Axminster transport

[dog_tired]

Now that is a beauty, always wanted one or a 111 but never happened, still must be thankful i drove the iconic F88 290 for 2 yrstt, did a couple of trips in a mates 111 and loved the thing.Often wondered why Cliff had a Daf 2800 after his F88 rather than a Scania, perhaps he will tell us if reads this.
Cliff just done the maths and it’s about 40yrs since we last met…ye gods i’m older than i thought…off to start digging me grave now,cheers.

PS. If there’s a prize for best livery surely Axminster Transport would be a strong contender.

[cliff_luxton]

Thank you Norman ,Robert, David ,Bubbs, Norman, for your post’s much appreciated. This thing will only mean anything to the drivers that travelled abroad and found them in various restaurants bars garages and other strange places.

[cliff_luxton]

Stayed here last night still good food,all different staff, closes 4 pm Saturday till Monday morning .

[peggydeckboy]

Brilliant thread you and buzzer are on par ,i would like to ask a Question in the 1980s i remember loading meat for i think NORTH DEVON MEATS and when you were not full loaded the fore quarters would hang out the rear doors and if i remember right ,you would pull off the bay and drive in the sloping car park and shunt the fores up,and a loader would jump in and put the clips down… where was it, for the life of me i cannot remember,also loaded at probus…pdb.

[saviem]

Cliff luxton:
Thank you Norman ,Robert, David ,Bubbs, Norman, for your post’s much appreciated. This thing will only mean anything to the drivers that travelled abroad and found them in various restaurants bars garages and other strange places.

Evening all,

Well strange places indeed…Peter gave me a big wad of those self adhesive stickers, (just peel the two seperate parts away on the back)…

Now were these the furthest that they got…Cattle Mans Restraunt, Dallas Texas,…Mack`s Texas Branch, Irving Boulevard Dallas, (two, one on my filing cabinet top draw, and one behind workshop reception…(next to the notice to surrender all firearms in your vehicle to the workshop supervisor…in English and Spanish)…

Charlotte North Carolina, The Moanin Lisa`s truck stop, then I sneaked one into the shop supervisors office, Kenworth of Charlotte…Lazy Dog, another truck stop, where they served the biggest portions of apple pie I had ever seen…and truly they should have been measured in Cubic feet! down outside of Oaklahoma City, then two in the bar at the Rodeo at Mesquite…boy to see those young girls barrel racing…that was pure horsemanship!

Quitman, Texas, (birth place of Cissy Spacek), behind the Mayors desk…(yes he knew, he was an ex WW2 Veteran, and knew Chard, and Axminster quite well)!..Behind the bar counter, (but visible to customers, in the "Altrium Restaurant…top of that big column, a revolving restaurant in Dallas…you could see the stock yards at Fort Worth from there, whil`st eating your 32oz steak

The girls from Braniff, (the big Orange), airline had one in their “rest room”, at Dallas Fort Worth Airport…And at the Lakeside Golf and Country club, behind the Presidents door, in a frame just outside St Louis…another ex WW2 Veteran, who knew our West Country so well before the hell of Normandy, and the landings!

Yes, Peter, when he gave them to me he said , “spread them about”…and I did…including one that Francoise Zanotti had on his “photograph board” in Paris…Now that really was top of the tree the top man in Renault Vehicules Industriels!!!

Yes Cliff, that livery took some beating, it really was iconic…

Oh and there was the one on my"mans handbag", (remember them from the 80s)…took some stick in “Red neck bars” over that…but gave as good as I got…

Cheerio for now

[kerbut]

Dont try and stop the Fish restaurant (Aire De Marin ) Cliff , its closed down.

[kerbut]

Cliff luxton:
Stayed here last night still good food,all different staff, closes 4 pm Saturday till Monday morning .

Not even Tony fiddling the amount fuel on the pumps ?

[cliff_luxton]

Thanks peggydeckboy as far as I can remember your right about north Devon Meat we used to pull of the loading bay and head towards the entrance gate before hitting the brakes and send everything flying around the cab,as well as the beef towards the front of the trailer to make more room. It was a wonder we didn’t loose more of the rails from the roof they weren’t really built for that treatment. We also used to load from Probus with the beef for yugoslavia before the war there,when you cleared customs on the border at Maribor the vet used to take 2 fillets of beef from the hindquarters from each trailer keeping one for himself and give the driver the other,not many people had fillet steak everyday for a week.I think most of the old fridge companies were involved in the job for a short time.Comart, Fransen, Kelly Freight, Swallow ,Cadwalader. Just to mention a few.
Thanks Saviem I think you can definitely say you spread those stickers far and wide I will show this post to Peter when I see him. I must say I avoided the man bag but did have the big drivers wallet for all the different currencies we had to carry. Peter would have been proud of the one in the head of Renault office as he did like those trucks. I tried spreading them as far and wide as possible a friend once said to me Luxton you and those bloody stickers I was in a club in Spain and there was a girl with one of those stickers on her ass.
Thanks Nigel hope all is going well with the good lady,came past the fish restaurant yesterday and they got machinery in there working don’t know what they’re doing.
Time to come home.

[cliff_luxton]

Here we are back in Poole.

[robert1952]

Not sure if we’ve had this pic on here. Anyway, it’s currently on ebay! Robert

[cliff_luxton]

I haven’t seen that one on here before Robert,thank you keep finding new ones for us .

[cliff_luxton]

In the day’s of running to Morroco.

[cliff_luxton]

Who would have thought when we were driving round in these lorries with 290 engines in them thinking we were the bees knee’s ,that 40 years later the same manufacturer is producing lorries with 750 engines, that’s scary.

[mappo]

Sign of the times aye Cliff, i know which i prefer…
Gonna pop down and see you one of these days mate…

[gerbil_sb152]

Hey tony i was thinking the same thing but not sure if Cliff would have enough red to keep’s us going. HaHa

[cliff_luxton]

Hi Tony and Kevin nice of you to add to this little thread, I reckon at a push I could find enough red to keep you boy’s going for a weekend, it would be great to see you both.

[cliff_luxton]

Don’t know what happened to quality control on this pic but it is a different one.

[cliff_luxton]

This is beginning to feel a lot like home.

[kerbut]

Lucky you Cliff , I wish we were back in Sedella , but thats not to be until September , Margaret has to see the surgeon next Tuesday to see if she can come off the Zimmer and go on crutches and then have phisio .

[cliff_luxton]

Stopped here Monday night great place room food everything spot on.