Dave the Renegade:
Hi Marc,
Got this pic at a craft sale in Bettws-y-coed a couple of years ago.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Now who’s going to have a job remembering these, excuse but if you look very closely at the first steamer i was the fireman on that and Norman was the driver,just having a breather until the tatties roasted.
thanks harrylong retired.
It’s got a drag on Harry so you’ll have doubled up as trailer lad/stoker and drawn more money that Norman. Hope you didn’t clatter that arch in Conway if you were going through.
hiya,
Chris when i started doing delivery work with a wag and drag had an elderly trailer boy who i’ve mentioned before he was a former wag and drag man of many many years standing only failing eyesight had put him in the passenger seat and if he was’nt getting a bigger pay packet than me he should have been he was a legend if i could say i got somewhere near as good as him that would have done me fine. Anyway i’m off on holiday now see you in a couple of weeks.
thanks harry long retired.
Hello again,have a good holiday Harry,he’ll get withdrawll symptons being away from trucknet …nice stuff Tony,yep the Atki advert is taking the wee-wee .Todays pics,the first couple are from my mate Adrian…he’s an O.A.P and theres 100s of his pictures all over Trucknet and he never gets the credit.
Grand old company sadly missed,A420 Swindon…the cafe opposite the park.
Real old Maggie seen on the A4 between Marlborough and Beckhampton.
Brand new ERF seen at a truck show.
Sch…you know who,that’ll mean something to anyone over 50,Sed/Atk 400 at Bristol L.D.O.Y.
Another 400,this one seen at Aust services M4.
T.D.Williams when they were red,this Marathon seen at Wooton Bassett.
Bowdens of Sticklepath,bonneted Merc 1418 seen opposite the BRS yard in Exeter.
Loanes from Irelands 111 seen at Gordano services M5.
Another Syms F10.
Frank Robbins F88 seen in Hanham,Bristol.
hello 3300 john.
just looking at that glazed brick i am wondering if it was possibly made at lane end works buckley as our firm had an opencast coal site around the back of the brick works in the 90s.
regards graham.
Seen at the top of Haldon hill,A38 opposite the racecourse,this is the 111 thats now restored in Cannons of ■■■■■■■ colours…I think.
yep your right it is that one i sold it to stuart dent ,i got it out of west ■■■■■■■
gah1950:
hello 3300 john.
just looking at that glazed brick i am wondering if it was possibly made at lane end works buckley as our firm had an opencast coal site around the back of the brick works in the 90s.
Hiya…graham the answer is yes. the standard brick and coal mine was together. i have looked up on a Buckley site and it said there was 128 brick yards in the Buckley area.and 28 pubs to spend you wages.
Cheers John
Is this the place still going near the M6 motorway
Me at work 1979. One thing I learned not to do when on top was to look up at a passing areoplane as it made me loose my balance.
One of the drivers had a dip stick with the rivet removed from the crosspeice so it could be slid up or down to “adjust” the reading.
I imagine Chris Webb has come across things like this.
Punishment wagon.
PC Plod is on the case.
Could have a few mishaps with this one.
Turkey 2002 Satilik in the window means for sale.
1982 Enough power for a load of knickers .
Morocco.Perhaps the bend in the trailer cancels out the curvature of the earth.
Canons Marsh lorry park Bristol
ovlov:
There was only one Bryan O’Grady mate he had the first stroke about 94 when working at Samat UK at about 62 yrs of age he lasted another 10 years after till he died. You couldn’t get in the church it was packed
ovlov:
Here you are mate this is Bryan O’Grady seated and another Dawson driver Brian Price who was Leighton Buzzard based at a benefit that was held for Bryan and Jack Reilly of Shaws and Bill Brennans fame at Oldham
Wilson brother’s 70’s 80’s Alfie, Sammy, Ivor
This is called a rail road thread, just to tie a couple of threads together. I hope John Stanfield can incorporate this picture of the Dawsons Volvo into his tanker thread too.
Hello,Great pics Phil…quality stuff …Nice work Wheelnut tying up the pic of the Dawsons F10 and its driver…very sad that Bryan has passed on .
Heres what I tryed to put on yesterday…after 40 minutes of scanning/playing with the pics and resizing them I spotted a mistake ,hit the wrong key lost the bleeding lot…dolly,dummy,teddy,pillow,blanket chucked right outta the pram. …ok,calmed down now,lets try again.
A request for Davis bros/Charles Poulter pics,heres a couple.
This one ended up with Bowkers of Blackburn.
Poulters bonneted Merc.
Panilets Mk5 Mandator.
Another Panilets,a Big J this time,this firm wasn’t about long.
R and Os ERF seen in Canons Marsh.
Baileys Marathon at Codford cafe A36.
W.J.Belts MAN,Tenby coach park.
Tipping in Bristol on a saturday afternoon,Hagans 111.
Overnighting at Canons Marsh,Wheeler Tubes 1418.
I have a number of pics of this companys Scanias but who are they? anyone know.
HELLO BUBBLEMAN
LIKE YOU MARC I ALSO HAVE A SCRAPBOOK UNFORTUNATELY NOT HAS BIG
HERES A COPLE OF BUBBLES I FOUND(these were from an F86 brochure i have)
MORE PICTURES TO FOLLOW WHEN I GET TIME
REGARDS JACKO
R-JACKO:
HELLO BUBBLEMAN
LIKE YOU MARC I ALSO HAVE A SCRAPBOOK UNFORTUNATELY NOT HAS BIG
HERES A COPLE OF BUBBLES I FOUND(these were from an F86 brochure i have)
MORE PICTURES TO FOLLOW WHEN I GET TIME
REGARDS JACKO
Another gone by the look of it as they recently had the DAF franchise in Barford. Looks like Imperial (Lex Tillotson) have taken that on…
Enjoying catching up, as ever. Thanks again Bubbleman and all.
I must have seen that old bullnose Merc of Bowdens of Okehampton a thousand times. They bought it about the same time as my old man got his cab-over 1418 for Tone Vale Transport - end of '65, so the ‘L’ plate is a bit of a mystery - and they kept it for donkey’s years. I used to see it hauling pit props so you can tell how long ago that was.
Hello again,nice Bubble pics Jacko…thats a good brochure,got lots of good stuff in it…I’ve copied a few out of mine too,theyre on the scrapbook somewhere .Pat…yeah thats very similar if not the same outfit,thats an Essex reg on your one too. …it all adds to the jigsaw
Gardners Marathon on the scrap…still going these days with tarted up Scanias.
Another one of theirs seen at the bottom of the M32,I remember listening to “Range change” and “Woodenhead” on AM CB…Nutters
Unknown 111 on Aust services M4.
6 legger of Wheeler Tubes in Canons Marsh.
Illtyd Thomas’s ERF at Caldicot.
F86 of Devizes Transport.
Dawsonrentals F10 at Avonmouth.
Lloyds of Ludlow in a show somewhere.
Dowells 111 seen in Taylors cafe ,Newport
LCG920T the only 141 that Sparks had…It went on to live with Davies Transport in Southampton…theres a rear shot of it on their thread on T/net.P16
.Todays pics,the first couple are from my mate Adrian…he’s an O.A.P and theres 100s of his pictures all over Trucknet and he never gets the credit.
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