Hi rapigem, I reckon this deserves a view on your thread, I got the nod from bumper that Les would be up my way on Tues (yesterday) and on the the Black Isle 1 to 2ish pm and here he is heading north just about to cross the Cromarty Firth bridge on the A9 aye and at 2mins to 2. I missed him a couple of weeks ago (disappointed) so this one for me is a bit special, I hope you and others enjoy it, she was ticking along fine, I would say a steady 45ish.
Cheers
Oily
This is the truck that took my cattle to Frome market today an M reg Scania 113 still in regular service with a family firm and the driver is 74 cheers Buzzer.
i go by Hansard Haulage based near Caister,Lincs.,most weekdays,and they are still running 2 or 3 ERF’s and F.10’s 
can’t stop to take photo’s though 
EDTRUCK:
Travelling along the M54 this morning were two of the Banks Brewery curtainside dray wagons, both Leyland (not Leyland DAF !!!) Freighters, one on a “R” reg, one on a “T” reg - I’m sorry I wasnt able to photograph them as I was running fully freighted.Hope somebody can post pics of them tho!
Ed
yep the t reg came past me today south on the M6 today round by keele
Hopefully it will have delivered my month’s supply of their excellent bitter to Aldi’s rdc!
These two are in regular service in my locality. Foden with 300 Cat power & ERF with, if memory serves, a Roller.
I’ve opened this thread as a tribute to vehicles over 15 years old and which are still in regular revenue earning service for the purpose of carrying goods.
Sorry folks, but vehicles which are now used only for the purpose of publicity or showing at rallies, road runs etc are NOT eligible for posting under this particular thread.
To get the ball rolling here is a superb example of one of Cheshire’s best still serving it’s original owner Gerald Emerton of Emerton Roofing (Western) Ltd., Nantwich, Cheshire who took delivery of this Perkins engined ERF LV in 1968. The Hiab was fitted at a later date. A great tribute not only to ERF but to her proud owners who still use her regularly to deliver roofing materials and also to collect slates from the North Wales Quarries.
This is how she looked on delivery.
Is 40 years a record for a vehicle still in regular revenue earning service? What can you tell / show us?
NB :- Only vehicles which are over 15 years old and still used in regular revenue earning service carrying goods please.
It’s got to be Harrisons of Sheffield - they seem to be moving into the space age with this wagon - it’s from 1985!
apologies for the poor angle - but I was there to see the Scammells not this!
Cheers fryske - Nice One!!!
fryske:
It’s got to be Harrisons of Sheffield - they seem to be moving into the space age with this wagon - it’s from 1985!
It is Harrisons (or was). I saw it a few weeks ago delivering girders to a building site just outside Doncaster.
I’m sure Terry Godbold is still working this on the Sugar beet.
killsville:
fryske:
It’s got to be Harrisons of Sheffield - they seem to be moving into the space age with this wagon - it’s from 1985!It is Harrisons (or was). I saw it a few weeks ago delivering girders to a building site just outside Doncaster.
someone seems to be restoring one of the Rigid 8’s in their shed and the Foden S80 looked like it was being worked on (although this seems to be signwritten - I thought that their famous unused one was in primer■■?) ■■
I’d love to know know how many of the Scammell Highwayman unit and Rigid 8’s they’ve still got rotting in there!
Last time I went in there to look at some Scammell vehicles, they said that they would sell all the vehicles in the yard. I did, however, see the vehicle hidden in one of the lower sheds that appears as-new, without any registration number and with a spare wheel and tyre still wrapped up.
Here are a couple of photo’s of my brother’s Foden ( Foden 46 ).
He got it 19 years ago when it was brand new and drives it nearly every working day.
Has anybody else driven the same truck for 19 year’s or is this a record.
R Pardoe & Sons of Ledbury were still using this immaculate Borderer on Hay and Straw delivery in 1999 as they took the opportunity, en route, to visit the Atkinson Gathering at Chorley, Lancs. I have seen it a couple of times since going up the M6, but not for a while now - anyone spotted it recently?
Cheers - RR
My thanks to marky for the answer to my question re Pardoe’s Borderer (see under Big A thread)
marky says :- "Robert still has the Borderer, but runs an ex-Swains of Stretton Scania 113-380 for pulling his straw around these days.
The Borderer was still attending the Atki rally for a few years after you saw it at Chorley, but on the back of a step-frame"
Nice to know it’s still about.
Cheers - RR
edtheshark:
Last time I went in there to look at some Scammell vehicles, they said that they would sell all the vehicles in the yard. I did, however, see the vehicle hidden in one of the lower sheds that appears as-new, without any registration number and with a spare wheel and tyre still wrapped up.
Times are indeed changing at Harrisons then. That is a world away from how it was a only a few years ago. Up until then, they still had every single Scammell they’d ever run - and (seemingly) some they hadn’t run… They never parted with a single one of them.
I don’t know whether the same can be said about the other marques they ran - I’ve seen one Foden S80 on the restoration scene in new hands, how many others have escaped the fold??
Parkin and Jones of Coalville long gone since the late sixties had a 1949 AEC mammoth major eight wheel tipper NRA814 in regular service until at least 1968 the original driver was Mr Freddie Sykes now long gone also it was used on longer trips from whitwick granite quarry in Leicestershire
killsville:
fryske:
It’s got to be Harrisons of Sheffield - they seem to be moving into the space age with this wagon - it’s from 1985!It is Harrisons (or was). I saw it a few weeks ago delivering girders to a building site just outside Doncaster.
Looks like the one I saw on the A34 near Oxford this evening - plain red, but with a Harrison’s headboard. B-reg, but I’ve come home and forgotten the number 
This F10’s preserved now, but Mansel Davies still run a fair few F12’s of around 1990 vintage, and also a good number of even older FL7’s and FL10’s on tipper work.
They’re a familiar sight round our way; and a depressing one if you happen to be late and behind one! 
I’ll try to get a shot of a working one later in the week.
