PAUL GEE's PHOTO COLLECTION (Part 1)

[arcdaz]

Hi Paul
many thanks for posting that cracking photo of the RMC Wotton Roadstone Routeman tipper
From ArcDaz love it mate happy days

[oiltreader]

“NEI ERF. I wonder what this truck carried as the sides are very low ■■?”
Hi Dean, my guess would be small sacks of ball bearings or shot.
Oily"

[dieseldog66]

oiltreader:
Thanks again to yourself Dean and Paul
Car and Commercial Deliveries of Birmingham with a load of Triumph Dolomites, Dieseldog will know more about the firm, from what I can remember they lasted a fair while without takeover if ever.
Oily
p.s. Putting the copyright mark(bold text) within the image frame would deter would be pirates looking to sell on.
Oily

Hello Deanb & Oily, Car & Commercial as far as I can remember were running well in to the 2000’s and if memory serves me correct the were bought out by STVA , I may be wrong and stand to be corrected.

[chris_webb]

oiltreader:
“NEI ERF. I wonder what this truck carried as the sides are very low ■■?”
Hi Dean, my guess would be small sacks of ball bearings or shot.
Oily"

The ERF belongs to International Combustion Ltd., of Derby.I think their place was on Sinfin Lane,I delivered steel there once or twice late 60s.
I don’t know what the NEI sticker stands for.

[smallcoal]

MERRY XMAS TO DEAN,PAUL,AND ALL MEMBERS

[willie_roadstar]

Great photos as always

Spotted Reg number TVT 997 L - thought it looked familiar on an earlier post - F88 of John Warren, this was my Dads truck when he was on Comart International- early 70s

Happy days

Thanks Ant

[punchy_dan]

Hi Ant does it say Stoke on the drivers side ? Cheers Dan .

[logger]

Piston broke:

logger:

DEANB:
I.R.Dunkerley Foden.

Hi Dean
Great to see another pic of a Dunkerleys lorry and all the other firms from the Bristol area most of them no longer around . Have attached the only dunkerleys pics I have from those days .
The first was taken of trucks in the yard , the second was a Trailer and crane we built up for export .
Jeff

Hi Dean

I second all that logger said… Great pics of Dunkerleys. Great local firm with a hard worked but smart fleet. The Fodens, especially, were my favourites.

logger (Jeff) I guess you used to work for them? Didn’t they design and build their own roll along brick cranes on the trailers?

Just a useless piece of information for you - I live in the house that Sid Dunkerley (One of the sons of I.R ) bought for his daughter when it was built, in 1938

Hi Paul
I worked for Dunkerleys in the early 80s and was involved with the crane side of the business including building the rollloaders which Dunkerleys had designed have attached a pic of a sales brochure .
I R ( Ivor . Robert always known as Bob ) and Sid we’re brothers . Sid ran the garage in Chipping Sodbury high street which was originally the family business

[kmills]

Punchy Dan:
Hi Ant does it say Stoke on the drivers side ? Cheers Dan .

Looks like Stone Dan
Cheers, Keith

[gingerfold]

Chris Webb:

oiltreader:
“NEI ERF. I wonder what this truck carried as the sides are very low ■■?”
Hi Dean, my guess would be small sacks of ball bearings or shot.
Oily"

The ERF belongs to International Combustion Ltd., of Derby.I think their place was on Sinfin Lane,I delivered steel there once or twice late 60s.
I don’t know what the NEI sticker stands for.

Hello Chris, NEI was the parent company of International Combustion, and it also included John Thompson boilermakers of Dudley(?) and another boilermakers from the North East whose name escapes me for now. They specialised in making huge power station boliers when we burned coal and oil to gernerate electricity.

[gingerfold]

DEANB:

gingerfold:

DEANB:
I reckon a few of the Northern drivers would have seen this ERF about as it had a long working life.

Nelstrop’s always liked to get their money’s worth out of a tanker, the AEC Mammoth Major was 18 years old when I photographed it at Walsall in July 1990.

Nice pic Graham,thanks for posting. I suppose they run there trucks for so long is because the article
said it was on local work.
“moomooland”]

gingerfold:
Nelstrop’s always liked to get their money’s worth out of a tanker, the AEC Mammoth Major was 18 years old when I photographed it at Walsall in July 1990

William Nelstrop & Co. Ltd of Albion Mills Stockport ran this
Leyland AEC Mammoth Major 8 tanker Reg No OVO 464L which was registered new in August 1972.
Seen here in 1992 while parked in the depot at Stockport Nelstrop’s ran this vehicle for an astonishing 22 years
until it was withdrawn in March 1994.
It was originally painted in Nelstrops blue livery as can be seen in this picture below…

Thanks for the pic Paul ! I actually prefer the blue colour scheme !
[/quote]
Yes Dean, not large annual mileages but factor in all the blowing hours it would have done in its lifetime. It would take on average about an hour to discharge the tank running the engine at 800 to 900 rpm. I also prefer the blue livery. Years ago Nelstrops ran its own in-house transport division under the name of King Brothers. Now all its transport is contracted out. I’d one of my tankers in Nelstrops mill on Friday collecting a load on behalf of another miller.

[chris_webb]

gingerfold:

Chris Webb:

oiltreader:
“NEI ERF. I wonder what this truck carried as the sides are very low ■■?”
Hi Dean, my guess would be small sacks of ball bearings or shot.
Oily"

The ERF belongs to International Combustion Ltd., of Derby.I think their place was on Sinfin Lane,I delivered steel there once or twice late 60s.
I don’t know what the NEI sticker stands for.

Hello Chris, NEI was the parent company of International Combustion, and it also included John Thompson boilermakers of Dudley(?) and another boilermakers from the North East whose name escapes me for now. They specialised in making huge power station boliers when we burned coal and oil to gernerate electricity.

Thanks Graham.Would the North East boilermaker be Whessoe at Darlington? Another place I delivered steel plate to from Patent Shaft Wednesbury.

[gingerfold]

No Chris, it was Clarke Chapman, and Reyrolle Parsons was also part of the group. Northern Engineering Industries (NEI) was taken over by Rolls Royce in 1989.

[deanb]

ArcDaz:
Hi Paul
many thanks for posting that cracking photo of the RMC Wotton Roadstone Routeman tipper
From ArcDaz love it mate happy days

Thanks for your comments Daz, Paul will appreciate it. I dont know if you have looked at this thread
from the beginning or not as there are alot of photos of Routeman’s plus at least 2 articles. One for Blue Circle
and one for ARC.

oiltreader:
“NEI ERF. I wonder what this truck carried as the sides are very low ■■?”
Hi Dean, my guess would be small sacks of ball bearings or shot.Oily"

Thanks Oily !

Dieseldog66:

oiltreader:
Thanks again to yourself Dean and Paul
Car and Commercial Deliveries of Birmingham with a load of Triumph Dolomites, Dieseldog will know more about the firm, from what I can remember they lasted a fair while without takeover if ever.Oily

Hello Deanb & Oily, Car & Commercial as far as I can remember were running well in to the 2000’s and if memory serves me correct the were bought out by STVA , I may be wrong and stand to be corrected.

Thanks for your comments “Dieseldog66”

Chris Webb:

oiltreader:
“NEI ERF. I wonder what this truck carried as the sides are very low ■■?”
Hi Dean, my guess would be small sacks of ball bearings or shot.
Oily"

The ERF belongs to International Combustion Ltd., of Derby.I think their place was on Sinfin Lane,I delivered steel there once or twice late 60s.I don’t know what the NEI sticker stands for.

Thanks Chris for your comments !

smallcoal:
MERRY XMAS TO DEAN,PAUL,AND ALL MEMBERS

Same to you John !

Willie Roadstar:
Great photos as always
Spotted Reg number TVT 997 L - thought it looked familiar on an earlier post - F88 of John Warren, this was my Dads truck when he was on Comart International- early 70s Happy days
Thanks Ant

Cheers Ant ,Your Comart thread was a really good read.

Comart article.

[deanb]

logger:
Hi Paul
I worked for Dunkerleys in the early 80s and was involved with the crane side of the business including building the rollloaders which Dunkerleys had designed have attached a pic of a sales brochure .
I R ( Ivor . Robert always known as Bob ) and Sid we’re brothers . Sid ran the garage in Chipping Sodbury high street which was originally the family business

Thanks for the pics “logger” are there any truck pics in that brochure ■■

kmills:

Punchy Dan:
Hi Ant does it say Stoke on the drivers side ? Cheers Dan .

Looks like Stone Dan Cheers, Keith

Thanks “Punchy Dan” and Keith for your comments !

gingerfold:
I don’t know what the NEI sticker stands for.

Hello Chris, NEI was the parent company of International Combustion, and it also included John Thompson boilermakers of Dudley(?) and another boilermakers from the North East whose name escapes me for now. They specialised in making huge power station boliers when we burned coal and oil to gernerate electricity.
[/quote]
Thanks for the info Graham.

gingerfold:

DEANB:
Thanks for the pic Paul ! I actually prefer the blue colour scheme !

Yes Dean, not large annual mileages but factor in all the blowing hours it would have done in its lifetime. It would take on average about an hour to discharge the tank running the engine at 800 to 900 rpm. I also prefer the blue livery. Years ago Nelstrops ran its own in-house transport division under the name of King Brothers. Now all its transport is contracted out. I’d one of my tankers in Nelstrops mill on Friday collecting a load on behalf of another miller.

Good point about the blowing hours,never driven one of those so never thought about it.

[deanb]

Put to the test.

Click on pages twice to read.

[deanb]

B.Chilton & Son’s tidy Volvo F88

A & J Butterworth Marathon.

Brackmills Volvo F12. I had an article about this F12 as it was a special build from memory with the
huge crew cab.

BFI Fiat.

Closs & Son ERF

[piston_broke]

logger:

Piston broke:

logger:

DEANB:
I.R.Dunkerley Foden.

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Hi Dean
Great to see another pic of a Dunkerleys lorry and all the other firms from the Bristol area most of them no longer around . Have attached the only dunkerleys pics I have from those days .
The first was taken of trucks in the yard , the second was a Trailer and crane we built up for export .
Jeff

Hi Dean

I second all that logger said… Great pics of Dunkerleys. Great local firm with a hard worked but smart fleet. The Fodens, especially, were my favourites.

logger (Jeff) I guess you used to work for them? Didn’t they design and build their own roll along brick cranes on the trailers?

Just a useless piece of information for you - I live in the house that Sid Dunkerley (One of the sons of I.R ) bought for his daughter when it was built, in 1938

Hi Paul
I worked for Dunkerleys in the early 80s and was involved with the crane side of the business including building the rollloaders which Dunkerleys had designed have attached a pic of a sales brochure .
I R ( Ivor . Robert always known as Bob ) and Sid we’re brothers . Sid ran the garage in Chipping Sodbury high street which was originally the family business

Hi logger

Thanks for that info and the pic - every day is a school day

I have always been told that Sid was a son - you live and learn!

Clever piece of kit, that rolloader. Years ahead of its time. Crying shame its all gone now, like soo many in this area

[deanb]

Piston broke:
Hi logger
Thanks for that info and the pic - every day is a school day
I have always been told that Sid was a son - you live and learn!
Clever piece of kit, that rolloader. Years ahead of its time. Crying shame its all gone now, like soo many in this area

Thanks for your input “Piston broke”

[deanb]

Elliotts Atkinson.

Anyone recognise the F86 ■■?

Newpark Mercedes.

Sharples Foden

Blue Line ERF