altitude:
This has got the old head going now, remember the trucks well where were they based in Swindon ? Was it Stratton St Margarets ( spellings got a be wrong ) or up the Oxford road near to Bamptons Bodyworks, But that could have been Curtis or Howard Tennants, not sure that’s the right name 
I only worked for one Swindon firm years ago. and that was Coopers in Gypsy lane, they then ran Leyland 6 leggers couple of Guy Big J’s 6 leggers and an 8 legger AEC. A good firm to work for in those days, paid good money.
I think your right about Stratton St Margaret - weren’t Linton & Hurst the parent company 
I think the bloke in charge at Reading was John Smith - used to go to work sometimes wearing a kilt - bit unusual for Reading Berkshire 
Steve
daf3300:
neversweet1 is that a hammer monkey from worton grange, and matt had to be crow barred out of his old scammel they gave him NLB 4V what a piece of rubbish then he had the first 3300 rcf 804y if you are who think you are we have had a few in the chequers and engineers ,yes they did go over the water mainly with flats paul
I did used to drink in the Engineers Arms (now demolished) as i lived next to it in Margaret Close.
Steve
there depot was at linton & hirsts in parsonage road stratton st margerat, bert carvey was transport manager, (lovely chap), has any body got any more pictures has i have lost mine due to a fire ,and john smith was boss at reading his full title was fjf smith, some of us found out his full name quite funny ,
Yeh your right Burt was there my dad said he was a good bloke he has passed away so my dad has been told . They did a coulple of trips to Norway just as my old man started he was asked to drive a left ■■■■■■ daf 3300 but didnt get on with it. He went to work for Spurlings after JWQ
truckeygar:
Yeh your right Burt was there my dad said he was a good bloke he has passed away so my dad has been told . They did a coulple of trips to Norway just as my old man started he was asked to drive a left ■■■■■■ daf 3300 but didnt get on with it. He went to work for Spurlings after JWQ
I remember Bert - if memory serves me right he died either just before or very soon after JWQ folded.
Steve
sorry to hear about bert, and those left ■■■■■■ dafs they had were a dream they started life at sheerness depot , they used to do regular greece with them i think one went to eygypt, they got one in reading after it had been wrote of , that had lifting tag axles and the rear of truck chasiss would get jammed inside trailer chasiss great fun ,
oddball
daf3300:
oddball
Paul - do you remember when i had to do the suspension swivels on your Morris Marina at Reading Garage while you were up the road Have a look in the background of this pic at Basingstoke Road
Steve
that bloody marina dont remind me about that car ,do you remember the little foreman at reading garage i kept saying truck wouldnt pull i took him for a test drive he said 80 mph was fast enough ha ha , i think that 310 was martins i seem to remember he had some stickers on it
daf3300:
that bloody marina dont remind me about that car ,do you remember the little foreman at reading garage i kept saying truck wouldnt pull i took him for a test drive he said 80 mph was fast enough ha ha , i think that 310 was martins i seem to remember he had some stickers on it
Len Thompson was our foremans name - if you remember those R310’s came with limiters long before the law required them but you lot disconnected them Can’t think why
Remember the Dodges - one had a sleeper cab and one had a pod over the cab - guy called Jack drove it
Going back a couple of years we did head gaskets on a Magnum Martin Willis had bought- not seen him since 
You can’t remember the name of the bloke at Swindon depot that was a sort of fitter/driver can you ?
Steve
truckeygar, here some names your dad may remember dave robins , tony mayhew, wally bradford, something in the back of my mind says wally left and went to dow freight , and shaw ballard ,and bryn his dad was the steward at the working mens club,
len that was him when i dropped him back at the garage he was heard to say f******* idiot , ha ha and is it dave robbins
I ve got quite a few JWQ photos from when my dad was a subbie for Sheerness depot. Scammell Crusader HBW 88N,
Mercedes 1418 GRD 126L, Renault NLB 5V & Daf 3300 A456WRX, Renault PCL 204W .
I,ll try and post them up sometime. Does anyone remember any of these motors?.
those regs bring back memories HBW88N was based at reading has it got a m painted on the grille ,GRD was my first artic ,and NLB 5V was from swindon the other one you mentioned was it a dodge fourwheeler with a renault badge
No, it was an artic with a curtainsider. Looks brand new in the photo. Ive also found a photo of another Renault pulling out of Sheerness docks with a load of fruit on a flat trailer, fully roped and sheeted. Happy days.
Shaw Ballard had NLB 5V for a while - i did the head gaskets on it 
Paul - remember ■■■■■ writing off the JP13 JLC 515V when the load came foward into the cab
Also he came in once with a “rubbing” sound and had ratchet strapped the load and the PROPSHAFT
Be good to see any pics anyones got 
Steve
steve which time with ■■■■■ are you talking about he did that renault twice once on M4 , and once with a tractor on A1 ,do you remember that w reg renault that chaps got a picture of , and i lost all my pics of LLU 370V what a beast that thing was
oh yes this lad ■■■■■ was a diamond he thought it would be better to run in to a load of girders than slow down ,(he was going up a hill at the time ), ha ha ,and the time he thought he could overtake a tractor as it was turning right ,(oops) he told boss that the tractor had drove in to him ,
never a dull moment then!!!
