Lovely, Bedfords. except the sleeper, Cheers.
I have a simple request. I need one of Alfred Bell and any information that comes with it, I reckon you are the man 
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hiya,
Marc nice to see the northeast BRS stuff but also worked for northwest BRS, bit of a mongrel really, thanks mate.
thanks harry long retired.
nice pictures again bubs, i have a request also. any pictures of the dodge artics that van leer of ellesmere port had?..
Bet those Northeast BRS artics were fun to drive in high winds !! 
lemonmouth:
240 Gardner:
lemonmouth:
Anyone know where an SA dealer isIn fact I’d buy half a dozen
What, you want half a dozen Krupp-cabbed Atkis??
No-one did in 1969…
Pay attention 240
Just the Badge
They’ve probably still got both in stock. 
Great wagons, great stories.
Hello again,a mixture today.
The final pic of a Freightliner Sec/Atk is for McD… 
Cheers Bubbs.
Just a final word about Johnny Hemelryk…
He must have done more than four years in the service of MAT at Barking, I started at MAT as a 16 year old in
1972 and he was there then and for a while afterwards.
I remember him well, and his motor, especially the brass plated engine parts - from memory the original
livery of the truck had "official MAT agent’ in a circle on the front where the Bowker logo is now.
As an inexperienced kid masquerading as a Traffic Clerk, I was scared stiff of him, he could be a bit blunt -
as my boss told me “ask him, don’t tell him, and it will get done”.
A great example of the many great characters I met in my years there.
K
hiya,
i’ll just refer to you as Mr K don’t care to call a person Knowall and i might get a belt on the nose and that would’nt be difficult in this day and age, yes John or gentleman John was my name for him could be a bit on the surly side but knew the job inside out once did his job for a week pre 1970s doing the MAT Barking job fairly sure it was a daily Barking, South Wales back to Barking, i think he had to reluctantly go into hospital for tests or something, and the job he did on a daily basis nearly killed me, i think all Bowkers wagons had the MAT logo in the livery, mine which was the same as Johns except mine had a bigger engine was certainly emblazoned with MAT.
thanks harry long retired.
Hello again,great pieces about old John and 47…keep it coming lads,sod the crap I’m putting up
ERFs today.
Hope these are ok
Cheers Marc.
Another tidy selection of class British moters Marc.
Cheers Dave.
Can I make a request for FL10s, al angles possible? Cheers.
The Buckley Tankers B-Series is a real blast from the past for me. The tank was made by UBH - a mile from where I grew up and the motor itself was almost identical to those being specced by Allied Mills at the time (who my Dad drove for), even down to the Hatcher illuminated roof signs with built-in sheet racks. In fact, I can remember Buckleys and Suttons collecting tanks from UBH with motors like this.
Ainscoughs at Burscough had several B-Series just like this on bag-work - when bags were still being sheeted down on flats rather than in Tautliners. The monochrome picture even resembles the AM livery. Great picture.
Hello again,Lonewolf requested some FL10s…heres a few then ok FL7s as well.
Hope these are of interest to everybody.
Cheers Bubbs.
Thanks for the Sed/Aki Bubbs - haven’t been online for a wee while, so that was a nice surprise.
MacD
Excellent, cheers for that. Great help with a modelling project!
Don’t recall ever seeing an FL12.
Lonewolf Yorks:
Excellent, cheers for that. Great help with a modelling project!Don’t recall ever seeing an FL12.
Limey:
lemonmouth:
240 Gardner:
lemonmouth:
Anyone know where an SA dealer isWhat, you want half a dozen Krupp-cabbed Atkis??
Pay attention 240
They’ve probably still got both in stock.
Oi!! Back to the other side where I can keep an eye on you!!
mushroomman:
Thanks Gardner 240 for taking the time to post that very interesting story about Johnny Hemelryk
If you have got any more like that I would to hear themRegards Steve.
Thanks for the comments about John - incidentally, his name lives on outside road transport too. Have a look at page 3 of this: hnboc.org.uk/download/award.pdf
To be honest, you could write a book about the man and his exploits. Here’s one of his earlier steeds, a Gardner 6LW-engined, single drive, AEC Mammoth Major, fitted with a 4-speed gearbox and high-speed coach diff, a combination that left it unable to manage Shap, fully-loaded, without a shove!
And this is the wagon that no.47 replaced:
It’s a Guy Invincible with a Gardner 6LW (102 bhp) and a Bowyer Brothers (later Boalloy) cab. Its mechanical bits were burnished even more than the Atki - in fact, he wasn’t at all impressed with the idea of having it replaced by the Atki, but he was very quickly impressed by the 180 horses versus 102!
The Guy was sold on to an owner-driver in Blackburn, Dennis Marsden, and later ended up as a shunter on Hartlepool Dock. One dark night, someone (presumably a disgruntled shunter!) amended that to being a shunter IN Hartlepool Dock!!
John always approved of its ending, likening it to burial at sea!!
Meanwhile, no.47 not only outlived all the other Atkinson Mk.1s on the revenue-earning fleet, but also all the Mk.2s and Borderers as well!
hiya,
240 was Denis Marsden a former Blackburn BRS driver who became an O/D if so i worked alongside him in that depot he’ll be in his 70s now.
thanks harry long retired.