I remember those trailers well that the Redland Marathon is pulling and nice to see one in print. Arrow Trailers were a Northeast company and these types were known as Targets, the main chassis frame being on the outside, they were heavy but very strong and needed a little extra room when cornering with the running gear being right at the rear. I don’t know if they were so common outside the Northeast but most drivers and fitters from the area will recall them. Not so popular with most as the hooks were right under the side frames and made roping a bit of a pain. Franky.
hiya,
Franky remember those trailers Glenndening’s had one forgot about having it on one day and clipped the wall going out of the yard knocked a coping stone off, old Archie knocked me half a weeks wage for my carelessness, would’nt get away with it now though won’t tell you how but got my own back big time, also got a new job straight away.
thanks harry long retired.
Wheel Nut:
bubbleman:
I wonder if this young 'un is still at the wheel,he’d be 49 now.
Cheers Bubbs.
Come on Peter, reveal yourself if you are reading this
He would be like a dog with two dicks getting a V10 with 320 hosses. I still would, even though it is a Merc
It wouldn’t surprise me if he was also a Mega Euro Lottery winner and is reading this from his Caribbean Island 
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Hi all. I’ve been trying to register on here for a fortnight, mainly to say THANK YOU BUBBLEMAN! I’m having to restrict myself to working through the thread at three pages a day, because I’m boring everybody around me with memories of the Westcountry firms and others I’ve come across. My father worked for Tone Vale Transport, Taunton Meat Haulage, Eurofrigo, Reed and Smith and eventually for AGC (the great Alan Coles) at Cullompton and all my memories are of 30, 40 and 50 years ago when almost all my family were in transport and there was no other conversation. I always read Motor Transport and Commercial motor - in fact I spotted a pic further up the thread of a TMH F88 that appeared in a Commercial Motor ad for either Volvo or Crane Fruehauf, and I can remember the day it was taken! The best times were the mid-60s, when father and his mates ventured abroad for the first time, using Merc 1418s. Somebody further up the thread said they looked tiny nowadays, and they do, but back then they were unimaginable luxury and power compared with the Leylands and Albions that went before.
The old man would never let me follow him into transport - I’m now an escaped journalist - but my son has an HGV1. What goes around comes around.
Ah well, back to browsing the pictures…
Hi again and a big welcome to intertype7…glad you’re enjoying the thread mate,
Another mixture then. 
The last cutting is from a mag printed in March 1979.
Cheers Bubbs. 
Frankydobo:
I remember those trailers well that the Redland Marathon is pulling and nice to see one in print. Arrow Trailers were a Northeast company and these types were known as Targets, the main chassis frame being on the outside, they were heavy but very strong and needed a little extra room when cornering with the running gear being right at the rear. I don’t know if they were so common outside the Northeast but most drivers and fitters from the area will recall them. Not so popular with most as the hooks were right under the side frames and made roping a bit of a pain. Franky.
I worked for Redland tsp in Poole for about 5yrs.Your right the trailers were strong and yes not popular when sheeting,but with the axles on the rear we knew where the thing was going,here’s a photo of one of my trucks,the other trucks were Mandators,but sadly I have no pics of these… 
wahey,good to see the Dalglish foden,my dad drove that or its sister vehicle,wondered if it would turn up on this thread.
brings back some happy memories trucking with my dad in the holidays.
Hi Bubbs.
Just to help out while your busy packing 
A bit of an odd mixture here lads, it looks like this first one must have skipped Harry’s sheeting classes.
Hello again,well done Tipit…they were great…dont worry all the cuttings are still out,they will be the last to be put away
Would you believe…another mixture.
Hope these are ok,back Sunday 
Cheers Bubbs.
bubbleman:
Hope these are ok,back Sunday
Cheers Bubbs.
Cheers Bubbs, look at the crap in those windows
The boss is sat in the ERF. Thanks.
I think it was at Wetherby or Pickering when we came second to Daysons in the fleet competition.
Hello there,another mixture today.
When viewed from this angle Dover doesnt look very big . 
Cheers Bubbs.
Hi Bubbs, That Scammell Highwayman tanker was built for carrying a very hazardous chemical Acrylonytrile as a low flash point like petrol,very poisonous fumes and absorsion through skin contact would kill you I carried it for a couple of years and you used a sealed loading system and and top discharge and you had to wear a special nytrile double skinned safety suit and BA.We took the contract on after a driver had put his suit in the cab after tipping at ISR Hythe and had the heater on he never made it to the main road as the fumes got him.
Hi,blimey sammyopisite,thats dodgey stuff mate what the hell does anybody need that chemical for?
Bubbs
bubbleman:
Hi,blimey sammyopisite,thats dodgey stuff mate what the hell does anybody need that chemical for?Bubbs
Hi Bubbs it is/was used in the synthetic rubber industry we went on special course and a doctor gave us some instructions as you had to have a first aid box with an antidote in which could only be administered by a doctor 
and then she asked some questions and one was what would you do if a lorry ran into the side of the tank and split it open me trying to be smart said run like hell and she said that was exactly what you should do if the liquid was pouring out. 
Hi again,ERFs today…
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hi Mr Bubbs, You are on it bright and early today! What a way to start our week, I can’t thank you enough. Say what you like, those motors do look the part ay, very worklike no nonsense machines, …or is it just me! I see one or two more there that I would like to share with peeps on other threads, just in case anyone is silly enough not to look in!
Hello again,another mixed bunch.
The last ones for Bert.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hello again,another mixture.
The first is Marwin transport in a spot of trouble,part of Carmens I think…bestbooties will know
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs.
bubbleman:
Hello there,another mixture today.
This one is of interest to me, It looks like the box is from Oxford but I don’t recall the firm’s name on the lorries. Anyone know where they were based? 
BigG-Unit:
bubbleman:
Hello there,another mixture today.
This one is of interest to me, It looks like the box is from Oxford but I don’t recall the firm’s name on the lorries. Anyone know where they were based?
Licence not continued WEF 07 June 2008
JOHN ROBERT BAIN T/A J & C BAIN HAULAGE
This was in A&D for the Eastern Traffic Area, any use?