Wm Rowe & Sons vehicles parked up at Elford in the late 80’s. It looks like times were hard judging by the condition of the vehicles.
Hello silver fox
I remember passing your place during the eighties short cut back to smurfits mill, flat trailers in them days no problem with the bridges
Gunny
reckon the landrover 2a is worthy of a place on here older than most of the trucks (1969).
thegunner:
reckon the landrover 2a is worthy of a place on here older than most of the trucks (1969).
Are you taking the proverbial Gunny? Which company from Tamworth had the old Landrover 2a?
thegunner:
smurfit yard dordon
IIRC these vehicles were from a hire company called Yellow Belly Hire !
A CTS Tamworth driver had a lucky escape after leaving the M6 between Penrith and Carlisle, 1976/77
Recovery vehicles in the background racing to the scene.
i think that was around tebay if i remember right
CRAIG-D:
i think that was around tebay if i remember right
Yes mate it could be Tebay, I was only going on what Graham had told me and it was a long time ago.
silver fox
I remember a young lad with rowes transport i think he was the apprentice you must remember him i think he had a mullet, he use to drive around in a landrover pick up ?
gunny
i think that would have been shaun with the landy wouldnt it andy ■■?
Craig dont rise to Gunny the person he is on about is me, when i started at Rowes the service vehicle was a LWB pick up petrol Land Rover and for some reason he thinks i had a mullet as today he seems to think i have grey hair. The guy is deluded
Atki mk1 twin steer restoration up date, chassis has been primed, front axle out to be stripped and springs been refurbed, second steer axle checked and in good working order.
i was only up grahams 2 weeks ago and the axle was still in then he is going to town on it the others look well but he never went that far with them but that one is the only suviving one in the world he has been told
Hi silver fox
Just going through all the pictures you have posted, bloody brill i didnt no charlie hines has being going as long as he has he dont look old enough ha ha. steve tilford just hasnt changed, love the scrap yard shots.
what a shame the rec trucks had to go specially the bigun, reminds me of a foden gun tractor i used to drive in the army absolute beast but great defo king of the road with the gun on the back must have been 60 / 70 foot long and some of the smaller towns & smaller traffic islands we used to take the gun off and drive its own its own engine round the roundabout or tight bend then recouple PROPER TRUCKING .
just out the paint shop
thegunner:
Hi silver foxJust going through all the pictures you have posted, bloody brill i didnt no charlie hines has being going as long as he has he dont look old enough ha ha. steve tilford just hasnt changed, love the scrap yard shots.
what a shame the rec trucks had to go specially the bigun, reminds me of a foden gun tractor i used to drive in the army absolute beast but great defo king of the road with the gun on the back must have been 60 / 70 foot long and some of the smaller towns & smaller traffic islands we used to take the gun off and drive its own its own engine round the roundabout or tight bend then recouple PROPER TRUCKING .
PROPER TRUCKING THE ARMY ? 
Bit unfair Mike p unless of course you have tried it & no better, then i bow to you :
No sorry mate ive never tried it im a haulage man through & through and nothing else,
so i bow to you mate and all the boys that serve and have served for our great country,
regards
Mike.