Neil B:
HI folks hope to take the cattle truck on the limestone run next sunday hope the weather is better than last year any other truck net members going i am still looking for photos off cattle lorries from somerset from the 30s to the 70s any thing welcome NEIL B
Hi Neil . Sadly I dont have any photos of any Cattle Lorries , I can remember going to Market from an early age first in a Austin fg(A reg) with a Vincent Alloy container ,Commer 8 tonner (G reg) Carmichael Body , Bedford Tk (L reg) with the body of the Commer , 3 x N Reg TK’s Wrington Vale ,Tiverton and the Carmichael body , Magirus Deutz 7.5 (T reg) Rogers and Crabb body . We used to buy calves for Veal and Export ,
A few interesting names missing ,
Cliff Edwards ran AEC ,ERF 6 wheelers ,AEC Mercury ,
Arthur Barrow , Commers , Dodge Commando , Mercedes 2419 with Thornes Export box
Maund Brothers Leyland Lynx
Peter Maund Bedford TM
John Gould Seddon Atkinson 200
Buckinghams Commers Dodges Scania 81 , 86
W Muir Daf 2100 , Clydedales
Peter Mansbridge Guy , Dodge K series , Bedford Km (on export work)
D Walwin Bedford , Commer Maxi Load (on export work )
John Hicks Scania 141 (export)
Roy Fricker Roman (lorry and drag)
Ross Bros Castle Douglas BMC Commers Dodges Seddons AEC
Vic Giles Aec Mercurys
I will probably remember some more shortly also some interesting anecdotes .
Peter Thorner
Neil B:
HI folks hope to take the cattle truck on the limestone run next sunday hope the weather is better than last year any other truck net members going i am still looking for photos off cattle lorries from somerset from the 30s to the 70s any thing welcome NEIL B
Hi Neil . Sadly I dont have any photos of any Cattle Lorries , I can remember going to Market from an early age first in a Austin fg(A reg) with a Vincent Alloy container ,Commer 8 tonner (G reg) Carmichael Body , Bedford Tk (L reg) with the body of the Commer , 3 x N Reg TK’s Wrington Vale ,Tiverton and the Carmichael body , Magirus Deutz 7.5 (T reg) Rogers and Crabb body . We used to buy calves for Veal and Export ,
A few interesting names missing ,
Cliff Edwards ran AEC ,ERF 6 wheelers ,AEC Mercury ,
Arthur Barrow , Commers , Dodge Commando , Mercedes 2419 with Thornes Export box
Maund Brothers Leyland Lynx
Peter Maund Bedford TM
John Gould Seddon Atkinson 200
Buckinghams Commers Dodges Scania 81 , 86
W Muir Daf 2100 , Clydedales
Peter Mansbridge Guy , Dodge K series , Bedford Km (on export work)
D Walwin Bedford , Commer Maxi Load (on export work )
John Hicks Scania 141 (export)
Roy Fricker Roman (lorry and drag)
Ross Bros Castle Douglas BMC Commers Dodges Seddons AEC
Vic Giles Aec Mercurys
I will probably remember some more shortly also some interesting anecdotes .
Peter Thorner
HI all .havent heard from basilbrush are you still around i got a bit infomation back in 50s one of are bedfords got got revesed into at winford cattle market i belive it was a thornecroft belonging to northover bros . useless infomation but have to get the thead on page one
hello niel b, just an update on some pics you have posted, the bedfor tk with wood grain belonged to my father and the box came from francis trott in taunton,we had 2 the same. also the hardings aec rigid was regularily run to sheerness with export cows for cobdens of martock, it is funny how my father was just talking about that truck this week end
hi jeaner did i meet you at gaydon i think ? just acquired some more photos don miles 8 wheeler e r f and trailor another of trotts trader and a few moore getting them coppied then will post theme so whatch this space as they say neil
Neil B:
HI all .havent heard from basilbrush are you still around i got a bit infomation back in 50s one of are bedfords got got revesed into at winford cattle market i belive it was a thornecroft belonging to northover bros . useless infomation but have to get the thead on page one
Hello Neil
I’m still about, I have been off line for a while though. I can only remember Northovers having Commers & Bedfords but they probably had others before them.
Good to see this thread back on page one again, it’d be great if a few more pictures come through too
hello neil b, yes we did meet at gaydon, i hope you are all well up there, we had a long chap about old hauliers in the area, i have only just found this tread, my god its adictive! if they had banned live export back then there would have beem very few cattle truck drivers around, its not until youstart going into it you realise how many trucks used to run from the irish ferries all over the uk with fat cattle and bloody great horns! never mind the sheerness, butilaar , division. the stories my father tells me about those days are fassinating. does anyone have any pics of fraans butilaars silver drawbars from the day? i have contacted some of the old names and drivers seen on here from my days with livestock and its supprising how they vannished at the time but like a shipping container stay just below the surface ! i have seen a picture on the thread f10,12,16 of a red inter city f10 tilt with trailer who i have sent a message to no reply, this was another of our old trucks which we purchased from the cattle haulier aston who has there f88 pictured! also i will send you a pm with pics of an f12 which was sold you way, i think she is now with ael, ludlow collection!
hi jc55 great photos have you any more i remmber the reiver as about that time idrove for dobles of wrantage tk bedford about that time there was a mr cornelius he had a seddon flat he use to load out of avonmouth his son had a bmc with alloy body the old man had bmc after the seddon any relation ?
we never had any seddons in the 50s it was commers and one was on avonmouth everyday for jim baker who use to get his orders from the markets that where on in our area.We did have a bmc i think it was cyc 568 c under 3ton unladen and leon pounder drove that from new.
Can remember as a child going to market with maurice who drove for cornelius brothers
he used to always wear a brown coat & hob nail boots he lived on a little farm in east coker,
Does anybody know what john cornelius is doing now used to see him round the docks
flour mills etc in the late eighties earl nineties he had a merc with bulk tipper i had a scania
143 belonging to roger fletcher from meopham kent.
Yeah john is my cousin we had a merc the same time he moved on to an FH gave up the bulk had a go at continental with a tank packed that in and worked at chard junction in the dairy.Since then he went back driving and now works for penmill feeds yeovil.
tippergeoff:
Can remember as a child going to market with maurice who drove for cornelius brothers
he used to always wear a brown coat & hob nail boots he lived on a little farm in east coker,
Does anybody know what john cornelius is doing now used to see him round the docks
flour mills etc in the late eighties earl nineties he had a merc with bulk tipper i had a scania
143 belonging to roger fletcher from meopham kent.
Good to hear someone who knew Roger in his transport days. He is my wife’s cousin, when I first met him he was driving a Merc for a firm near Maidstone, then moved on to SAS in Bromley before he set up on his own and then retunring to his origional trade of draughtsman. He re-married last year and lives near Banbury. Funny how someone who had no connection with livestock or Somerset should appear on this thread.
regards Peter
Peter i worked on a farm after leaving school then drove a cattle lorry
then onto the bulk tippers doing grain feed etc we had relations in yeovil
& east coker thats the connections.
Roger was a great bloke to work for a good friend as well as a boss lost
touch with him a few years ago when he was staying around the leatherhead area
if i email you at your address perhaps you could forward my details on to him
cheers geoff.
