Happy new year to all
re hillside cafe codford anyone remember the cab sticker that they used to give away in the 70s and 80s? anyway i was in their a couple of months ago, and was chatting to the lady behind the counter about thestickers they used to do, and she said, i think we might still have one, and lo and behold out she came with one!!! bit bigger ithink but just the same.then she told me that she started there in the 70s!!! reguards bazztrucker
bazztrucker:
Happy new year to all
re hillside cafe codford anyone remember the cab sticker that they used to give away in the 70s and 80s? anyway i was in their a couple of months ago, and was chatting to the lady behind the counter about thestickers they used to do, and she said, i think we might still have one, and lo and behold out she came with one!!! bit bigger ithink but just the same.then she told me that she started there in the 70s!!! reguards bazztrucker
It would have been around 1976 when I was last in that cafe.I stopped in Warminster and enquired about digs and I was told about the cafe further on.It was 8-00 pm when I got there but I still got a meal and a clean bed even at that time.
Here are a couple more pics for you all from about 42 years ago
Both to do with REEMA who used to make the pre-fabricated panels for houses etc at a place called North Baddesley just north of Southampton.
Sorry for the burred pic it was taken from a slide.
A few more for the scrapbook 
Now that one would just do me, with that I wouldn’t have bothered doing my class one 
hi bubbs
couple of old ones i took down cambs way when loading one day 2002 ish i think see if anyone has any info on them the aec was immaculate the 111 was in kinda good nick but the inside was a bit rough just wondered if it ever got done up.
regards
mark
Hi again,some good stuff on here since I last posted something,I reckon the 111 is up for restortion…the A.E.C has been on the rally circuit for a while so itlooks like she has a safe home. 
Been looking through the old brochures and going through stuff I’ve had since I was a kid…theres loads I ought to chuck out,bus and coach brouchures which hold absolutley no interest to me…why do I keep A.E.C Regent bus leaflets for… 
,anyway heres a few pics from inside a few lorry leaflets
I bet old Harry knows this location,at least its not a Scania 80
Cheers Bubbs,
lemonmouth:
Could this be an English registered “Tonka”?
Hello everybody and a happy new year to all.
I like the Commer Maxiload six wheeler mixer, quite a rare machine as I dont recall seeing many around ! But I do remember Grahams Concrete from Piercebridge near Darlington and as I remember they were big users of Fodens both in the quarry and on the road as well ! Regards Tony.
bubbleman:
Hi again,some good stuff on here since I last posted something,I reckon the 111 is up for restortion…the A.E.C has been on the rally circuit for a while so itlooks like she has a safe home.
Been looking through the old brochures and going through stuff I’ve had since I was a kid…theres loads I ought to chuck out,bus and coach brouchures which hold absolutley no interest to me…why do I keep A.E.C Regent bus leaflets for…Cheers Bubbs,
Hi Bubbs,
Don’t use the bus and coach leaflets for …roll ,dribble! them
on here as their are quite a lot of us on here who have been
on both sides of the fence . Always interesting.
Cheers Malc.
Just had a look at all the photos on the forum and there are some realy good ones.I may be 38 but it was good to see all the old companys that where around when i was
growing up. The one thing i did not see was any photos of a company that i work for the compay was called london carries (philips) we had depot all
over the uk the truck where silver and blue.
Northern boy:
Just had a look at all the photos on the forum and there are some realy good ones.I may be 38 but it was good to see all the old companys that where around when i was
growing up. The one thing i did not see was any photos of a company that i work for the compay was called london carries (philips) we had depot all
over the uk the truck where silver and blue.
You’ve not been looking very hard… viewtopic.php?f=35&t=61517
Hello again,heres some more from Brochures/odds and sods…the first pic is an old Bedford from Gregorys,years before the giant they are today.
Ok…As I dont hold much interest in PSVs this last pic is a one off,this thread is all about nostalgia and this chinese 6 Bedford/Duple coach reminds me of the film “The Italian Job”…the proper one with Micheal Caine in it 
,credit must be given to anyone who drove one,there couldn’t have been much lock on the steering and the length of it must have made it “interesting” to drive.
Cheers Bubbs,
bubbleman:
Hello again,heres some more from Brochures/odds and sods…the first pic is an old Bedford from Gregorys,years before the giant they are today.
Great pics of Sykes Motors bubbleman, hope you don’t mind if I copy them to Sykes’s thread in Transport Photos Forum?
bubbleman:
Hello again,heres some more hand ball today to keep you fit.
Cheers Bubbs,
Chris Webb:
ainacs:
Chris Webb:
Great photos Ainacs and I recognise the locations as well.There were some digs/cafe near that Freightliner terminal on Millbrook Road and I think Calor Transport had a place there as well.Further on towards Totton you turned left for Hythe and Fawley IIRC and South West Tar Distillers was there somewhere.
Been in t’Juniper Berry as well…Hi Chris
The Calor place is still there I believe it is where the old cafe was, there is a great big Calor shop not sure if is new or in the old building.
Yes further on you did and still do go over the Totton Causeway and left at the Houndsdown Roundabout to Hythe and Fawley.
Totton Tar is all gone now as is Burt Boltons Timber most of the Eling Wharf is now home to transport companies I know Harris Transport has a big area as well as Elite and whole lot more
Thanks Pat. the places I remember were ISR at Hythe and Esso Fawley in the early 70s.I suppose if I wanted to go further back in time I should ask Alton Confused Charlie? To pacify him I should add that I did tip and reload once out of SWTD in 1970 running from Orgreave Sheffield,and had a dodgy at Leicester Forest on my running out of time from Sheffield,and only 'cos I had an AEC MK5 Mammoth Major with a six speed box.
Years later we were running from Staveley Chemicals to ISR,load,tip/reload and back to Leicester Forest in an elastic shift and it was quite an easy shift it seemed to me (as long as you started about 0300 at Staveley). We also used to run BP Baglan Bay - ISR Hythe and it was my first introduction to the cafe/digs at Codford St Mary on the A36 between Bath and S’oton via Salisbury.
Hi I think that the cafe on the freightliner place ( Pickfords depot was there ) was a digs as well and it had a Mynah bird which swore with a broad Yorkshire accent when we stayed there about 4 nights in late 60s or early 70s as we took some machinery down and installed it so we were there a few days I am not sure who the tutor was but I got the blame
cheers Johnnie
Cheers Phil.
Hello again,Magic photos Phil,keep them coming heres some more bits taken from brochures…Steve help yourself to the Shaws pics from my last post…heres another one to start todays stuff
Hope these are of interest.
Cheers Bubbs,
can you help have you got any pictures of bells transport bradford wool men i drove for jack bell in the 60s 70s up and down from devon and cornwall returning 4 high of wool for the clearing houses arownd bradford or even crows of bradford jack ashworths g c morleys any thing to do with the woll industry thanks stuart broughton now retierd …
Hello again,Stuart…I may have a couple of pics,Ramone has asked for the same thing…I have no idea where they are so its a case of waiting til they crop up 
Back to cuttings,the brochure pics have finished…hooray I hear you all say!! 
Hope these are of interest,
Cheers Bubbs,