I remember when Charles wood bought this , infact they still have the drawbar trailer (parked up ) . nice looking tool .
ohh i remember when that had that aswell still a removal man at hart even if i no longer work in that area!
JAKEY:
I remember when Charles wood bought this , infact they still have the drawbar trailer (parked up ) . nice looking tool .
I never really thought about this before, but that shot of the DAF seems to show the cab + cabover sleeper + sundry other bodywork is all in one, so all that gubbins had to tilt when you wanted to get access to the engine etc. Do you know if this and similar rigs had to have uprated cab suspension fitted to cope with the extra weight?
JAKEY:
nice old van plan " proper removal wagon "
Am I right in thinking those Fox VanPlans were a sort of mustard yellow with FOX in black and THE MOVER in white, or is my memory completely [zb]ed? And were (are?) they from S Wales? (I can remember seeing their wagons most frequently on the M4 eastbound).
HI ALL, i used to go on removals when i was in school with these boys they used bedfords,ford d series,an albion,marsden , we done remploy work & christy-tyler this was a family firm in port talbot
smallcoal:
HI ALL, i used to go on removals when i was in school with these boys they used bedfords,ford d series,an albion,marsden , we done remploy work & christy-tyler this was a family firm in port talbot
Where + when was that photo (top one) taken?
Hi parkroyal , yes with those marsden pods you have to have uprated cab suspension , on one of Charles wood s early daf lf they did not have them uprated and the cab was like a sinking ship in rough water 
, when we ordered our lf Daf we had ours uprated in the build .
smallcoal:
HI ALL, i used to go on removals when i was in school with these boys they used bedfords,ford d series,an albion,marsden , we done remploy work & christy-tyler this was a family firm in port talbot
the top photo is water street port talbot south wales in 1965 them shops are gone now 
the bedford reg were rcy878g-jwn23l-ynd379m was a marsden-the fords were gbo626w-mbo779x the bedford in the pic is e360tth other regs i cant remember 
This company have hired porters off me in the past , bought the picture off ebay as I thought the livery looked similer to ours .
looks ex G.B. liners that Jakey
Yes Legion , I thought it was one of there old wagons .
Subbed myself out to Robinsons the other day and drove this old dog , porters were digging holes in the dash 
Found this on NA3T
ben walker:
The good old days,nice old photo Ben. Mike.
