DEANB:
Olloquiegui transportes as far as i know has finished ■■? Havent seen one for a long time. They were a very
familiar site in the UK back in the 80s/90s.
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Olloquiegui was taken over in 2002 by Acciona for 51 %, and in 2005 nearly all staff was fired and drivers were asked to become independent drivers.
Rumour is there is apparently still a company with the name and they are working as an agent only , but with just a few people in the office, paginasamarillas.es/f/irun/ … 00003.html
daibootsy:
Hello R,O,F,
Hwrw is a line up of atky,s. will put more on tomorrow.
Hello Dai …and once againmany thanx for posting this pic of the Atki line up and the BMC …Dad says his mate drove a Dodge artic that had a Leyland comet 375 motor that went like the wind …his work was from Metal closures in Swansea hauling metal bottle tops …Did Austin Jones have a 6x2 Atki artic in the 70s ?..(WG) Davies had one …and Joint Motorways had a couple also …
Paul and Dean …congrats to you both for this phenomenal thread …!!! Some amazing shots you have both provided …really stunning …thanx fellas …Geraint
Hi Geraint ,well i never knew that W G Davies had a twin steer Atki unit ! I think they were named Leaders , i can remember Joint motorways having a couple with Rolls engines ,which they found to be thirsty ,they were later converted to 4x2 units ,a Shrewsbury driver had one ,always great feedback on this thread .
Austin Jones had a change over at Shrewsbury ,and he too had drivers based their ,regards Keith
DEANB:
From what i have seen Harold Wood seemed to use mainly MAN’s in his fleet. It looks like he
tested other trucks as per the Scania.
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The old man (Harold Wood himself) was an AEC man from the start.
Yes, absolutely. Harold Wood started in the mid-1930s with AECs and at its peak there were 450 AECs in the fleet at any one time. He was one of the very few customers who was big enough to deal directly with Southall for his orders, and he had priority of build. No waiting list for him. By the time MANs appeared Harold Wood had sold the business and retired.
Hi all, Looking at the Spanish trucks and there marker boards, can anyone remember the coloured lights that were on trucks to indecate, was it weight or something ■■?
I think there was a sequence that had to be on to indecate something, back in the 70’s. “Gazza” did a lot of Spain/italy, maybe someone can tell me ■■? Harvey
DEANB:
Olloquiegui transportes as far as i know has finished ■■? Havent seen one for a long time. They were a very familiar site in the UK back in the 80s/90s.
Olloquiegui was taken over in 2002 by Acciona for 51 %, and in 2005 nearly all staff was fired and drivers were asked to become independent drivers.
Rumour is there is apparently still a company with the name and they are working as an agent only , but with just a few people in the office, paginasamarillas.es/f/irun/ … 00003.html
Thanks for the info “bald” i miss seeing there motors about !
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daibootsy:
Hello R,O,F,
Hwrw is a line up of atky,s. will put more on tomorrow.
Hello Dai …and once againmany thanx for posting this pic of the Atki line up and the BMC …Dad says his mate drove a Dodge artic that had a Leyland comet 375 motor that went like the wind …his work was from Metal closures in Swansea hauling metal bottle tops …Did Austin Jones have a 6x2 Atki artic in the 70s ?..(WG) Davies had one …and Joint Motorways had a couple also …
Paul and Dean …congrats to you both for this phenomenal thread …!!! Some amazing shots you have both provided …really stunning …thanx fellas …Geraint
Hi Geraint ,well i never knew that W G Davies had a twin steer Atki unit ! I think they were named Leaders , i can remember Joint motorways having a couple with Rolls engines ,which they found to be thirsty ,they were later converted to 4x2 units ,a Shrewsbury driver had one ,always great feedback on this thread .
Austin Jones had a change over at Shrewsbury ,and he too had drivers based their ,regards Keith
Thanks for your comments Keith.
I had some stuff on the Leader but cant find it. I have not looked at the photo you are talking
about but they also offered the Venturer. Now we will wait for “240 Gardner” to come along and bollock as
all for talking rubbish as he knows a thing or two about these Atkinson’s !
Thanks for posting all the great pics “Kempston” . That Noble fella certainly runs some tidy kit.
I worked for a fella that had some 8 wheeler FH Volvo’s similar to the ones in your pics who does
factory removals. They are 32 tonners but weight about 23 tons empty due to the weight of the
crane and the heavy bodies. I queried this with the driver as the payload is a joke but he said there
prime aim is not about carry weight but lifting the machinery out of factories etc onto the artics.
Price wise they are serious money and were well over £200,000 each ! Intrestingly i was talking to
a driver last week who again was driving a similar Scania and he told me the rough price of those
cranes was something like a grand a metre. So if you have a 65 metre reach the crane costs
roughly £ 65,000 ! Now i dont know anything about cranes but just repeating what i was told.
grumpy old man:
The old man (Harold Wood himself) was an AEC man from the start.
Nice pic Paul thanks for posting !
gingerfold:
Yes, absolutely. Harold Wood started in the mid-1930s with AECs and at its peak there were 450 AECs in the fleet at any one time. He was one of the very few customers who was big enough to deal directly with Southall for his orders, and he had priority of build. No waiting list for him. By the time MANs appeared Harold Wood had sold the business and retired.
Thanks for confirming Graham i seem to remember now you and Paul saying that earlier in the thread. I was
not sure as all the adverts i have seen have had the MAN’s in so appreciate the clarification.
Those AEC’s were before my time.
I have not looked at the photo you are talking
