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How many of you drove this for your Class 1, City Road June 1984.Sorry about the background, but my scanner wouldn’t work on this photo as too much’white sky’ for it to cope with
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Last one for today and especially for SCUD and his book
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gloves - love seeing the old pictures of Bradford trucks and the streets too. I grew up around that area as my Dad drove for Remploy off Paley Road. Do you remember Wilsons Transport at the bottom of Wakefield Road? Also there was a small car garage next door that a friend of ours had. He had an old Jag been restored in there, Leonard he was called.
any more ? keep em coming…
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Here`s a couple of Gloves photos the tow truck from Wakefield Rd and Scud mm8 ex Harold Woods by the look of the cabthanks ramone my dad ended up with the aec tow truck he got it with a job we did down side of keyline back in late 90s we ended up selling it to Kevin Dennis well known classic truck collector
Another from the collection dated 1983
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Glad you sussed it Barry
I am unable to post more than one image at a time, there MUST be something else to learn about these damned computers.
In the mean time more to add, this one dated August 1985I`ve driven that around their yard Homesy bought it brand new ,my dad worked there ,he got JCP 49W a Leyland Marathon with E290 ■■■■■■■ in brand new he had a F86 before that and this Mandator new to Bakers and bought by Homesy but it was in a sorry state and around 10 years old when he got it
Sorry no Marathon, just a Roadtrain on a very wet and cold day in February 1992
My dad had left by the time the Roadtrain arrived he went to Galloways ,another rough fleet ,have you any of Clive Colemans ?
June 1991
May 1987, Bowling Back Lane nothing like having a few axles for the weight?
how owned this scammell fantastic photos gloves keep em coming m8 B holmes they got bought out by UK waste they were a lot of ruff fleets about great pics brings back the good mems
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Here`s a couple of Gloves photos the tow truck from Wakefield Rd and Scud mm8 ex Harold Woods by the look of the cabthanks ramone my dad ended up with the aec tow truck he got it with a job we did down side of keyline back in late 90s we ended up selling it to Kevin Dennis well known classic truck collector
Another from the collection dated 1983
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Glad you sussed it Barry
Am having difficulty trying to send more than one photo at a time, obviously I have more to learn about these damned computers.
This AEC photo from June 1987
was this skip truck ownd by russell stone ?
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THOUGHT THEY WOULD STILL BE ABOUT THEY USED TO BRING SCRAP UP TO T J THOMPSONS AT STOCKTON ON TEES THEY WHERE RUNNING 2 FL10,S THAT WAS BACK IN THE 80,S 2 CANNY LAD,S YOUNGER 1 HAD REAL LONG HAIR A BIT OF A FOOTBALLER. IF I REMEBER MOTOR,S WHERE ALWAY,S KEPT IN GOOD CONDITION.
Mick the long haired one still works there, the other lad Martin works for Associated Waste Management these days. Trucks always well turned out
were as gloves gone with them pics 
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Jonas Crowther Bedford TL, October 1984
GeeBee Dodge K, 1983
Scorpio ERF C Series, Euroway, 1983
RTZ Bedford, Low Moor, 1983
ERF A Series, Stone Chair, 1983
Hornbys Fiat, bottom of Bowling Back Lane, August 1985
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Better picture of the hepworth and Grandage Ergomatic, someone may know the driver, May 1984Jonas Crowther Bedford TL, October 1984
GeeBee Dodge K, 1983
Scorpio ERF C Series, Euroway, 1983
RTZ Bedford, Low Moor, 1983
ERF A Series, Stone Chair, 1983
Hornbys Fiat, bottom of Bowling Back Lane, August 1985
fantastics gloves were abouts on bowling back lane is the fiat parked cant reconise it keep em coming
Hi Barry / Gloves!
Good to see you’ve started posting some of yourm many hundreds of pics!
Don’t suppose you have got any of the old RL Noble fleet you could post up have you?
Would love to see some of the ones you’ve taken over the years!
Cheers,
Foden450:
Hi Barry / Gloves!Good to see you’ve started posting some of yourm many hundreds of pics!
Don’t suppose you have got any of the old RL Noble fleet you could post up have you?
Would love to see some of the ones you’ve taken over the years!
Cheers,
would be great to see the old muckshifters 8 wheelers
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Better picture of the hepworth and Grandage Ergomatic, someone may know the driver, May 1984Jonas Crowther Bedford TL, October 1984
GeeBee Dodge K, 1983
Scorpio ERF C Series, Euroway, 1983
RTZ Bedford, Low Moor, 1983
ERF A Series, Stone Chair, 1983
Hornbys Fiat, bottom of Bowling Back Lane, August 1985
fantastics gloves were abouts on bowling back lane is the fiat parked cant reconise it keep em coming
Believe it was Essex Street, near St James’s Wholesale Market, also think Hornsbys had a yard there, or the driver was in the ‘Greasy Spoon’ on the roundabout at the bottom of Wakefield Road, others may know different■■?
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Hi Barry / Gloves!Good to see you’ve started posting some of yourm many hundreds of pics!
Don’t suppose you have got any of the old RL Noble fleet you could post up have you?
Would love to see some of the ones you’ve taken over the years!
Cheers,
Maybe stretching the Bradford Hauliers theme a little, but Les did have the yard near the Chainbar, where I think we may have met, when in my TD5. Alvin was also there at the same time, spannering for the fleet. Will have to see if anyone is going to complain. Do not know how to start up a new category for the Trucknet uk site, possibly Ramone is reading this and can assist me as usual. Does have its benefits being a ‘Luddite’ as it stops me from getting ahead of myself with all this computer/new technology rubbish. Only recently started using Biros instead of blunt pencils (in case I was to harm myself with sharp instruments).
Tried to get back to the new yard at the bottom of Whitehall Road, but entrance like Fort Knox with the barriers and not all security men are willing to let me on site, especially if no one there from Nobles!!!
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Haha, yeah you’re right Barry, might be stretching it a bit, but we did have the yard at Chain Bar, which was definitely Bradford, so I don’t think the forum police will arrest us!!
I first met you at the old yard we had at Birstall (next door to Albert Hicks), when I was a wee snip of a lad who used to freeze his nuts off every Saturday steam cleaning the fleet!
Alvin (my cousin) left us about 10 yrs ago to set up on his own. He had a Garage at Woodkirk’s (yellow tippers and tankers) near Garforth, then moved to a place at Sherburn. He bought a fleet of new Foden’s (around 10 I think!) and worked for over 2 years on the “new” A1 around Sherburn etc.
He now just runs and drives one Foden (a very tidy ex John Owen) which has a metallic blue painted cab and grey insulated bulk body. You may have seen it knocking about round Leeds.
As for my old man (Les). He has now moved out of the Whitehall Road yard, and is based on Gelderd Road at the old WInerite depot, at the roundabout where Whitehall Rd meets Gelderd Road. He’s running just one motor at the minute (a very tidy ERF / MAN ECS) and driving himself. But I’m sure you would be welcome any time to call in and have a cuppa and chat and take a few pics and reminisce about the good old days! Times have been hard these last 3 or 4 years! There are a few other tipper guys in the yard too who used to drive for my dad, but who have now set up on their own. So feel free to bob in any time. 
Anyway, I would love to see some of the old pics if you have any to post. I would actually be really interested to buy some copies of the pics, if you could arrange that? Feel free to send me a message at any time, if that’s something that could be organised? It’s my dad’s 60th this year and I was going to put together an album containing alot of the pics I have, but I’d love to see some of your pics in there too! Anyway, in the mean time, if you could post a few up, I would be very grateful.
Thanks,
Mark
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Haha, yeah you’re right Barry, might be stretching it a bit, but we did have the yard at Chain Bar, which was definitely Bradford, so I don’t think the forum police will arrest us!!I first met you at the old yard we had at Birstall (next door to Albert Hicks), when I was a wee snip of a lad who used to freeze his nuts off every Saturday steam cleaning the fleet!
Alvin (my cousin) left us about 10 yrs ago to set up on his own. He had a Garage at Woodkirk’s (yellow tippers and tankers) near Garforth, then moved to a place at Sherburn. He bought a fleet of new Foden’s (around 10 I think!) and worked for over 2 years on the “new” A1 around Sherburn etc.
He now just runs and drives one Foden (a very tidy ex John Owen) which has a metallic blue painted cab and grey insulated bulk body. You may have seen it knocking about round Leeds.
As for my old man (Les). He has now moved out of the Whitehall Road yard, and is based on Gelderd Road at the old WInerite depot, at the roundabout where Whitehall Rd meets Gelderd Road. He’s running just one motor at the minute (a very tidy ERF / MAN ECS) and driving himself. But I’m sure you would be welcome any time to call in and have a cuppa and chat and take a few pics and reminisce about the good old days! Times have been hard these last 3 or 4 years! There are a few other tipper guys in the yard too who used to drive for my dad, but who have now set up on their own. So feel free to bob in any time.
Anyway, I would love to see some of the old pics if you have any to post. I would actually be really interested to buy some copies of the pics, if you could arrange that? Feel free to send me a message at any time, if that’s something that could be organised? It’s my dad’s 60th this year and I was going to put together an album containing alot of the pics I have, but I’d love to see some of your pics in there too! Anyway, in the mean time, if you could post a few up, I would be very grateful.
Thanks,
Mark
It was the Winerite site that I meant, but got my Whitehall/Gelderd Roads mixed up, and there was this imposing barrier still to contend with. I will post some photos in the near future. I did call on Alvin when he was in the Garforth yard and took a few photos, but because I am never able to get out every weekend for one reason or another, tend to lose track of people and trucks. The usual response when visiting a yard is often that ‘You should have been here yesterday’. The things that I have just missed is unbelievable.
Barry/Gloves
PS Say hello to Les for me, he was always keen to see photographs of his own trucks and amazed that anyone should show an interest. Just as well, because there would be few records to look back on!!!
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Haha, yeah you’re right Barry, might be stretching it a bit, but we did have the yard at Chain Bar, which was definitely Bradford, so I don’t think the forum police will arrest us!!I first met you at the old yard we had at Birstall (next door to Albert Hicks), when I was a wee snip of a lad who used to freeze his nuts off every Saturday steam cleaning the fleet!
Alvin (my cousin) left us about 10 yrs ago to set up on his own. He had a Garage at Woodkirk’s (yellow tippers and tankers) near Garforth, then moved to a place at Sherburn. He bought a fleet of new Foden’s (around 10 I think!) and worked for over 2 years on the “new” A1 around Sherburn etc.
He now just runs and drives one Foden (a very tidy ex John Owen) which has a metallic blue painted cab and grey insulated bulk body. You may have seen it knocking about round Leeds.
As for my old man (Les). He has now moved out of the Whitehall Road yard, and is based on Gelderd Road at the old WInerite depot, at the roundabout where Whitehall Rd meets Gelderd Road. He’s running just one motor at the minute (a very tidy ERF / MAN ECS) and driving himself. But I’m sure you would be welcome any time to call in and have a cuppa and chat and take a few pics and reminisce about the good old days! Times have been hard these last 3 or 4 years! There are a few other tipper guys in the yard too who used to drive for my dad, but who have now set up on their own. So feel free to bob in any time.
Anyway, I would love to see some of the old pics if you have any to post. I would actually be really interested to buy some copies of the pics, if you could arrange that? Feel free to send me a message at any time, if that’s something that could be organised? It’s my dad’s 60th this year and I was going to put together an album containing alot of the pics I have, but I’d love to see some of your pics in there too! Anyway, in the mean time, if you could post a few up, I would be very grateful.
Thanks,
Mark
the good old days my dad had a fleet of mint fodens remember albert hicks he had about 20 leylands at one point always liked your dads fleet with yellow cabs maroon bodys do you remember mark pugh
The lorries are always there being serviced and washed on a Saturday Barry. If you do ever want to call up, drop me a message on here and I will make sure I am about to let you in if you wanted to take some pics and let us have a look at some of your pics.
I look forward to a few pics being posted!
Bradfordlad - I don’t suppose your dad is Pat McCann is it? He drove for my dad a couple of years ago. Nice fella. Always looked mint those Foden’s. Credit to him.
Yeah, I remember Mark Pugh - Had a yard in Rodley and ran mostly MAN’s. He was gonna take over the world and was doing jobs very cheap I seem to recall! I went to school with his son, Ashley and was good mates with him. Haven’t seen him for years though.
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Here`s a couple of Gloves photos the tow truck from Wakefield Rd and Scud mm8 ex Harold Woods by the look of the cab
having browsed this website for numerous months the nostalgia is really kicking in, seeing the photo of the old aec wrecker is bringing so many memories back. so here goes! I remember the green wrecker arriving at Copeland and clegg motor engineers just off bowling back lane, opposite bus garage. it was a tipper in frank obank & sons colours, I was 7 or 8 at the time and followed the conversion to wrecker with great excitement. it spent numerous years at those premises and then we moved from the area and lost touch. my dad drove for dennisons on tong street hauling coal to various mills and power stations, and come school holidays I was allways in the passenger seat clocking the miles up until it was time for me to earn a living! I served my time as motor mechanic at dennisons and was the best training I could have had. no recovery truck you went out and fixed the trucks on the side of the road!! I wonder if there are any old dennisons lads still about?
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The lorries are always there being serviced and washed on a Saturday Barry. If you do ever want to call up, drop me a message on here and I will make sure I am about to let you in if you wanted to take some pics and let us have a look at some of your pics.I look forward to a few pics being posted!
Bradfordlad - I don’t suppose your dad is Pat McCann is it? He drove for my dad a couple of years ago. Nice fella. Always looked mint those Foden’s. Credit to him.
Yeah, I remember Mark Pugh - Had a yard in Rodley and ran mostly MAN’s. He was gonna take over the world and was doing jobs very cheap I seem to recall! I went to school with his son, Ashley and was good mates with him. Haven’t seen him for years though.
AEC, betterphoto for Sturdyman and also of M & R Foden
Gillson Foden parked at Hicks Old Yard, may have been sold on to Hicks
Could never remember which Hicks was which, as there was the other part of the family under the railway bridge, opposite Ring Lamp factory.
Sorry that the Bradford theme has stretched a little, bit until someone can set up a site to cover West Yorkshire, a lot of my photos could be classed as Foreign.
I was born and brought up for the first 11 years opposite Courtaulds Mill in Great Horton. Hindsight, what a wonderful thing, IF ONLY I had a camera to record all the Henry Long 8 wheelers and trailers, T E Shorts from Halifax and all the other wagons working out of there. I then moved to Allerton, again without a camera, when James C Ashworth was still using the old AEC Mk3 with the double bumpers and yes I did see them assisting each other up from Chapel Lane, probably over loaded for the engines of the day, IF ONLY!!!
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Here`s a couple of Gloves photos the tow truck from Wakefield Rd and Scud mm8 ex Harold Woods by the look of the cabthanks ramone my dad ended up with the aec tow truck he got it with a job we did down side of keyline back in late 90s we ended up selling it to Kevin Dennis well known classic truck collector
Another from the collection dated 1983
Barry/Gloves
Glad you sussed it Barry
I am unable to post more than one image at a time, there MUST be something else to learn about these damned computers.
In the mean time more to add, this one dated August 1985I`ve driven that around their yard Homesy bought it brand new ,my dad worked there ,he got JCP 49W a Leyland Marathon with E290 ■■■■■■■ in brand new he had a F86 before that and this Mandator new to Bakers and bought by Homesy but it was in a sorry state and around 10 years old when he got it
Sorry no Marathon, just a Roadtrain on a very wet and cold day in February 1992
My dad had left by the time the Roadtrain arrived he went to Galloways ,another rough fleet ,have you any of Clive Colemans ?
June 1991
I think the late Les Simpson drove that 1 ,he was still working for Mick Galloway right up to his death ,Mick now owns T.Holmes at Keighley
Have difficulty in trying to remember what I have photographed over the years and which album they are likely to be in, but 2 more from Holmes and a poor shot of Baker Foden, sun in wrong place as usual.
2 ERFs from 1984 and yes I know it is not officially in the theme, but it does say Bradford Road on the doors!!!
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Brilliant Barry!
VUG 80X! What a great lorry that was! Had a 290 Rolls and used to pull like a train!
The red Foden was Cecil Noble’s (Alvin’s dad). He ran a 3 ERF’s and that Foden for a while.
He saw sense though and only ran them for 3 or 4 years before leaving the tipper game.
Great memories Barry! Keep them coming!
