That’s a good photo of two well-loaded 8-leggers John.The driver in the back one is ready to give his mate a shove,look at his face.
Reminds me of Mullans over Peak Forest 
Many thanks for that flatman,shame we dont know where that photo came from.Many people are reluctant to parting with photos
unless they are making money ie e bay or magazines.Good job we are not the same or most of these forums would not exist.And
transport history would become extinct.
Thats a suprise is.nt that a s36 full width screen I’am not complaining i thought that 719 would have been 12 months old they perhaps purchased a block of no plates. I’ve just thought i once had a DAF they bought a block of 6 no plates and it took one chassis 6 months to come.
John.
nigelhunt:
Many thanks for that flatman,shame we dont know where that photo came from.Many people are reluctant to parting with photos
unless they are making money ie e bay or magazines.Good job we are not the same or most of these forums would not exist.And
transport history would become extinct.
The photo came from an article by Alan Barnes about Hoveringham in Heritage Commercials June 2006, the photo was taken by a Gary Russell. I cropped it of the page and cut off the third Foden, I would put the page on but cannot get it to load up on tinypic at the moment.
Its finally loaded up on TinyPics
Great pictures flatman.I rember the ERF artic in the background picture,being rolled over at the bottom of burnstump hill in nottinghamshire.
It was a very frosty morning,and the driver was very lucky to get out alive.After a few weeks in the body shop it was returned to service.I think
if you look back on this thread there is a picture of it parked at the side of the wrecker,when it was brand new.
Seeing those Fodens piled high with coal made me smile. Nigel will recall that Hoveringham used to back-load the trucks with coal from Yorkshire for Staythorpe and Ratcliffe-on-Soar when they were delivering aggregate whilst building the M62 many years ago; some of the wagons were fitted with greedy boards for this purpose.
Sometimes the lorries would run back to the yard and tip the coal off the following morning; the old man got wind of this and decided to nobble some of the coal slack to bank our open fire down with; the local Nottinghamshire coal is very high sulphur and burned quickly. He duly covered the fire with a decent layer of his ill-gotten gains… only to have to clean the lot out in the morning because he hadn’t realised it had been adulterated with slate and other rubbish to make it burn slower!
Just been browsing the net,and came across this picture taken at tilbrey.I never new that a quarry even existed there.Does any members have
any memmories of this quarry.I believe this photo to have been taken in the 1960s .What is throwing me is the fact that the foden artic is
from the fifties and the leyland commet from the late sixtees.
This one is another photo i would be interested to find out were it was taken,as it is the only photo of one of hoveringhams vans in
my collection.
nigelhunt:
This is a photo of one of the first lorries hoveringham owned,i think its a bedford.Perhaps someone out there could tell me.
It’s a Bedford. It’s also RHD, but the wheel is set well back from the screen and gives the illusion of being LHD. The cab was built by George Neville of Mansfield - the same company that went on to supply thousands of tipper bodies. Some cabs of this type were made to tilt, and if you look carefully in front of the sidelight, there is a join, and what appears to be a hinge on the front panel next to the grille. The wagon was a forward-control conversion of an ex-W.D. vehicle of the OW or MW type. The rear axles were converted from single to dual wheels at the same time. Nevilles and others converted hundreds of W.D. lorries after the war. Hope that clears it up.
nigelhunt:
This one is another photo i would be interested to find out were it was taken,as it is the only photo of one of hoveringhams vans in
my collection.
Well I googled the name of the shop Nigel and came up with this ducksonandpinker.co.uk/ so Bath appears to be the location, unless they had other stores at that time! Could it be a bus station?
Pete.
It’s Swindon.
Many thanks for the info.I must be suffering with my eyes,as i was unable to read what it says on any of the shops.Also cant understand
what two quary vans are doing in a shopping precinct.Can remember when hoveringham were insurance brokers,perhaps they were getting
a shopready for this purpose.
Does anybody know if this scammell is still doing the shows,as i can remember a chap called neil having it brand new at hoveringham.
nigelhunt:
cant understand
what two quary vans are doing in a shopping precinct.
Just a guess Nigel; there seems to be some construction work going on out of shot to the right, perhaps a lorry’s broken down when tipping?
The picture of the ford is taken at the east london quarry Berwick ponds Rainham essex. Driver david Bichard, taken by Charlie Gridley, Quarry worker. How did you come across the Photo? I was a driver there also, and I was best man at daves wedding. Does any one know of his where abouts now.?
nigelhunt:
Heres a photo of one of the few fords opperated by hoveringham.
Sorry cant help with the whereabouts of the driver,but that photo was in a book called BRITISH LORRIES 1945-1975.The book was by
S.W.Stevens-stratten.If you do happen to find him please ask if he has got any photos,as i am constantly trying to obtain more.
This photo was given to me recently,it was taken down south.I think the driver and his mate were from hoveringham depot.
This picture is taken at Bray pit near Maidenhead my Dad is sat init but was not the driver .
That picture is fantastic mate.Whilst working at hoveringham in the mobile plant workshop,i was very often sent out as a low loader mate.
At that time we were using a scammell handyman with a scammell four in line trailer.The low loader driver at that time was sandy sutherland.
He came to me to tell me that we were having a new volvo very soon.On the day of its arrival i was fortunate to have a drive in it.
I can remember saying that it was the only f88 that i had seen with a day cab.I would still like to know if this is the same
vehicle.Unfortunately i cant remember its reg no,and no photos.I then lost track of its wereabouts as i moved to finningley quarry.
Does any of you know if this low loader was orriganily from down south,or moved from hoveringham.