moomooland:
10LAE 113P later went on to join the fairground circuit with Anderton & Rowlands.
Well spotted Paul ! Thanks for the pic. 
logger:
moomooland:
10LAE 113P later went on to join the fairground circuit with Anderton & Rowlands.
LAE113P was operated from new by I R Dunkerley from Yate , nr Bristol also had LAE114P both had 240 Gardner engines
Thanks “logger” for the comments, is the blue erf in the colours of I R Dunkerley ■■
fryingpan:
Any chance of putting locations in the caption? The make and firm are visible in the pics in most cases so, don’t need repeating.
These recent on the road shots, are they South Wales, based on the firms using them? A48? A40?
No.
moomooland:
1 2One from Bubbleman’s neck of the woods.
Creedspeed International Limited of Iron Mould Lane, Brislington, Bristol was dissolved in March 1978.
The company were previously known as Gerald Creed (Transport) Limited.
Like the tankers livery, unfortunately for some inexplicable reason you would never get away with that today
0Here’s another for the P C brigade 
Cheers Paul, thanks for the pics ! 
gingerfold:
moomooland:
1 2One from Bubbleman’s neck of the woods.
Creedspeed International Limited of Iron Mould Lane, Brislington, Bristol was dissolved in March 1978.
The company were previously known as Gerald Creed (Transport) Limited.
Like the tankers livery, unfortunately for some inexplicable reason you would never get away with that today
0Here’s another for the P C brigade
My thoughts exactly. When I was a kid you could collect tokens, or labels, or something from the jam jar and send off to Robertsons for an enamel lapel badge of that famous symbol. I had one. How times have changed.
That’s why I really like threads like this; they dredge up all kinds of trivia from the recesses of the memory bank that otherwise would remain buried for ever.
Some of those metal badges were very collectable,and i moved a collector years ago who had a collection
and he was telling me they were valuable.
harryvr6:
Buzzer:
harryvr6 this Ian Lawson’s present motor owning it from new WHO 901V actually we had WHO 498V an F12. He had that for 8 years I believe before the rear brake linings were replaced for MOT and that was only because they had gone hard and they were not worn out, Ian does his own maintenance or used too so well looked after, don’t know who took the picture, cheers Buzzer.
Hi buzzer, thanks mate, I found the pic on gyles carpenters Flickr page:
There’s a few on the net, one on here in a separate thread actually, lovely looking truck that isn’t it!
Brilliant story too, to keep it from new its amazing, testament to the ‘I roll’ translation of Volvo!
Must be worth a bit of till now too. I love the cab, the way the dash is full of paraphinalia for the daily shift, looks well organized and turned out. Be a shame if he sold it really.
The old turquoise merc looks familiar too; there was an old boy pulling containers from trafford park near us, he was actually based in wood houses fails worth: a&b haulage, had a few of the same colored mercs, a bit home brew with added tag axles and stuff. He was working up until fairly recently, when you consider I used to see it on the road when I was a kid, and it was still going at least 3 years ago (I’m 41 now) that’s a fair amount of time on the road, he must’ve been well into his seventies the driver!
Tried to get a picture of it on the m60 a few years ago, it was really slow or he at least drove it slow! Loved spotting it though!
Incidentally Gary Glass still works out of the container base at trafford in his ex Astran volv fh.
Cheers harryvr6.
Thanks Harry,if you have a pic of the merc pop it on !
