sammy dog:
we have picked sand up from tubney wood a few years ago i was in newport dock last week and a mate i had nt seen for a few years offered me some loads from tubney wood if i needed a load home im in cotswolds on tuesday morning for load back home.ive chard junction monday.
Ivor Griffiths?
Muckaway:
sammy dog:
we have picked sand up from tubney wood a few years ago i was in newport dock last week and a mate i had nt seen for a few years offered me some loads from tubney wood if i needed a load home im in cotswolds on tuesday morning for load back home.ive chard junction monday.Ivor Griffiths?
tubney wood fella by name of gwynne perryman all rest my own work.
Jim Tarry passing the Old Toll House Cafe, Minster Lovell
Beside the River Isis (Thames, but it’s Uni’ territory) at Christ Church Meadows
Tim Taylor with one of the Daf autos waiting to weigh in muck at Gill Mill
Muckaway:
Beside the River Isis (Thames, but it’s Uni’ territory) at Christ Church Meadows
What a ■■■■■■ mess that under bumper is! and the number plate looks like its been abused! un-less its the lens on the Box Brownie camera that was been used!! Anon.
Bewick:
What a [zb] mess that under bumper is! and the number plate looks like its been abused! un-less its the lens on the Box Brownie camera that was been used!! Anon.
That lorry works before washing 
I’m one of the only ones who’s still got the reg plate in it’s original position. The 57 plate Dafs were moved up a bit I’m surprised the new ones were placed where they were (although they are a bit higher).
Dave Curry loading broken concrete at Beacon Hill Reservoir, Swinford. Farmoor reservoir is in the background
Jim Sewell frightening the wildlife with his Jake Brake, coming down Beacon Hill. The woodland behind is part of Wytham Woods, owned by Oxford University.
I have spent the past few days at Ducklington Vintage Rally and have gone giddy at the amount of Smiths trucks flying past the site, probably running from Gill Mill. 
I reckon that Nathan has a few lorries lined up ready laden and just jumps from one to another as they dont appear to stay still for very long! 
Pete.
I asked about showing mine at that show, but never heard anything back from TM. I was going to go but didn’t trust the weather. I’dve thought we’ve had a stand there, being so close. One driver got given a handfull of free tickets as Smiths gave the organisers some stone for the gateways. Friday was fun, with the A40 being closed due to a woman in a Shogun playing chicken with one of our mixers at Eynsham. Apparently, it was an ambulance used for moving medical teams about but was actually being used by some woman to get to a course at Moreton in Marsh and was she was running late; She thought it’d be a good idea to drive on blue lights to get there quicker when she wasn’t actually trained to use them 
I doubt she’ll be driving for a while (nor the mixer when you look at the front axles).
Hi Nathan,I found this one amongst the clippings. 
Cheers Bubbs, 
That was my first 6wheeler That pic must be around '95 as she doesn’t have any air horns fitted (drivers had to buy their own back then). What was the occasion of the visit Bubbs, anything to do with Smiths changing their livery? N318 FLL and it’s 8wheel sister N317 were the first new trucks to have it, they actually ran around for a while with no writing at all while the new style was sorted out. N318 spent 1995-2001 based at Broadway so seeing it at Bletchington was rare. When I first went on it it was gutless and whilst being driven into the workshop for a service, the engine let go (great timing ) Like many of those ■■■■■■■ L10s we had, they were great engines when on-song but could also be right pigs (with blue smoke)…
One of our new MAN 8wheelers turned up today; that was quick, credit where credit’s due. (Hoping for a 6wheeled version )
Muckaway:
One of our new MAN 8wheelers turned up today; that was quick, credit where credit’s due. (Hoping for a 6wheeled version
Don’t you have the skill to drive an 8 legger Nathan? or are you still someway down the “pecking order” yet until someone further up the ladder “pegs out”! I ask this because it sounds like a good firm to drive for so there isn’t much turnover in staff!! Its a case of “dead mens shoes” almost like it used to be on a lot of old fashioned family firms similar to yours I would think.Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Muckaway:
One of our new MAN 8wheelers turned up today; that was quick, credit where credit’s due. (Hoping for a 6wheeled versionDon’t you have the skill to drive an 8 legger Nathan? or are you still someway down the “pecking order” yet until someone further up the ladder “pegs out”! I ask this because it sounds like a good firm to drive for so there isn’t much turnover in staff!! Its a case of “dead mens shoes” almost like it used to be on a lot of old fashioned family firms similar to yours I would think.Cheers Dennis.
I went straight to driving 8wheelers when I started, Dennis. They had an F reg that was still plated at 30.400 so with the reduced payload it only did local work like builders’ yards and had been used by agency drivers and being 12 years old it was oast it’s sell by date. It was great to learn on but had a major breakdown and the only one available was the 6wheeler Bubbs posted. This was worn out but Roy Molloy (ex Priors’ fitter) rebuilt the engine and it was a great lorry to drive. I got put on an S reg that was about 3 years old and kept that for 3 years until my current one came new, at over 6 years old she’s showing her age now cab rattles and body that bangs around when empty. Given the choice I’d go back on the 8s it’s just they’ve got a balance of wagons at Gill Mill that they don’t want to change (3x6ws, 2x8ws and an artic)
Hi Nathan,heres another pic from the cuttings box…N318 I believe was on some kind of road test
Cheers Bubbs,
That was my Uncles’ unit; used to pull the low-loader trailer and when not on plant moves ran to Blackthorn Premix out Smiths Concretes’ pit at Hardwick. It was replaced by that S reg unit that I posted up while back, wondering what had happened to it.