Scrapbook Memories (Part 1)

Rather unfortunate name :open_mouth:

is that tk not a km :exclamation: :exclamation:

r slicker:
is that tk not a km :exclamation: :exclamation:

Don’t think it’s a KM with those head lights and that bumper. Take a look at the Hall & Co KM a few posts above.

Wheel Nut:

TIPIT:
You must have saved stuff from every C M they printed Bubbs to find that one of Arden Quarries, I’ve been asking around for one of theirs for ages.
Would it be okay with you if I pinch a copy of it to add to my Peak District thread.
And that body on the little TK, wouldn’t look out of place on one of Fodens Dumpers. :sunglasses: :laughing:

And here was me thinking it was only Hoveringham used those ribbed bodies :stuck_out_tongue:

I reckon the front axle on the TK would be overloaded with that peak

Better have that over the cab,than a piece of rock hitting you on the nut,wheelnut. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

that will teach me to read it correct :blush:

thats what i was on about. i misread the post about the peak on that tk and was looking at the hall&co km at the time. still at least i can tell the difference between a tk and a km. mind i am 48 and drove both makes lol.

Hi …Tipit,help yourself mate. :laughing:

Bubbs. :wink:

:smiley: I liked the pic of the Besblock coming out of the quarry as I had an idea like that in my mind for a model I am making. Thought it would have to be something of that nature to fit it in the space I have but didn’t think it would look too real. Seems it could be, anyone know where that is? :confused:

Hiya Bubbs few more to get up to 100 page mark.


2 from llandudno 09


2 from Smallwood 09


2 from D Day Normandy 09 We stopped off at the 65th Anniversary on our way to Le mans 24 hour and was well worth going to.

Astle park 07



The Albion/leylands was still working in Lusaka Zambia 09. Most Zambia photos i took as we drove as the people I was with did’nt have much intrest in trucks.
John

Me again have a close look at the wheel nuts on Mr Chasimba’s truck. AND they also have gaffer tape(windscreen) in Zambia. I was doing some furniture removing with these guys and had shown them how to tie dollies I was a star.Can you pick out the Ex Brit truck driver leaning on the pickup.
See the lad under the tree making stones(thats what they do for hours every day)They buy a load of large rocks and smash them down into different
grades for sale.If you look past the lorries you can see many piles. Its a lot different sight where the Besblock Volvo is coming out of that crater.
John.

3300John:
Me again have a close look at the wheel nuts on Mr Chasimba’s truck. AND they also have gaffer tape(windscreen) in Zambia.

Is that the African method of downplating? Just chuck 6 nuts away :stuck_out_tongue:

Two more Is’nt the Commer a little gem.


John.

Hi again,nice selection of pics 3300John,thanks for sharing them with us…more of my bits then. :unamused:

Hope these are ok.

Cheers Bubbs. :wink:

Any idea of when the pic of the Townsend Atki @ Dover dates from ?

Hi once more,suedehead the atki pic came from the mid 60s,out of a copy of Commercial vehicles magazine.

OK heres todays pics. :confused:

Hope these are ok.

Cheers Bubbs. :wink:

bubbleman:

Wonder if the driver traversed ‘the Dumbers’ to and from Congleton with the ERF ? Would have needed nerves of steel if he did. It’s a worse road than the Cat ! :open_mouth:

Hope that demo / Leggetts driver wound the trailer legs up before he left Woolies yard :laughing:
Looks like Dorcan rdc - used to do the tyres when National Carriers had the contract

Hello again,heres another mixed bag. :laughing:

Hope these are ok.

Cheers Bubbs. :wink:

Caragen - the MAN operated by Nigel Deacon from Evesham, IIRC, he had a driving agency as well. I remember supplying that!

His dad ran the DAF space cab, he had the MAN

Ed

Hello again,heres some Leyland group today, :smiley:

Hope these are ok.

Cheers Bubbs. :wink:

A great picture from a great firm which had a large depot in Trafford Park.

I remember as a child living next to the A62 at Austerlands near Oldham in the 1960s as these huge transformers were transported over the Pennies via Delph, Standedge Cutting and Huddersfield before the building of the M62.
You could hear the rumble in the distance as they made their way up the steep hill out of Oldham with huge ques of traffic behind them.
One time one of these loads broke down at Austerlands half way up the long climb out of Waterhead and was there for two days as repairs were carried out to an axle on the trailer.
It is probably the most exciting thing that ever happened in the village as the Wynns crew were all camped out on the Red Lion public house car park.
They were a great set of blokes and one of them let me sit in the huge cab of one of the Pacific’s it was like being sat in our front room with the massive engine shoulder height down the centre of the cab and two shop front sized windscreens which could be opened to let some air in.

Pure nostalgia

I have now started a Wynns gallery on the Northwest Trucks web site

Regards Paul Anderson