Davies Int. Southampton. With photos (Part 1)

yeah your right there mate they are damm smart motors dont need a passport im a adopted yorkshireman born in kent lived here since i was a teenager :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Photos courtesy of Peter and Lesley Clue:

Sorry for the quality, they are fotos of fotos that may not have been in perfect focus in the first place.

Photos courtesy of Peter & Lesley Clue.

Rescued from page 4…beat you to it Mappo!

Well done Gazza and thanks to Cluey

Here,s some random pics, no particular order…just a few to start

Last one for now, my old 89 ( well Buzzers really but i drove it :laughing: :laughing: )

Here,s a few more pics from Davies earlier years

F88 pulling a Scac tilt

F89 with a Scac flat loaded with fertiliser as a backload after tipping a load of Ato

Taken at the Renault plant in Swindon

Finally for now, taken at the yard in Hedge End with yours truly in bottom right of photo

Surely there should be Davies book in the making?? Wish I could work for them

The days of fun n frolics have gone Mr. 141. London-Portugal-Spain-Sweden-Denmark-UK-London-Belgium-Italy-Germany-Italy-London…he wouldnt like it would he TIR TONE? We had some fun.

Sounds terrible!! :wink:

great photos the f12,s were nice.

London-Portugal-Spain-Sweden-Denmark-UK-London-Belgium-Italy-Germany-Italy-London…

that sounds like a terrible run i dont know how ya do it fellas lol :wink: :smiley:

Hi all,i currently drive for Davies i,ve got one of the new FH’s R44GEL,after reading these pages (great pics by the way)& listening to horrie feel like i’m talking to a load of legend’s :smiley: i’ve got plenty of pics to put on when time allows & i work out how to do it :confused: ship stores have pretty much finished for this year :frowning: although still busy :slight_smile:

loading kiwi’s(fruit not people) saluzzo,italy. :slight_smile:

delivering frozen carbon fibre in albacete

Welcome to the Forum Andrew. Its all a matter of perspective, “Legends” are all from the past, you are the present and a maybe legend of the future.

this forum is brilliant , you lads all seemed to have good times making the old days the very good days . you all seemed to have much respect for BUZZER . as a kid i remember those lovely volvos and scanias when i used to ride with my dad. the f88 VTA872S used to originate from my neck of the woods new to Coles plant of Milton Dameral near Bideford north devon. the driver was called John Dentford i believe he sent some photos to davies when it was in the magazine years ago . I like seeing all the pics of the the old fleet , i went to E M Rogers yard in 2009 and all the fh’s were for sale there im assuming this was start of the fleet replacement ? keep up the good work and hopefully you all will bring more stories and pictures. andrew :slight_smile:

TIR Tone should be seen here too!
Hes not the one in the green!

Could have done without seeing that pic Gazza. Not very complimentary, Must have been the angle you took it from
making me seem fatter than i actually am. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Good to see interest in this thread again and welcome to current Davies driver Andrew.
You probably know my brother Keith who left fairly recently.

Mr 141…Still waiting for some pics of your project i sent you the stickers for many moons ago. :laughing: :laughing:

Here,s a couple more photos of the earlier days

E42 OAD went like [zb] off a shovel. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:
Course it did, I think I can rememebr it`s pedigree :wink:

hi all sat in a rainy southampton waiting to tip on the Independence of the Seas :frowning: but it gets better as i’m loading later for the Queen Vic tipping that in rome on friday :slight_smile: think there is 5 or 6 of us going down so should be fun :sunglasses: :sunglasses: .in reply to mappo,yes i do know your brother Keith very well :slight_smile: & still keep in touch with him.

plenty more will just keep drip feeding you all :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

john.d.m:
E42 OAD went like [zb] off a shovel. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:
Course it did, I think I can rememebr it`s pedigree :wink:

Come on then John, what was it,s history.■■?

Andrew…Well done mate, you keep ,em coming and i,ll contribute with the old ,uns.