trunkera1:
hi bubbs,showed the piccy of cullimores foden mixer to my friend,hes a cullimore spotter!! as you probably know ,they are all named after Charles dickens characters,so a bit more interesting than girls names! …chris
Hi Chris,
Tell your freind if he doesn’t already know,that if he looks on Cullimores website,they have loads of pics of their lorries going back to the 60’s and further.
Cheers Dave.
hi dave,i think he knows about the web site,also if anyone is interested,there is a good history with photos and fleet list from the 70/80s ,with names,in Bob Tucks book,Classic hauliers 1…chris
Got that book Chris,as you say a good book.Have a few transport books,will have to take a look at them,haven’t looked for a few years.
Cheers Dave.
trunkera1:
hi bubbs,showed the piccy of cullimores foden mixer to my friend,hes a cullimore spotter!! as you probably know ,they are all named after Charles dickens characters,so a bit more interesting than girls names! …chris
Hi Chris,
Tell your freind if he doesn’t already know,that if he looks on Cullimores website,they have loads of pics of their lorries going back to the 60’s and further.
Cheers Dave.
hi dave,i think he knows about the web site,also if anyone is interested,there is a good history with photos and fleet list from the 70/80s ,with names,in Bob Tucks book,Classic hauliers 1…chris
Got that book Chris,as you say a good book.Have a few transport books,will have to take a look at them,haven’t looked for a few years.
Cheers Dave.
hi dave,talking of old transport books,have you looked on amazon and seen the prices!!! …thing i will hang on to mine to help with the pension!! …chris
Dieseldogsix:
3300 John… I was just thinking the same thing, also, was the wheelbase shorter on the Steer compared to the AEC Mammoth Minor?
It’s essentially a Freightline Beaver with a second steer. Either Bulwark or Ancliff ran one I think (there’s a picture of it coupled up to a tank trailer floating around t’internet somewhere) and I seem to recall that the fuel tank was at the back of the cab due to the lack of space between the drive axle and the second steer. It was significantly shorter than the Mammoth Minor.
[EDIT] Just looked again at the show pic and there’s the fuel tank across the back of the cab. I wonder how many fuel stops that made per journey when it was in service…
The Leyland Freightline Steers had a wheelbase of 10ft compared to the 12ft 2 1/2ins of the Mammoth Minor, they also had lightweight front axles with 900.20 tyres and 10.00. 20’s on the rear. I have pics of Steers showing one to be in Bulwarks colours and the other all White including the triaxle tank trailer but close inspection shows the fleet number 917 to be the same, strange that the liveried Steer has no number plate yet the White Steer (presumed to be in its unpainted stage) has the reg GHR 755D!
One book also claims there were only threeSteers built but Leyland also exported a few longer wheelbase Steer’s to New Zealand with standard wheels all round and a Six speed with deep crawler manual box of 10 ratios as opposed to the Two Pedal semi-auto box in Britain, both having the P.680 engine.
These were built from 1966 and the one in the pic above has 1967 on the plate from the 67 motor show but as we know by 1968 the C&U Regs changed and 40 Footers came into use which meant three axle units were no longer required to achieve max weight 32 ton with 33ft Trailers and only the Tanker company’s really bought them as it suited their purposes and the stability was better. Hope this enlightens, Franky.
3300John:
Hiya…these are still in working order
F89
FL12
FL10
good memories F86
F88 left ■■■■■■ and a day cab i shared a N reg 88 artic at Richardsons in late 74
Both the last two are 89s all these are for sale
in greece latter part of 2009
Hello,here those were nice pics of Greek trucks from ed209…well done,your FH globey looks nice too,bung one of it on mate …the Leyland Steer caused a bit of interest…3300John asked if anyone had a pic of one working…Anorak Bubbs has one
Hiya …bubbleman…thanks for the Leyland Steer photo.I hope it was’nt to much trouble. I had’nt noticed the fuel tank across the chassis.
i hope if it had been nowadays they would have fitted a small ally tank each side with a belly tank. once again thanks mate.
Anorak…certainly NOT
John
I see that gibbs atkinson is parked at smithfield near the new market where I worked for a few years I was a butcher for many years after school and before driving for a living and I also remember catto`s really well there was another meat haulier from scotland called morrisons anyone remember them nice pics
Hiya Bubbleman…now listen here you keep putting (I hope these are OK)Well i’am going to get a few TN members to come and Kick your Backside
if you say that anymore. You’ve given us stacks of enjoyment/education and made us new friends talking about flamin trucks than i ever imangined
ever possible.I would think half the people on TN site have sat at the same table over the years had a chat and never asked a name but here we are
all chatting about what we seem to have loved at one time or another.If anyone pulled us together more than YOU and TN know one will ever know.
Thanks for the pikkis and stop saying I hope these are OK if you posted them all again we would look at them again.
Cheers John
as you probably know ,they are all named after Charles dickens characters,so a bit more interesting than girls names!
…the Leyland Steer caused a bit of interest…3300John asked if anyone had a pic of one working…Anorak Bubbs has one 
