old trucks
volvo runner:
c butts
Was this the first livery these were in ? I know they were later in Bookers red & white 
Hi boris yes this was the 1st colour i think something to do with there brand called mothers choice.
boris:
volvo runner:
c buttsWas this the first livery these were in ? I know they were later in Bookers red & white
volvo runner:
Hi boris yes this was the 1st colour i think something to do with there brand called mothers choice.boris:
volvo runner:
c buttsWas this the first livery these were in ? I know they were later in Bookers red & white
Hi Volvorunner - oh yeah summat like that i recall the linfood brand?? but its 25 years ago now 
They had FL7s on Texas Homecare, ERF’s on Howard Smith paper then got the homebase contract off National carriers .
It was around this time Budgens was built on park farm - think TNT ran it then , had fleet of cream G reg Fodens , also Mothercare had smart fleet of pale blue Leyland Roadtrains drawbars (BRS )- have you any pics ?
Hi boris no pic of them yet .Do know of a guy for budgens driven a f7 for them when they started and his son carl worked for texas with a fl7. And yes he did get the nick name tom i know they have some pic so i will get them and post them on here. I did find this on youtube have a look commercialmotor.com/big-lorr … rs-youtube
boris:
volvo runner:
Hi boris yes this was the 1st colour i think something to do with there brand called mothers choice.boris:
volvo runner:
c buttsWas this the first livery these were in ? I know they were later in Bookers red & white
Hi Volvorunner - oh yeah summat like that i recall the linfood brand?? but its 25 years ago now
It was around this time Budgens was built on park farm - think TNT ran it then , had fleet of cream G reg Fodens , also Mothercare had smart fleet of pale blue Leyland Roadtrains drawbars (BRS )- have you any pics ?
Hi Boris is this what you mean. Jim
Hi volvorunner , yeah seen that youtube vid before - who would of thought that BRS would be no more , nice clip of the old BRS yard at Lodge farm ( now C Butts depot ) & a Travis & arnold wagon n drag - BRS had quite a few contracts with drawbar/demounts around that time , Habitat & Dana Spicer were 2 others i recall
ironfist:
Hi Boris is this what you mean. Jim
Nice pic - yeah thats the one thanks Jim
Another flashback i’ve just had 
There was a company in Daventry called Kohen & Windsor - they had some green Atki borderers with ‘chickenhut’ sleepers early eighties ■■
ironfist:
Hi all.
First time on this site, I saw Tonyhogi said about David Abbott’s Berliet.I drove that truck from new all over
west and east europe and the uk untill it was sold by Harborne when they took over David Abbott Haulage.
It was registerd in Manchester GBU147V thats were Renalt’s head UK office was. and distributed
by Derick Jones.
the power unit was a TR305 turbo intercooler and a Fuller 9 speed gear box and eaton back axial.BY the way Tony I think your my cousin Jim ( Wilf )
Hi Jim sent you a PM , see if you can dig out some more pics - still can’t find any of the ole’ mans transcon
Nice to see some of the old pics up here.
Will have to let father have a look.
Regards
Simon Partrick
Ps.
We’re still at it!
Do you run out of Pack’s old yard at Cranford now?
classicman:
Do you run out of Pack’s old yard at Cranford now?
That’s correct
Remember it well
Also had F821SBD driven by Eddie Childs