A few photos of Ementons coaches, nmp
OldishJoda:
Poikey:
Kempston, as you go through Great Barford towards the Black Cat, Rogers Engineers was on the left which was always kept immaculately. Next door to a scrap yard, Terrys I think.
Rogers Engineers had a few other yards. Weedon, Stamford, Kettering and one Birmingham way off the top of my head.Rogers Aviation was situated in Hanger 1 at Cranfield Airfield better known as the College of Aeronautics in those days, then as Cranfield Institute of Technology, my friend was a Aircraft Fitter there, I also lived on the College so knew the place well.
Rogers Aviation was next door to Beds Air Centre, Beds Air Centre and aircraft was used for the filming of Michael Crawfords Some Mothers Do Have Them !Rogers Engineers also had a yard in the centre of Sherington Village in between Newport Pagnell & Olney but I think it finished approx 40 years ago.
Didn’t they use one of farmers removals lorries for one of the scenes in some mother’s do have em?
Regards Andy
Andy, they may well have done. A C Farmer rings a bell.
Ementons ran a motley bunch of vehicles, but here’s more to the list of defunct operators!
Amos Horsburgh, Removals
A B Carriers
Cedar Coaches
Horseshoe Coaches, Tottenham and Kemptson
Ouse Valley Coaches
Stan Gammons, Thurleigh
Barfordian
Poikey:
Andy, they may well have done. A C Farmer rings a bell.Ementons ran a motley bunch of vehicles, but here’s more to the list of defunct operators!
Amos Horsburgh, Removals
A B CarriersCedar Coaches
Horseshoe Coaches, Tottenham and Kemptson
Ouse Valley Coaches
Stan Gammons, Thurleigh
Barfordian
I remember all the names above…
Horseshoe coaches from the bottom of Kempston Hill had the LBC contract out of Stewartby brickyards (7 days) and also the Stewartby school approx 20 coaches (M-F) as I rode them to school from Cranfield.
Barfordian (Great Barford) was owned by a friend of mine George Williams x Cranfield milkman who died approx 9 years ago. I beleive Souls from Olney bought Barfordian up.
I think Souls did buy Barfordian. Horseshoes olde yard is now houses/flats and called something like Horseshoe Court, bearing in mind I moved away from Bedford quite a few years back and breezed through a few of times since.
Barfodians yard on Goldington Road was originally Ouse Valley’s and access to the yard many years back was via Bury Walk between what was The Golden Lion pub and the cottages. The current entrance on Goldington Road was a row of cottages which can be seen in the picture from tinternut.
Poikey:
Andy, they may well have done. A C Farmer rings a bell.Ementons ran a motley bunch of vehicles, but here’s more to the list of defunct operators!
Amos Horsburgh, Removals
A B CarriersCedar Coaches
Horseshoe Coaches, Tottenham and Kemptson
Ouse Valley Coaches
Stan Gammons, Thurleigh
Barfordian
Amos Horsburgh also had estate agents and indeed we purchased our first house through them, A B Carriers were based in kempston and did all of Peter Guild furniture deliveries down to Harrods etc until Peter Guilds moved up to Nottinghamshire I think. Barfordians used to supply a double decker coach for Man Utd’s supporters club from Bedford bus station which they also shared with Walsall supporters branch picking up at Hilton park services, went on it a few times, jeeze I’ve never seen so much alcohol consumed! 
some of them were so drunk by the time they arrived they didn’t even get into the football! It used to stop off at the railway club in Manchester iirc.
I forgot Amos Horsburgh was an estate agent.
Here’s some photo’s liberated from the ether…one of the buses, HHT 57N never had any power steering throughout it life and ended up getting scrapped after an argument with a low bridge!
Some of the buses at the time had the No Nuclear Dump sticker on them and Cedar also ran some secondhand Daimler buses…the same Daimler as is in Jaguar cars which I think owned Guy trucks as well at one point.
This is the Some Mothers do ave em sketch with Farmers removal lorry, its not brilliant quality but looks to me like it goes over Oakley bridges.
coomsey:
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Great photo coomsey, haven’t seen this one before, it always amazes how new photos seem to appear.
Kempston:
coomsey:
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0Great photo coomsey, haven’t seen this one before, it always amazes how new photos seem to appear.
Yes K you never know what’s going to pop up! I remember Hulls but not for heavy haulage,did they run bricks or tippers?
coomsey:
Kempston:
coomsey:
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0Great photo coomsey, haven’t seen this one before, it always amazes how new photos seem to appear.
Yes K you never know what’s going to pop up! I remember Hulls but not for heavy haulage,did they run bricks or tippers?
They had a mix of vehicles coomsey, yes they did bricks as did pretty much every haulier around the Bedford area and yes they had a couple of tippers, they also had a couple of skip lorries, quite a bit of their work was with W.H.Allen, when their work died off then so did Hulls, Jim Hull used to go into the dispatch department every Friday and sort out what work he wanted, they also used to do all the skip work out of the factory.
Kempston:
These may have been posted elsewhere but for your reference coomsey.3
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Impressive K, they seem to have everything covered, cheers coomsey
coomsey:
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I always knew you liked the Volvo brand “coomsey”
Kempston:
These may have been posted elsewhere but for your reference coomsey.
Here’s another clipping about the Foden from 1966.
DEANB:
coomsey:
Nice one! NMP off FBI always knew you liked the Volvo brand “coomsey”
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You been drinking Dean? 
