a Turbo fitted Never gave it much thought at the time as the only difference seemed to be in the way the engine cover was designed. I can’t say I ever got to drive this ‘Turbo’ motor as it was allocated to one driver with a particular colour of eyes who did the same work as everyone else but very rarely had a night out with the rest of the lads
I do believe it was a bit of a flying machine (70mph + fully loaded) but as you have driven one you will appreciate how scary that might have been
Regards
Dave Penn;
bubbleman:
Hi 240,heres the Dennis I took on the Great North run,pctured is my good pal Ian Davis who owned it,I could write a book about the tricks me and that old bugger got up to,sadly he’s in the great transport cafe in the sky now.And heres my bubble at the top of Shap having a puff on a different North run.
Cheers Bubbs.
thanks for those, Marc
I certainly recognise that Dennis - I think it may have come on some of the later runs that I did. I don’t think I’ve met your F86 in the flesh, though.
Here’s one of my photos from a North of England Run, although this is by Devil’s Bridge at Kirkby Lonsdale. About 15T of concrete test weights under the sheet, by the way!
P.S. I didn’t bend the “No Entry” sign - it really was like that when I got there!!
davepenn54:
Hi Marc, just out of curiousity what type of Perkins engine does that N reg Dennis have in it
I do believe it was a bit of a flying machine (70mph + fully loaded) but as you have driven one you will appreciate how scary that might have been
Regards
Dave Penn;
Dave , you could get a 6354 with a turbo fitted, we had them in some K series Dodges and they were flyers.
Hello once more,Dave…Ians Dennis has a 6.354 in it,no turbo but has a 2 speed axle…4th high is the same as 5th low though,D/dog is dead right ,my pal had a Dodge fitted with a turbocharged 6.354 and that didn’t half march on…as Dave said a Dennis at speed is not a pleasent experience,nice pic of the Viewline 240,Isee you parked at the end of the lay-by so you’d be last at the tea van and your tea would have been got in.
Dennis’s today then.
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs.
bubbleman:
nice pic of the Viewline 240,Isee you parked at the end of the lay-by so you’d be last at the tea van and your tea would have been got in.
They’re not all daft as slaver…
(better understood in Lancs/Yorks!)
hiya, well bubbs i bet i could have got a bit of a wobble on with the dennis pulling the tanker with the four in line set-up. thanks harry long retired.