A couple here for Bubbs scrapbook (hope you dont mind)
Cadwalladers Volvos
transportphotos.com/road/photo/CZC00061-08
transportphotos.com/road/photo/CZC00055-11
Hello again,good Caddies pics John,keep it coming. 
…heres one of theirs from way back.
What a crappy 4 in line trailer on the back of this F88 
Cheers Bubbs, 
What a crappy 4 in line trailer on the back of this F88
Cheers Bubbs,
Looks like a York, bet the driver really felt King of the Road with that on, street cred right down the drain! Got anything from Up North Bubbs to cheer us up. Franky.
Whats the craic with the G plate Caddies F88 RE cabbed ?
Another one of Cullimore’s here for you Bubbs.transportphotos.com/road/photo/CX00424
Edwards Transport AEC Mandator transportphotos.com/road/photo/CX00894
Any pics of that special Ford Transit mini artic Truck magazine built in the 70’s? I’d specifically like to see the reg plate so I can do a DVLA search and see when/if it went off the road - would be lovely to think its still tucked away soemwhere.
Excellent pics Bubb got any AECs from Henry Longs Bradford?
ghinzani:
Any pics of that special Ford Transit mini artic Truck magazine built in the 70’s? I’d specifically like to see the reg plate so I can do a DVLA search and see when/if it went off the road - would be lovely to think its still tucked away soemwhere.
If this is the one your talking about i heard that its been broken up some time ago,and this other one has been made as a replica and and still on the road
MOC:
ghinzani:
Any pics of that special Ford Transit mini artic Truck magazine built in the 70’s? I’d specifically like to see the reg plate so I can do a DVLA search and see when/if it went off the road - would be lovely to think its still tucked away soemwhere.If this is the one your talking about i heard that its been broken up some time ago,and this other one has been made as a replica and and still on the road
Thats the beauty - dont spose you’ve got a pic of the original plate? Thanks for the images anyway, good to know theres a replica at least.
Hi again,ok heres a couple of Henry Longs and then two from the northeast for Frankie… and I bet old Harry Gill will remember this old firm too,them my stuff to finish off. 
Look at the bend on the flatbed 
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs,
Cheers for the Rankins pics Bubbs, good choice, my old man drove for them early Fifties and said they were a decent firm to work for. I can’t remember when they finished but must have been around the Eighties. Someone will know. Franky.
hiya,
Did’nt arrive in the North East until early 1972 but do remember Rankins they was going then always liked the sound of those Commers when pulling hard.
thanks harry long retired.
I knew a chap, John (Jack) Burrows (now sadly deceased) who drove tanker’s for Rankins.
Pete.
Hi FRANKY Bob Rankin sold out to TDG in 1965 but the Tyneside part of the company was still operating dry freight into the 90s and theTeeside depot had moved onto tankers in the early 70s.In 1978 the teeside depot was renamed Cleveland Tankers Ltd and then 10 years later the CTL fleet of 75 tankers was to absorb the 40 vehicles of RankinTyneside as the depot was wound down,then a reshuffle within TDG had the fleet relivered into the Linkman colours.
bubbleman:
Hello,another mixture.
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Right then, see that ERF day cab? Whip over to Iran in it would ya? Where you gonna sleep? Take a deck chair kiddo, its sunny out there in the desert…
240 Gardner:
bubbleman:
Hey fella’s,thanks for the nice comments,I dont deserve it
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs.
Oh yes you do!
But, a 32T 6x2 Mastiff tractor, 32 tons with a V8 Perkins and 180 ponies (not a patch on 150 or even 120 Gardner shire horses), well, as they say on East Enders (I understand), “You’re ‘avin’ a larf, mate”
Agreed, barely 6hp per ton but worse still all the torque of a rice pudding skin removing machine in that high revving V8. And its not like Scotlands flat like Norfolk or Holland.
240 Gardner:
bubbleman:
Hello once more,I’ve been having a bit of a tidy up and found several bits and pieces to put on over the next few days…I came across some Northern Ireland Trailers related bits which Iintended to PM then to 240 Gardner but then I thought I’d share them with everyone…hope its of interest.Right then,Iexpect 240 has seen that before but I am puzzled by the next couple and wondered what his thoughts are
To me thats a Rottinoff with a big A shoved on the front,the final pic is an Atkinson Omega.
Anyway ,if anyone can shed some light on these last 3 pics I’d be interested.
Cheers Bubbs.
Fabulous Marc, thank you very much!!
Now, the first ERF pic is an ERF publicity shot, I think, taken on Preston Dock. If I remember rightly, it was used in an ERF advert.
Northern Ireland Trailers did seem to get excited about Kysor shutters - there was a similar article at the same time in the Atkinson house magazine: “The Cold Facts of Engine Heat” (but without any mention of pics of ERFs!). I think they may even have retro-fitted some motors with the shutters. My H-reg N.I.T. Atki still has its Kysor shutter fitted.
When George Rotinoff died, Atkinson apparently acquired the rights to the Atlantic and Super Atlantic tractors, and the brochure you have (I’ve got one too
As you say, the last is an Atkinson Omega. Only seven were ever built, and they were designed for carrying 90 ton payloads in the desert. At that time,these 6x6 tractors were said to be the most powerful steered vehicles in the world.
Wow I did not know Atkinson took over Rotinoff! What beautiful beasts they were.
You have a load of photographs of firms around the Britol Gloucershire area Bubbleman, do you possibly have any of the cattle & general haulier A F cook, he was based in Frampton Cotterell. He ran 2 Commers, 3 AECs & one TK Bedford painted blue with red chassis & always had bodies made by Drew Bros who were just up the road from his Mill lane yard.
Do you also have anything of Harris motors, they were GUY dealers based in what I think is now a Tile warehouse in Fishponds Road in Bristol. Among the last lorries I remember them selling were steel bodied tippers for Arthur Woodburn, he did a lot of muckaway work for Heron homes when they were in full swing in the area.
I’ve searched all sorts of archive sites for these but can’t find anything.
BB
Hello again,Basil B…I know of A.F.Cooks but have no pics of that firm,I used to work with some ex Drew Bros coachbuilders when I did my apprentiship at Oldland Motor Body Builders in the early 70s,going on to Harris’s,yep they used to sell Guys…see advert below,I think they dabbled with Bedfords too even though Welchs in Bristol and Dandos at Sodbury were dealers for the area.I took the pic of the TM opposite the main showroom next to removers R.A.Sweets
The only shot of a motor with Harris’s wrote on it.
Some DAFs today.
Hope these are of interest,
Cheers Bubbs,
bubbleman:
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Look at the bend on the flatbed
This reminds me of the loads of porcelain sinks that i helped unload at Moores kitchen furniture, they were’nt wraped or packaged, just stacked up on a flatbed trailer with some straw between them and none ever broke.
Charles