Stravaiger, I’ve saved your origional photo but here is the work I did on it, what is your opinion? it just helps jog the memory I think.
And a couple more old Manchester firms.
Hi Tipet
You have done a good job with that Albion of Biesty,s.Have you by any chance any photos of Gilbraith,s from accrington when they ran tippers during the sixties.
Hi Stanfield, yes here is a couple I’ve found of Gilbraith’s.
I never got one of FNF901D the 6 legger my dad had at Lamb’s, but with a bit of a touch up this has come close. They probably had some idea of the winding down back in '66 when they done away with the painting and signwritting eh?
Oh, and here is that old Dowlow wagon.
And a couple of before and after jobs from Topley Pike and Grin quarries.
And with a bit of imagination, what could have been parked up on Wellington St when Uppy was a young lad. My dad said he use to tell them “never mind heaters in my day we never even had cabs.” 
sound pics them tipit took this one in taylor rd during the drivers strike
That Evers line up at Taylors Road is really good, I’d forgotten they ran Atkinson’s as well. My dad drove for them on an S type Bedford in the late 50’s when there yard was in Sebastopol Street Ancoats, then moved onto Tommy Lamb’s at Gorton. Here is their Ancoats yard.
Hi Tipit
Great pics. The one of the Dodge is spot on.I never found out why they did’nt have them painted & signwritten because they would have looked good in the original livery dont you think.I remember Uppey with is tales I used to sit with him in a morning having a brew before we started and he’d tell me about the horse & carts & the steam wagons.Their used to be loads of old gear in the loft above the garage when i started there from the steam/horse & cart days.
John, just to let you see how it would have looked.
Hi Tipit–Once again brilliant.Has your Dad seen it.
more modern but manc all the same
bob-lad:
more modern but manc all the same
Nice one bob-lad. keep em coming old or new.
Yeh, those last 2 wagons are certainly a lot more welcoming than the ones used when Wimpey’s and Murphy’s, carried the men to and from the sites in those old metal huts inside a tipper body. Does anyone know just how they got them back up inside the fix sided body at the end of a days work though ? (The huts I mean, not the men.)
There ya go Tipit, another old one for you from the Dowlow stable 
Thanks for showing that mushroomman, it makes you wonder how many old ones of that quality must still be hung on office walls yet to be seen by us.
I started another thread under “Jackson’s Brick’s” just after this one, which never got a fraction of the viewings this ones had. But thought I’d add this picture from it for those who might have missed it, as it’s another of the Manchester firms thats gone into the history books. The picture had to be pieced together from a 2 page spread in one of the magazines.
That driver must have been a little fella, as I don’t remember those Bedford’s looking that size when I was a kid. 
Here is a real gem added on behalf of Stanfield.
A fibreglass cabbed, S - type Bedford with suicide doors, I never knew such a thing ever existed.
Hi Tipit
Thanks for that mate.By the way Eddie (Bulwinkle)Nuttall drove one of them Bedfords(only a bit older) for Jacksons before he came to Lambs
John.
sean regan a gent and a first class driver as all c and fs were not seen him for awhile 
Probably the closest thing to todays Tommy Lamb’s.
I can remember them running Ergo’ cab Leyland’s and Foden S80’s round about 1978, but can anyone tell me when they did start out.
Old and modern, but I’m not sure if they ever ran this F89 from new.
they ran fodens and the odd daf when they were in alty then bennett st do you want a pic mate