Jimski:
Hi all nearly done Tone
Regards Jimski
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Jimski your models just get better and better keep em coming.
Regards Jacko
Hi All
Hi Rich
Jimski why the brush you will never get Mappo to use it 
Cheers RJacko, Hi Tribsa well he told me he knew how to use one !
Well some one on Davies knew how to use one! But it ain’t Tony 's truck !!
(one of Mappo’s pic’s)
R Jimski
ainacs:
Chris Hill gave me this pic to post!As he called it a twin turboed Seddon!!!
Is that at the old Portsmouth airfield, just off the Eastern road ? I seem to remember an aircraft crash landing and Hill doing the recovery…maybe to Farnborough perhaps for investigation…?
Ya beat me to it Pat…the Havant bypass was gonna be my next guess. 
In the last photo, mine was the furthest away…no brush but i was,nt afraid to use one in the day Tribsa.
In fact in those days we used to tilt the cab to clean the roof and wash the chassis with a handbrush.
Dont think i,d bother today.
Fergie47:
Could have sworn I recognised that tree…old age …
You said it Dave.
Charlie…what a sensible answer mate. 
I was gonna say HMS Daedalus
jimski…brilliant mate. As i,ve told ya before mate, in my 40 year driving career the best time of all was
the era when driving that motor. Happy memories indeed. 
Hi Tony glad you like it mate, look better when I’ve done the Solstor trailer !
Regards Jimski
Hello tribsa
Rich ive sent you a pm
Jim
I know its been said many times now, but your models are brillllant!!!
,you would think you were looking at the real thing,
Keep it up
regards
Jeremy
Fergie47:
ainacs:
Chris Hill gave me this pic to post!As he called it a twin turboed Seddon!!!
Is that at the old Portsmouth airfield, just off the Eastern road ? I seem to remember an aircraft crash landing and Hill doing the recovery…maybe to Farnborough perhaps for investigation…?
Hi Fergie next time Chris Hill comes in I will ask him!
Badger:
Jim
I know its been said many times now, but your models are brillllant!!!
,you would think you were looking at the real thing,
Keep it up
regards
Jeremy
Hi Badger thanks for that mate, I intend to do one (if poss) of many of the company’s now gone I.e. Jamesons, Sea Route,
Transport Services, you know company’s we all knew!!! The good old days!
Regards Jimski
ainacs:
Fergie47:
ainacs:
Chris Hill gave me this pic to post!As he called it a twin turboed Seddon!!!
Is that at the old Portsmouth airfield, just off the Eastern road ? I seem to remember an aircraft crash landing and Hill doing the recovery…maybe to Farnborough perhaps for investigation…?
Hi Fergie next time Chris Hill comes in I will ask him!
HI all.Fergie may well be right,but my first look reminded me ot Thorney Island.Regards Charlie
Hi all this looks to be a very long thread but I was searching for a family members haulage firm by the name of E.C CLAY well on page 108 a member by the name PDW has put up a long list of hampshire hauliers and my realatives company name came up in it. It asks what companys are still going. Well I would like to say that E.C CLAY HAULAGE is no longer around the original owner Ernest Clay died some 10 years ago now and his sons run it for a while but they have now gone on to new things. Has anyone by any chance got any pics of his trucks. 
Bob Tuck’s book - Hills of Botley - shows photographs of Hill’s recovering 2 HS 748’s which had come to grief on the same day in 1967 at Portsmouth Airport
mappo:
Fergie47:
Could have sworn I recognised that tree…old age …You said it Dave. :lol:
What…the tree ? or the old age bit ■■? your not that old that you can’t go over my knee and get a good smacking, …bloody whippersnapper…teach 'em everything you know…and when they’ve learnt it…no respect… 
Tell you what was strange these last few days, I took Liz to Rennes airport so she could go back to the UK for a few days. The trip down and back is just over 400 kms…X 2 …so 800+ kms, most of it on the Autoroute…and guess what Tone…never saw ONE English truck…What’s happened guys…Does anyone still actually go over ? are there any companies left that do exclusive European work…? like the ones we use to work for…bloody amazing…
ainacs:
Badger:
Come on Pat
Let us know I wasting time looking at the picture
When I’ve got things to do like decorating so perhaps another 5 mins racking my brain ,but its obvoiusly before my time.
JeremyOk Jeremy
According to Chris Hill it is the Havant Bypass apparantly the concrete beams have been replaced with steel!!
Regards Pat
I would like to say Where are the hills on the Havant bypass? What about the A34 at Bullington Cross?
Regards Charlie
Fergie47:
mappo:
Fergie47:
Could have sworn I recognised that tree…old age …You said it Dave. :lol:
What…the tree ? or the old age bit ■■? your not that old that you can’t go over my knee and get a good smacking, …bloody whippersnapper…teach 'em everything you know…and when they’ve learnt it…no respect…
Tell you what was strange these last few days, I took Liz to Rennes airport so she could go back to the UK for a few days. The trip down and back is just over 400 kms…X 2 …so 800+ kms, most of it on the Autoroute…and guess what Tone…never saw ONE English truck…What’s happened guys…Does anyone still actually go over ? are there any companies left that do exclusive European work…? like the ones we use to work for…bloody amazing…
Hi Dave
I had the very same experience when I was in France (La Trimouille) during August saw a few English Trucks in Dover and Calais but virtually none on our travels, although I did not use autoroutes, can only remember seeing a couple of Richard Long’s and I think they had Dutch plates on!!!
Regards Pat
Why is that Pat ? just priced out ? or no exports like there use to be? either way it’s not good for the future of road haulage in the UK is it ?
Fergie47…Dave, trust me when i say i,m too big for ya knee now…anyway sssssshhhhhh
you,ll be giving our old secrets away. 
As for English firms still going abroad, there are still a few around, but are fast becoming a dying breed
thanks to our Eastern European neighbours. 
I guess we should be grateful that we were of the right age ( although some are older than others aye Dave ) to be able to have done the job when we did.
Ainacs…hope you got my text earlier mate…summat cropped up,sorry i could,nt make it.
Fergie47:
Why is that Pat ? just priced out ? or no exports like there use to be? either way it’s not good for the future of road haulage in the UK is it ?
Hi Fergie47 I know what your saying Dave but like Tony said there all coming over here !!! I came off the M1 the other day on to the M25 the first 4 or 5 trucks I saw were foreign trucks Dutch, Poles and the likes that’s whats happening !!!
R Jimski
Fergie47:
Why is that Pat ? just priced out ? or no exports like there use to be? either way it’s not good for the future of road haulage in the UK is it ?
Mainly they have been priced out of the business, whilst I was in Dover waiting for the ferry in August I would say that over 90% of the trucks coming off the ferry were foreign mostly Eastern European, alsomost of these had two drivers!
Before he packed in Ron Griffiths (STS, Southern Transport) told me about a company he regularly delivered to in Tewkesbury he found out that they had freight to go to Europe mainly Netherlands, so he asked if he could quote for the work. The company said to him he would not be able to compete as the Eastern Europeans were taking the loads at the same rate as the ferry would cost!!!
They were able to do it as they had government subsdies to buy their trucks and each has two drivers whose combined wages are less than a British driver, and double manning they are able to do twice the work!!!
I think we had the best of it years ago.
Regards Pat