sprinterman1:
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
I worked with Ted when I returned from a couple of years living in Tenby after marrying for the first time. I couldn’t get my old GP109 back so I too was allocated one of the light blue Big Js. They had all been on contract to Walls Ice Cream- hence the colour- and if memory serves me correctly, were all matched with bulk tipping trailers, mostly steel-bodied with donkey engines which weighed almost as much as the payload. Ted and I spent some time on the same job; coal from South Wales to Pembry, returning with corn from the Kent area to Cardiff docks. On one occasion we were overnighted in a little village where we were to load next morning. The digs were just about the best in the country. Single bedrooms in a picture postcard cottage decorated with old-fashioned flowery wallpaper, curtains to match and a bed with a really deep feather mattress. Neither of us wanted to get up next morning. It wasn’t until we were loading at the silo that one of the chaps told us that the cottage was famous locally for it’s ghost!
At the end of the season, the tippers were swopped for flat trailers and most of us went back to hauling steel.
Happy days. Is Ted still around?
hi u old truckers yes i think so mate up round malvern . i can remeber going up two ipswitch two the hospital ther two see him when he had some sheet steel come thro the cab one time ya hay the good old days whith log books ha
TIDDERSON:
Another picture taken the same day
What an excellent shot ! Can any body confirm who the Atkinsons formally belonged to ? Richard Read had similar .
Thanks Tidderson regards Keith
kingswinford kit:
TIDDERSON:
Another picture taken the same day
What an excellent shot ! Can any body confirm who the Atkinsons formally belonged to ? Richard Read had similar .
Thanks Tidderson regards Keith
An earlier photo taken by Michael Houle
The only two Atkinson,s that I remember at Richard Reads was MVJ261 and a 6 wheel tractor unit bought for a concrete beam job that did not get started.MVJ was the first new 8 wheeler in the forest.One driver was caught with MVJ with the windscreen open and a carrot on a stick tied in front.Richard was not amused. 
kingswinford kit:
TIDDERSON:
Another picture taken the same day
What an excellent shot ! Can any body confirm who the Atkinsons formally belonged to ? Richard Read had similar .
Thanks Tidderson regards Keith
As an educated guess I would think that they were ex-James Smith. I know that HJS30 definitely was, as it continued in Smith’s colours for some years after transfer.
Many thanks for continually finding more photos, chaps. You’re indulging my “nostalgia nerve” no end! More, please.
from the sun green site…rossiter and james , also weston transport.
wideboybob:
0from the sun green site…rossiter and james , also weston transport.
Hi Bob,
Those pics are great, any chance of putting then on larger, they are worthy of it.
Cheers Dave.
Retired Old ■■■■:
kingswinford kit:
TIDDERSON:
Another picture taken the same day
What an excellent shot ! Can any body confirm who the Atkinsons formally belonged to ? Richard Read had similar .
Thanks Tidderson regards Keith
As an educated guess I would think that they were ex-James Smith. I know that HJS30 definitely was, as it continued in Smith’s colours for some years after transfer.
Many thanks for continually finding more photos, chaps. You’re indulging my “nostalgia nerve” no end! More, please.
Hi ROF , well i did not know that James Smith had Atkinsons , also again Tidderson another excellent shot , thank you very much .
Richard Read also had a Atkinson 8 tipper reg,JDF 316D regards Keith
hi there dave. those pics are in one lot on the sun green site ,as i am not that good with these computers i would not have a clue how to! will try to print them off and scan them or see if i can enlarge sections of them. wish me luck.
wideboybob:
hi there dave. those pics are in one lot on the sun green site ,as i am not that good with these computers i would not have a clue how to! will try to print them off and scan them or see if i can enlarge sections of them. wish me luck.
OK Bob, I would have a go at doing it on my regular PC, but only working with my laptop at the moment which I’m only learning to use.
Cheers Dave.
To get any usable size pictures from what’s been shown off another website all the definition would be lost unless you have some decent software, like they have on these american cop shows like CSI or such…
Absolutely correct, Paul. I’ve managed to get the pics twice the size, but they’re just a big blur. Going to the local stationers on Monday for a spare packet of pixels!
On a totally unrelated note, I’ve been going through some old driving licences of my fathers. Out of one of them fell a cutting from the Gloucester Journal of 1937 which contains a report of a case heard at the Gloucester Petty Sessions in which my old chap was fined £2.10s for transporting lambs to Gloucester market without a Movement Licence while foot & mouth disease restrictions were in place. The chairman of the magistrates stated that the bench had imposed such a high fine to reflect the seriousness of the offence. Two and a half quid would have been about a week’s wages in those days but, knowing Dad’s boss, I daresay the firm paid the fine.
As far as I know, this was the only occasion in seventy years of driving that he fell foul of the law. Unlike his naughty son, sadly!
Just remembered another company.Arnold Cowmeadow from Steam Mills.I did some part time spanner work for him.
And just up the road, Dougie Brown. Nice AECs. And of course, all those Commers of Drybrook Quarries.
chepstowchap:
screen shot in windows
Great photo love to see the Read boys lorries, legends of the Forest.
Yers one from a few years ago…Thanks shakysteve …
Me.Paul.101:
Yers one from a few years ago…Thanks Carl Jones…0
and there was me thinking this was one of mine , taken at Truckex South Cerney glos ,All the best Steve.
