PAUL GEE's PHOTO COLLECTION (Part 1)

240_gardner · 30 January 2018 14:40

5thwheel:

gazsa401:
BFI Fiat bulker.

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Bowden Freight International they used do a lot of work out of British Gypsum in East Leake and Gotham
They also did trunking for Boots the Chemist out of their massive Beeston site

By all accounts they also took the banks to the cleaners,went belly up to some tune!!

David

More than once

I think their final incarnation, Bowden Transportation Services (I was told that they’d already used “Transport”!) is still running on containers, based in Wellingborough. They also owned an insurance business, as I recall

tonyj105 · 30 January 2018 15:03

240 Gardner:

5thwheel:

gazsa401:
BFI Fiat bulker.

8
Bowden Freight International they used do a lot of work out of British Gypsum in East Leake and Gotham
They also did trunking for Boots the Chemist out of their massive Beeston site

By all accounts they also took the banks to the cleaners,went belly up to some tune!!

David

More than once

I think their final incarnation, Bowden Transportation Services (I was told that they’d already used “Transport”!) is still running on containers, based in Wellingborough. They also owned an insurance business, as I recall

no they’re not, I live there.

tony

deanb · 30 January 2018 15:08

ramone:
Another old Leyland here Dean , one my granddad drove

Nice pic Ramone !

coomsey:
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86 8 whlrs always stand well for me. He’s got oversize scrap on, that makes your teeth rattle when it comes out. A few loads of it n you’ve aged the body 5yr. Cocked one up Stanton steel n a girder took 2of the 3 hinges clean off the barn door, didn’t earn much that day

I agree “coomsey” those F86’s were special motors ! Will pop some stuff on about
them this week !

Wheel Nut:

Dieseldog66:
Can anyone make the name out on the Commer with the single axle trailer please.

Peter McEwen

You must have X-ray vision “Wheel Nut”

Punchy Dan:
The Paul Smyth sed Atki is a Derbyshire reg , looks like a Hoyner type trailer ,may be a Neville ? A quick google surgests he’s may be from shirebrook Derbyshire ?

Cheers Dan !

37114:

DEANB:
George Taylor Marathon.

Not a motor rembered fondly, it opened the door to Seddon Atkinson to take Taylor’s business until they rusted away and Leylands briefly returned to the fleet with some roadtrains.

Thanks for all of your comments “37114”

Dieseldog66:
Can anyone make the name out on the Commer with the single axle trailer please.

Peter McEwen
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Can you make out the rest Wheel Nut, looks like an old Morton’s motor
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I have had a look but cant make it out chap !

Chris Webb:
Can you make out the rest Wheel Nut, looks like an old Morton’s motor

It’s got a UE Warwick C C reg plate and the name of the town is something upon something - like upon Avon for example.
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grumpy old man:

DEANB:
Some oldies.

I’d love to have a day with any one of those oldies. Fabulous machines.

There will be more of those “grumpy old man”

240 Gardner:

DEANB:
Was that your first time there Chris or have you been before ■■
Did you fly with Emirates ■■

I’ve not been before, but I hope I’ll be able to go again! We went out and back with BA, in some surprisingly elderly aircraft - I checked the reg details

Have you booked yourself in for some therapy then Chris after flying with BA ■■? Awful service
make sure you go Emirates next time chap.

240 Gardner:
BFI Fiat bulker.
Bowden Freight International they used do a lot of work out of British Gypsum in East Leake and Gotham .They also did trunking for Boots the Chemist out of their massive Beeston site

By all accounts they also took the banks to the cleaners,went belly up to some tune!! David
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More than once
I think their final incarnation, Bowden Transportation Services (I was told that they’d already used “Transport”!) is still running on containers, based in Wellingborough. They also owned an insurance business, as I recall
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deanb · 30 January 2018 15:19

Some oldies.

240_gardner · 30 January 2018 15:20

tonyj105:

240 Gardner:

5thwheel:

gazsa401:
BFI Fiat bulker.

8
Bowden Freight International they used do a lot of work out of British Gypsum in East Leake and Gotham
They also did trunking for Boots the Chemist out of their massive Beeston site

By all accounts they also took the banks to the cleaners,went belly up to some tune!!

David

More than once

I think their final incarnation, Bowden Transportation Services (I was told that they’d already used “Transport”!) is still running on containers, based in Wellingborough. They also owned an insurance business, as I recall

no they’re not, I live there.

tony

They worked for me between 2001 and 2009 in my container years, and I often visited their office (there was no yard) which was in Denington Road. They had some motors parked up at Chelveston, and the others dispersed nearer the ports, with a total fleet at that time of around 28. Bowden, along with P&O Roadways and Russell Davies, owned a company called Transport Management Limited (TML), and which was set up to manage the transport requirements of Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL). When MOL set up its own transport office, TML was rather decimated and later came into the sole ownership of Bowden, by this time BTS as opposed to BFI - sorry for all the acronyms!

beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02590159

Here’s one of the six O licences they hold:

vehicle-operator-licensing. … ence/39514

deanb · 30 January 2018 15:29

Here you go “coomsey”

Volvo F86

Click on pages twice to read.

Right hand Column.

deanb · 30 January 2018 15:46

Foreign F89 heading into Poole docks.

Bradshaw Scania 111 bulker.

Bowker Volvo F7

Anyone recognise the ERF ■■?

Harry Fillingham ERF

Philpotts Bedford bulker.

Ivanoff Scania 141

A.J.Hyslop Seddon Atkinson.

Yate Excavators Foden.

Compton Batteries ERF

grumpy_old_man · 30 January 2018 16:12

DEANB:
Some oldies.

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Love em, I’ll take a motor with character before the new modern Eurobox things every day of the week.

ramone · 30 January 2018 16:16

old 67:
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Thanks for posting this rare photo of a firm local to me. I’ve tried to tidy it up a bit, hope you don’t mind?

Regard. John.

Thanks for tidying it up John the original is mounted on cardboard and a little worse for wear , my grandad ,dad ,uncles and brother all worked for Henry Longs over the years

240_gardner · 30 January 2018 16:28

DEANB:
Bowker Volvo F7

Ah, Bowker 49, thank you

This was a very long-lived machine, and this photo was taken before its accident in December 1982, after which it was re-cabbed. I think the driver in the photo may be Tony Walker.

It was later re-plated to its design weight of 36.6 tonnes and lightened in various ways, to become the London Depot shunter, replacing an F86 and able to handle trailers trunked down by 38 tonners. Part of the lightening involved removing the front anti-roll bar - I remember taking it down to Crick on a changeover, following a service at Blackburn, and collecting a a trailer from Heinz at Kitt Green on the way, loaded with 25 Imperial tons of tomato ketchup on two layers of pallets . It took me 3.5 hours from Kitt Green to George’s, and the (few) lane changes felt quite exciting!

After the closure of the London Depot in 1988, 49 worked as a local shunter for years for a customer in Skelmersdale, moving lightweight product from factory to warehouse on a closed circuit. I think it was about 1999 when it was finally retired. It was put aside for restoration and the Technical Director tried in vain to get a fresh cab out of Volvo. It was still there several years later (see below photo by ‘Marky’) but, since the engineer’s sudden death in post almost three years ago, I don’t know if the little Volvo was ditched or not;

ARN 887V Volvo F717 by 240 Gardner, on Flickr

coomsey · 30 January 2018 16:41

Good read Dean
I remember following a 86,similar to this un, but no trailer, we were going up a long drag n he missed a gear. I’d got a J reg ERF 6sp n ■■■■■■■ 180, could you miss a gear with a D B box? Surely not. Anyway I’m into 2nd n off we go again n he left me for dead, a sickener.
While I’m on does anybody know this un? I used to backload out of an Ibstock brick yard Wakefield way, Abbey /Abbot summat?. A fella used to run a 6whr 86 out of there n he had a trailer after a while. He’d had it 6month when I run into him on a site down south. I asked him how he was getting on with it. " Getting on with it? I’d drive 5ml out me way so has not to have to reverse the b*****d"

240_gardner · 30 January 2018 16:48

DEANB:
Bowker Volvo F7

PS this was an NRK curtain-sider: anyone remember them?

moomooland · 30 January 2018 18:44

‘B’ Series ERF Reg No CBC 776T seen below in 1983 when operated by The Murphy Group Truck Rental.

phop · 30 January 2018 21:37

would the brickyard be nostell priory

coomsey · 31 January 2018 08:18

phop:
would the brickyard be nostell priory

That’s the one phop, knew it was something to do with the church!! lol. Is it still going?

deanb · 31 January 2018 09:51

240 Gardner:
BFI Fiat bulker.

They worked for me between 2001 and 2009 in my container years, and I often visited their office (there was no yard) which was in Denington Road. They had some motors parked up at Chelveston, and the others dispersed nearer the ports, with a total fleet at that time of around 28. Bowden, along with P&O Roadways and Russell Davies, owned a company called Transport Management Limited (TML), and which was set up to manage the transport requirements of Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL). When MOL set up its own transport office, TML was rather decimated and later came into the sole ownership of Bowden, by this time BTS as opposed to BFI - sorry for all the acronyms!
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02590159
Here’s one of the six O licences they hold:
vehicle-operator-licensing. … ence/39514
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Thanks for your comments Chris.

grumpy old man:

DEANB:
Some oldies.

Love em, I’ll take a motor with character before the new modern Eurobox things every day of the week.

Theres alot more of those to come “grumpy old man”

240 Gardner:

DEANB:
Bowker Volvo F7

Ah, Bowker 49, thank you
This was a very long-lived machine, and this photo was taken before its accident in December 1982, after which it was re-cabbed. I think the driver in the photo may be Tony Walker.
It was later re-plated to its design weight of 36.6 tonnes and lightened in various ways, to become the London Depot shunter, replacing an F86 and able to handle trailers trunked down by 38 tonners. Part of the lightening involved removing the front anti-roll bar - I remember taking it down to Crick on a changeover, following a service at Blackburn, and collecting a a trailer from Heinz at Kitt Green on the way, loaded with 25 Imperial tons of tomato ketchup on two layers of pallets . It took me 3.5 hours from Kitt Green to George’s, and the (few) lane changes felt quite exciting!
After the closure of the London Depot in 1988, 49 worked as a local shunter for years for a customer in Skelmersdale, moving lightweight product from factory to warehouse on a closed circuit. I think it was about 1999 when it was finally retired. It was put aside for restoration and the Technical Director tried in vain to get a fresh cab out of Volvo. It was still there several years later (see below photo by ‘Marky’) but, since the engineer’s sudden death in post almost three years ago, I don’t know if the little Volvo was ditched or not;

I thought you would like that Chris ! They certainly got there money’s worth out of that motor !

coomsey:
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Good read Dean
I remember following a 86,similar to this un, but no trailer, we were going up a long drag n he missed a gear. I’d got a J reg ERF 6sp n ■■■■■■■ 180, could you miss a gear with a D B box? Surely not. Anyway I’m into 2nd n off we go again n he left me for dead, a sickener.
While I’m on does anybody know this un? I used to backload out of an Ibstock brick yard Wakefield way, Abbey /Abbot summat?. A fella used to run a 6whr 86 out of there n he had a trailer after a while. He’d had it 6month when I run into him on a site down south. I asked him how he was getting on with it. " Getting on with it? I’d drive 5ml out me way so has not to have to reverse the b*****d"

They were quick motors in there day “coomsey”. I bet that was a bugger to reverse !