Hi Carl
Thanks for reposting the Chambers & Cook photos. I have since found a few more on truck photos for sale - but I cannot find the photos I took all those years ago.
If anyone does have more C&C photos (especially of the DAF’s) I would be grateful.
Also, I think I remember an LDD on C&C - with 2 mercs going to belgium - drivers were (I think) Dave & Kevin Danks?
Thanks
Chris
here ya go coffers
Cheers for that Carl
The DAF I do know… I am 95% sure that belonged to Bob,… can’t remember his surname though. It was actually his own and he subbed to C&C. Been on a trip in the DAF when I was a teenager during the school summer hols…
Thanks again
Chris
bobw:
Hey Carl
Did you notice that the last photo of Chambers + Cooks merc and the first photo of Taffy Davies’s merc both taken in exactly the same spot, did you take em matejust thought i’d mention it let u no i’m paying attention
Bob.
i wonder if its the A2 in london the old route used to dover before the M25.
As a native of those parts I can say that it ain’t the A2, the only two sections like that are at the New Cross one way system & it don’t look like that, doesn’t look like it’s anywhere on the route from the bottom of the M1 through to the start of the A2, the bloke that posted the pics is from Burton on Trent so it may be up north somewhere 
It looks like the junction where you joined the roundabout traveling south, just after passing Spittalfield market (as was about 20 years ago) going towards the A13. It was a big roundabout, poss considered a small one way system.
Ross.
its somewhere in dover boys them pics are from eurowheels and theres quite a few taken from that spot 
newmercman:
As a native of those parts I can say that it ain’t the A2, the only two sections like that are at the New Cross one way system & it don’t look like that, doesn’t look like it’s anywhere on the route from the bottom of the M1 through to the start of the A2, the bloke that posted the pics is from Burton on Trent so it may be up north somewhere
yep i know new cross.
just thought it was maybe the old route through london rather than round it. the pictures are pinched from another photo site so it was more than likely a spotter who happened to take both photos the same day.
we should stick these 2 pictures in the where am i forum.
newmercman:
As a native of those parts I can say that it ain’t the A2, the only two sections like that are at the New Cross one way system & it don’t look like that, doesn’t look like it’s anywhere on the route from the bottom of the M1 through to the start of the A2, the bloke that posted the pics is from Burton on Trent so it may be up north somewhere
ahem, the fact that aldwych east tube station is the backdrop MAY give a clue… old people eh?! 
jj72:
newmercman:
As a native of those parts I can say that it ain’t the A2, the only two sections like that are at the New Cross one way system & it don’t look like that, doesn’t look like it’s anywhere on the route from the bottom of the M1 through to the start of the A2, the bloke that posted the pics is from Burton on Trent so it may be up north somewhereahem, the fact that aldwych east tube station is the backdrop MAY give a clue… old people eh?!
Well I was right about the New Cross bit
Never used to go that way pre M25, us locals would go up the A102M to Hackney Wick then up the Balls Pond Road through Dalston to Highbury Corner & up the Holloway Rd
was’nt there a big stink about the trucks useing balls pond road and truck magazine did a writeup about it a few years back ?
newmercman:
Well I was right about the New Cross bit
in what way? 
you wouldn’t want to walk it - 'specially not this time of night
and i meant aldgate east of course, not aldwych 
It is in the London Lorry Ban zone so you can’t run through it before 7am, I was a tester/writer for TRUCK & being the sad illegitimate that I am I had & have read every issue, can’t remember that one but they did something when the m25 was completed in a couple of Ryder Truck Rental 1617 Mercs, one went through the middle, the other round the m25, that could’ve been it Told you I was sad didn’t I
the locals putting ban the lorry posters in their windows and all that,its going back before the london ban thingy.
jj72:
newmercman:
Well I was right about the New Cross bitin what way?
and i meant aldgate east of course, not aldwych
I said it WASN’T New Cross & as you so rightly pointed out SECOND time around it was Aldgate & that’s never been in S E London
curnock:
the locals putting ban the lorry posters in their windows and all that,its going back before the london ban thingy.
FYI nobody that lives in the Balls pond Road is a local, if a dog is born in a stable it’s still a dog, never a horse
newmercman:
curnock:
the locals putting ban the lorry posters in their windows and all that,its going back before the london ban thingy.FYI nobody that lives in the Balls pond Road is a local, if a dog is born in a stable it’s still a dog, never a horse
ok then the natives.
curnock:
newmercman:
curnock:
the locals putting ban the lorry posters in their windows and all that,its going back before the london ban thingy.FYI nobody that lives in the Balls pond Road is a local, if a dog is born in a stable it’s still a dog, never a horse
ok then the natives.
Yeah they did have posters in the windows but that was late 70s early 80s & it was one of the main routes through London, you can’t blame them really, lorries were a lot noisier in those days, after all we all like our lorries but I don’t think any of us would want them going past the front door day & night 
I heard somewhere that old Atkis & the like could blow milk bottles off doorsteps with those front mounted exhausts, that must’ve been a hoot
One of the natives put a brick thru a moving trucks windscreen in Hackney as a protest.
harry:
One of the natives put a brick thru a moving trucks windscreen in Hackney as a protest.
Nice people You’re in dangerous territory as soon as you go north of the Thames mate