I’ve more pics for this thread tomorrow.
Punchy Dan:
Saviem:
Ah, but you aint all bad! Even if you cannot paint your lorries…proper like!Hmm ,now iam puzzled ,ooh wait ,it was our colour before Emr were even invented !
It was mine before you!!!
With my company name bold across the grill…and no manufacturers badges at all…
And it was nearly the same with Chris as well!
Now there is a puzzle for you.
Saviem:
Punchy Dan:
Saviem:
Ah, but you aint all bad! Even if you cannot paint your lorries…proper like!Hmm ,now iam puzzled ,ooh wait ,it was our colour before Emr were even invented !
It was mine before you!!!
With my company name bold across the grill…and no manufacturers badges at all…
And it was nearly the same with Chris as well!
Now there is a puzzle for you.
Can I have a guess please John? …White lettering with a white border across the grill, Daf 2800’s ? or was that just Chris?
Cracking photo’s Dan,Thank you for posting them, Wm Baker from Stafford still got an ex Jones’s ERF B series!, Clive Watson got bought out by Renwicks freight their transport manager now works for Stan Robinson and that Sedgley Steels Guy was parked up round the back of a Church hall by East Park gates for a few years,if not that one…one very similar
Punchy Dan:
0123456
is that green guy edwin holdens,think they still run a erf b series wagon&drag but havent seen it lately.
ergomatic man:
Punchy Dan:
0123456is that green guy edwin holdens,think they still run a erf b series wagon&drag but havent seen it lately.
It is indeed and it looks to be pulling a trailer too .
Evening all,
Dan, thank you for posting such great memory jerking images…Sedgley Steels, not that Guy…but the ex Longton 8LXB sleeper that they ran as well…Orrible yard if you had a trombone on to turn around…!
Billy Baker, forget the Big J, and the ERF, what about his Gardner powered LB76 Scania…the bits were in front of young Bill`s Stables for years.First place I went on a cold winters day…their mega sized Salamander was throwing out so much heat that the whole farm yard was as warm as toast!
Paynes, from down the Delph, by the nine locks…that Guy`s 505 took some strain…next door to Pat Tighe, and he could “load well” as well!..Who was the Irish lad at the top of the hill…Pat?, ran from Armagh…“The Desmine” is all I can remember…had some great nights with him and Noel Zwecker in Armagh" City"…He ran F86s…yes they can do 40 plus tons!
Holden`s Golden…Ive left their Boardroom with some light hearted steps…followed by the dark crashing cloud of a mammouth hangover…then I had to work out what ever sort of deal I had done with them!.. but Iwould be back, (and always was), for more, that Boardroom Beer Pull, and its golden honey sweet content…super people…those Big Js did some work, one was ex London Carriers…Greenhous did the servicing…but that was much later…and probably down to my pal Billy Wright…
John Woodall, those odd outfits hat he ran, yet they made great revenue…big does not equal lots of cash! Remember just what a pig a 40ft single axle could be! Bugger would go backwards just when you thought that it would follow you on a 360 degree turn…much easier with a proper drawbar…
Now those that Marsh and Baxter ran behind their big Leylands, those were proper drawbars…
Never dealt with the Tamworth lads, except Smiths…then Chris bought most of their fleet! Mayfair Garages, I used to treat them with caution, probably one of the better Guy Dealers!
But Stan Robinson and I went to Brewood Grammer…both of us were not academics…we used to laugh about our experiences years later, both of us were written off by our teachers! Blooming heck though, did`nt Stan do well!
And Pete…Chris had the 2800s, (he should have been DAFs Dealer…but Phill Ives believed that Brian Woods, could do better for them with Norman Lloyds backing)…just how wrong could you be…but Anders Siewertz, had faith in Chris, and now he is the Worlds largest private ownership Scania Dealership…No mine had no band around the name, and my blue was slightly lighter than Chriss, and Dans…and in my case on the front of Mercedes Benz, Scania, (ex Chris of course), Volvo, (ex Hartshorne), Renault, (oh dear…what a mistake in the 90s), and DAFs…All my signs came from a little plastic company off Dunstall road, on the site of the old Great Western Locomotive erecting shops!
But that is another story altogether.
Cheerio for now…Dan, that Foden looks really great!
Thank you all ,glad you like them ,I’ll try to put some more on next week but with 2000 odd to go through its a long job ,that blue ,well I think we started with bachelor blue which after so many yrs the paint makers who I also delivered white line marker for called it PUNCHARD blue .when I ordered the sprinter new the merc colour I think was powder ? Or putter blue ,a colour last used by merc in the 70’s ,unfortunately the colour I use now is an Egyptian paint with only a code and no name .
Kate,
This was the Octy driven by Ray Hall, I have posted a few photographs of Millers lorries on “flour millers” thread which is on page 8 and the photo’s start on page 5 of that thread if Steve would like to relive “back ache” times! Cheer’s Pete
pete smith:
Kate,
This was the Octy driven by Ray Hall, I have posted a few photographs of Millers lorries on “flour millers” thread which is on page 8 and the photo’s start on page 5 of that thread if Steve would like to relive “back ache” times! Cheer’s Pete
nice one
Evening all,
Dan, when does the Gravel Run take place?
Thanks.
ergomatic man:
Punchy Dan:
0123456is that green guy edwin holdens,think they still run a erf b series wagon&drag but havent seen it lately.
The Holdens Guy in the pic is, I think, the one recently 'ish rescued for restoration from a farm outside Dudley —
I’ve not seen the B series for a year either tbh
W M Baker B series a couple of years ago
I think the Gravel run is the 15 th of may ,there’s a list on the Cosford website too .
fryske:
ergomatic man:
Punchy Dan:
0123456is that green guy edwin holdens,think they still run a erf b series wagon&drag but havent seen it lately.
The Holdens Guy in the pic is, I think, the one recently 'ish rescued for restoration from a farm outside Dudley —
I’ve not seen the B series for a year either tbh
I think the B Series has been bought by a lad in Worfield
pete smith:
fryske:
ergomatic man:
Punchy Dan:
0123456is that green guy edwin holdens,think they still run a erf b series wagon&drag but havent seen it lately.
The Holdens Guy in the pic is, I think, the one recently 'ish rescued for restoration from a farm outside Dudley —
I’ve not seen the B series for a year either tbh
I think the B Series has been bought by a lad in Worfield
Is he the one with the fairground stuff?
Fryske,
Yes, Holdens had two B Series I think,one with a Gardner and he had the one with the L10 in,it may have a Hiab fitted now, Cheer’s Pete
pete smith:
Kate,
This was the Octy driven by Ray Hall, I have posted a few photographs of Millers lorries on “flour millers” thread which is on page 8 and the photo’s start on page 5 of that thread if Steve would like to relive “back ache” times! Cheer’s Pete
pete.do you know this ray hall ?