Fiat with Reindear trailer could be Enfab from Dun Laoghaire
Anyone recognise the Crusader ■■?
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Dean,the brown Crusader is one of G W Sissons from Sherburn in Elmet Yorks.
DEANB:
Some odds and sods.Click on pages once or twice to read.
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Very nice Hovis ad and very nice Scammell tanker cheers Dean
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Fiat with Reindear trailer could be Enfab from Dun Laoghaire
Top of the class Sir+!
Hi Dean. The Thomas Bros, Hafod Farm were from Brynmawr/Blanavon. There are some shots of an F88 of theirs on the South Wales thread. I believe they did a lot of middle east work.
Geriant, Cyril Williams did a lot of Crompton Electricars work out of their Ashvale/Dukestown factory. I used to go there with a 7.5 tonner as a teenager.
Talking of Cyril Williams, two of his old drivers were driving instructors at Heads of The Valley RTITB centre in Gilwern, good old boys too.
Great stuff, Dean and Paul.
Regards Paul
windrush:
Foden six wheeler is one of Smiths from Rawnsley.Pete.
Thanks for the name Pete ! 
Sir +:
Fiat with Reindear trailer could be Enfab from Dun Laoghaire
Good one Sir + i could make out the E and Fab but could not see the n so thats definately one of there
trucks. 
Chris Webb:
Anyone recognise the Crusader ■■?
Dean,the brown Crusader is one of G W Sissons from Sherburn in Elmet Yorks.
Thanks Chris nice one. 
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DEANB:
Some odds and sods.
Very nice Hovis ad and very nice Scammell tanker cheers Dean.
whiplash:
Sir +:
Fiat with Reindear trailer could be Enfab from Dun LaoghaireTop of the class Sir+!
Paul John:
Hi Dean. The Thomas Bros, Hafod Farm were from Brynmawr/Blanavon. There are some shots of an F88 of theirs on the South Wales thread. I believe they did a lot of middle east work.
Geriant, Cyril Williams did a lot of Crompton Electricars work out of their Ashvale/Dukestown factory. I used to go there with a 7.5 tonner as a teenager.
Talking of Cyril Williams, two of his old drivers were driving instructors at Heads of The Valley RTITB centre in Gilwern, good old boys too.Great stuff, Dean and Paul.
Regards Paul
Thanks for your comments Paul.
Car Transporters DAF pulling a bulker ? I wonder if this had been bought second hand ?
Anyone recognise the Roadtrain ? There is a name on the sheet but cant make it out ?
Anyone recognise the F12 ? Looks like its carrying steel.
Hargreaves Roadtrain.
Prim Mercedes.
R.T.Keedwell DAF
Stan Pugh Scania.
Glyn John Mercedes with a Blueline ERF behind.
Chamberlain ERF
M & G Trailers Bedford with two new trailers.
Morning Dean.
That’s a brilliant article about Geoff Gilbert,thanks.
When I was in RAF in Norfolk I had many a lift at night with Lincolnshire market drivers and Stantons were one I remember well.
Thanks for taking the trouble to post that epic multi-parter on Geoff Gilbert, Dean! Dunno why, but I hadn’t realised they did Middle-East. Robert
Dean, thanks for the Geoff Gilbert article .
You just ruined my sunday morning planning, because I could not stop reading it
Some extra flowers hopefully will sort it 
The Lathams Atki, was moved to Coventry Depot and driven by Alf Fletcher, I believe they had another one with a 180 Gardner driven by Brian Evans
Hi dean,the red Volvo is Evans transport Tredegar,the blue line behind glyn John is Arthur parsons ,the m&g trailers look like new trailers for British steel as its in their colours ,congrats to you and Paul for an achievement on getting this far with an excellent thread cheers John
Chris Webb:
moomooland:
robroy:
Moomooland, you obviously know a lot about the origin of old Atkinsons, what have you got on my old one… RDC 746M.The man that could probably help more than me is Chris Gardner, who has just posted the selection above.
RDC 746M is a 1973 Teesside/M’borough reg and ICI ran several ■■■■■■■ engine Atkinson Borderers int 70s.Could be one of theirs maybe? Sadlers also ran them at that time.
One of the many Atkis Sadler ran RDC139M
[qgreatuote=“lawrence2765”]That’s great again.
thanks very much for posting the Simons Oates article.
I worked for simons when I left school at 16 at head office in Tonbridge 34 years ago.
thanks again regards Chris Lawrence
DEANB:
lawrence2765:
I must say I have been following this thread for a while now , its great please keep up the good work as its very much appreciated by a lot of us.
I particularly like the old magazine articles.
does anyone have to the one about Simons and co Leyland Freighter running up from Penzance with isle of scilly daffodils to Preston market ?
I am almost certain it was in truck magazine would have been about 1993 ish.Hello Lawrence, thanks for your comments !
When i first read that the only article that i could think of was one featuring a Dennis Oates motor carrying
flowers and sure enough its the one you are after.I did not remember the Simons motor.Here it is.I scanned it a few years ago but was looking for a Dennis Oates pic to post with it but Paul
never caught one of theres.Click on pages twice to read.
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Great read if you don’t mind me asking do you have the article from truck magazine about Suttons of Newlyn be Penzance who ran 8 wheel Foden fridges?
Hi Dean bit of a delay for breakfast today as I read the Geoff Gilbert piece very interesting too, like Robert I had know idea they did middle east either. Bought an F89 from Geoff in about 1983 and had a Granning tag put on it pulling SCAC trailers out of Portsmouth, had several other F89’s as well from other places good powerful motor in its day and all LHD of course, always a tidy fleet as he and I know it makes a good impression on your customers, cheers Buzzer.
Hi John, Just read your remarks on F89 Volvos. For a short period in the 1970s,
I drove for Connals of Maryhill, Glasgow, at their Wigan depot as a shunter.
Most days involved driving a G89 Volvo with a day cab. Unlike your F89 Volvos,
Connals machines were Right Hand Drive. I don’t know the amount of
horsepower they produced, but they performed well with 20 tons in their
15ft 3in tall Boden van trailers. All 3 pictures are in the Wigan depot yard of
Robert Baillie of Horndean, and courtesy of Eddie Heaton. Robert Baillie
Bedford KM ORV 126H is alongside the depot in picture 2. Regards, Ray Smyth.
