Hi nipper this is buzzer i was just troling thru some of the past posts and came across this pic your question the f12 on the left of the pic belonged to i think N.R.RILEY and i think they came from avonmouth or around .I do remember he was doing multidrop for wincanton with mini ctns of pasteurized milk like you have in tea or coffee. ps that was a tight sqweez to get out the cab but if u were on the top deck you knew you were shipping regds. buzzer
Hay there John; Longo certainly was famous,for a lot of things,as were a lot of your boys.You had a good crew over the years,and I was proud to have been on there. My first trip for you was Juneâ95 and as I said I had M1GEL.It was down to Pousadas just south of Cordoba with empty trays and reload same pack house,reload was the second day and while which was my birthday,while waiting a PJK went by,the driver shouted on the CB who is that on Buzzers,I replied it was a new boy,he said but who is it,so I told him and he turned around,(he heard that I had move over to you from R&G),so we had lunch together ,that evening I loaded and got under way, near Pinto on the N1V I was stopped by the Guarda Civil and was told that it was not possible to have migel as a number plate,it took a lot to explain that it was M1GEL not migel,but it still cost me $5000 back hand because the taco had folded over in the head when I closed it,I learnt not to do that againâŚGood daysâŚAll the best to you,Horry,â â â â â â and of course the BOSSâŚBV
Heres one for all you Blue and Whites this one is of Horry practisin for his class 3 on the lawn this is the first tractor he drove of course its an international i think. heâll kill me for puttin this on here but heyho you gotta have a larf.
hi buz zer i worked for skillbeech in the 90sâ we had two f12sâ globes which were your exâs they were on a plates do you have any pics.
regards gazzap
gazzap:
hi buz zer i worked for skillbeech in the 90sâ we had two f12sâ globes which were your exâs they were on a plates do you have any pics.
regards gazzap
Hi there gazzap i had alook thru the thread if you look on page 16 at the bottom you will see a pic of 4 g.trotters the two you talked about are in that pic plus they are featured lower down . they came from Bryan yeardleys this is an era when we bought second hand trucks and did them up. regards buzzer.
Hello Gazzap. I regularly get Heritage Commercials and / or Vintage Commercials after giving them the once-over in the post office incase they areânt any good (ÂŁ4.20 a go!!) - last months issue low and behold - Some old boy from Hull (O-D) owns and operates to this day A544 OAT, one of the sister trucks. Says he bought it 24 years ago or so when it was about four years old. More interestingly, there was a picture of A543 OAT in Yeardleyâs colours which is one of the ones we had that ended up at Skillbeech. The other one was A541 OAT. If you refer to the picture as JD says, they are recognisable by the vertical exhausts fitted as they had the standard Volvo ones fitted.Nigel Smith (Zebedee) had A541 and Micky Long had A543. Pretty sure JD went to Malcolm Harrisons to get them with Les Slater, just to check they were all ok. The other two trucks in the pic were fitted by Eminox DJ0 666Y - Dont know where it came from, maybe JD can remember but do know it was sold to Phil Grant from Poole area.The other one was C789 BPO of Mappo / Jimski model fame! - P.S J.D - Not embarrased in the least as that is â â â â â â , not me doing his Class Three test on the lawn when he was four years old. Being three years older, you would have shipped me out by thenâŚ
ainacs:
Have I got this correct or not didnât Busby buy some F12 Volvo Globetrotters off Brian Yeardleys and didnât they have new engines as Yeardleyâs were testing some engine oil and the engines were removed for complete inspections by the oil company?
Possibly some of these maybe? Canât make out any registrations though!!
apparentley the earlier pic was â â â â â â in training easy mistake cos i was away so much i didnât see them till they were teenagers. Anyway this is definitely horry leaving home to ship out for griffo with tellys bound for Dommodosilla via swiss . Who remembers doin that run boys?
It is quite obvious I was about to go down the port and ship out in that picture as socks with sandals were permitted. Didânt go Swiss that trip though, went via the Brenner, hence the blue Liederhausens - cheers mum â â
Buzzer:
apparentley the earlier pic was â â â â â â in training easy mistake cos i was away so much i didnât see them till they were teenagers. Anyway this is definitely horry leaving home to ship out for griffo with tellys bound for Dommodosilla via swiss . Who remembers doin that run boys?
I can see where Mappo got the âshorts and sandalsâ look from, was it part of the uniform ?
Hi Fergie47 and look at Mappoâs motor Dave !! does he know someone looking in the back of his sleeper pod ? Their probabley looking for all the pasta dishes !!! Ay Tone
Jimski:
Hi Fergie47 and look at Mappoâs motor Dave !! does he know someone looking in the back of his sleeper pod ? Their probabley looking for all the pasta dishes !!! Ay Tone
Regards Jimski
Think he use to do 2 Milans a week for Buzzer in that âTruckâ had a V8 Scania lump in it !!!
Horry:
Here we go then Reader as promised. Special 20th Anniversary Collectable. L-R: F725 RDF Driven by Martin Rouse (previously you), G602 ADD (The block of flats), driven by Ged, J11 LLD - Mr Kwozzy, G87 XBK - The special one (not Mourinho, but Mr Read), H660 CKM (It did get painted in the end - this was the first of three second hand sister trucks, the others being H658 + H659), driven by Peter âSinatraâ Clue and finally on the end and in the picture, George (Zimmer) god bless him. I was with George on that trip so was not thankfully fully integrated in the ways of Davies, just partially!!. Iâm sure all would agree from that date to present, a phrase was born which has stayed with the company forever: âWell Iâm not ringing him!!â - LULT â â
Actually the correct name for this pic Davies International Dijon depot. or was it just Dijon '92. 20 year aniversary looms still calculating what it cost me.
Owe sweet memories if just but a few
El Longo and his currie
The famous Dijon 92 meeting place of the specials
Where that famous phrase was born . Well Im not ringing him.
LULT Buzzer
That was TIR Toneâs âmarket attireâ, he was flogging T-Shirts off the back of the âlorryâ. That was a hangover fromn a previous life wasnât it Tone. You could get accosted these days for those shortsâŚTorremolinos, Barcelona, Cadiz to name but a few.
He also had another nasty habitâŚslot machines on the ferries, dint ya Tone?
he need the V8 to pull it all. regards Jim
