Derek with his ex C W Griffiths ERF,which he ran as a flat before putting the tipping body back on it and working out of the Strinds/Dolyhir quarries for Nash Rocks.Pictured here in july 1986.
Derek’s ERF parked at his operating centre.
Derek Layton’s last lorry was this Volvo FL7 eight wheeler,which he hauled out of the Nash Rocks quarries,until he retired.
Another view of Derek’s Volvo.
hi dave i remember derek being mates with my old man iori williams and uncle brynmor williams both of llangadog i think it was before derek had his tipper it was the good old days of hauling cattle feed from avonmouth cardiff and barry ianto
ianto:
hi dave i remember derek being mates with my old man iori williams and uncle brynmor williams both of llangadog i think it was before derek had his tipper it was the good old days of hauling cattle feed from avonmouth cardiff and barry ianto
Hi Ianto,
If you look on the previous page.I have posted pics of Derek’s Leyland and Mercedes,haven’t had a pic of his Albion yet.I emember a rock dropping on the cab of his Albion between St Arvans and Tintern as he was coming back from Avonmouth,he had to have a new cab,he was lucky that he wasn’t injured.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Couple of subbies round here used to run FL7 8 wheelers; one with a 240! 
Not something I liked following in the Cotswolds 
Muckaway:
Dave the Renegade:
Couple of subbies round here used to run FL7 8 wheelers; one with a 240!
Hi Nathan,
That one of Derek’s was one of the earlier FL models.I think they came out on a C plate.I can’t remember anyone complaining about following him,he was a well respected driver, and at the time there were still a few Gardner engined eight wheelers up this way.I remember Clarence ( C W ) Griffiths having a new Foden on a D plate with a Cat 300 in it,everyone thought it was awesome then,now the four wheelers are 310bhp.
Cheers Dave.
Another view from the front.
That sounds right about the first being a C reg. White Horse Contractors from Abingdon had one of the first around here, C reg FL7 6 wheeler with muck body. Didn’t keep it long, it went to an owner driver when they done away with their own tippers.
Muckaway:
That sounds right about the first being a C reg. White Horse Contractors from Abingdon had one of the first around here, C reg FL7 6 wheeler with muck body. Didn’t keep it long, it went to an owner driver when they done away with their own tippers.
As far as I know the first Volvo FL around here,was Nash Rocks first block lorry which was a C reg,an eight wheeler driven by Mick Hughes,who now drives a Vovo FM eight wheeler on the same job,but now owned by a haulier.
Cheers Dave.
Derek Layton with his Volvo tipping precoated chippings in Strinds quarry.
Derek seen with his lorry,at the precoat pad at Strinds quarry.
I shall now don my Health and Safety hat…I presume when sheeting he walked over the load ( 
), sheeting system that can’t be operated from the safety of the cab ( 
), where is his PPE? ( 
) where’s the banksman when tipping? ( ) and most importantly; was a risk assessment carried out before work started? 
Muckaway:
I shall now don my Health and Safety hat…I presume when sheeting he walked over the load (
Agreed, the only appropriate punishment is a 6 month ban, unless the quarries busy and it suits them of course… 
So Oxfordshire pits aren’t the only ones then?
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Muckaway:
I shall now don my Health and Safety hat…I presume when sheeting he walked over the load (Agreed, the only appropriate punishment is a 6 month ban, unless the quarries busy and it suits them of course…
You two were in primary school when those pics were taken. We all walked over the top of the load to shovel some off,or to pull the sheet over.But if you compare the top of a load on a tipper and the load on Derek’s Leyland,there’s a lot of difference in safety.He knew his job,as most of my generation and yours do.
Cheers Dave.
Before weighloaders Dave, I’d open the tailgate and get onto the rear of the load and push some out with the shovel, unless it was shingle when about a ton more than you wanted to would fall out on it’s own! 
Hi Nathan,
In my day it was stand on the top of the load and throw it of with a shovel,the lorries were to short to open the tailboard,you would have to much out of the back.Eight shovelfulls to the cwt,six if you had a big shovel on lime.
Cheers Dave.