Ray Brown:
Two old North East companies sadly no longer in existence.
Trying to figure out who the Commer 6 wheel tipper belongs to ■■? Can you give us a clue
Thanks
Tyneside
tyneside:
Trying to figure out who the Commer 6 wheel tipper belongs to ■■? Can you give us a clueThanks
Tyneside
G A Bamborough?
Postal:
tyneside:
Trying to figure out who the Commer 6 wheel tipper belongs to ■■? Can you give us a clueThanks
Tyneside
G A Bamborough?
Could be !, Thanks Postal. I really should go to Specsavers !!!
Second look and I think it is G A Bambrough. I can’t recollect the company but the name is ringing a distant bell in the back of my mind going back to the 1970s.
Hi there Tyneside&Postal i was able to zoom in and it is G.A Bamborogh cheers Ray
George Bamborough was based in Chester le Street behind the market place and under the viaduct. Had a large tipper fleet. Think the company would date back to before WW2. Had a lot of AEC 6 and 8 wheelers in the sixties. I was at Washington Grammar at the time and they led all the shale from the recently closed F pit heap onto the new A194 / A1M link for the Tyne Tunnel. In the early seventies George replaced almost the entire fleet with 8 wheel Fodens but he had overstretched financially and ended being bought out by Harry Marsh plant hire. They were from Hartlepool and had a yard at Birtley next to Cawthorn Sinclair but they ended up on the Portobello Ind Est next to Coopers Auctions.
George was a bit of a character and was a prominent member at Usworth Aero Club at Washington. He had plans to buy an old Constellation airliner and turn it into a highflying casino.
Tyneside
Murray Hogg Mercedes clipping from 1980.
To everyone on truck net and especially the lads from northeast drivers thread, thanks for the comments, stories and pictures over the last year ,loads of history and entertaining stories and some beautiful pictures of motors we used to see and drive over the years ,long may it last ,have a great Xmas and a happy and healthy new year ,take care , Paul Ward ps, hope to see some of you at Christmas do on 28th.
paul ward:
To everyone on truck net and especially the lads from northeast drivers thread, thanks for the comments, stories and pictures over the last year ,loads of history and entertaining stories and some beautiful pictures of motors we used to see and drive over the years ,long may it last ,have a great Xmas and a happy and healthy new year ,take care , Paul Ward ps, hope to see some of you at Christmas do on 28th.
Same to you Paul, see you Thursday. 
Regards Kev.
Paul Gee picture of me & my truck coming up from south Wales 1979/80
Kenny Glendinnings photo at Normans Cafe Brotherton, mince tanker must have been,
My truck at Walon based in Tyne Dock, Eurolohr 11/12 car body with remote control for the decks, parked on the old Forth Road Bridge Services on a Land Rover show job going from one hotel or golf course to the next, started in Scotland ended down at Bridgenorth 6 weeks later
Gentlemen, I need some information. After a discussion with an x colleague we were at odds about
this topic. He doubted my memory, could be right in some cases, I told him of a Ford Transcontinental
with a box van trailer that carried the signwriting," This vehicle carries 350000 Fizz Bombs " was it
Dobsons. The number of Fizz Bombs may be open to debate. Thanks in adavance.
pushrod47:
Gentlemen, I need some information. After a discussion with an x colleague we were at odds about
this topic. He doubted my memory, could be right in some cases, I told him of a Ford Transcontinental
with a box van trailer that carried the signwriting," This vehicle carries 350000 Fizz Bombs " was it
Dobsons. The number of Fizz Bombs may be open to debate. Thanks in adavance.
. You are correct , It is Fred Dobson who made a selection of sweets At their factory in Ponteland, He even made sweets called Saddam Hussians Balls 
, During the Q 8 conflict, Regards Larry.
Thanks very much Larry, it`s nice to be right
Regards pushrod 47
Hi Larry, hope you are well? is that GUY with the load of paper on, one of Tommy Dodds fleet from Bedlington, who subbed for Fergies and eventually taken on by Ferguson? I think it was driven for a while by a friend of mine called Dek Birch, would i be right. i have seen a couple of photos of an eight-wheeler but that’s the first one i seen of the tractor unit, did he just have the one? cheers take care Paul