fryske:
Peter Lloyd drives the Foden Steve.Peter ran his own lorries forr several years,then drove for Bayliss Brothers and has driven for Paul for about 18 months.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
shakysteve:
Dave the Renegade:
This Foden Alpha has murals of Fred Dibnah on the cab,seen on the A40 near Llandovery,Carmarthenshire.Dave this Foden looks like the last foden built and the first owner was J.Roff of Marlborough if its the correct one !!
Hi Steve,
Could well be,its a nice motor with the Fred Dibnah theme on it.Paul Griffiths from this area has one of the last Foden Alpha eight wheelers built also on an 06 plate.
Cheers Dave.
Smiths and Cullimores have 56 plated ones. Two of three of ours can go into London as the body builders were slow to finish them.
Muckaway:
Dave the Renegade:
shakysteve:
Dave the Renegade:
This Foden Alpha has murals of Fred Dibnah on the cab,seen on the A40 near Llandovery,Carmarthenshire.Dave this Foden looks like the last foden built and the first owner was J.Roff of Marlborough if its the correct one !!
Hi Steve,
Could well be,its a nice motor with the Fred Dibnah theme on it.Paul Griffiths from this area has one of the last Foden Alpha eight wheelers built also on an 06 plate.
Cheers Dave.Smiths and Cullimores have 56 plated ones. Two of three of ours can go into London as the body builders were slow to finish them.
Probably all the 56 plated Fodens were late being registered Nathan.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
The late Jim Williams with Mann-Abell Albion,seen at the Gore Quarry in 1972.
I bet you have wear hard hat and hi viz pants just to stand on the weighbridge now, Dave.
Muckaway:
Dave the Renegade:
The late Jim Williams with Mann-Abell Albion,seen at the Gore Quarry in 1972.I bet you have wear hard hat and hi viz pants just to stand on the weighbridge now, Dave.
Hard hat hi viz you name it Nathan.Its a different world to when Mann-Abell ran the Gore quarry.I don’t think any of the generation of drivers from those days would like it now.I was one of the young one’s then,those older blokes didn’t go much on rules and regs,they just got on with the job.They were going to Hampshire and back with those Albions which is 400 miles in those days.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Muckaway:
Dave the Renegade:
The late Jim Williams with Mann-Abell Albion,seen at the Gore Quarry in 1972.I bet you have wear hard hat and hi viz pants just to stand on the weighbridge now, Dave.
Hard hat hi viz you name it Nathan.Its a different world to when Mann-Abell ran the Gore quarry.I don’t think any of the generation of drivers from those days would like it now.I was one of the young one’s then,those older blokes didn’t go much on rules and regs,they just got on with the job.They were going to Hampshire and back with those Albions which is 400 miles in those days.
Cheers Dave.
Dave i think thats a Wilts / Swindon reg ,so who had it new ? Steve.
shakysteve:
Dave the Renegade:
Muckaway:
Dave the Renegade:
The late Jim Williams with Mann-Abell Albion,seen at the Gore Quarry in 1972.I bet you have wear hard hat and hi viz pants just to stand on the weighbridge now, Dave.
Hard hat hi viz you name it Nathan.Its a different world to when Mann-Abell ran the Gore quarry.I don’t think any of the generation of drivers from those days would like it now.I was one of the young one’s then,those older blokes didn’t go much on rules and regs,they just got on with the job.They were going to Hampshire and back with those Albions which is 400 miles in those days.
Cheers Dave.Dave i think thats a Wilts / Swindon reg ,so who had it new ? Steve.
Mann-Abell had a load of Albions from new Steve.The previous batch they had in 1968/9 were Gloucester registration,these in 1971/2 replaced them.Tilcon bought Mann-Abell about two years later and replaced the Albions with Foden eight wheeler tippers.
Cheers Dave.
C W Griffiths first Bedford TK tipper new in 1964.
Foden 3000 series seen at Gore quarry.
Not sure whether this belongs in here or the Shropshire thread - either way - anyone know how many lorries are still being run by Lloyds of ludlow
fryske:
Not sure whether this belongs in here or the Shropshire thread - either way - anyone know how many lorries are still being run by Lloyds of ludlow
Right thread as Ludlow is on the Welsh Border.I think they run two Steve.
Cheers Dave.
They still know how to use ropes in Wales,one of Tony Powell’s seen on the A483 in Llandeilo,Carmarthenshire.
Cenral Wales line crossing the A483 next village after Llandeilo,Carmarthenshire.
A Volvo FH artic bulk tipper,seen on the A483 near Ammanford,Carmarthenshire.
A crisp artic taking a break,seen on the A483 near Pont Abraham,Carmarthenshire.
Dave the Renegade:
A crisp artic taking a break,seen on the A483 near Pont Abraham,Carmarthenshire.
hiya,
Once delivered some hefty machinery into a newly built crisp plant,Widnes I think it was,
got talking to a guy who would be on the production process and he said for every artic
load of spuds arriving at goods in it would take five artics of the same size to take the
end product away from the end of the production line, is there any truth in this, to me
it does seem a bit far fetched, I bet Gary Lineker would have the answer.
thanks harry long retired
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
A crisp artic taking a break,seen on the A483 near Pont Abraham,Carmarthenshire.hiya,
Once delivered some hefty machinery into a newly built crisp plant,Widnes I think it was,
got talking to a guy who would be on the production process and he said for every artic
load of spuds arriving at goods in it would take five artics of the same size to take the
end product away from the end of the production line, is there any truth in this, to me
it does seem a bit far fetched, I bet Gary Lineker would have the answer.
thanks harry long retired
Probably would Harry,as its volume not weight with the end product.There is a Smiths/Walkers factory at Fforestfach near Swansea,so that artic possibly hasn’t come far.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Bit off thread Dave but the stuff I was delivering was to do with filtering
the water after the preparation process, seemingly the water from the
outflow pipe was actually drinkable and the most profitable part of the
manufacturing process in percentages was the potato starch collected in
the washing and peeling part of the job, PS it was the same guy that told
me this that told me about the 5 to 1 trailer ratio, just wondering should
the fellah’ have been a member of the tall story club ■■.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Bit off thread Dave but the stuff I was delivering was to do with filtering
the water after the preparation process, seemingly the water from the
outflow pipe was actually drinkable and the most profitable part of the
manufacturing process in percentages was the potato starch collected in
the washing and peeling part of the job, PS it was the same guy that told
me this that told me about the 5 to 1 trailer ratio, just wondering should
the fellah’ have been a member of the tall story club ■■.
thanks harry long retired.
I reckon he could be right as well “H”,just bloddy bags of air now,crisps,when you open one there’s about 6 bits of crisps in the bottom of the bag,bloody rip off I say !!cheers Dennis.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Bit off thread Dave but the stuff I was delivering was to do with filtering
the water after the preparation process, seemingly the water from the
outflow pipe was actually drinkable and the most profitable part of the
manufacturing process in percentages was the potato starch collected in
the washing and peeling part of the job, PS it was the same guy that told
me this that told me about the 5 to 1 trailer ratio, just wondering should
the fellah’ have been a member of the tall story club ■■.
thanks harry long retired.
Don’t know much about the crisp making process Harry.There is a firm making crisps near Leominster called Tyrells.There Is always a lot of steam coming from there.Suppose the story about water coming through spuds would be pure.The naughty boys launder red deisel through them.
Cheers Dave.