Hi Bubbs Thought it was about time I put some bits on your wonderful thread
I remember taking these photos during the early 80’s, but cannot remember exactly when. The pics appeared in T & D, so if anyone knows the date, I’d be grateful to know. Thanks
The Belgium tipper went over in the Clarkes shoe factory in Street (? I think). I was there tipping a load from Italy. The box went up halfway, then all of a sudden it just creaked and groaned and keeled over!!! Suspected “sticky” load!!
I used to see the old Merc on my regular trips to Italy, usually around Macon. I remember seeing it coming towards me one night with all but 1 of the 21 spotlamps full on ! Suspect VOSA would have loved this one
Can’t believe how you’ve kept the quality up on this thread Bubbs - all 100+ pages.
Thanks again for all the pleasure you’ve given me (and no doubt many others), memory lane indeed.
great pictures marcus,the united transport tanker made my day,the driver on the left is mi old mate geoff wilkinson from pudsey west yorks,a great fella sadly died about 10 years since.
Hello again,Nice to hear from McD ,been a long time mate,also MooMoo giving undeserved praise…the box will empty one day mate and finally to BIGGEE…pleased to put on a pic to revive memories of a departed workmate
Volvos today.
The last one does have an F10 on it and although the Radclive drawbar has been on before the writing is different
center buffalo belonged to j haywards walsall,they were on the wolverhampton steel terminal in horseley fields.the f10 could also be haywards or highfield haulage from bilston
Hi Marc the picture of the P & O roadways going to Rotterdam driver accompanied and offloading in Rotterdam for forward shipping used to be a regular thing in the 60s and 70s as we did quite a lot of it at Pickfords it was real hard work but they said it was better than the loads being handled too many times. Some loads were loaded directly on to a barge for eastern Europe so you never went out of the docks with them only to go and have some time sight seeing and shopping it was a hard life having to jobs like that. Keep the pictures coming as it is one of the best threads on here and always a joy to read.
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
Hi Marc the picture of the P & O roadways going to Rotterdam driver accompanied and offloading in Rotterdam for forward shipping used to be a regular thing in the 60s and 70s as we did quite a lot of it at Pickfords it was real hard work but they said it was better than the loads being handled too many times. Some loads were loaded directly on to a barge for eastern Europe so you never went out of the docks with them only to go and have some time sight seeing and shopping it was a hard life having to jobs like that. Keep the pictures coming as it is one of the best threads on here and always a joy to read.
cheers Johnnie
Our first foray into international bulk liquids was like that. On the dock on Sunday afternoon, ship to Europoort, drive to Botlek on Monday morning load and back in the bar before 10am . Back on the ferry that evening and tip in Hull the next day before doing it all again. It was always golden balls work and I upset several of my drivers when I decided I could load them for the South and make them drive to Dover
Hiya…Bubbs your going to get us shot. Earlier on this page when you said about the Fodens and starting a scrapyard theme.
I know many of us can still learn from each other. well the Fodens that look wrecks are a collection of Rob Young who lives a
few miles from Reading. Most of his collection have come out of Rush Green and have had connections with his family driving
a particular lorry.At the moment he is restoring a ex Hovis 8 legger whats had a new cab made at a great expence.
The Marson valley brick lorry, Robs uncle drove that lorry.All very intresting.he has a dark green IICR DG4 which he takes to
Gaydon
Cheers John
Hi John,
I went to the show on Sunday and saw your truck, but I never managed to track you down. I spent hours looking at motors there, my feet were killing me for 2 days!
The picture of the morris commercial from the late forties or maybe the early fifties (DPR799) is very similiar to one my dad used to drive when I was very very young.He worked for the whitwick granite company coalville leicestershire in the early 50 s driving an 8 wheeler maudsley badged AEC mammoth major tipper.One day while servicing it the body came down and trapped his arm…of course these old motors didnt have powered steering my dad wasnt strong enough to drive it for a while.He was put on one of the small morris commercials similiar to the one in the photo…whitwick had several I cant remember how many carried about 6 ton I think.They were sold off eventually to parkin and jones who were a contractor at the whitwick quarry at the time.I still remember the suicide doors.
There are quite a few tales about the history of LGK 3D Scania Vabis LB76 and I am sure there will be more in the future, my father (the first operator) founder of Rounds Transport (Netherton) Limited, is still going strong and can tell you about every nut and bolt on her. Should anyone be interested then I can attempt to give any info about the truck as I also grew up with this old girl. http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/gallery/image.php?album_id=267&image_id=980
Trev_H:
Hi John,
I went to the show on Sunday and saw your truck, but I never managed to track you down. I spent hours looking at motors there, my feet were killing me for 2 days!
Sod…sorry i missed you Trev as you know with people walking around its easy to miss one another.Monday was not as good but it was nice to get out.
I bet you saw our motorhomes they was by the kids slide you should have knocked to get a cuppa.
John.
Hello lads,great pics John,thanks for sharing them and posting them on the scrapbook,good info on the scrap Fodens too,A big thanks to Chrisround for posting the pic of the Vabis…please more info/pics…my favorite model of Scania
Hi Marc that Foden is the one where you had to change the gear ratio on the the drive axle hub a higher ratio for running light and the lower ratio for loaded no push buttons then or remote control ha ha you can just make it out on the hubs
chrisround:
There are quite a few tales about the history of LGK 3D Scania Vabis LB76 and I am sure there will be more in the future, my father (the first operator) founder of Rounds Transport (Netherton) Limited, is still going strong and can tell you about every nut and bolt on her. Should anyone be interested then I can attempt to give any info about the truck as I also grew up with this old girl. http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/gallery/image.php?album_id=267&image_id=980
Hi Chris,
I can remember working on it in about 1969 at the Scania agents B+W motors in Wolverhampton, I think it came in to get the dynamo changed to an alternator, it was the only one fitted with a dynamo (a big beast too !) and slightly different spec engine, all later ones came with the alternator standard.
I also worked on the one in the top picture RDA 106F at Weston park (now Birds) it was new to Stokes and Downing, steel hauliers and driven by Geoff Stokes himself.
chrisround:
There are quite a few tales about the history of LGK 3D Scania Vabis LB76 and I am sure there will be more in the future, my father (the first operator) founder of Rounds Transport (Netherton) Limited, is still going strong and can tell you about every nut and bolt on her. Should anyone be interested then I can attempt to give any info about the truck as I also grew up with this old girl. http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/gallery/image.php?album_id=267&image_id=980
Hi Chris,
I can remember working on it in about 1969 at the Scania agents B+W motors in Wolverhampton, I think it came in to get the dynamo changed to an alternator, it was the only one fitted with a dynamo (a big beast too !) and slightly different spec engine, all later ones came with the alternator standard.
I also worked on the one in the top picture RDA 106F at Weston park (now Birds) it was new to Stokes and Downing, steel hauliers and driven by Geoff Stokes himself
Hiya chrisround …welcome aboard T N…I remember your dads lorries and ran with them in the 70s on the usual work plate/coils/billets timber and all.
you must have plenty of photo’s to share with us. i’ll look forward to seeing some of them.Was it your yard on the right before going over a canal bridge traveling away from Dudley??.
John
Thought it was about time I put some bits on your wonderful thread 
and although the Radclive drawbar has been on before the writing is different 
. Back on the ferry that evening and tip in Hull the next day before doing it all again. It was always golden balls work and I upset several of my drivers when I decided I could load them for the South and make them drive to Dover 
