Yep Harry,imagine trying to keep that on the road with the slop as well.!! 
Bubbs. 
Hi Mark please keep posting the older stuff-some of us can remember driving them 
. When I saw the pic of that Dennis going to Milan I immediately thought of Ian Davis’s I remember it and him well (although I did not know he was no longer with us) I know his son as well so do I know you? I worked out of Fisons on the moors for a time. I remember driving a couple of Dennis tippers on demo the ■■■■ things were bouncing standing still, 16 ton Seddon tippers were the same, I drove one (Seddon) at a firm I worked for in 68 because the driver was of with a bad leg, I discovered that the seat adjuster had made a hole in the back of his leg from the bouncing, when it started to do the same to mine I soon cut it off, (the adjuster) when he came back to work he complained he could not adjust the seat I asked him how many times a day he needed to do that? Every time I saw him afterwards he moaned about that bloody adjuster 
I was going to ask whose name was on your bubble now you have shown, it well done. Have you seen the one I posted on the Astran thread of Johnny Robbins (Robbo) used on M/E did you know him?
The first truck I drove in 67 was a new TK MYB829E (jack the lad or what) then various Bedfords Commers Dodges etc until I bought my first truck in 69 a Dodge tipper (X George Eagles -Nunney) Reg DYA 455C. After that :-
Guy Big J 6x2 Lwv 637f x Ray Hiscox-------Guy Big J6x2 Bhy35Jnew------Seddon tipper------ Bedford KM Lad 248E----- 2 Scammell 8x2 x Chippenham------ Commer Maxiload tipper------Leyland Retriever 6x4 tipper -----Atki Borderer Lya 195E x Foster-Yeomans (sold to Hitchens of Hayle it was modeled and shown at truck shows for many years) Guy Big J unit Pax 23F x Abergavenny----- Guy Big J unit Ohu 222F x Jack Light---- Scammell Crusader Oyb 297L x Candy’s (Chipping Sodbury?) ------Ford Transcon Uyb 525R new----- KW Ohw 216Y new----- Foden S 504 Wtu x Foden demo. I think I have missed some!
I was hoping to see one or two in your pics but I suppose I/they never made it into print. Sorry to be putting boring text on your excellant thread but it’s your fault you keep jogging memories! 
(Needs a lot of jogging these days)
Gavin
Hi again,first to reply to Gavin,we have met…once,I was with Clive,Ians lad…cant remember where but I think you both had a mutual moan about rates,wagons,vosa…etc,also I ran into John Robbins again once and that was in Bill Sweetings yard,Ithink he had a MAN then.Youve had quite a selection of motors over the years,sadly the only one of yours I’ve a pic of is the KW. 
DAFs today.
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Marc.
Fascinating, absolutely fascinating.
Sorry to buck the trend though, 80s for me please.
2 reasons, as a model maker I want to see colour, liveries please.
And two, I wasn’t around in the 60s 
Cheers bubbleman, used to enjoy driving DAFS.
Hello again,Right to keep things on an even keel here are some 80s pics.As Lonewolf requested in another thread for pics of Pulleyns and Lloyds pics for modeling perhaps these cuttings might help…
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hi me once more,Hey Gavin,Clive rang me and reminded me that we met when we were working on his 113 Scania at Godwins and you offered him some work 
Right some oldies for the oldies.
I’m no expert on Leylands,but looking at the last pic didn’t Comets/Super Comets with L.A.D cabs come with a short door and Badgers and Beavers got the long door cab…anyone know the right answer.
Cheers Bubbs.
I spent alot of time in Comets and Super Comets with my Dad and they all had short doors, as you say Badgers and Beavers had long doors so did Albions, Dodges also had short doors.
Hi Marc, ‘The Scrapbook Memories’ thread is the first thing I look at everyday and today we get 2 update’s 
Quality stuff as always from every decade.
I’ve been meaning to post a response to the pics of the T.Walls & Sons (Sausages & Pies) Commer & AEC from a few pages back. My Dad (RIP) worked for them at their Hyde factory as a night supply driver from about 1960 - 1972 and I shunted a few of those Commer vans around when I was tall enough to reach the pedals 
The job entailed delivering to outbased sales depots and each driver usually had a regular night run to restock the local salesmen’s delivery vans and needless to say our fridge at home was always full of Bacon, Sausages, Ham & Pies and sometimes good old Black Pudding 
My old man was also a very good salesman but worked more on the wholesale side of things rather than the retail and eventually him and T.Walls & Sons parted company when he finished his shift early one morning and the security staff found around 50 packets of bacon that hadn’t ended up on the salesmen’s van’s that night but in my dad’s ‘butty box’
My old man was obviously an ‘old skool trucker’ and always had some fiddle going on somewhere His next driving job, after a stint with a local BRS depot, was with Robertson’s Jam of Droylsden and guess what our garage was full of every kind of jam and Xmas pudding you could think of, he even used to give a drop to the local ‘Bobby’ and it actually got me off a parking without lights ticket one time because he knew my old man
He was still doing a split shift trunk from Plymouth/Bristol/Plymouth when he was 70 on the Boots contract but I think the only ‘fiddle’ he had on that was a drop of diesel everyday so don’t think he was able to become Devon’s biggest prescription drug dealer on that job
He passed away over 2yrs ago aged 87 and I still miss him and the good and bad times we had together
Regards
Dave Penn;
Hi Mark Thanks for the reply. I remember speaking to Clive at that time, I had been asked to run a bit of a warehouse for a northern firm down here, unfortunately they had no intention of paying their bills 
I don’t think I would recognise you though
After Robbo gave up M/E he ran an Atki for a time then bought that MAN from I think Brian Heal unfortunately it being a V10 it could out-drink Robbo and that saying something
Keep up the good work Gavin
I’ve put this one on the BRS thread also.
hiya, dieseldog6 thats one depot i never used but the pics a cracker, just wondering why i never went in there it was my era, mustn’t have been low on diesel or the motor i was driving when in the vicinity was running ok or was standing ok for money. thanks harry long retired.
Hiya,Got to agree with Harry,D/dogs pic is a cracker…I loved the piece from Dave Penn…you must be as big as a house,to coin a phrase…who ate all the pies ,and finally to Gavin…the pic I’ve got of Robbo’s MAN is in Heals colours with the Nigel Pennycott signwritting/pictures etc.was never sure if the lorry was previously theirs.
Ok todays selection. 
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hello,Fodens today.
The last couple of pics may excite MacD
Cheers Bubbs.
Heheh…cheers Bubbs, I’m getting quite a nice wee collection now thanks to you
The bottom one is way beyond my time (and looks far too posh), but the big-eyed Fodens were just coming in as I was heading out (if you get my drift).
Love that Brooke Bond combo as well. Thanks again mate.
The Sellers and Kent 4 wheeler, JBF 125, was still working from Ballidon Quarry near Ashbourne in the late '70’s. It had the 4 cylinder two stroke engine and was driven by Ralph Shipley (I think). I recall a tale that one of its first loads was loose lime to a spreader near Banbury, it wasn’t a tipper so the lime would have been “banjoed” into the spreader by hand, and it had that much weight on that it was unable to crest Wormington Hill under its own power and had to tranship part of the load onto another wagon! I can’t recall what happened to it but I have a feeling that it went to Foden’s museum but that may be incorrect. Good pcs though Bubbs, and lots of memories for me!
Pete.
windrush:
The Sellers and Kent 4 wheeler, JBF 125, was still working from Ballidon Quarry near Ashbourne in the late '70’s. It had the 4 cylinder two stroke engine and was driven by Ralph Shipley (I think).
Pete.
It was still working in the mid '80’s let alone late ‘70’s. The driver had it from new and the S18 retired the same day that he did. I,m not sure what became of it, I know it hung around in Sellers’ yard a while after coming off the road. The legend was that Sellers was going to let the driver keep it on retirement but alas it didn’t happen.
You have jogged my memory now Limey! I remember them retiring, it was probably one of the only new trucks that they had as a lot were ex Tilcon (who I worked for) etc. Bob Sellers was around my area last year assisting a lad who broke a half shaft on the steep hill in Matlock while trying to restart 44 tons with a single drive axle, he still looked well!
I would have liked the truck for a retirement present myself, though if I had sat in it for 30 years I may have had different thoughts!!
Pete.
hiya, after being lumbered with that thing for all those years and it being my retirement gift i’d have sneaked out the back gate, he didn’t get it so maybe he did, thanks harry long retired.
The old girl’d be worth a bit more than a carriage clock today though eh Harry.