Muckaway:
Hi George, yes, it gets better, we’re going to Goodwood Festival of Speed on Saturday, courtesy of her parents The AEC was featured in CVC about 6 years ago shortly after restoration. I think it was one of the first 3, JET name coming from the area code JET for where I can’t remember. I think it dates from ‘54 and so I’ve been told one of the last of that model. A guy from up North stayed in a caravan in Cleavers’ yard making the wooden cab and I think the tank had a load of work as it had warped over time. I don’t think the tank is the original as I’ve been told only the bare chassis was found in a gateway. I can’t remember who but there is a 1:76 model of it (Oxford diecast?), I saw one at Gaydon.
Your a lucky man Nathan, Goodwoods about 4 miles from me, I would love to go but I just won’t pay that kind of price to be ■■■■■■ off with prats like Chris Evans, the Top Gear mob, people like that, they own everthing around here, that’s why we pay £4 a pint the once a week we can afford to go out. But anyway have a good day, I have been told It’s very good.
Muckaway:
Hi George, yes, it gets better, we’re going to Goodwood Festival of Speed on Saturday, courtesy of her parents The AEC was featured in CVC about 6 years ago shortly after restoration. I think it was one of the first 3, JET name coming from the area code JET for where I can’t remember. I think it dates from ‘54 and so I’ve been told one of the last of that model. A guy from up North stayed in a caravan in Cleavers’ yard making the wooden cab and I think the tank had a load of work as it had warped over time. I don’t think the tank is the original as I’ve been told only the bare chassis was found in a gateway. I can’t remember who but there is a 1:76 model of it (Oxford diecast?), I saw one at Gaydon.
Your a lucky man Nathan, Goodwoods about 4 miles from me, I would love to go but I just won’t pay that kind of price to be ■■■■■■ off with prats like Chris Evans, the Top Gear mob, people like that, they own everthing around here, that’s why we pay £4 a pint the once a week we can afford to go out. But anyway have a good day, I have been told It’s very good.
Hopefully, one of 'em will do a Bruce McLaren and go airborne into the trees
Muckaway:
Hi George, yes, it gets better, we’re going to Goodwood Festival of Speed on Saturday, courtesy of her parents The AEC was featured in CVC about 6 years ago shortly after restoration. I think it was one of the first 3, JET name coming from the area code JET for where I can’t remember. I think it dates from ‘54 and so I’ve been told one of the last of that model. A guy from up North stayed in a caravan in Cleavers’ yard making the wooden cab and I think the tank had a load of work as it had warped over time. I don’t think the tank is the original as I’ve been told only the bare chassis was found in a gateway. I can’t remember who but there is a 1:76 model of it (Oxford diecast?), I saw one at Gaydon.
Your a lucky man Nathan, Goodwoods about 4 miles from me, I would love to go but I just won’t pay that kind of price to be ■■■■■■ off with prats like Chris Evans, the Top Gear mob, people like that, they own everthing around here, that’s why we pay £4 a pint the once a week we can afford to go out. But anyway have a good day, I have been told It’s very good.
Hopefully, one of 'em will do a Bruce McLaren and go airborne into the trees
Muckaway:
Hi George, yes, it gets better, we’re going to Goodwood Festival of Speed on Saturday, courtesy of her parents The AEC was featured in CVC about 6 years ago shortly after restoration. I think it was one of the first 3, JET name coming from the area code JET for where I can’t remember. I think it dates from ‘54 and so I’ve been told one of the last of that model. A guy from up North stayed in a caravan in Cleavers’ yard making the wooden cab and I think the tank had a load of work as it had warped over time. I don’t think the tank is the original as I’ve been told only the bare chassis was found in a gateway. I can’t remember who but there is a 1:76 model of it (Oxford diecast?), I saw one at Gaydon.
Blimey Nathan! was it that long ago, doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! or is it when you’re getting old! I think from memory, Robert Hanson started Jet in the '50s and they were in the Huddersfield area, or maybe Manchester. Probably right about last of that model as would maybe come a bit cheaper, but good enough to try on new project.
Did it not say a guy asked to store it in the barn with a view to restoring it, but never came back, so the farmer dragged it outside, where it stood for years and fell apart before he used it to bung the gateway up.
Is that the same Cleavers whose wagon is pictured on Bubb’s Scrapbook thread, if so we could do with a mention of them on the Oxford thread!
That’s quite often the case with the models I have chopped, someone comes out with one at a later date! It’s all good fun though.
Should be a great weekend at Goodwood, we have been trying to get there with our Young 'uns for several years now, but can’t get everyone free. They just done Glasto again so are still recovering, and 'er in doors wouldn’t go with me on our own! heaven forbid!! Hope you both have a wonderful time, I’m sure you will and the weather looks to be good.
The pic you were referring to, George. Cleavers’ don’t paint their lorries now (with the exception of their 2x 6wheeled Dafs on a Hanson contract) they’re all plain white now which is a shame as I thought their livery was a good one. When I worked as a shovel driver, they’d get into Gill Mill on contracts to RMC at Banbury and Aylesbury, and when Sands and Gravels couldn’t cope they’d collect sharp sand for SITA contracts. They also did Topmix at Kidlington on an ERF E10. They had a knack of coming in close together in the afternoon, so much that I’d be loading sand from about 3.30 until 4.30, trying to notice if they were still pulling the same trailer as yesterday
Re; Cleavers, I know the 2 Volvo drivers by nicknames “Rattle” and “Tiny”. Tiny has a beard, Rattle used to drive for Farols’ on low loader work. Re; the Daf XF, that’s Grabber. He lived Berinsfield way and built motortrikes. He left Cleavers’ and went on for Hansons driving a loading shovel at Cassington pit but sadly died suddenly from a heart attack about 4 or 5 years ago.
hi chris
certainly does but makes you laugh as that white fl although owned by cannons it was on the manley ratcliffe’s contract & the two f10’s were used on powder tanker’s all the time very rarely pulling taught’s but then mr bath did like his publicity shots in trade press
regards Andrew
We had this Merc’ on demo at Cannons, I can’t remember where or when, but I do recall I was loading from this warehouse & taking these crates to a old aerodrome somewhere & I was on it for about 3 days backwards & forwards. The crates contained engines/gearboxes & this was the 1st load I did, being keen to see what this Merc’ could do with a load on (cos going there empty she was at warp factor 10, what a flyer!) I got a deck load on & the forks said is that enough drive? I said no mate lets make her sweat, stick a load upstairs too! (you can’t knock that kind of enthusiasm). When I got to the drop they had a weighbridge so I thought I’d put her on there to see what weight I had up! Lets just say it was a good job I wasn’t pulled on the way there, & I forgave her for being a bit sluggish under pressure, next load was definately a deck-load though! Happy days!
Hi Chris , love the new pictures , with the flags mate , also I recall the fl on Wilsins and for a while a mate of mine drove it , i also recall the owner of the business son being a bit punchey .
Austin Morris’ own monthly magazine. 1982, these were the days when the Lord Mayors Parade was a big thing & used to take over the centre of Oxford as it made its way up from the Banbury Road up through Carfax & up to & into South Park at the bottom of Headington Hill. I was driving the Clydesdale having just got my Class 3 a couple of months before aged 18, my ‘load’ was a Steel Band & God knows how many crates of beer etc stacked up against the head board, of which I was fed a steady stream of all the way by the bands various supporters etc, they were a great lot & kept me fed & “watered!!!” all day. What the the Health & Safety Police & various busy-bodies would say about say about my roof-load today I dread to think! You can just make out the old Tuckwells/Bedford behind me as we come up St. Giles.
Anyone remember seeing this old Beast flying around Oxfordshire? She was based down Lamarsh Rd off the Botley Rd at the City Motors Commercial workshops, next door to my Dads Mobil depot & Percivals coaches.
The AEC was featured in CVC about 6 years ago shortly after restoration. I think it was one of the first 3, JET name coming from the area code JET for where I can’t remember. I think it dates from ‘54 and so I’ve been told one of the last of that model. A guy from up North stayed in a caravan in Cleavers’ yard making the wooden cab and I think the tank had a load of work as it had warped over time. I don’t think the tank is the original as I’ve been told only the bare chassis was found in a gateway. I can’t remember who but there is a 1:76 model of it (Oxford diecast?), I saw one at Gaydon.
Probably right about last of that model as would maybe come a bit cheaper, but good enough to try on new project.
