Hello John ,
Yes still busy ,how about you ?
people still booking then cancelling at the last hour at times ,very annoying when you turned work away .
Snow here today , watch my carpets !!!
Another photo i found on ebay , X1HVJ “the hoff” and Matty on the M4 by Membury services ,on the way back from the Swindon Hospital after delivering a full load of hospital beds and collecting the old ones to deliver back to our local hospital for scrap ,summer of 2020 .
ParkRoyal2100:
“DEANB” Been quiet on here lately ■■Pickfords,back in the day…
Credit where credit’s due Dean, you don’t half know how to wind us lot up
To be fair they were the bees knees back in the 60’s and 70’s. However with all the different owner’s buying
and selling them over the years they were nothing special by the 90’s, and used alot of hired labour. You only
had to look at the state of there trucks. They were rough and thats how much the standards had dropped since
the 60’s,70’s and 80’s !
You may find this inresting from 1976.
Click on pages twice to read.
Suedehead:
0NMP
This truck was probably from a batch of chassis that was originally an order for BRS Truck Rental for standard (24’ box bodies) D1614’s that was cancelled. IIRC the order was for 150 chassis from Ford. Pickfords had the chassis lengthened in order to have a body that could take 4 containers instead of the standard 3 container body that they had always ordered. However the Inverness reg plate is a bit of a mystery as all these vehicles would have been registered in Enfield and I don’t recall that the Inverness depot was equipped to take containers in 1981-2.
Dennis Javelin:
Suedehead:
0NMPThis truck was probably from a batch of chassis that was originally an order for BRS Truck Rental for standard (24’ box bodies) D1614’s that was cancelled. IIRC the order was for 150 chassis from Ford. Pickfords had the chassis lengthened in order to have a body that could take 4 containers instead of the standard 3 container body that they had always ordered. However the Inverness reg plate is a bit of a mystery as all these vehicles would have been registered in Enfield and I don’t recall that the Inverness depot was equipped to take containers in 1981-2.
CGT a London reg.
Oily
oiltreader:
Dennis Javelin:
Suedehead:
0NMPThis truck was probably from a batch of chassis that was originally an order for BRS Truck Rental for standard (24’ box bodies) D1614’s that was cancelled. IIRC the order was for 150 chassis from Ford. Pickfords had the chassis lengthened in order to have a body that could take 4 containers instead of the standard 3 container body that they had always ordered. However the Inverness reg plate is a bit of a mystery as all these vehicles would have been registered in Enfield and I don’t recall that the Inverness depot was equipped to take containers in 1981-2.
CGT a London reg.
Oily
Sweet Jeesus I need my eyes tested, I thought it was CST. Anyway that’s the mystery solved as I remember that batch of reg no’s. Thanks.
1.spotted in St giles in Oxford. 
4.Parkend street OXFORD .
JAKEY:
4.Parkend street OXFORD .
Hi Steve,hope no traffic wardens about parked on double yellow mate ,not been on much been busy all week haven’t stopped,nice pics of the trucks ,go on you tube type in heavy,traffic there’s a christie Tyler artic big players in the 80,s with South Wales
All credit to Richard Says for the photos.
Oily
Hello John , ha ha there is no where to park there with out being on the double yellows ,to the right of the photo are a set of pedestrian gates
which lead to a long path down to the old canal,the flats are on the right ,in fact if you walked along a bit ,you see the old ARCHER COWLEY depository warehouse .
Great pictures OIly !!1
Nice old Van plan advert Dean.
JAKEY:
Nice old Van plan advert Dean.
I never understood why so many people rated those Vanplan bodies. I had one but much preferred Vancraft bodies as
much stronger and better built in my opinion.
1Hello all , my brother broke his foot today whilst climbing up the raves with wet feet !!! 
,so it looks for the next four weeks i be pressed up the road with this baby , starting today local but next week down to devon on a over night ,and so on , love the wagon but i have to park mine up for a few weeks .
2.My brother washes this every single day and the wheels get more if possible ,slippers in the cab etc , i am cab happy but i struggle to keep it like this with trying to run the office too ,but i give it a go .
JAKEY:
1Hello all , my brother broke his foot today whilst climbing up the raves with wet feet !!!
Thats bad news JAKEY, sorry to hear that about your brother. 
He was unlucky to break his foot . He will have to be careful not to rush coming back, as going up and down the ramps (angle)
will soon bugger up his foot again. 
Very unlucky chap.