interesting regarding the council gritters and ploughs last winter as we all know was very bad and where I live near romford the council lorries were out which does not happen very often and I noticed they were all pretty new and all those I saw on the news were pretty new so it would seem that councils had a big spend up in the last few years renewing there fleets as here in havering they had some old bedford tks and kms maybe new regs made them buy new stuff? I wonder what happened to all the old stuff scrap or export, I have to agree with “richgrif” they should buy demountable machines and use our rate money more wisely, cheers fred
ubym344:
interesting regarding the council gritters and ploughs last winter as we all know was very bad and where I live near romford the council lotties were out which does not happe very often and I noticed they were all pretty new and all those I saw on the news were pretty new so it would seem that councils had a big spend up in the last few years renewing there fleets as here in havering they some old bedford tks and kms maybe new regs made them buy new stuff? I wonder what happened to all the old stuff scrap or export, I have to agree with “richgrif” they should buy demountable machines and use our rate money more wisely, cheers fred
Here in Powys Mid Wales where I live,they have got quite a few Mercedes tippers with demountable bodies which they put gritter bodies on in the winter,only trouble is they made a lot of the blokes redundant a few years ago,and have trouble getting blokes with a LGV license to work for them,as most of the year, there’s very little overtime.
Cheers Dave.
this bedford tm was used in bedford’s magazine adverts.
a couple of rosser’s from dai bootsy.
Jezz:
Hi all
Has anyone mentioned Stephens & Chambers Brecon.They ran dodge tippers in the 60’s when I worked there. Also Harry Kelly of Crickhowell ,Guy Big J,s. I worked for Entress Tsp. Swansea 69-82.
tractor I worked for chambers from 1979-1981 they then had 2 atkinson 8 wheelers ,2 layland 4 wheelers 1seddon 8 wheeler,1 erf 6 wheeler,3 erf 8 wheelers ,3 erf artice’s,2 atkie artice’s,1 was a chinese 6 with no power steering GEU170G they closed down in1983-4.I also knew keith shelly and Roy Barnard,Roy lived a few door up from me in talybont
Id like to thank Bob Merchant for the loan of these next few pictures of Scott,s from port talbot
Now time for some Hill,s carnival photo,s
Would of been ideal for the convoy
The Scotts ones are good pictures with easily recognised sections along the M4 in them.
The chap behind the wheel look’s like he’s having a sly can of beer 
komatsu 450:
Now time for some Hill,s carnival photo,s
hi all,
a few more oldies from daibootsy
regards andrew