I wont tell him tell him that karl, i tell him am the better driver of the family 
he has kind words to say about you aswell, he is working down at lafarge on with wincanton he misses BH i think .
truckeygar:
I wont tell him tell him that karl, i tell him am the better driver of the family
Ha ha, yeah thats probably a good idea ! Trouble with us old uns is we were taught the rules from a differant generation ! We struggle to adapt, for all of its faults i miss the old bh days , was a laugh then and good fun back then
Me.Paul.101:
Yers a photo of an old Tarmac Foden looking clean and tidy…0
Charlie’s old Foden I believe, very drunk weekend at Truckfest. I had the disco in the back of my truck and Mark Cecil had the bar. Good times in the ‘Forest of Dean Truckers’ club
Nightrod:
Me.Paul.101:
Yers a photo of an old Tarmac Foden looking clean and tidy…0Charlie’s old Foden I believe, very drunk weekend at Truckfest. I had the disco in the back of my truck and Mark Cecil had the bar. Good times in the ‘Forest of Dean Truckers’ club
I see Charlie’s boy Danny most weeks driving his skip lorry. Charlie’s Foden looked a handy truck, well before the white and yellow colours they all use today…
Is it deadmans’ shoes on Huntsmans? Always liked their fleet and they deliver in my favourite areas.
Muckaway:
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Is it deadmans’ shoes on Huntsmans? Always liked their fleet and they deliver in my favourite areas.
Where are they based?
How could you possibly have taken that photo when you were kneeling on the floor of the balloon clinging on with both hands & yelling, “Get me down, I’ve changed my mind!”?
Retired Old ■■■■:
How could you possibly have taken that photo when you were kneeling on the floor of the balloon clinging on with both hands & yelling, “Get me down, I’ve changed my mind!”?
Quite. Why risk your neck in a bag of warm wind when a steam train can take you from Cheltenham Racecourse towards Broadway?
Paul.101, Huntsmans are from Naunton near Bourton on The Tourist.
Or even Hackling on the Water?
Anyway, just to bring this one back to the front page, if we cast our mind back to Ross-on-Wye (it’s only just out of the county) does anyone remember Tommy Worgan who used to pull a timber carriage with either a Matador or a Douglas? It was dark green and had probably never been washed since it left H.M. service.
Attwoolls and us at Belvior Castle
cheers Ade
O/K,Just found this lot.How about James Smith at Bicknor,John James at Lydbrook,Ivor Read,David Read?In answer to Mepaul101,The truck outside Richard Reads house used to be a crane.I worked on it with the late elecrician Jim from Longhope.Wwe bought one of Coombs ex D100 tipper and a John James Bison to go muckshifting in Brum.Be carefull about the Forester comments,I still have family in the ood. 
I am a Brierley boy.And another couple of hauliers,Bradleys from Ruardean Woodside.Mervin Freeman from Ruardean.
Thou’s vound us, then, leylandlover!
Have a look at Forest of Dean firms, where you’ll find quite a few other hauliers from the 'oods.
As for James Smith (English Bicknor) Ltd, when Cliffy Jones was asked why he was hauling coal with a dropsided 8-wheeler instead of a tipper he replied, “Give 'em a big lorry & a big shovel and you won’t need a tipper”.
I remember Big Jim, the sparkie but I’m blowed if I can remember his surname.
That old truck outside Richards is a Thornycroft.Spotted some pictures on this posting somewhere? And that bloody Dougy 4x4 breakdown truck of Richards.I drove it to High Wickham to tow a Leyland Reiver back with a big end gone.Turned out to be the springs on the oil filler cap had came off and when it was ticking over it sounded real noisy.I got back at about 10.30 pm just as Richard came out of the pub.Wheres the wagon he asked? 
Sparkie was Jim Richards,top bloke.
That’s the fella! Jim got me out of a few scrapes years ago. Wonder if he’s still around?
No Jim passed away when I worked for Reads.No age at all,very sad.
He wasn’t a lot older than me. Sad how the best 'uns go quickest.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Thou’s vound us, then, leylandlover!Have a look at Forest of Dean firms, where you’ll find quite a few other hauliers from the 'oods.
As for James Smith (English Bicknor) Ltd, when Cliffy Jones was asked why he was hauling coal with a dropsided 8-wheeler instead of a tipper he replied, “Give 'em a big lorry & a big shovel and you won’t need a tipper”.
I remember Big Jim, the sparkie but I’m blowed if I can remember his surname.
James Smih a very tidy fleet taken over by BRS they had a few Albion Aberdonian 8 leggers and AECs A Mandator unit ended up with B M Coles of Welsh Newton Monmouth mostly steelwork . regards Keith
