bubbleman:
Hi again,welcome to ERF lover,thanks for the input…keep them coming,good stuff…Phil,love the bit about the tar sprayer.Heres a road test of an old Mandator,I only drove one as a shunter…good old tool.
Hope these are ok,
Cheers Bubbs,
I wish i could read that AEC road test its too blurred
I can read it, and you need good eye sight to read through my glasses. 
The mechanic:
Some of these companys bring back good memories.It makes you wonder why TDG and the like done away with those historic transport names as they must have been worth a lot of business to them. P.S. for Harry, just returned from visiting an old friend in Glenrothes.His grandaughter is a manager with one of the top whisky producers.He gave me a present of a bottle of 18 year old Glenlivet single malt.When I open it I will pour you a glass and drink for you.
hiya,
Thanks for that mechanic some of you guys are too kind for words, if you get hungover i’ll take a couple of paracetemol for you washed down with Irn-Bru, enjoy.
thanks harry long retired.
altitude:
I can read it, and you need good eye sight to read through my glasses.
Ha Ha, im on a laptop and its all distorted i cant make it readable looks interesting though
The 760 was a superb engine,we fitted one to a ex wd Albion we had as a wrecker it transformed the old beast.We also replaced a fixed head 500 leyland in a bison for James Brown of Dolphinton who was a livestock contractor it was a vastly improved vehicle.
Hiya ,a 760 mandator with a 10 speed fuller was a fair tool. its a pitty AEC did,nt fit them as standard in the late 60,s
then again the L firm had taken over by then.
John
The mechanic:
The 760 was a superb engine,we fitted one to a ex wd Albion we had as a wrecker it transformed the old beast.We also replaced a fixed head 500 leyland in a bison for James Brown of Dolphinton who was a livestock contractor it was a vastly improved vehicle.
I read in an AEC Gazette that when AEC were having problems with the V8 it was one of the Scania engineers that told them to develop the AV760 as the swedes held it in high regard , dont know how true that was
3300John:
Hiya ,a 760 mandator with a 10 speed fuller was a fair tool. its a pitty AEC did,nt fit them as standard in the late 60,s
then again the L firm had taken over by then.
John
Its like those people from Leyland tried to hamper them,they never improved the cab either
Hello again,good stuff from Jim and Mark,Basil Brush…sorry mate no pics of the companies that you want.Apologies to those who cant read the road tests,I had no idea they couldn’t be read…I wont bother to put any more up 
Hope these are ok.
Cheers Bubbs, 
Marcus wheres these Elddis pics at then mate? I like those Abbey Well motors too, any more of them?
Nice one of the Alton Glasshouses Redline, I think that’s what they called them by then, part of the Banbury Buildings Group along with Larch Lap Fencing from Stourbridge, the depot in Bridgewater was next to Terry Downes Cafe on the Bristol Rd iirc.
ramone:
altitude:
I can read it, and you need good eye sight to read through my glasses.Ha Ha, im on a laptop and its all distorted i cant make it readable looks interesting though
Tip of the day 
Right click the article and save as a picture.
Open it up as a picture from your picture files then you can zoom in and look at the detail as clear as anything 
Failing that you can always increase the magnification of this page by 200% at the bottom right hand corner of your screen
Regards Paul
consettbell:
Marcus wheres these Elddis pics at then mate? I like those Abbey Well motors too, any more of them?
Hi consettbell the elddis ones will be put on one of their ex drivers getting them sorted for me, heres a couple more abbeywell
Hiya bubbs…i read the AEC report no problems. i do have 2.5 lenses in my specs. perhaps been a AEC man nowadays the
road test was a must, thanks mate.
John
