A couple of Crapper & Sons Carterton.
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Co-op van on Magdalen Bridge.
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CKD yard Cowley,with BRS AEC, this was where Tesco, Cowley is now.
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A Bill Hebborn wagon and trailer.
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BRS Comet heading for Sandy Lane.
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Interesting piccie Oiltreader, the two Commer artics were taken at BRS Perivale Depot. They Still have the three way headboard interchangable with British Road Service, Morris Motors (was it ?) or Prestcold, the fleet numbers appear to have been painted out and thePrestcold advertising panels removed from the front of the trailers. Bit of history there ! ExiledDevonian.
Hi all you veteran truckers, if you want to see some live action complete with sound effects, go to U Tube on the net, type in Gloucester Traffic & Roads 50’s & 60’s, sit back and relax, and enjoy. Thank heaven things got better, or did they? ExiledDevonian.
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One for muckaway to ponder, It looks like Smith and Sons Dodge.
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Close Oiltreader; after much eye strain I can see it belongs to J.Curtis, Abingdon. Their liveries were very similar.
On the subject of tippers, I was told today that John Sheehan died a few months ago…that was kept very quiet, surprised none of Sheehans’ drivers have said anything. RIP.
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A couple of Crapper & Sons Carterton.
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WOW I remember those Fords with the dumptruck bodies at Upper Heyford Air Base in the 70s when going to work with the old man in the summer holidays and weekends, they used to carry drotts etc… in the back (easy with no tailboards)
Costains were the main contractors at Heyford at the time, they built the “bomb” proof hangers that are still there to this day.
I would love to see anyone trying to take those babies down with the amount of steel and concrete in them
Great photos Oiltreader brought back some good memeries
Regards
Routeman
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One for muckaway to ponder, It looks like Smith and Sons Dodge.
oiltreaderClose Oiltreader; after much eye strain I can see it belongs to J.Curtis, Abingdon. Their liveries were very similar.
On the subject of tippers, I was told today that John Sheehan died a few months ago…that was kept very quiet, surprised none of Sheehans’ drivers have said anything. RIP.
Hi Muckaway
On the subject of John Sheehan he passed away over a year ago sadly missed but would have been delighted to see his name mentioned on a web site.
Regards
Routeman
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Muckaway:
oiltreader:
One for muckaway to ponder, It looks like Smith and Sons Dodge.
oiltreaderClose Oiltreader; after much eye strain I can see it belongs to J.Curtis, Abingdon. Their liveries were very similar.
On the subject of tippers, I was told today that John Sheehan died a few months ago…that was kept very quiet, surprised none of Sheehans’ drivers have said anything. RIP.Hi Muckaway
On the subject of John Sheehan he passed away over a year ago sadly missed but would have been delighted to see his name mentioned on a web site.
Regards
Routeman
Did you work for him Routeman? I did for about a year as a trainee plant op: Sheehabs hired me out on a dumptruck to Smiths for 6weeks and ended up being offered a job in the gravel pit which I jumped at; Newest machine, payrise and within cycling distance from home…I was surprised Johns’ death wasnt more well known; Nobody knew til I said this morning…
Father in Law remembers Sheehans’ early days with a couple of tippers on the new ■■■■■■ Bypass…
It was in the Oxford mail Nathan , also I went to school with Richard Sheehan , His dad had one truck off road only for many years ,They use to live behind Buryknowle park for years .
This Atego is now ten years old and has just gone to Js frasers where it was built for a light refurb . Its driven by " The hoff"
Muckaway, This one is much easier on the eyes, a Dodge Kew with a Perkins engine.
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Yes Muckaway from the mid eighties when I left school.
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Muckaway:
oiltreader:
One for muckaway to ponder, It looks like Smith and Sons Dodge.
oiltreaderClose Oiltreader; after much eye strain I can see it belongs to J.Curtis, Abingdon. Their liveries were very similar.
On the subject of tippers, I was told today that John Sheehan died a few months ago…that was kept very quiet, surprised none of Sheehans’ drivers have said anything. RIP.Hi Muckaway
On the subject of John Sheehan he passed away over a year ago sadly missed but would have been delighted to see his name mentioned on a web site.
Regards
RoutemanDid you work for him Routeman? I did for about a year as a trainee plant op: Sheehabs hired me out on a dumptruck to Smiths for 6weeks and ended up being offered a job in the gravel pit which I jumped at; Newest machine, payrise and within cycling distance from home…I was surprised Johns’ death wasnt more well known; Nobody knew til I said this morning…
Father in Law remembers Sheehans’ early days with a couple of tippers on the new ■■■■■■ Bypass…
JAKEY:
My grampys truck.
Jakey, A beauty, complete with rad ■■■■.
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A couple of J Curtis and Sons.
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Routeman, lorries that were on Sheehans when I was there were an E reg Daf 2500 8w tipper, an F reg Roro equivalent, the much loved MAN 8w on M and N regs; I think they rue the day they replaced t with thhem with Hinos… Th low loader was a Leyland Daf with the Pegaso type cab on a G reg driven by Steve Barney…The skips were Leylands, and Mercs with possibly a Man…They had a Ford Cargo roadsweeper and lastly at least one Leyland Constructor 6w tipper named “The Warrior”.
I was mostly at Slape Hill Quarry (picking crap off the crusher) or driving a clapped out Komatsu 210/3 either screening or with a concrete muncher on. This old thing was replaced with a secondhand PC 210/5 that came from Steve Hill IIRC and Sheehans rebuilt the engine; This machine is still at Slape Hill, slowly rusting away along with an early JCB JS200…
Before Sheehans bought Stanton Harcourt landfill from Smiths they had an inert tip near Benson; named Brightwell, an old ballast pit which they put a metre or two of fill over the old tip as the farmer kept ploughing up old landfill waste.
Finally, there was Micky… 
Hi oil reader , yes dad said it was bloody cold driving grampys van , pity we cannot find it ? , Dads now 87 and it would make his day .