norfolktrucker:
Ooops!!
Bet he thought…blimey this thing pulls away like it’s empty. 
bubbleman:
Hi again,heres todays stuff.
Heres a couple of pics a mate gave me,not the best quality but shows when you’re in trouble in the middle east you sometimes need a bit of help from your mates
Cheers Bubbs,
top pics mate
more middle east motors please 
cheers
gaz
Dieseldogsix:
Trev_H:
240 Gardner:
Trev_H:
The L12 buffalos we had were very reliable and pulled well at 32t,would have been better with a fuller instead of the 6 speed with wide gaps, not so good was the plastic trim in the cab which vibrated and cracked, the plastic headlining had a habit of breaking and falling on your head whilst going down the motorway !In my formative years in transport, one of the things I did was to introduce downtime measurement at Pandoro. The L12 Buffaloes were outstandingly poor - I think the record was 16 out of 20 out of service on any given day! An element of this may have been awaiting parts which weren’t reliably available.
I thought the fixed head 500 series buffalos were far more unreliable than the L12s,later ones with the TL11/ fuller set up were better but they all had a poor reputation by then !
Didn’t Pandoro run far better motors than the Leylands though? how much of that downtime was unpopularity with drivers
Incidently ours came secondhand from Cartransport BRS and although cheap they did an half decent stop gap job for us but were never what you could call worked hard.Hello Trev H, I don’t recall Cartransport BRS having any Buffalos, infact I don’t recall them buying any Leylands after 1965 apart from a few roadtrains, can you remember the Reg numbers please.
Hi, I can only rembember the number of the one I drove that was TJO 546T, we had about six of them,they all had BRS Oxford reg.no’s and were in that horrible orange with the black stripes that Cartransport had, I couldn’t be sure but I think they were based at Coventry. Think they would only be about 2-3 yrs old when we got them.
tetragaz:
bubbleman:
Hiya… you can see why a 45 foot trailer was always a needed product…god knows how many miles have been done
with one axle hanging over the back of a 40ft like that.,somthing you don’t very often see nowadays with so many
curtain siders about, there’ll be no worries about low bridges out where they are with a tilt on a standard flat trailer,
good old days A…spot on photo their bubbs
John
Davnic:
marky:
bubbleman:
Hi again lads…Mark R,Yep the Iveco was ex Gibbs and GCR2ERF…The ERFs in the back of the Foden pic I’m sure were Keymarkets supermarkets from TrowbridgeTodays stuff.
Cheers Bubbs,
This Bison looks very tidy - a purposeful-looking motor for it’s time.
Illuminated name board on the roof,sun visor and wheel trims are subtle touches but make all the difference.
As you say “a purposeful looking motor”
Dont no why they put all that on it dont earn no more (thats what all the soap dodgers used to say to me )
that blue fiat rings a bell, there used to be 2 blue one’s that parked on taylors petrol station, high street, tunstall, S.O.T the late 70s, i wonder if that was one of em 
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cheers
gaz
mrken:
Davnic:
marky:
bubbleman:
Hi again lads…Mark R,Yep the Iveco was ex Gibbs and GCR2ERF…The ERFs in the back of the Foden pic I’m sure were Keymarkets supermarkets from TrowbridgeTodays stuff.
Cheers Bubbs,
This Bison looks very tidy - a purposeful-looking motor for it’s time.
Illuminated name board on the roof,sun visor and wheel trims are subtle touches but make all the difference.
As you say “a purposeful looking motor”Dont no why they put all that on it dont earn no more (thats what all the soap dodgers used to say to me )
Dave Dickson has run lots of lorries over the years, they have always been very tidy.
I put these on other forum threads but they are for Bubbs thread also. All are by Roger Kenney bar the first pic which was a Reed Transport promo picture.
3300John:
tetragaz:
bubbleman:
Hiya… you can see why a 45 foot trailer was always a needed product…god knows how many miles have been done
with one axle hanging over the back of a 40ft like that.,somthing you don’t very often see nowadays with so many
curtain siders about, there’ll be no worries about low bridges out where they are with a tilt on a standard flat trailer,
good old days A…spot on photo their bubbs
John
On one occasion when I was working for Brit European,there were two of us in Ankara with Volvo 290’s.
It was during the winter and extremely cold.
In the morning my mate,(Goldy) fired up with such a rattle,all the pushrods had bent and smashed the cam followers.
We towed her round to Volvo’s and they replaced everything the same day and we went back to the Telex ready to kick off the next morning.
Fired up the next morning,same thing again!
Did the usual m/e recovery,stripped both tilts down,topped the whole rig and took the front wheels off the tractor to kep the cab height under 4 metres,didn’t bother to chain the hanging axle up,just let it hang.
Drove back from Ankara,got on a ferry just saying our rig was 20 metres long,and landed in Dover.
Driving up the M1 turned some heads,and whe we pulled into Brits yard in Scholar Green all the garage staff came out as they couldn’t believe we had driven 2,000 miles like that.Unfortunately no one took a picture!
Couldn’t imagine trying to get through Germany like that today!
When my Scania 111 dropped a valve in Saudi when I worked for Expo Freight,a mate on Funstons,big Cliff,towed me on a straight bar for 1,000 miles back to the Oryx garage at Incerlic where we topped my rig onto his Globetrotter and he carried me back to Belgrade where we off loaded it so I could rebuild the engine with spares brought out from the UK by another of our drivers.
On a bar.
A road train?
Off loading at Belgrade railway station.
Hello lads,heres todays stuff…back to the usual sort of pics.
Cheers Bubbs, 
Are Clarks of Sodbury still going? I recall the livery as a kid.
I’m pretty sure Clarks have packed up. Great picture though, i was only thinking about them the other day. Did’nt they run a few Renaults?.
Mark R:
I’m pretty sure Clarks have packed up. Great picture though, i was only thinking about them the other day. Did’nt they run a few Renaults?.
I can’t remember exactly I recall them at ARC Sodbury. Did they have rigid FLs?
They had a 8 legger Volvo at one time, but they were mainly artics, I did a lot of subbing for them years ago.
They may well have done…they had quite a mixed fleet. I used to see them a lot when i was on the bulkers. We used to run cider apples down from Kent and re-load stone or peat back home.
retriever:
I put these on other forum threads but they are for Bubbs thread also. All are by Roger Kenney bar the first pic wich was a Reed Transport promo picture.
i remember dragging a foden back ,put bar on , and air line,got right back to the old railway yard just behind tww , had to stop to open gate , when this copper came up and said you cant tow a artic with a artic ,but he just broke down so i am getting him off the road 
,think it was the s**t around the bar that gave it away , he just and said go on silly bugger get it of road,thats when coppers where coppers, and we just got on with job 
retriever:
I put these on other forum threads but they are for Bubbs thread also. All are by Roger Kenney bar the first pic wich was a Reed Transport promo picture.
Were the Rowntrees pics taken at Halifax?
altitude:
They had a 8 legger Volvo at one time, but they were mainly artics, I did a lot of subbing for them years ago.
J E Clark packed up about 10 years ago now.
From memory, about 20 ish artic bulkers and 3 or 4 rigid tippers. Dafs, Renaults, Volvo’s, Scania’s and a couple of Mercs, if I remember correctly…
Piston broke:
altitude:
They had a 8 legger Volvo at one time, but they were mainly artics, I did a lot of subbing for them years ago.J E Clark packed up about 10 years ago now.
From memory, about 20 ish artic bulkers and 3 or 4 rigid tippers. Dafs, Renaults, Volvo’s, Scania’s and a couple of Mercs, if I remember correctly…
they used to have feed stores up where wales & west Volvo are at avonmouth , used to have to go through what is now Press comercial repairs, their downfall apparently, lot of drivers hours issues , tacho ofences & hauling fishmeal when they wern’t meant to be ?
well that what i heard anyway
i think A.G.Watts ? A.J.Watts ? at highbridge folded about the same time