I think they had the silver 22.361 but not certain
gunnerheskey:
Didn’t Anstey haulage buy 1 of the B reg M.A.N twinsteer units iirc off of Pinnacle ?
phantom:
Yes she did belong to Federated I bought it from Central Motors on Melton rd Leices, do you have any pictures of it ?STEVE OWEN:
phantom:
Last but not least my own fleet that I operated
NME 7R
VAY707S
CNR276T
WFL174T
B26BGD
GNV225N my toy
C478FUG
BCH240TPhantom, i see you had VAY707S, was she an ex federated motor from Mkt Harborough? they had a few of them back in the 70’s. my mate had VAY705S when he was on for them, at the time they were on front page of commercial motor! all in green livery.
Sorry i don’t have any pics, i am trying to find some myself, i remember when they were new to federated that the line up of transcons were on the front cover of commercial motor, i had that copy for years after but got lost somewhere! so yours would be on that cover too. your F88 i know that GNV reg too, must have been sold by billows when new.
Yes Billows at Kettering to someone in Northampton,then went to a frm in barwell and I bought it from their and spent 11months rebuilding it myself and loved it. Tom Shanks persuaded me to let him have it and I regretted it before he got to the motorway with it, I found it about August last year, will post a picture of it now its in Ireland.
STEVE OWEN:
phantom:
Yes she did belong to Federated I bought it from Central Motors on Melton rd Leices, do you have any pictures of it ?STEVE OWEN:
phantom:
Last but not least my own fleet that I operated
NME 7R
VAY707S
CNR276T
WFL174T
B26BGD
GNV225N my toy
C478FUG
BCH240TPhantom, i see you had VAY707S, was she an ex federated motor from Mkt Harborough? they had a few of them back in the 70’s. my mate had VAY705S when he was on for them, at the time they were on front page of commercial motor! all in green livery.
Sorry i don’t have any pics, i am trying to find some myself, i remember when they were new to federated that the line up of transcons were on the front cover of commercial motor, i had that copy for years after but got lost somewhere! so yours would be on that cover too. your F88 i know that GNV reg too, must have been sold by billows when new.
As Federated got a mention i thought i’d post this. As i can just about remember their yard in Mkt Harborough & at treetops bruntingthorpe. They also had a small yard in nicholls st leics.
gunnerheskey:
As Federated got a mention i thought i’d post this. As i can just about remember their yard in Mkt Harborough & at treetops bruntingthorpe. They also had a small yard in nicholls st leics.
Federated were a big company at one time,I backloaded off them once or twice,usually out of Lancs Steel or Stewart and Lloyds at Corby,but they had offices all over.
gunnerheskey:
As Federated got a mention i thought i’d post this. As i can just about remember their yard in Mkt Harborough & at treetops bruntingthorpe. They also had a small yard in nicholls st leics.
Nice one gunner, if only we could move the back of the trailer over to see the reg plate on the transcon!
The scania in your profile pic, was the trailer used for waste food?
GNV225N now resting in southern Ireland and not worth repair and how she used to be
phantom:
Yes Billows at Kettering to someone in Northampton,then went to a frm in barwell and I bought it from their and spent 11months rebuilding it myself and loved it. Tom Shanks persuaded me to let him have it and I regretted it before he got to the motorway with it, I found it about August last year, will post a picture of it now its in Ireland.STEVE OWEN:
phantom:
Yes she did belong to Federated I bought it from Central Motors on Melton rd Leices, do you have any pictures of it ?STEVE OWEN:
phantom:
Last but not least my own fleet that I operated
NME 7R
VAY707S
CNR276T
WFL174T
B26BGD
GNV225N my toy
C478FUG
BCH240TPhantom, i see you had VAY707S, was she an ex federated motor from Mkt Harborough? they had a few of them back in the 70’s. my mate had VAY705S when he was on for them, at the time they were on front page of commercial motor! all in green livery.
Sorry i don’t have any pics, i am trying to find some myself, i remember when they were new to federated that the line up of transcons were on the front cover of commercial motor, i had that copy for years after but got lost somewhere! so yours would be on that cover too. your F88 i know that GNV reg too, must have been sold by billows when new.
Sad to see her looking like that but even us drivers look worse for wear over years! but at least she’s not gone to the crusher yet!
STEVE OWEN:
gunnerheskey:
As Federated got a mention i thought i’d post this. As i can just about remember their yard in Mkt Harborough & at treetops bruntingthorpe. They also had a small yard in nicholls st leics.Nice one gunner, if only we could move the back of the trailer over to see the reg plate on the transcon!
The scania in your profile pic, was the trailer used for waste food?
Hi Steve,
Yes mate, its a hooklift trailer, and we do bakery waste. Wish i knew the reg of that Transcon too. I’m guessing its an early one. I remember Federated were one of the first firms to run a few transcons.
STEVE OWEN:
gunnerheskey:
As Federated got a mention i thought i’d post this. As i can just about remember their yard in Mkt Harborough & at treetops bruntingthorpe. They also had a small yard in nicholls st leics.Nice one gunner, if only we could move the back of the trailer over to see the reg plate on the transcon!
The scania in your profile pic, was the trailer used for waste food?
Hi Steve,
Yes mate, its a hooklift trailer, and we do bakery waste. Wish i knew the reg of that Transcon too. I’m guessing its an early one. I remember Federated were one of the first firms to run a few transcons.
gunnerheskey:
STEVE OWEN:
gunnerheskey:
As Federated got a mention i thought i’d post this. As i can just about remember their yard in Mkt Harborough & at treetops bruntingthorpe. They also had a small yard in nicholls st leics.Nice one gunner, if only we could move the back of the trailer over to see the reg plate on the transcon!
The scania in your profile pic, was the trailer used for waste food?Hi Steve,
Yes mate, its a hooklift trailer, and we do bakery waste. Wish i knew the reg of that Transcon too. I’m guessing its an early one. I remember Federated were one of the first firms to run a few transcons.
Did you used to tip at Tramer at Brackey? sure i seen that truck in there at times.
STEVE OWEN:
gunnerheskey:
STEVE OWEN:
gunnerheskey:
As Federated got a mention i thought i’d post this. As i can just about remember their yard in Mkt Harborough & at treetops bruntingthorpe. They also had a small yard in nicholls st leics.Nice one gunner, if only we could move the back of the trailer over to see the reg plate on the transcon!
The scania in your profile pic, was the trailer used for waste food?Hi Steve,
Yes mate, its a hooklift trailer, and we do bakery waste. Wish i knew the reg of that Transcon too. I’m guessing its an early one. I remember Federated were one of the first firms to run a few transcons.Did you used to tip at Tramer at Brackey? sure i seen that truck in there at times.
Aaah the lovely Trauma (Tramar). Yes we still tip there at Brackley… Deep Joy 
New i had seen that outfit somewhere, i used to go there with wheat feed meal, i was driving for Davella Transport from w’boro and had the R cab scania on a G plate, if Mervyn and Josh are still in the office at Tramar tell them Steve who moved to Canada said hello. Thanks
No probs mate will do !
Great pic of a Federated Transport Scammell routeman GBC 887D, on bubbs scrapbook memories page 191
Great pictures colin, remember Chas drapers well on saffron road sth wigston. I remember they had quite a few Leyland octopuses too. Here’s one of their old trailers still working today, photographed at our place about a month ago.
yes,i remember Dalgety’s older trucks better,i’d just turned 22 when i started on Drapers but worked on many of Dalgety’s in the garage at Ford & Slaters.
gunnerheskey:
Great pictures colin, remember Chas drapers well on saffron road sth wigston. I remember they had quite a few Leyland octopuses too. Here’s one of their old trailers still working today, photographed at our place about a month ago.
gunnerheskey:
I hope these jog a few memories .
Graham Martins Transport
AML Transport
Blaby Haulage
Transwind Transport
NT Motors Narborough Transport
Hercock and Simpson
Marshall Bros of wigston
Brookes Pies of wigston
Court Bros
Draycotts
Lapworth Removals
Span-Furn,
AM Walkers of cosby
Pickfords Heavy Haulage
Eastern BRS of blaby
Hamblins Haulage (pointers)
Just to name but a few. I’m sure there are a lot more but the old head hurts for now
doug harrisons
spent a lot of saturday morning’s in Doug Harrison’s yard,the old railway siding’s at the junction of Blackbird Road and Parker Drive.Also used to go to a lot of the Metal Box depot’s with him,and Redland pipes at Potters Marston was a regular.Be good to see some pictures of the trucks on here if anyone has any.