Yes it was a bulk blower Lance, I remember it running around our districk for quite a few years when owned by Ronnie Stobbart, I think he replaced it with a new Foden S80 six wheeler at the same time as I bought an eight wheeler which was destined to be a bulk blower. 1973 M regs.
Lance Biscomb:
Went to J and M Casson at Whitehaven about 10 years ago with Keith Gornall and bought an Albion Reiver chassis cab off him which was in bits. It had come from Stobbarts at Hesket, Newmarket. It had been in a bump and had a new cab fitted not long before it came off the road. It had been a bulk blower in its day. It has now been renovated and is in Tony Knowles fleet. I saw it at Gaydon last year and it just looks like new. Just a bit more useless info from a lorry anorak!!
Anybody got any pictures of it? ( Sorry, don’t know the reg.)
I will ask jim if he has any pics of it
nelly1972:
hodgeturbo:
casson,whitehavenMy friend has a Casson Volvo cab in his yard, pretty sure it from an f12 tho
My Karrier Bantam , reg. PEC 123 L , parked next to my father`s Leyland Boxer , reg. LJM 123 J.
Photographed March 1973.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
Lance Biscomb:
Went to J and M Casson at Whitehaven about 10 years ago with Keith Gornall and bought an Albion Reiver chassis cab off him which was in bits. It had come from Stobbarts at Hesket, Newmarket. It had been in a bump and had a new cab fitted not long before it came off the road. It had been a bulk blower in its day. It has now been renovated and is in Tony Knowles fleet. I saw it at Gaydon last year and it just looks like new. Just a bit more useless info from a lorry anorak!!
Anybody got any pictures of it? ( Sorry, don’t know the reg.)
I’ve never heard of J and M Casson from Whitehaven, I would not have thought that there is any work for powder tanks in West ■■■■■■■■
I’ve seen Casson’s up and down the roads a few times. And chances are powder in that area will be coming out of the quarries. I know Turner’s are in and out of back lane taking some of the dust away for cosmetics.
Double post sorry, but is it just me or a Cloburn becoming a rather big operation these days? I seem to see loads of their units on the motorway lately.
dew:
I’ve seen Casson’s up and down the roads a few times. And chances are powder in that area will be coming out of the quarries. I know Turner’s are in and out of back lane taking some of the dust away for cosmetics.
tankers went a few years ago,they used to work out of castle cement,clitheroe
Hodge, John Casson ran a powder tanker and tippers hauling cement out of Cement Marketing Company at Marchon as I did back in the back in the mid 1970s. Here is my ERF at Tailaw Dam near Straiton about 1974.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
So now then L600,what was the attraction of a Foden as compared to an ERF when you moved up to an 8 wheeler ? Oh! and what was the spec on the Foden,I can see it was Gardner engined eh! Cheers Bewick.
Hi Bewick, Eden Comics servicing arrangements could not match that of Foden,s Carlton, Carlisle depot who looked after all the Gardner engined wagons I operated hence the purchase of a new Foden S80 later followed by an S83.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Leyland600:
Hi Bewick, Eden Comics servicing arrangements could not match that of Foden,s Carlton, Carlisle depot who looked after all the Gardner engined wagons I operated hence the purchase of a new Foden S80 later followed by an S83.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Was the Foden depot on London road actually in the BRS depot or was it just next door to it ? I am I right in assuming that both your Fodens were double drive L600 ? Cheers Dennis.
No, the Foden depot was in Claude Hughes former depot on the left as you turned in towards the Carlisle general haulage depot (HE code) not to be confused with the BRS parcels depot on London Road where the B&Q complex is now. Bendalls sheet metal works and motor restoration department was also on this site.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Straiton Bloody hell Gerald you were well out in the sticks there that’s the back o beyond. Eddie.
Hi Eddie, I was there that many times with both the ERF and the Foden I was almost classed as a resident up there. Got to know the road very well even saw the white panther type beastie early one morning that was supposed to lurk in the wilds between Corsock and Balmaclellan.
Cheers Leyland 600
