Its raining hard here again but summit to cheer you all, Buzzer.
Some little lorries seen in Mojacar in Spain, delivering to shops, cafes, bars, and restaurants.
Ray Smyth.
These fridge lorries are delivering to Thomas`s Supermecado, the oldest supermarket on the
Paseo De Meditteraneo in Mojacar, Almeria Province, in south-east Spain.
Ray Smyth.
Thanks to Buzzer, coomsey, DEANB and Ray Smyth for the pics 
Oily
Fort William 2014
Len Isherwood from Bacup with his Guy Otter.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Ste46:
Bewick:
Aye Larry and Gerald, the “drum job”, IIRC Victor Blagden’s name changed to Rheem Blagden and in around 1970 John McGuffie started running a change over at Penkridge with a firm from Kingswood, Bristol ( can’t just recall the name) John loaded 20 ton of paper ex Henry Cooke at Milnthorpe for usually Midsomer Norton and swapped this trailer at P/ridge for a load of new 45 gal drums from Rheemco Bristol for Albright & Wilson Whitehaven. The tractor unit he first used on this traffic was an “H” reg Atkinson 180LXB, then a Scania 80 both of which he bought from J W Graham of Bass Lake. I’m not just sure when the Bristol job stopped but a drum manufacturer in Aintree called Brabys started supplying A & W and John managed to obtain this job to A & W which by this time had increased to two or three loads per day. In mid '74 john was struggling a bit and I was interested in developing my business with the addition of more localised traffic and his main work slotted in nicely to our operation. So I bought his 7 40ft flats complete with a set of “drum sticks” and sheets and ropes on each trailer. Brabys were great to work for and Harry Thompson the Despatch manager ( how’s that name for coincidence Gerald!) really appreciated being able to pick the phone up and get immediate contact with a Hauliers traffic desk ! Apparently trying to contact John was a nightmare as he never had a proper traffic office, and no Mobiles in those far off days ! We ran the drums out of Braby’s for approx. 8 years when the job dried up as A & W went over to more bulk tanker movements and away from packaged product. But it was an excellent job while it lasted and got us into traffic ex W.■■■■■■■ mainly ex Workington Steel and to a lesser extent out of A & W. But our rates for our traffic from Libbys and Henry Cookes in Milnthorpe to South Lancs, Cheshire, N. Wales and the W. Midlands were higher than the W. ■■■■■■■■ traffic so often we just shot home from Whitehaven back to Milnthorpe where we had plenty of excellent rated traffic to go at ! The shot is one of a Buffalo demo we ran for a while in '76 and it has just pulled into the depot with a load of green D/A’s which were the main colour of drums we delivered to A&W. And no the Buffalo didn’t figure in our fleet purchases our drivers hated it ! Cheers Dennis.I am certain it was Blagden/Rheem Blagden had a drum factory in Burton-on-Trent up to the late 70’s/early 80’s. Draycott Transport from Draycott-in-the-Clay (■■■■■ Brothers) - who have featured on this forum somewhere - had several lorries on contract in there for many years. Loaded exactly the same as the one featured in the photo.
Steve
I’m slowly getting through this thread and have just got to this,
My first job as a 23 year working for Arlan Roach at Cambrian transport at west thurrock,we used to load regularly at blagdens Bristol,
This was my first go at it in about 1976.
Had a bit of a shocking time the day before yesterday. The driver of the Merc was Romanian, his tractor from Slovakia and the trailer from Italy. 
He did stop though and waited with me for 2 hours till I was pulled back onto the road and was a great help to the breakdown man in doing so.
The long 8 hour journey home, via destination where I delivered my 2 totally unconcerned and uninjured Boxer dog passengers, was a bit chilly and noisy though with 2 rear side windows smashed out. 
Spardo:
Had a bit of a shocking time the day before yesterday. The driver of the Merc was Romanian, his tractor from Slovakia and the trailer from Italy.He did stop though and waited with me for 2 hours till I was pulled back onto the road and was a great help to the breakdown man in doing so.
The long 8 hour journey home, via destination where I delivered my 2 totally unconcerned and uninjured Boxer dog passengers, was a bit chilly and noisy though with 2 rear side windows smashed out.
Hey Spardo, there are no “good” accidents but that shades on the side of better, a ditch preferable to a drop and tip over. The wagon driver using a bit too much road could have beetled on, fair play to him for stopping.
Oily
Thanks to Bumper, pollystag and Buzzer for the pics , Spardo for the vids
Oily
A fair sized sheet/s on a well wrapped load of straw bales.
oiltreader:
Hey Spardo, there are no “good” accidents but that shades on the side of better, a ditch preferable to a drop and tip over. The wagon driver using a bit too much road could have beetled on, fair play to him for stopping.
Oily
Yes that’s what I thought, we hadn’t actually touched (I made sure of that when I saw those 3 big wheels rushing at me 
), so I couldn’t see if he had stopped out of sight round the bend, until I asked the moto rider and then saw this bloke appear.
He was very helpful and we parted with a handshake 2 hours later. 
On the other side of the road was a very steep and long drop, not even space for me to get off the road and have a nervous pee. Perhaps the drop was what frightened him into keeping his distance from it 
He was loaded for Auchan rdc in Nimes and, knowing how they are sticklers for keeping to rdv times, even more kudos for him for sticking with me. Those barstewards once held me over a weekend for being 5 minutes late on a Friday afternoon. 
pollystag:
Ste46:
Bewick:
Aye Larry and Gerald, the “drum job”, IIRC Victor Blagden’s name changed to Rheem Blagden and in around 1970 John McGuffie started running a change over at Penkridge with a firm from Kingswood, Bristol ( can’t just recall the name) John loaded 20 ton of paper ex Henry Cooke at Milnthorpe for usually Midsomer Norton and swapped this trailer at P/ridge for a load of new 45 gal drums from Rheemco Bristol for Albright & Wilson Whitehaven. The tractor unit he first used on this traffic was an “H” reg Atkinson 180LXB, then a Scania 80 both of which he bought from J W Graham of Bass Lake. I’m not just sure when the Bristol job stopped but a drum manufacturer in Aintree called Brabys started supplying A & W and John managed to obtain this job to A & W which by this time had increased to two or three loads per day. In mid '74 john was struggling a bit and I was interested in developing my business with the addition of more localised traffic and his main work slotted in nicely to our operation. So I bought his 7 40ft flats complete with a set of “drum sticks” and sheets and ropes on each trailer. Brabys were great to work for and Harry Thompson the Despatch manager ( how’s that name for coincidence Gerald!) really appreciated being able to pick the phone up and get immediate contact with a Hauliers traffic desk ! Apparently trying to contact John was a nightmare as he never had a proper traffic office, and no Mobiles in those far off days ! We ran the drums out of Braby’s for approx. 8 years when the job dried up as A & W went over to more bulk tanker movements and away from packaged product. But it was an excellent job while it lasted and got us into traffic ex W.■■■■■■■ mainly ex Workington Steel and to a lesser extent out of A & W. But our rates for our traffic from Libbys and Henry Cookes in Milnthorpe to South Lancs, Cheshire, N. Wales and the W. Midlands were higher than the W. ■■■■■■■■ traffic so often we just shot home from Whitehaven back to Milnthorpe where we had plenty of excellent rated traffic to go at ! The shot is one of a Buffalo demo we ran for a while in '76 and it has just pulled into the depot with a load of green D/A’s which were the main colour of drums we delivered to A&W. And no the Buffalo didn’t figure in our fleet purchases our drivers hated it ! Cheers Dennis.I am certain it was Blagden/Rheem Blagden had a drum factory in Burton-on-Trent up to the late 70’s/early 80’s. Draycott Transport from Draycott-in-the-Clay (■■■■■ Brothers) - who have featured on this forum somewhere - had several lorries on contract in there for many years. Loaded exactly the same as the one featured in the photo.
Steve
I’m slowly getting through this thread and have just got to this,
My first job as a 23 year working for Arlan Roach at Cambrian transport at west thurrock,we used to load regularly at blagdens Bristol,
This was my first go at it in about 1976.
Ray Smyth:
Some little lorries seen in Mojacar in Spain, delivering to shops, cafes, bars, and restaurants.
Ray Smyth.
Nice pics Ray, saw one of those little 3 wheelers in Italy back in about 2007.
DEANB:
Ray Smyth:
Some little lorries seen in Mojacar in Spain, delivering to shops, cafes, bars, and restaurants.
Ray Smyth.Nice pics Ray, saw one of those little 3 wheelers in Italy back in about 2007.
And there’s one nestling in the trees just behind me right now, been there since the law changed 10 years ago allowing them unlicenced, but not uninsured, on the roads of France.
