WOW!!! what a brilliant thread, well done Bubbles, have looked at every page at all the pics am now going to start again and read all the comments, could take some time and the wife is getting worried as i have never spent so long at the computer. Once again mate, cheers for a great thread.
Looks like Bubbs is having connection problems, with the computer anyway. Some Scammells to carry on with.
Nice steady delivery with only one hose.
Bridgwater fair 1982
One for the modelmakers. Brunswick green, black wings,red wheels,cream lettering.
From Crediton Devon.
Nortons of Cleveleys entering Avonmouth.
Another green livery.
Bubbs posted a photo of Bill Downtons TransCon. Here are two of his well used motors he mentioned.
Lots of these Scammells were run by owner drivers in Bristol The demolition site made a good parking area when cleared.
Nice photos numbum,I like the Stamp Scammell,I used to wash the tank out at their Avonmouth depot now and again.
Chris Webb:
Nice photos numbum,I like the Stamp Scammell,I used to wash the tank out at their Avonmouth depot now and again.
Hello Chris. I used to fuel up in Stamps yard about 1975 when I was working on contract to Esso in the docks. I think it is the Chep pallet depot now. What was the workshop is where they mend the broken pallets.
Phil 43 years on tankers. Someone has explained to me what a rope is now.
Could some-one nip round to Bubble.s house, and get him sorted out with his pc. 
There is one thing for sure, he could not have had a better stand-in while he,s been AWOL than Phil Numbum, whose contributions are TopClass. 
. Keep it up Phil. It looks like we could be heading for another 118 pages of Golden Memories. 
I never took any pictures. I couldn,t afford a camera I used to spend all my spare money on Booze and the Horses 
Buycrider:
:idea:There is one thing for sure, he could not have had a better stand-in while he,s been AWOL than Phil Numbum, whose contributions are TopClass.
I never took any pictures. I couldn,t afford a camera I used to spend all my spare money on Booze and the Horses
He could have a problem logging on,he did complain about it last week. Quite a few truck- net members seem to have the same problem.
Cheers Dave.
The earliest of these Leyland photos date from 1982. I was not supposed to carry a camera in a petrol tanker but managed to take a few when I checked that no one was watching.
CHEERS PHIL.
Nice photos Phil and glad you know what a rope is after all this time 
You will remember Butlers somewhere in Bristol and I went there just the once about 1970 with some product from BSC Chemicals at Orgreave Sheffield.I can’t recall where their place was and I wondered if they were still going,could they have been tar refiners?
Chris
Chris,
Butlers tar distillery was started by Brunel to make creosote for railway sleepers. I started there in 1965 when the gas board had bought a share and it was called Bristol & West Tar Distillers.Before I left in 1978 it had been taken over again by The British Steel Corporation. The place closed down in 1981.
The works were on the river Avon at Crews Hole reached by a narrow road with a few bad bends in it. The ground was so contaminated by tar and oils
that I caught it on fire when cutting up an old AEC. The whole area was covered with about six feet of earth and houses built on it but nobody is allowed to dig any holes in the garden.
Phil.
Numbum:
Chris,
Butlers tar distillery was started by Brunel to make creosote for railway sleepers. I started there in 1965 when the gas board had bought a share and it was called Bristol & West Tar Distillers.Before I left in 1978 it had been taken over again by The British Steel Corporation. The place closed down in 1981.
The works were on the river Avon at Crews Hole reached by a narrow road with a few bad bends in it. The ground was so contaminated by tar and oils
that I caught it on fire when cutting up an old AEC. The whole area was covered with about six feet of earth and houses built on it but nobody is allowed to dig any holes in the garden.Phil.
Hi Phil,aye we’ve had this conversation before and I forgot that Butlers became Bristol and West TD and then BSC.The tar would be from Llanwern or S.Wales coking plants then? Sorry if I’ve asked this before. 
There’s plenty of contaminated ground around Sheffield/Rotherham/Chesterfield where the old coking plants were…
Chris
I remember Geordie Blacketts tippers from Forest Hall, I lived near by so saw them regularly, a busy little company with a mixed fleet, although this mark wasn’t one of my favourite’s its a nice pic all the same. Franky.
Chris,
In the later days you rightly said the crude tar came from Llanwern and Port Talbot, we also used to collect from Corby sometimes. In the early days it all came from local gasworks hence the gas board having a share in the firm.
Phil.
The Marathon, XLO 61S …ME spec coupled to the Chris Hudson trailer in the above post was an owner driver from London area, I real good character, cant remember his name…
He had a Cadillac that he run around in, big posh car not a banger !
The Leyland was very posh inside, everything in there.
Numbum:
Looks like Bubbs is having connection problems, with the computer anyway. Some Scammells to carry on with.
Nice steady delivery with only one hose.
Bridgwater fair 1982
One for the modelmakers. Brunswick green, black wings,red wheels,cream lettering.
From Crediton Devon.
Nortons of Cleveleys entering Avonmouth.
Another green livery.
Bubbs posted a photo of Bill Downtons TransCon. Here are two of his well used motors he mentioned.
Lots of these Scammells were run by owner drivers in Bristol The demolition site made a good parking area when cleared.
I’m a " lurker " on this thread,love the Scammells,as I used to go on away days with my Dad in his on the school holidays, many moons ago.
I’m up to page number 90
Thanks to Bubbles and others,for some great photos. 
Did I ever mention I used to be a member of the Scammell Spotters Club? It was run for kids by the Leyland Journal and the Old Man signed me up! I think I’m the last remaining member…
Somewhere in the attic I’ve got a pic of Mike Lawrence’s Mack with the famous ‘Evening Star’ on the back, being delivered to the West Somerset Railway in about 1989. When the weather cools down a bit I’ll have a root about up there.
Please keep up the good work all.
James Bateman:
Numbum:
Looks like Bubbs is having connection problems, with the computer anyway. Some Scammells to carry on with.
HERES A EX ESSO SCAMMELL ON BAKERS TRANSPORT.
Chris Webb:
harry_gill:
hiya,
When i drove an 80 Marc, i was never short of matches to light the Woodbines, other drivers used to toss boxes of the things at me when being overtaken and that was everybody, what a pill that was enough to put you off haulage forever, although it would have made a tidy 4 or 6 wheeled rigid, but they was never a 32 tonner.
thanks harry long retired.I know what you mean Harry,we had a bloody yard full of the damned things.Mind you the cab lights and heaters were ok .
I used to scout round the yard to see if there was a demo of another make lurking anywhere to take on trunk.
My first lorry was a scania 81. dad ran it as an artic until he had a 111 then he stretched the 81 and made it into a 4 wheel tipper. i had it for 4 years and would have it back today if i could. nothing else could keep up with it round our way!
Severnside Continental Freighters parked at Morley road,Staple Hill.Bristol.
I had F88 GHB 547N in the 70s did SCF have it before me?
Sugar Ray:
Severnside Continental Freighters parked at Morley road,Staple Hill.Bristol.I had F88 GHB 547N in the 70s did SCF have it before me?
Sugar Ray, that HB registration originated in Merthyr TYdfil South Wales. The main dealer at the time being Griffin Mill Garages Pontypridd Mid Glam.
Hello,well after trying every day since last sunday I finally managed to get on,perhaps its because everyones gawping at the footie and its quiet on here,anyway I have been kept up to date by mrs Bubbs who could get on the site with her works pc…a big thanks to Phil (numbum) for his pics and thanks for the nice comments from the other lads.
Will look through my pics for some for orientmack,but first lets chuck a few on …I was getting withdrawl symptoms
Old S type Bedford at a show over 30 years ago.
Cranfield and this Albion super reiver 20 was on show.
Hughes haulage of Swindons AEC Marshall.
Scammell Highwayman on the fairground.
ERF of Modern Engineering Bristol.
Kirkhams of Cheltenham 1924 Merc seen at the cafe at Caldicot.
UKDs spanish Dodge at their Brislington depot.
CML rentals Maggie,this lorry was stretched to a 4 wheeler later in its life.
Early Roadtrain,■■■■■■■■■■ Basin where the cafes were.
Websters F86,Tenby lorry park 1979
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs.