nick lambden:
Great pictures.The slab yard at Bardon would have been late 60s early 70s. The Dodge K1050 was F reg I think. In the early days the fork lifts had mechanical scan lift grabs .When in bardon garage I worked on the Dodge.Sent from my FIG-LX1 using Tapatalk
Nick go onto Facebook , Coalville history . John Neal has posted loads of Bardon picture
Thanks will do.
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This ERF was coming out of Bexton and Smith yard Coalville after a cab rebuild
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hope he didn’t knock the motorcyclist off 
Ha yes. He was ok.
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another couple of aec mercuries
robinswh:
0Aec mammoth major
no greedy boards 
i’d love to see him take his first corner …at speed! 
Great pictures. That’s the way to load .No sheet.
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must have kept the windscreen repair shops in full employment !1 I m not absolutely sure on this but I think the 2 aecs were ex beeney
My Albion 4 wheel flat PHE635G. Taken 1976.
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Miller’s tar plant being delivered to Bardon quarry.1950s.
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I have driven Bextons Dodge in the early to midd 70s ,was in better condition then. Also I have done repairs on it.
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2 Bexton and Smith Atkinson 8 wheelers.Ex CTS Tamworth.
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nick lambden:
I have driven Bextons Dodge in the early to midd 70s ,was in better condition then. Also I have done repairs on it.Sent from my FIG-LX1 using Tapatalk
can you do a few more repairs on the little dodge,nick? look’s a nice restoration project 
Yes that’s a big job Bextons had alot of lorry’s parked up like that . Don’t know what happened to them when they sold the yard. It’s now houses.
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a couple more
Moores of ashby early Leyland comet…fast motor but hard to stop 2 Orpwoods donisthorpe
robinswh:
Moores of ashby early Leyland comet…fast motor but hard to stop 2 Orpwoods donisthorpe
I can believe that, Hedly Shaw of Stapleford had one of those with the cab smashed in, always parked alongside the garage as a warning.
