Dean,
Within your collection would have any copies of headlight magazine dated in 1988?
There was a Terry Fossey article regards his New Volvo F10 at the time.
sadly lost all my T&D, Headlight, Trucking international & Truck mags some years back.
Would love to see again or if you have any other extracts like long distance diary’s or stuff like that with anyone Bedfordshire based?
cheers,
Stu
SHUNT1986:
Dean,Within your collection would have any copies of headlight magazine dated in 1988?
There was a Terry Fossey article regards his New Volvo F10 at the time.
sadly lost all my T&D, Headlight, Trucking international & Truck mags some years back.
Would love to see again or if you have any other extracts like long distance diary’s or stuff like that with anyone Bedfordshire based?cheers,
Stu
I never collected many headlight magazines Stu so i doubt it,but if i can find them i will have a look. 
Here’s a LDD from your part of the world.
Click on pages twice to read.
Thanks Dean!, Great work. I’ll have a read of that when i’m on my lunch.
if you have anymore keep them coming.
Cheers, Stu
Here’s a LDD from your part of the world.
I remember these vehicles & company… also Dave Simmonds lived just up the road from me and initially lived opposite my papershop at the time of this business.
Nice one thanks for sharing.
Regards Andy
SHUNT1986:
Thanks Dean!, Great work. I’ll have a read of that when i’m on my lunch.
if you have anymore keep them coming.
Cheers, Stu
OldishJoda:
Here’s a LDD from your part of the world.I remember these vehicles & company… also Dave Simmonds lived just up the road from me and initially lived opposite my papershop at the time of this business.
Nice one thanks for sharing.
Regards Andy
To be honest i havent scanned anything for a very long time as been too busy for the last year or so but recently a few things have changed and will have
time to scan some more stuff. Still have thousands of pages scanned so will see if there are any more LDD that i have already done from the Bedfordshire
area.
I believe these were from Milton Keynes ?
DEANB:
SHUNT1986:
Thanks Dean!, Great work. I’ll have a read of that when i’m on my lunch.
if you have anymore keep them coming.
Cheers, StuOldishJoda:
Here’s a LDD from your part of the world.I remember these vehicles & company… also Dave Simmonds lived just up the road from me and initially lived opposite my papershop at the time of this business.
Nice one thanks for sharing.
Regards AndyTo be honest i havent scanned anything for a very long time as been too busy for the last year or so but recently a few things have changed and will have
time to scan some more stuff. Still have thousands of pages scanned so will see if there are any more LDD that i have already done from the Bedfordshire
area.I believe these were from Milton Keynes ?
Hi Dean, they had a depot in kempston, nothing in mk to the best of my knowledge, they did have another depot in London, can’t remember where now but I used to do some agency work for them for a while and did go there once, not a bad job tbh although not the best payers in the world, I particularly liked the Norfolk run they did every day as fewer drops and some nice places to go to with easy access. They are now known as F&P distribution and have had a brand new distribution centre built in Bedford.
Here or R n S or Foden? Either way a cracking photo, bottom of Archway?
coomsey:
Here or R n S or Foden? Either way a cracking photo, bottom of Archway?
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It looks like the bottom of Archway coomsey and like you say, a cracking photo.
coomsey:
Here or R n S or Foden? Either way a cracking photo, bottom of Archway?
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Was this the 2 stroke Fodens that K&D had, noisy motor around buildings lol ?
Kempston:
“DEANB”I believe these were from Milton Keynes ?
Hi Dean, they had a depot in kempston, nothing in mk to the best of my knowledge, they did have another depot in London, can’t remember where now but I used to do some agency work for them for a while and did go there once, not a bad job tbh although not the best payers in the world, I particularly liked the Norfolk run they did every day as fewer drops and some nice places to go to with easy access. They are now known as F&P distribution and have had a brand new distribution centre built in Bedford.
Dave did Tricom have something to do with Tricentrol ?
I think they did Dean but couldn’t swear to it, they were a big concern in Bedfordshire back in the day. Here’s a piece which is worth a read (if I’ve downloaded it correctly).
Kempston:
I think they did Dean but couldn’t swear to it, they were a big concern in Bedfordshire back in the day. Here’s a piece which is worth a read (if I’ve downloaded it correctly).
Thanks for the link Dave.
Advert from 1978.
DEANB:
Dawson Freight Volvo F88.0
Job to know what depot they were from as the one behind has Rays of Bedford on the roof. A neighbour of my mums drove an F88 for them, he often used to park it overnight on a piece of waste ground near the house.
Kempston:
DEANB:
Dawson Freight Volvo F88.0
Job to know what depot they were from as the one behind has Rays of Bedford on the roof. A neighbour of my mums drove an F88 for them, he often used to park it overnight on a piece of waste ground near the house.
Rays if I remember rightly it was 1963 were up (1000yds) the Cambridge Road just past the Turnpike PH…
Are L.W.Vass still going ? Always liked there adverts as they sold some intresting stuff.
They did alot of Bedford parts and were a good company to deal with.
Advert from 1979.
DEANB:
Are L.W.Vass still going ? Always liked there adverts as they sold some intresting stuff.They did alot of Bedford parts and were a good company to deal with.
Advert from 1979.
Still going strong Dean though the land must be worth a fortune so how long for who knows? I used to go in there for Shanks, got on really well with them and they used to look after me very well at Xmas time
coomsey:
COR !!
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No nearside wiper or mirror let alone other frivolities like radios, heaters and power steering.
It doesn’t seem that long ago when Eberspacher adverts were in most truck magazines let alone having an FM radio. Analogue radios .with knobs, buttons and manual tuning. Then there was the gearboxes…. EPS, Twin Splitter and Roadranger or ZF boxes in DAFs, Mercs and Renaults were to operate the range change, the gear lever was knocked through a gate.
Poikey:
coomsey:
COR !!
0No nearside wiper or mirror let alone other frivolities like radios, heaters and power steering.
It doesn’t seem that long ago when Eberspacher adverts were in most truck magazines let alone having an FM radio. Analogue radios .with knobs, buttons and manual tuning. Then there was the gearboxes…. EPS, Twin Splitter and Roadranger or ZF boxes in DAFs, Mercs and Renaults were to operate the range change, the gear lever was knocked through a gate.
My father drove a Foden FG for Thermalite and they fitted a nearside mirror for him, he used to take his dad occasionally as a passenger and he used to alter the mirror setting so that HE could see which wasn’t much help to dad! 
Pete.
