Sorry John 
Hope thats ok. 
Bubbs. 
3300John:
Trev_H:
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
Hi John,
Thanks for commenting on LGK, our yard was in Hockley Lane, Netherton and surrounded by houses, quite a job to get the trucks out as the size of trailers grew and the type of work changed to abnormal stuff. I remember having to go to B&W Motors for parts for LGK and having to tell the stores which truck it was so they could go to the packing crate they held with spares in just for LGK. She had done over 100,000 miles when we got it as it was a demo vehicle. Drivers would have it for a couple of days on demo and would hold on to it on purpose so as not to give it back and jump back into an ERF or GUY or the like but our livery was its first commercial colours.
3300John:
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
here,here. bubbs for PM!! 
…chris
Hi again,thanks to Chris for more info on LGK3D,a very special lorry that and I for one hopes he’ll put some more pics on here.
Ok,todays clippings.
Enjoy the pics
Cheers Bubbs.
Hello lads,heres another dose…the first pic is one of my all time favorites,3 A.E.Cs lined up and the middle one has his container held on by a bit of rope…priceless
For those who like lorries,enjoy the pics.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hi Bubbs,that’s a great photo of the AECs,one of the best I’ve seen.
I used to rope boxes on like that as well
Chris Webb:
Hi Bubbs,that’s a great photo of the AECs,one of the best I’ve seen.
I used to rope boxes on like that as well
Hiya…you can spend some time looking at that MK5 can’t you Chris…Just think we would look at that
just like the young lads look at a 580 Scania. or a 610 Volvo. Its a pitty they don’t realise what a special
motor they was,Even without all the trimmins not even a bonnet cover.
John
3300John:
Chris Webb:
Hi Bubbs,that’s a great photo of the AECs,one of the best I’ve seen.
I used to rope boxes on like that as wellHiya…you can spend some time looking at that MK5 can’t you Chris…Just think we would look at that
just like the young lads look at a 580 Scania. or a 610 Volvo. Its a pitty they don’t realise what a special
motor they was,Even without all the trimmins not even a bonnet cover.
John
Aye,John.Chrome bumper,wheel trims/step ring,a spotlight and the plastic AEC letters on the rad - must be t’shop stewards tractor.Looks like a “C” 65 reg so would be one of the last I suppose.
Ready for work - when do I start?
Chris Webb:
Hi Bubbs,that’s a great photo of the AECs,one of the best I’ve seen.
I used to rope boxes on like that as well
hiya,
Chris got a brand new one on a B plate i must admit it was a great motor and the gaffer (BRS) needed a crowbar to prise me out of the cab when i’d done my shift, cared nowt for the ergo thingy’s that came later, a big backwards step if you ask me.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
Chris Webb:
Hi Bubbs,that’s a great photo of the AECs,one of the best I’ve seen.
I used to rope boxes on like that as wellhiya,
Chris got a brand new one on a B plate i must admit it was a great motor and the gaffer (BRS) needed a crowbar to prise me out of the cab when i’d done my shift, cared nowt for the ergo thingy’s that came later, a big backwards step if you ask me.
thanks harry long retired.
Was that because you was “knackered” “H” or you just wouldn’t go home like the proverbial mill cat !! Dennis.
Chris Webb:
Hi Bubbs,that’s a great photo of the AECs,one of the best I’ve seen.
I used to rope boxes on like that as well
I remember the upset and bribery that went on, when the Hull Dockers refused to load trailers without at least 2 twistlocks 
18 tonne on a Lancashire flat or Seawheel drum carrier with a bit of rope round the rope hooks
harry_gill:
Chris Webb:
Hi Bubbs,that’s a great photo of the AECs,one of the best I’ve seen.
I used to rope boxes on like that as wellhiya,
Chris got a brand new one on a B plate i must admit it was a great motor and the gaffer (BRS) needed a crowbar to prise me out of the cab when i’d done my shift, cared nowt for the ergo thingy’s that came later, a big backwards step if you ask me.
thanks harry long retired.
I remember graduating from a MK3 to a MK5 Harry and it was like heaven wi t’ door shut They were nice to drive and would trap on with the 6-speed box.We had one or two with the suicide doors- remember them?
You could knock the speedo off as well to cover - ahem - excess mileage
Bewick:
harry_gill:
Chris Webb:
Hi Bubbs,that’s a great photo of the AECs,one of the best I’ve seen.
I used to rope boxes on like that as wellhiya,
Chris got a brand new one on a B plate i must admit it was a great motor and the gaffer (BRS) needed a crowbar to prise me out of the cab when i’d done my shift, cared nowt for the ergo thingy’s that came later, a big backwards step if you ask me.
thanks harry long retired.Was that because you was “knackered” “H” or you just wouldn’t go home like the proverbial mill cat !! Dennis.
hiya,
No Dennis just could’nt bear it being used as a trunker as well, the BRS would “commandeer” the first motor that came in to the yard to do a changeover and you had go through the process of checking the motor all over again before going off next day, was never knackered as a red and ruster, one was only expected to do a days work for a days pay, not two days work for one days pay.
thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
Yes Chris do remember the odd door models but never drove one, i often wondered how many of those old AECs got sold on with anywhere near the correct mileage showing, those leccy speedo’s was something else, i’ve lost a few hundred miles to suit me.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi again,that old A.E.C pic stirred a few memories for Chris,Harry,John and co…really good to read their feedback,so…lets have a few more A.E.Cs,first pic for Harry…Consett steel works,bet you’ve been in there a few times mate,s’pose its all gone now 
Hope these bring back a few memories.
Cheers Bubbs.
bubbleman:
Hi again,that old A.E.C pic stirred a few memories for Chris,Harry,John and co…really good to read their feedback,so…lets have a few more A.E.Cs,first pic for Harry…Consett steel works,bet you’ve been in there a few times mate,s’pose its all gone now
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Correct there mate, nothing left of it at all now, apart from a few slag carriers dotted around the cycle paths. Never knew Consett had their own wagons mind
bubbleman:
Hi again,that old A.E.C pic stirred a few memories for Chris,Harry,John and co…really good to read their feedback,so…lets have a few more A.E.Cs
Hope these bring back a few memories.
Cheers Bubbs.
Hiya… Harry if you can put up with the suicide doors Chris can have the tanker(my ADR has run out)and i can have the Adams butter.
as it happens i know where thers a AEC with suicide doors standing in Cypress and its in quite good condition.and the Adams i’ve
had drive in that one,Its perhaps WRE581C as the other new ones came in twos and Tillitsons would have photoed a pair.
the twin head light was a Adams convertion for night trunking done by Tillitsons.Thanks Bubbs
John
hiya,
Marc if i had only a penny a visit into the old Consett works i’d have enough for a damned good drink, pal of mine drove for them for years, running to both Jarrow and Teesside and Consett BRS carrying/subbying the remainder of the work, remember they had a driver killed when a load of billets shot through the cab when having to pull up in an emergency, sad day.
thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
John climbing in the cab would be my problem now, and i reckon those “suicide” doors would take a bit of getting of used to, once had i think an old Wolsley car with that type of door and after having only driven motors with conventional openings found getting in and out a bit strange at first.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Bubbs,thanks again for the AECs 
I used to go into the coke ovens/by products at BSC Consett for crude benzole and take it to Port Clarence with a MK3,two loads in a shift.It was easier on nights than days.That Adams Butter MK5 looks well with the twin headlights - I know John will agree I think the one I drove with suicide doors was ex Tunnel Cement that A.E.Evans bought second hand.You couldn’t beat the old sliding doors on the MK3s,great air con