bubbleman:
Cheers Bubs, any more piccies like this?
A picture of an LB76 i hadnt seen before bubbs cheers!
Hi lads,once again the memories are coming back for some of you…heres a few more then. 
Cheers Bubbs, 
bubbleman:
Hi again,heres some more oldies
Cheers Bubbs,
Starr Roadways were bought out in 2002 by Stiller
Gunter Stiller also bought out Septimus Cook who was Siddles brother
Hi Bubbs,
Great to still see you working hard and keeping up the good work, love the photos of the Crusaders, mean looking truck !!
Just noticed (having not been on for a while) that this brilliant thread is nearing page 200 !!!
Does’nt seem that long ago that we were all getting excited about page 100 - KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK - BEST THREAD ON THE NET
Regards
Ant
Wheel Nut:
bubbleman:
Hi again,heres some more oldies
Cheers Bubbs,
Starr Roadways were bought out in 2002 by Stiller
Gunter Stiller also bought out Septimus Cook who was Siddles brother
hiya,
Liked that WN liked it a lot but the bit about the M1 being Britain’s first motorway isn’t fact is it??, coming not far from the area of the “Preston bypass M6” and which was in use long before the M1 was opened and built to motorway standards should really be Britain’s first motorway surely, OK shut up “H” you know nowt.
thanks harry long retired
harry_gill:
hiya,
Liked that WN liked it a lot but the bit about the M1 being Britain’s first motorway isn’t fact is it??, coming not far from the area of the “Preston bypass M6” and which was in use long before the M1 was opened and built to motorway standards should really be Britain’s first motorway surely, OK shut up “H” you know nowt.
thanks harry long retired
You know plenty! 1957 when they started the PB
Its funny but when I first went on the PB when it opened I was driving an old Leyland Comet aric like the one in the first snap for BRS.
bubbleman:
Hello everyone,about time we had some E.R.Fs.Just had an ■■■■■■ or something!
‘Crazytrucker’
Ah another LB 76 shot outside east park wolves, Annie Oakley from Jews lane Gornal had a very smart fleet, this 76 was driven by Cyril Blackham from Sedgeley ,a nicer driver you wouldn’t meet.
Straight out of Hell Drivers, all we need now is to revive Stanley Baker and Patrick McGoohan! Howletts Haulage wasn’t it? Paid £28 for the DVD on Ebay about 10 years ago when it was extremely rare and blow me a few years later Carlton or somebody tarts it all up and re-release it, get it at HMV for a fiver! DOH!
‘Crazytrucker’
bubbleman:
Hi again,heres some more oldies
Cheers Bubbs,
Another fine set of Pics Bubbleman
I could have ridden in that Carmans Foden as a wee lad - got any more■■?
He ran quite a few Seddons & Fodens as well as a mixed bag under different names - Marwin Transport & Riley Transport,
before the rebrand to Brit European
My Favourite was an ERF LV Reg No LVT 609E based at Grenade Street, London E14 - what happened to that truck??
Anyone know (a long shot - but this site never ceases to amaze ■■?)
3300John:
bubbleman:
Here we go then,
Hiya…this Dennis dos’nt look new to me its got a little knock or two and dos’nt look that clean
BUT its the newist motor in the road in fact it coulds be 4 years newer than most of the cars.
it looks like a hilman minx and a vauxhall 101 near the trader they may be a little newer i think
the 3 wheeler is a 59 model i had one XYF 6 the number was and it cost me £10 with the plate
thrown in
John
You have to excuse me jumping backwards in this brilliant thread, it is like revision at school 
I wonder if the cars in front of the Thames trader are;
Ford Consul
100E Popular/Prefect
Hillman Husky
Mark VI Reliant Regal
Morris 1000 Traveller
Onward and upwards Bubbs
Wheel Nut:
3300John:
bubbleman:
Here we go then,
Hiya…this Dennis dos’nt look new to me its got a little knock or two and dos’nt look that clean
BUT its the newist motor in the road in fact it coulds be 4 years newer than most of the cars.
it looks like a hilman minx and a vauxhall 101 near the trader they may be a little newer i think
the 3 wheeler is a 59 model i had one XYF 6 the number was and it cost me £10 with the plate
thrown in
JohnYou have to excuse me jumping backwards in this brilliant thread, it is like revision at school
I wonder if the cars in front of the Thames trader are;
Ford Consul
100E Popular/Prefect
Hillman Husky
Mark VI Reliant Regal
Morris 1000 TravellerOnward and upwards Bubbs
THAMES TRADER■■?
What Thames Trader?
240 Gardner:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Would Bowkers have got their Vabis’s via B&Ws Trev remember they had a couple of F reg jobs never got a proper drive in one though, i think off the pump and under a trailer was my “treat”.
thanks harry long retired.Yes Harry, the first ones did come from B&W, and some Bowyer-cabbed Guy Invincibles were traded in against them. I had copies of the B&W invoices in the archives. The first ones that Bowker had were actually E-reg, though there were some on F plates too.
Hi again,Hey Chris …do you think the 2 Guys in the background of this pic were the trade ins for a Vabis.I’m sure I saw one like these in Rush Green scrapyard many years ago. 
Not the best quality but perhaps this was the Vabis that came on the fleet as the replacements for the Guys…also the one that Harry had a shunt around the yard with
Last ones for Toddy2.
Cheers Bubbs,
Ian,here. 
Cheers Bubbs,
hiya,
Yes Marc the Vabis of Bowkers was very likely the one i drove for a distance of about 25 yards on "the land"the regular driver would have been a guy named Cliff Leader who later moved on to manage MAT transport’s Hull depot he was’nt pleased that i had the audacity to get in his cab although i was waiting to fuel up and wanting to get to the Havelock and join the rest of the lads for a pint or three i did tell him to go away in my own inimitable manner.
thanks harry long retired.
bestbooties:
Wheel Nut:
3300John:
bubbleman:
Here we go then,
Hiya…this Dennis dos’nt look new to me its got a little knock or two and dos’nt look that clean
BUT its the newist motor in the road in fact it coulds be 4 years newer than most of the cars.
it looks like a hilman minx and a vauxhall 101 near the trader they may be a little newer i think
the 3 wheeler is a 59 model i had one XYF 6 the number was and it cost me £10 with the plate
thrown in
JohnYou have to excuse me jumping backwards in this brilliant thread, it is like revision at school
I wonder if the cars in front of the Thames trader are;
Ford Consul
100E Popular/Prefect
Hillman Husky
Mark VI Reliant Regal
Morris 1000 TravellerOnward and upwards Bubbs
THAMES TRADER■■?
What Thames Trader?
I think the1000 Traveller is a Austin a30/a35 van looking at the shape of the rear wing!vic.
Hiya bestbooties …red card that consul is a zephyr and i’ll go for A35van…now you must have
somthing to say on the carmans foden, 1964 vintage. Ron must have still been running that when
you was at brits. i recon he’d squeeze ten years out of her.
John
bubbleman:
240 Gardner:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Would Bowkers have got their Vabis’s via B&Ws Trev remember they had a couple of F reg jobs never got a proper drive in one though, i think off the pump and under a trailer was my “treat”.
thanks harry long retired.Yes Harry, the first ones did come from B&W, and some Bowyer-cabbed Guy Invincibles were traded in against them. I had copies of the B&W invoices in the archives. The first ones that Bowker had were actually E-reg, though there were some on F plates too.
Hi again,Hey Chris …do you think the 2 Guys in the background of this pic were the trade ins for a Vabis.I’m sure I saw one like these in Rush Green scrapyard many years ago.
Not the best quality but perhaps this was the Vabis that came on the fleet as the replacements for the Guys…also the one that Harry had a shunt around the yard with
Last ones for Toddy2.
Cheers Bubbs,
WOW Bubbs - where did you find that ■■?
I had no idea there was a Maggie on the fleet, I remember the Fodens, The ATki, the Dodges, The Beaver (stolen from outside the yard) the 2 Seddons (1 had a RMB reg) and the ERF - But a Maggie ? - I am stunned - Well done Bubbs