heres another local… NITROVIT from cinderford had a few of these volvos.
a nice aec mammoth major mk3 tin front at merrin end garage with brs fleet No on it also a lad cabbed tractor unit alongside.
wideboybob:
0and now in brs colours.
Brings back memories. I can confirm the photo was taken at the rear of the workshop. I had 1101AD for a while until I managed to get rid of it!
Retired Old ■■■■:
wideboybob:
0and now in brs colours.Brings back memories. I can confirm the photo was taken at the rear of the workshop. I had 1101AD for a while until I managed to get rid of it!
Hi ROF was there any Bristols allocated to Mitcheldean ? regards Keith
Hi, Keith, I don’t recall any Bristols coming into Mitcheldean but leylandlover will correct me if I’m wrong.
1100, 1101 & 1102 were, if memory serves, all chopped down to make artic units sometime between 1960 & 1965.
It didn’t make them any faster!
I dont think any Bristols in my time there.1104 AD also.
Nearest thing I can recall, Bristol-wise, was some years later when Dave Read joined the “GMR Get-Rich-Quick” owner/driver scheme with a Leyland-powered Bristol & tipping trailer, Reg YAE34. A while after, his brother Harold was admitted into the same scheme with the ex-James Smith, ex-BRS 8-wheeler Atki, HJS30 which had been around the clock so many times that it got giddy!
That I do remember.
Now I’m really confused.
Certainly looks like a Bristol in the background although I can’t recall one based there.
Secondly, I had thought that all the ex-Read flatbed Mammoths had disappeared by the time the first Big Js arrived. It would be interesting to find out either the fleet number or the reg. number of this particular Guy.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Now I’m really confused.
Certainly looks like a Bristol in the background although I can’t recall one based there.
Secondly, I had thought that all the ex-Read flatbed Mammoths had disappeared by the time the first Big Js arrived. It would be interesting to find out either the fleet number or the reg. number of this particular Guy.
MUH 472F GP109
TIDDERSON:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Now I’m really confused.
Certainly looks like a Bristol in the background although I can’t recall one based there.
Secondly, I had thought that all the ex-Read flatbed Mammoths had disappeared by the time the first Big Js arrived. It would be interesting to find out either the fleet number or the reg. number of this particular Guy.MUH 472F GP109
Thanks a bundle, pal. It’s as I suspected, GP109 was my first brand-new lorry.
And just in case anybody’s wondering, it had a 205 ■■■■■■■ fitted, not an 8-cyl Gardner!
Retired Old ■■■■:
TIDDERSON:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Now I’m really confused.
Certainly looks like a Bristol in the background although I can’t recall one based there.
Secondly, I had thought that all the ex-Read flatbed Mammoths had disappeared by the time the first Big Js arrived. It would be interesting to find out either the fleet number or the reg. number of this particular Guy.MUH 472F GP109
Thanks a bundle, pal. It’s as I suspected, GP109 was my first brand-new lorry.
And just in case anybody’s wondering, it had a 205 ■■■■■■■ fitted, not an 8-cyl Gardner!
Are you sure it didn’t have a couple of extra pots sticking out the back of cab… 
hi all
worked at soudley valley about 1972, ithink there were only about 4 tippers then one was a ergo cabbed leyland bear 6 wheeler ,cant remember seeing another one of them. i drove an old reiver, there was also a bison, cant remember the others. there was an old chap driving from yorkley cant remember his name, also a young chap from gloster called john ,
TIDDERSON:
There’s a Bristol unit in the back corner of the yard but I don’t know if it was based there
hi lads sprinterman yer ill ask me dad he drove at that time ther BRS G Read on a octapuss name Bernard Phelps on tin plate every wher and cheese out of bristol for Cinderford Biscite factory. my uncal Ted smith was on BRS ther on a Guy Big J on sheet steel it was a Blue one. Can u Remember lads
Anyone got pictures of Rossiter and James lorries.John Dibbell foreman at George Reads used to work there.
leylandlover
there are some great pics of r and j on sun green site, also showing john dibel and pat howells r.i.p they need uploading on to this thread,if i knew how to.
Thanks.I will try and find them.Top bloke Dibber.