Hi Bubbs
Thomas Gravesons of Carnforth the skip company are they still operating or are they another one gone to the wall.
Hi Stanfield,really dont know if Gravesons are still going,I’m from the other end of the country mate so I’ve never seen any of their motors 
Bubbs. 
bubbleman:
Hello again,Pat…good stuff,here mate do you still break Scanias,if you do why not take a pic before it gets dismantled…imagine if you’d photoed everything thats come through the gates…Wow!!!,Stupot thanks for posting the Carters picHope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hi Marc
No I have not broken Scanias for years and yes I do wish I had taken a lot more pics, I had a reckon up and I think I probably broke over 500 Scanias from Vabis’s 80’s 81’s 82’s 92’s 93’s 110’s 111’s 112’s 113’s 140’s 141’s 142’s 143’s and a handfull of 4 Series, when there was a demand for 81 engines I would buy 6 at a time from a friend in Holland and have them broken up over there and bring them back in bits in a boxvan!
A Dutch 141 6X2 unit I broke
Ex Sayers 140 with a couple of 110s I think! What would they be worth now■■?
hiya,
Pat, MORE.
thanks harry long retired.
Graveson sold out to BFI many years ago, I think
Hiya… some old timers here lads the Commer and Albion are in Cypress. the pile of mixed are in Rush Green.
This little Merc i had for a couple of years its a 16 tonner with a four cylinder engine and only 8 stud wheels
that a bit diffrent from the maxi load Commers at 16 tons
John
Hiya… i’ve just remembered can you see the Brown Seddon 6 wheeler behind that Blue Commer that has been saved i’am not
certain where it is. someone in the Yorkshire area had it then it was in Holyhead but has moved again.always on a lowloader.
John
hiya…i saw this MAN on Heartshead services one day about 10 years ago. It run into Manchester area then back over towards Hull.
I think it picked a transformer up or similar. Alot on TN members will of seen it as it parked overnight on a layby nr the little house
on the prairie on the side of the M62
John
Hello boys,good stuff John…Cyprus is a great place to see old british motors…I’ve been twice and love the place. 
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs.
Here are some of my old ones for you Marc
Hi Pat,what a great selection,heres a question mate,the old 110 in your colours with “Satisfaction” on the grille looks like an old wrecker…is it one of your old units converted or one you got in…I’m just being nosey 
Cheers marc.
bubbleman:
Hi Pat,what a great selection,heres a question mate,the old 110 in your colours with “Satisfaction” on the grille looks like an old wrecker…is it one of your old units converted or one you got in…I’m just being nosey
Cheers marc.
Yes Marc it was an old daycab Scania 110 we fitted an cream old wind up Harvey Frost crane you can see the corner of it just above the passenger door handle, The bumper came off an old lhd 140 6X2 I bought off Forge Truck Centre on the A1 it was the only 140 I ever saw fitted with a splitter box!!!
A bit of trivia
one of thescanias looks like an old T Brady truck
Hi boys
ainacs:
bubbleman:
Hi Pat,what a great selection,heres a question mate,the old 110 in your colours with “Satisfaction” on the grille looks like an old wrecker…is it one of your old units converted or one you got in…I’m just being nosey
Cheers marc.
Yes Marc it was an old daycab Scania 110 we fitted an cream old wind up Harvey Frost crane you can see the corner of it just above the passenger door handle, The bumper came off an old lhd 140 6X2 I bought off Forge Truck Centre on the A1 it was the only 140 I ever saw fitted with a splitter box!!!
A bit of trivia
Pat, We brought a couple of V8s in the late 70s, engine with spliter boxes,which we fitted into 110s. I think they were imported from Holland.I don’t think they made any for the UK market.They had a longer spigot shaft to cope with the twin plate clutch of the V8. As you will know the top gear is on the end and when one off them started to jump out of gear we went to Scanias at Middlleton for a new one. they swore black was white that Scanias never made that combination untill we took them out side to look at it. They then got onto HQ and got a special order from Sweden.it arrived the next day hows that for service in the 70s.
Regards Keith.
dessert driver:
Hi boysainacs:
bubbleman:
Hi Pat,what a great selection,heres a question mate,the old 110 in your colours with “Satisfaction” on the grille looks like an old wrecker…is it one of your old units converted or one you got in…I’m just being nosey
Cheers marc.
Yes Marc it was an old daycab Scania 110 we fitted an cream old wind up Harvey Frost crane you can see the corner of it just above the passenger door handle, The bumper came off an old lhd 140 6X2 I bought off Forge Truck Centre on the A1 it was the only 140 I ever saw fitted with a splitter box!!!
A bit of trivia
Pat, We brought a couple of V8s in the late 70s, engine with spliter boxes,which we fitted into 110s. I think they were imported from Holland.I don’t think they made any for the UK market.They had a longer spigot shaft to cope with the twin plate clutch of the V8. As you will know the top gear is on the end and when one off them started to jump out of gear we went to Scanias at Middlleton for a new one. they swore black was white that Scanias never made that combination untill we took them out side to look at it. They then got onto HQ and got a special order from Sweden.it arrived the next day hows that for service in the 70s.
Regards Keith.
Hi Keith
I must admit that up to that time I had never seen a splitter box in a V8, I had asked the localish Scania dealer Unit Commercials at Salisbury and they said that the splitter box was not not up to the torque of the V8!!! All of my right hand drive early (Headlamps in the bumpers) 140s all had rangechanges.
I think they chaged the 110’s to a range on th ‘K’ plates 1971/2
Regards Pat
Mr. Bubbleman,
that pic with the Leyland tractor pulling the old ACCS open container on a flatbed trailer is A-class 
HomoFaber:
Mr. Bubbleman,
that pic with the Leyland tractor pulling the old ACCS open container on a flatbed trailer is A-class
It’s a Lancashire flat, loaded with hessian-wrapped carcasses. It looks like it’s being unloaded, which suggests to me that it’s Irish pork.
The Badger belonged to Hipwood & Grundy from Farnworth.
HomoFaber:
Mr. Bubbleman,
that pic with the Leyland tractor pulling the old ACCS open container on a flatbed trailer is A-class
You can also see that picture here northwesttrucks.fotopic.net/p59308573.html on the Northwest Trucks web site
The tractor unit is a Leyland Badger from 1964.
Regards Paul Northwest Trucks
moomooland:
HomoFaber:
Mr. Bubbleman,
that pic with the Leyland tractor pulling the old ACCS open container on a flatbed trailer is A-classYou can also see that picture here northwesttrucks.fotopic.net/p59308573.html on the Northwest Trucks web site
The tractor unit is a Leyland Badger from 1964.
Regards Paul Northwest Trucks
Wasn’t a bad guess then…
Hi again,thanks again to Pat for sharing his pics and the info on the wrecker…Volvos today lads.
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs.