A couple more lovely photos, thanks for them. I was coming home from Cornwall on Sunday afternoon/Evening & overtook a lovely Brand new Volvo FM 6x2 cattle truck. I can’t remember the last brand new complete cattle truck I saw. I forget the name but it came from Tiverton. The last one I saw was a Scania R series 4x2 which I saw in Scania Swindon & it’s based at a farm in Oxfordshire. I noticed the scania was constructed without a flatbed body so committed as a cattle truck full time.
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Basilbrush:
A couple more lovely photos, thanks for them. I was coming home from Cornwall on Sunday afternoon/Evening & overtook a lovely Brand new Volvo FM 6x2 cattle truck. I can’t remember the last brand new complete cattle truck I saw. I forget the name but it came from Tiverton. The last one I saw was a Scania R series 4x2 which I saw in Scania Swindon & it’s based at a farm in Oxfordshire. I noticed the scania was constructed without a flatbed body so committed as a cattle truck full time.BB
Silver Cab with a Blue container ?
if so it will have been to Bodmin
ANYBODY REMEMBER BAKERS TRANSPORT FROM HIGH HAM,NR LANGPORT.THINK THEY WERE GREEN COMMERS & MAYBE A ALBION REIVER.ANY PHOTOS■■?
Denis F:
Basilbrush:
A couple more lovely photos, thanks for them. I was coming home from Cornwall on Sunday afternoon/Evening & overtook a lovely Brand new Volvo FM 6x2 cattle truck. I can’t remember the last brand new complete cattle truck I saw. I forget the name but it came from Tiverton. The last one I saw was a Scania R series 4x2 which I saw in Scania Swindon & it’s based at a farm in Oxfordshire. I noticed the scania was constructed without a flatbed body so committed as a cattle truck full time.BB
Silver Cab with a Blue container ?
if so it will have been to Bodmin
That’s the one Denis, I was down that way again last week but it wasn’t around at the same time as me.
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Basilbrush:
Denis F:
Basilbrush:
A couple more lovely photos, thanks for them. I was coming home from Cornwall on Sunday afternoon/Evening & overtook a lovely Brand new Volvo FM 6x2 cattle truck. I can’t remember the last brand new complete cattle truck I saw. I forget the name but it came from Tiverton. The last one I saw was a Scania R series 4x2 which I saw in Scania Swindon & it’s based at a farm in Oxfordshire. I noticed the scania was constructed without a flatbed body so committed as a cattle truck full time.BB
Silver Cab with a Blue container ?
if so it will have been to Bodmin
That’s the one Denis, I was down that way again last week but it wasn’t around at the same time as me.
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it’s Kevin Mingo’s
Badger’s have got a new Scania 6 wheeler with a new 3 deck box on too
Thanks for posting the picture, it’s a nice looking truck. I’ve got a new FM due on the road tomorrow, shame it’s got a tipping body on it instead of a cattle container.
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I hope someone comes up with some more cattle haulier photos, I wouldn’t swap my memories of those days for anything.
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HI JUST KEEPING THE TREAD GOING MUST GET SOME MOOR PHOTOS POSTED
There was a guy from Milverton called Gordon White, who always ran an immaculate Ford, right up to the D series. I used to know Cyril Morrell of Creech St Michael’s wife - in the nicest possible way - she ran the buffet at Taunton bus station!
How about Grabham and Rolls? That was Chard or Buckland St Mary I think.
Neil B:
HI JUST KEEPING THE TREAD GOING MUST GET SOME MOOR PHOTOS POSTED
I’ll go with you on that Neil, I’m going to go to the visitor information offices near the old chippenham market site when I get a chance. They tell me they’ve got a lot of photos of the old market & I may be able to get some copies of them. There’s bound to be some lorry photos there.
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Slightly off topic but the mention of Chippenham market brought back all sorts of memories for me… As a kid I used to pray for the summer holidays and be allowed to go there with my old fella - while he wandered around looking at all the livestock, I wandered around looking at all the cattle floats! 
There was never enough Fridays in the summer 
Later on, when I was doing my HGV at Devizes, I used to get a lift back to Chippenham and have to wait for my brother to finish work before we came home. Conveniently, he worked in the Ford garage opposite, also now long gone! Again, on Fridays I would be in the market and very often cadged a lift home with one of Harraways. I forget the drivers name but he had a ‘T’ reg F10 then got an F12 after, I believe.
Many was the time that there was an almighty queue of traffic sat behind an old blue Bedford, max speed 30 mph RIP Humphrey
Does anyone remember who had the orange cattle trucks? Completely orange, chassis, cab and body! I can remember a couple of Leyland Reivers and possibly an AEC Mercury…
After having got my licence, I used to do a lot of work for Bussell, Pike and Wheeler delivering to all the farms. Fridays was a bit of a slow day though…
Sorry to ramble on but they were bloody good days, sadly missed 
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Does anyone remember who had the orange cattle trucks? Completely orange, chassis, cab and body! I can remember a couple of Leyland Reivers and possibly an AEC Mercury…(
was that Gordon Hooper from Bridgwater ?
Denis F:
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Does anyone remember who had the orange cattle trucks? Completely orange, chassis, cab and body! I can remember a couple of Leyland Reivers and possibly an AEC Mercury…(
was that Gordon Hooper from Bridgwater ?
I can’t remember a Gordon Hooper but I’ve got a feeling Hoopers wagon was a Dodge & it was a fawny colour wasn’t it. If I’m thinking of the right man he used to buy Barren cows for Jarretts.
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Basilbrush:
Denis F:
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Does anyone remember who had the orange cattle trucks? Completely orange, chassis, cab and body! I can remember a couple of Leyland Reivers and possibly an AEC Mercury…(
was that Gordon Hooper from Bridgwater ?
I can’t remember a Gordon Hooper but I’ve got a feeling Hoopers wagon was a Dodge & it was a fawny colour wasn’t it. If I’m thinking of the right man he used to buy Barren cows for Jarretts.
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I was late getting into the haulage job so don’t remember a fawn dodge 
the earliest Hoopers trucks I remember were orange ( 3 series scanias iirc) , they’ve still got a few orange ones and a couple of plain white artics now
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Neil B:
ANYBODY REMEMBER BAKERS TRANSPORT FROM HIGH HAM,NR LANGPORT.THINK THEY WERE GREEN COMMERS & MAYBE A ALBION REIVER.ANY PHOTOS■■?
I remember Bakers Transport from High Ham. In the early 1960s I drove a Leyland Comet for the late T A Staveley, livestock transport, of Ingleton, North Yorkshire. A cattle dealer, Basil Salvage from Ottery, Nr. Bridgewater used to come to our local markts to purchase newly calved cows, and we often transported them to Somerset for him. We loaded back with store cattle he purchased in Bridgewater & Taunton markets, to sell in the north. Bakers Transport also did this work. I think their trucks were green. I think Harroways did some trips also. Basil also had two trucks of his own, a Leyland Steer, & a Albion Riever, they were painted brown, with bodywork by Carmichaels of Worcester. A young man named Mervin drover the Steer, It’s nearly 50 years since I last saw him. I was told he had started farming on his own.
It’s a shame there aren’t more photos of the cattle trucks from the good old days, there used to be countless hauliers making a living out of livestock haulage back when there was a market to go to 6 days a week & all within easy distance of each other. I hope someone will come up with a few more photos to keep this thread going.
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JUST LIKE TO ADD SOME MORE NAMES A G CALLOW BLACKFORD COXS OF WEST PENARD GUTHRIDGE LANGPORT A E GEOGE BRUTON BOWN OF BRIDGWATER
Basilbrush:
It’s a shame there aren’t more photos of the cattle trucks from the good old days, there used to be countless hauliers making a living out of livestock haulage back when there was a market to go to 6 days a week & all within easy distance of each other. I hope someone will come up with a few more photos to keep this thread going.BB
still markets ever day 
most of our work is direct to abattoirs but we still do these occasionally
Monday - Sedgemoor
Tuesday - Sedgemoor
Wednesday - Holsworthy
Thursday - South Molton
Friday - Exeter,
Saturday - Sedgemoor
and Fortnightly/Monthly Sales at Cutcombe, Blackmoor Gate, Hallworthy