backsplice:
0I,m sure Oily will agree with me the photo from Tyneside of the fergie 35 (gold engine ) the Tattie howkers could be in Angus around the mid 50,s or a wee bit later Angus Registration
Sorry Backsplice,the decaled Massey Ferguson would have been a post 1958 model with red tin work and a grey engine,the “gold belly” was a Standard 23C engined FE35 Ferguson tractor,I have one of the last Ferguson “gold belly’s” 1957.
David
Guy Big J high roof sleepers, what’s not to like? 
Was that Westfield’s from Mansfield? If it was and they were running those back in the day, I’d have been up the A 614 like a shot. 
Hated those side blowing exhausts though, such a racket and fumes right under your nose. With my Atki I was a regular at Sainsbury’s in Buntingford, up the high street blowing all the empty milk bottles over. 
Spardo:
Guy Big J high roof sleepers, what’s not to like?Was that Westfield’s from Mansfield? If it was and they were running those back in the day, I’d have been up the A 614 like a shot.
Hated those side blowing exhausts though, such a racket and fumes right under your nose. With my Atki I was a regular at Sainsbury’s in Buntingford, up the high street blowing all the empty milk bottles over.
Those Guys would be the horlicks if fitted with a Percy 240 
Spardo:
Guy Big J high roof sleepers, what’s not to like?Was that Westfield’s from Mansfield? If it was and they were running those back in the day, I’d have been up the A 614 like a shot.
Hated those side blowing exhausts though, such a racket and fumes right under your nose. With my Atki I was a regular at Sainsbury’s in Buntingford, up the high street blowing all the empty milk bottles over.
Says Mansfield on the doors David!
David
5thwheel:
Spardo:
Guy Big J high roof sleepers, what’s not to like?Was that Westfield’s from Mansfield? If it was and they were running those back in the day, I’d have been up the A 614 like a shot.
Hated those side blowing exhausts though, such a racket and fumes right under your nose. With my Atki I was a regular at Sainsbury’s in Buntingford, up the high street blowing all the empty milk bottles over.
Says Mansfield on the doors David!
David
Was with Pickfords at some time according to this pic. Don’t know if it was before or after this Westfield pic was taken though.
public.fotki.com/boballoa/briti … html#media
Was Westfield part of Pickfords at some time?
5thwheel:
Spardo:
Guy Big J high roof sleepers, what’s not to like?Was that Westfield’s from Mansfield? If it was and they were running those back in the day, I’d have been up the A 614 like a shot.
Hated those side blowing exhausts though, such a racket and fumes right under your nose. With my Atki I was a regular at Sainsbury’s in Buntingford, up the high street blowing all the empty milk bottles over.
Says Mansfield on the doors David!
David
You’ve got better eyes than me David I never thought they were a big operation but admit to not knowing much about them. No idea Dennis Javelin, but that Pickford cab does seem a bit of a coincidence.
Can’t find anything about them on Google.
Edit: Seems like they may be older than I thought. youtu.be/LfFI1_laouk
Buzzer:
Buzzer
Thanks Buzzer I Know the gentleman in the photo with the Globetrotter I often travelled with him in the early 90s and this photo answers the question plus jogged the memory box raised a week or to ago about painted TNT subcontractors in WA
Dig
Westfield ran tippers at one time and also had a depot in the USA, they re-engined some of the petrol engined American trucks with Gardner 8 LW’s.
Pete.
5thwheel:
backsplice:
0I,m sure Oily will agree with me the photo from Tyneside of the fergie 35 (gold engine ) the Tattie howkers could be in Angus around the mid 50,s or a wee bit later Angus RegistrationSorry Backsplice,the decaled Massey Ferguson would have been a post 1958 model with red tin work and a grey engine,the “gold belly” was a Standard 23C engined FE35 Ferguson tractor,I have one of the last Ferguson “gold belly’s” 1957.
David
Thanks David ,…close though !!!
Buzzer:
Buzzer
Buzzer …Aboods transport were around the Paramatta area Western Sydney I remember them from the late 80,S early 90,S
I was running a small KCC (TK ) Bedford and had reason to visit their yard a couple of times they had loads of older stuff they had a Thornycroft (semi trailer) which was possibly just a cab front around multi other stuff it looked good they also ran a KM Bedford 6 wheeler from memory and the famous Foden in your photo don,t know much about it but certainly remember it well seeing it on the road many times …as it happens it was on display just up the coast last weekend 3rd 09 on a TV report about a machine fest at Macksville NSW
so there you are then how about that !!!
DIG:
Buzzer:
BuzzerThanks Buzzer I Know the gentleman in the photo with the Globetrotter I often travelled with him in the early 90s and this photo answers the question plus jogged the memory box raised a week or to ago about painted TNT subcontractors in WA
Dig
Peaches and cream, Dig.
Cedric Abood was well known for his appreciation of Foden, in the day.
Apparently income didn’t stretch to an all Foden fleet.
SDU:
This was allegedly an S21, severely damaged in an accident and recabbed with an early K100 cab. I think it was more likely the Delta at the top of the page. It became known as the Fodworth.
I love that, but do you have any idea of the founder’s origins? Sounds Asian to me, possibly Pakistani (though Cedric seems well Anglo ) and I wonder when they first came to Oz bearing in mind the white Australia policy (official or otherwise). I left for the last time in 1970 I think it was, and although I had seen many dark faces, but all indigenous, I remember how shocked I was along with my mates who came to make sure I went* , to see an African face at Mascot airport. Common enough in Blighty of course, but not in Oz.
Some visited me in England in later years and one, with his wife, here in France after 45 years of separation. As Vinny Jones said in ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’. Emotional. Spardo:
5thwheel:
Spardo:
Guy Big J high roof sleepers, what’s not to like?Was that Westfield’s from Mansfield? If it was and they were running those back in the day, I’d have been up the A 614 like a shot.
Hated those side blowing exhausts though, such a racket and fumes right under your nose. With my Atki I was a regular at Sainsbury’s in Buntingford, up the high street blowing all the empty milk bottles over.
Says Mansfield on the doors David!
David
You’ve got better eyes than me David
Can’t find anything about them on Google.
Edit: Seems like they may be older than I thought. youtu.be/LfFI1_laouk
Westfield run a restored AEC MK3 “tin front”.
coomsey:
The Derby lads will know all about this mishap! NMP off FB
0
I live in Ashbourne now and I was only looking at that market place tother day,wondering how nobody was hurt in that accident,it’s always busy. 
Spardo:
I love that, but do you have any idea of the founder’s origins? Sounds Asian to me, possibly Pakistani (though Cedric seems well Anglo
I will have a guess David and say that they might have Afghani roots, we all know the valuable contributions that the Ghans made to the country.
You know how it was back then, start off with a couple of camels, swop them for a Foden and the rest is history.
backsplice:
0Buzzer:
BuzzerBuzzer …Aboods transport were around the Paramatta area Western Sydney I remember them from the late 80,S early 90,S
I was running a small KCC (TK ) Bedford and had reason to visit their yard a couple of times they had loads of older stuff they had a Thornycroft (semi trailer) which was possibly just a cab front around multi other stuff it looked good they also ran a KM Bedford 6 wheeler from memory and the famous Foden in your photo don,t know much about it but certainly remember it well seeing it on the road many times …as it happens it was on display just up the coast last weekend 3rd 09 on a TV report about a machine fest at Macksville NSWso there you are then how about that !!!
Thanks very much for the information and your time posting it which does noy always happen, Buzzer
